BODHI – THE OPEN GENERAL QUIZ

FINALS

4 Rounds Round 1 : Written Round – 7

questions Round 2 : Infinite Bounce – 17

questions Round 3 : Written Round – 7

questions Round 4 : Infinite Bounce – 17

questions

Round 1

Written Round 7 questions 10 points each Topic :- Numbers

Q1. The bunker at ______ __ was constructed by a group of

underworld smugglers in 1943. The smugglers who had built it were helping the ŻOB(Jewish Combat Organization) as guides. On 8 May 1943, three weeks after the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when the "bunker" was found out by the Nazis, there were around 300 people inside. The smugglers surrendered, but the ŻOB command, including Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of the uprising, stood firm. The Nazis threw tear gas into the shelter to force the occupants out. Anielewicz, his girlfriend Mira Fuchrer and many of his staff committed mass suicide by ingesting poison rather than surrender, though a few fighters who did neither managed to get out of a rear exit.

What’s the blank,also the name of a 1961 literary work by the person pictured in the next slide?

Q2. Film Socialisme was a 2010 movie directed by

Jean-Luc Godard, first screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, to a widely varying reception, and released in France two days later.

Which famous cruise served as a setting for this film,two years before an unfortunate incident occured?

The wellness spa of the cruise was decorated with the prints of a nearly 300 year old artwork before it got lost in the incident. What artwork?

Q3. The 26-foot-tall ,34,000-pound sculpture,

manufactured of painted stainless steel and aluminium was designed by Seward Johnson.

In August and September 2011 the statue was vandalized three times, most recently being splashed with red paint. In the opinion of the executive director of the Chicago Public Arts Group, this was because the statue is laden with provocative and sexual meaning.

At least one full size counterfeit is known to have been created and displayed, as a discarded sculpture ,and was photographed in a dump after being displayed outside a business center in Guigang, China.

What sculpture?

Q4.

________________ ________________ Pretty Boy Floyd Baby Face Nelson Alvin Karpis Joaquin Guzman Loera

What connects these individuals? (5) Identify the two missing names.(2.5 +

2.5)

Q5. The phrase was originated from a popular song

written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1952. Two versions of the song, by Pearl Bailey and by Louis Armstrong, charted in 1952.

The phrase was reported widely in the international media when X quipped about Russian-American relations during a 1982 news conference.

X stated: "For ten years détente was based on words by them [the Russians] and not any words to back them up. And we need some action that they — [insert phrase here]”.

What phrase? X?

Q6.  George Wingrave (who would become a

senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business,), The dog Montmorency and X completes the group.

Who was X? What did they do? Use the next picture as a clue.

Q7. The palace was built and designed under the

supervision of Colonel Duncan MacLeod of the Bengal Corps of Engineers. He was the father of Sir Donald McLeod. 

The foundation stone of the palace was laid on August 9, 1829, and that very day the construction work was started. William Cavendish was the then Governor-General.

Identify the palace. The Durbar Hall of the palace has a certain entity

which is the second largest of its kind in the world, after one in Buckingham Palace.What?

ANSWERS FOLLOWS

Q1. The bunker at ______ __ was constructed by a group of

underworld smugglers in 1943. The smugglers who had built it were helping the ŻOB(Jewish Combat Organization) as guides. On 8 May 1943, three weeks after the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when the "bunker" was found out by the Nazis, there were around 300 people inside. The smugglers surrendered, but the ŻOB command, including Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of the uprising, stood firm. The Nazis threw tear gas into the shelter to force the occupants out. Anielewicz, his girlfriend Mira Fuchrer and many of his staff committed mass suicide by ingesting poison rather than surrender, though a few fighters who did neither managed to get out of a rear exit.

What’s the blank,also the name of a 1961 literary work by the person pictured in the next slide?

Q2. Film Socialisme was a 2010 movie directed by

Jean-Luc Godard, first screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, to a widely varying reception, and released in France two days later.

Which famous cruise served as a setting for this film,two years before an unfortunate accident?

The wellness spa of the cruise was decorated with the prints of a nearly 300 year old artwork before it got lost in the accident. What artwork?

Costa Concordia

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Q3. The 26-foot-tall ,34,000-pound sculpture,

manufactured of painted stainless steel and aluminium was designed by Seward Johnson.

In August and September 2011 the statue was vandalized three times, most recently being splashed with red paint. In the opinion of the executive director of the Chicago Public Arts Group, this was because the statue is laden with provocative and sexual meaning.

At least one full size counterfeit is known to have been created and displayed, as a discarded sculpture ,and was photographed in a dump after being displayed outside a business center in Guigang, China.

What sculpture?

Forever Marilyn The Seven Year Itch

Q4.

________________ ________________ Pretty Boy Floyd Baby Face Nelson Alvin Karpis Joaquin Guzman Loera

What connects these individuals? (5) Identify the two missing names.

(2.5+2.5)

Public Enemy No. 1Al Capone

John Dillinger

Q5. The phrase was originated from a popular song

written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1952. Two versions of the song, by Pearl Bailey and by Louis Armstrong was charted.

The phrase was widely reported in the international media when X quipped about Russian-American relations during a 1982 news conference.

X stated: "For ten years détente was based on words by them [the Russians] and not any words to back them up. And we need some action that they — [insert phrase here]”.

What phrase? X?

Takes Two to TangoRonald Reagan

Q6.  George Wingrave (who would become a

senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business,), The dog Montmorency and X completes the group.

Who was X? What did they do? Use the next picture as a clue.

Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a Boat

Q7. The palace was built and designed under the

supervision of Colonel Duncan MacLeod of the Bengal Corps of Engineers. He was the father of Sir Donald McLeod. 

The foundation stone of the palace was laid on August 9, 1829, and that very day the construction work was started. William Cavendish was the then Governor-General.

Identify the palace. The Durbar Hall of the palace has a certain entity

which is the second largest of its kind in the world, after one in Buckingham Palace.What?

Hazarduari Palace

Chandelier

Round 2

Clockwise Round 17 questions Infinite Bounce/Pounce +10/-5

Q1. It was founded in 1918 by Lord _______ , the then Governor of

Bombay._______ was refused permission to take an Indian Maharaja with him to the Bombay Gymkhana, Byculla Club and Royal Bombay Yacht Club,which then allowed only Europeans and hence, decided to start a club that both Indians and Europeans could go to.Permanent membership is closed except for members sons though temporary corporate memberships are open. In the 1980s membership was temporarily opened but then later closed due to overwhelming demand.

Identify the club/fitb. A banquet was held there in 1954 to celebrate the first Filmfare

awards ceremony. The event was attended by actor Gregory Peck.One of the award winners was denied entry into the club as he was dressed in a dhoti.

Who?

SAFETY SLIDE

Royal Willingdon Sports ClubBimal Roy

Q2. The project was conceived in 1912 by

Warren with his friend, French portrait artist Paul César Helleu, and executed by James Monroe Hewlett and Charles Basing of Hewlett-Basing Studio, with Helleu consulting.The original one was replaced in the late 1930s to correct falling plaster.

What project was this? What was the reason behind the hole

which you can see in the next image?

SAFETY SLIDE

Grand Central Terminal Ceiling

To place the Redstone missile.

Q3. A bag carrying diplomatic mail from India has

been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps back in 2012.

The bag recovered from the glacier has markings saying "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs", as the foreign ministry is called in India.

It was widely in the news because the bag was associated with an incident which happened several decades ago.

What was the unfortunate outcome of that incident?

SAFETY SLIDE

Death of Homi J. Baba

The bag was from the Air India Flight 101 which crashed in the Mont Blanc.

Q4. Josef ____ was a painter of the Cubist school, he

later developed his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother on a number of plays and short stories; on his own, he wrote the utopian play Land of Many Names and several novels, as well as critical essays in which he argued for the art of the unconscious, of children, and of 'savages'. He wrote Poems from a Concentration Camp in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died in 1945.

He was credited by his younger brother to have coined a certain term.

Who was his brother? What term?

SAFETY SLIDE

Karel CapekRobot

Q5. In 1921, a Popular Science journalist went to find out the

reason behind it. Hugh S. Fullerton took X, to Columbia University’s “physiological department,” where two researchers awaited him.  “They led X into the great laboratory of the university,” Fullerton wrote, “figuratively took him apart, watched the wheels go round.” After a surely exhaustive study, he wrote:

The secret of X is reduced to non-scientific terms, is that his eyes and ears function more rapidly than those of others; that his brain records sensations more quickly and transmits its orders to the muscles much faster than does that of the average man.”

What was being studied?

SAFETY SLIDE

Why was Babe Ruth so good in hitting home runs?

Q6. Founded by Charles Lewis ____ and John B. Young in Brooklyn,

Connecticut in 1837 as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", the store initially sold a wide variety of stationery items, and operated as “_____ , Young and Ellis" in Lower Manhattan. The name was shortened to _____ & Company in 1853 when Charles _____ took control.

Unlike other stores at the time in the 1830s, they clearly marked the prices on its goods to forestall any haggling over prices. In addition, against the social norm at the time, they only accepted cash payments, and did not accept payments on credit.

Identify the company. During a lunch with a certain Pete Rozelle in 1966, this

company’s then vice president Oscar Riedner made a sketch on a cocktail napkin and it resulted something from the world of sports. What?

SAFETY SLIDE

Tiffany & Co

Vince Lombardi Trophy

Q7. The barn is located in Jordans, England. This barn was

identified in the 1920s as having been made from the remnants of the ________ .

The late Dr. Rendel Harris, distinguished professor of history at Cambridge University, spent years doing research for his 1911 book The Finding of the ________ . His long study verified the authenticity of the fine old barn whose still-existing farm records list the purchase from an Ipswich dealer.

The evidence is entirely unconvincing, but that has not stopped it from becoming a tourist attraction nonetheless.

What was the source of the wood used for making the barn?

SAFETY SLIDE

Mayflower

Q8. Ahead of the forthcoming event, however, with a

massive influx of tourists and their bowel movements expected in the country, the manufacturers have reached a consensus. At a press conference on Tuesday, representatives from the nine companies that make up the country’s _______Equipment Industry Association unveiled eight new symbols to accompany the various key functions.

Models released from April this year will all be standardized, and the manufacturers hope it might even become an international standard.

Where are these symbols used?

SAFETY SLIDE

Hi-Tech Toilet icons in Tokyo.

Q9. The original insignia was created in 1877 by

Louis B. Tiffany (Tiffany & Co.) for a medal to be awarded by the New York City Police Department to Officer John McDowell – the first NYC policeman shot in the line of duty.

In 1909 the insignia was adopted by the New York Highlanders Baseball Club and appeared on their uniforms as a proud endorsement of the city. 

What logo?

SAFETY SLIDE

New York Yankees

Q10. A Little Romance is a 1979 American Technicolor

and Panavision romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, and Diane Lane in her film debut.

The film follows a French boy and an American girl who meet in Paris and begin a romance that leads to a journey to a certain place where they hope to seal their love forever with a kiss at an important landmark in that place.

Just identify the Landmark. The name of the landmark was supposedly given by

Lord Byron and was designed by Antonio Contino.

SAFETY SLIDE

Bridge of Sighs

Q11. The Good Hotel Guide is an annual book publication, founded

in 1977, listing and describing what they profess to be the finest hotels in Great Britain and Ireland. It also publishes a Continental Europe edition and a combined Great Britain and Western Europe guide book.

The Good Hotel Guide awards what it believes to be the top ten very best hotels in the country with a n award which are described as "Oscars for the hotel industry".The first awards were given in 1986. Hotels which are recipients of this award often display this award or mention it on their websites as a sign of top quality and approval.

Use the picture on the next slide as a clue and name the awards.

SAFETY SLIDE

CESAR AWARDS

César Baldaccini - after whom the national film award of France is named. But this one is not related with him though.

Q12. He was the first president of an organization which was a

forerunner to the present Amateur Trapshooting Association. In 1916 he headed the newly-founded American Amateur Trapshooting Association. He was also the chairman of the National Association of Shotgun Owners. He served the AATA again as president in 1918, until it was disbanded in 1919 and absorbed by the American Trapshooting Association. In 1920 he became a delegate from New York State to the new association and assisted on handicapping committees at major tournaments.

Who? A famous group used his 1893 creation for a certain purpose

because it was in the public domain and free from royalties. Identify the group and what creation?

SAFETY SLIDE

John Philip Sousa The Liberty Bell was used as the theme song

of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Q13. The Photographer is a three-part mixed media performance

accompanied by music by composer Philip Glass. The libretto is based on the life and homicide trial of 19th-century American photographer. Commissioned by the Holland Festival, the opera was first performed in 1982 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

His most famous project was financed by a person (pictured) who migrated to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire. He served one two-year term as governor of California after his election in 1861, and later eight years as senator from the state.

Identify the photographer and his financer. What project?

SAFETY SLIDE

Eadweard MuybridgeLeland Stanford

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

Q14. The identity of the person has long been a source

of heated debate. First, fingers were pointed at Willem van Maaren, who worked in a certain warehouse. Despite two investigations into his involvement , he was never conclusively proven as the individual who did that.

Biographer Melissa Müller later pointed the finger at Lena-Hartog van Bladeren, who regularly cleaned the building, and a Dutch man named Anton Ahlers claimed in 2002 that his anti-Semitic father was the person involved. But neither case was ever proven.

What do these people claim to have done?

SAFETY SLIDE

Who betrayed Anne Frank?

Q15. Bernardo Bellotto was the court painter

for King Stanislaw August Poniatowski from 1768 until the artist’s death in 1780, painted more than 20 city views with stately palaces and churches, city streets with noblemen in carriages, and residents in scenes of everyday life.

How was the paintings he created during his tenure as the court painter put into great use in the 20th century?

SAFETY SLIDE

Used in rebuilding the city of Warsaw after its near-complete destruction by German troops during World War II.

Q16 The author came across the idea while working at General

Electric: The author credits the invention of ________ to X, who

pioneered the study of thin films and interfaces. While working in the public relations office at General Electric, he came across a story of how X, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work at General Electric, was charged with the responsibility of entertaining the author H. G. Wells, who was visiting the company in the early 1930s. X is said to have come up with an idea about a form of solid water that was stable at room temperature in the hopes that Wells might be inspired to write a story about it. Apparently, Wells was not inspired and neither he nor X ever published anything about it. After X and Wells had died, the author decided to use the idea in his book.

Name the author , the scientist X(pictured) and the book in which it was featured.

SAFETY SLIDE

Kurt VonnegutX – Irving Langmuir

Ice-nine in Cat's Cradle

Q17. Santo Condorelli is an Italian Canadian competitive

swimmer set an American National Age Group Record for the 17-18 age group in the 100m Freestyle. He currently swims for the University of Southern California. In 2016, he was named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.He finished 4th in the 100 m freestyle in a time of 47.88, missing a bronze medal by 0.03 seconds.

He was in the news during the Rio Olympics thanks to a bizarre ritual he followed prior to his swims, as a way to boost confidence and relieve stress.

What did he do?

SAFETY SLIDE

Round 3

Written Round 7 questions 10 points per question Topic :- Animals

Q1. The __________ Defence is a name for various irregular

chess opening systems in which Black moves a number of his pawns to the third rank, often developing his pieces to the second rank, and does not move any of his pawns to the fourth rank in the opening.

Grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Persson has written: “It looks almost ridiculously passive and many

theoreticians consider it to be a peaceful, almost meek animal. On closer scrutiny the animal, the position, and the statistics look almost entirely different. It is a fierce animal; ready to crush anyone who gets too close.”

What’s the blank?

Q2. The subject of the portrait is Cecilia Gallerani,

painted at a time when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan.

It is currently displayed at Wawel Royal Castle whilst renovations are carried out at the painting's home, Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, Poland.

This painting is part of an exhaustive list of 4 elements of which the two are La belle ferronnière and Ginevra de' Benci.

Which painting is this? Identify the 4th one in this.

Q3. On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz, along with Salvatore

Naturale and Robert Westenberg, attempted to rob a branch of the Chase Manhattan bank at 450 Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn. The heist was meant to pay for paying his wife’s sex reassignment surgery.Wojtowicz and Naturale held seven Chase Manhattan bank employees hostage for 14 hours. Westenberg fled the scene before the robbery was underway when he saw a police car on the street. Wojtowicz, a former bank teller, had some knowledge of bank operations.

However, he apparently based his plan on scenes from the movie The Godfather, which he had seen earlier that day. The robbers became media celebrities. Wojtowicz was arrested, but Naturale was killed by the FBI during the final moments of the incident.

What from the world of Pop culture was inspired by this incident?

Q4. In 1872, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for service as

a civilian scout to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, for "gallantry in action" at Loupe Forke, Platte River, Nebraska. In 1917, the U.S. Army—after Congress revised the standards for the award—removed from the rolls 911 medals previously awarded to civilians or for actions that would not warrant a Medal of Honor under the new higher standards. His medal was among those revoked.

Movies about him inspired a youth subculture in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s, with young men and women dressing like him and forming neighborhood gangs. After Congolese independence some of these men went on to have careers in the music industry.

Who?

Q5 During the 1967 U.S. Open at Baltusrol in New

Jersey an Australian sportswriter Don Lawrence coined the nickname based on X’s blonde hair and burly physique. X’s agent Mark McCormack asked Lawrence what he thought of X, and the writer told McCormack he thought X looked like a “big, cuddly, ________ _____.”

In addition, X attended Upper Arlington High School in Columbus, Ohio, and the school’s mascot was also connected to the nickname.

Who is X? What nickname? Or fitb.

Q6. F. O. Oertel was a German-born archaeologist known for

playing an important role in the restoration of the Diwan-i-Amm and Jahangiri Mahal in the Agra Fort and the reconstruction of the four minarets of the south gateway of the Akbar tomb in Sikandra in 1905–1906 ,all work was done under the leadership of Lord Curzon as preparation to the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

He also guided the Prince and the Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary) around the fort of Agra during the Royal Tour of 1905–1906.

But he was well known for a certain project of his which happened prior to the Royal visit.

What was Mr Oertel’s claim to fame?

Q7. Percy Shaw started the company Reflecting

Roadstuds Ltd to manufacture these devices. Sales were initially slow, but approval from the Ministry of Transport and the blackout in the Second World War gave a huge boost to production and the firm, located near Shaw's home, grew in size making more than a million units a year, which were exported all over the world.

What was his invention?

ANSWERS FOLLOWS

Q1. The __________ Defence is a name for various irregular

chess opening systems in which Black moves a number of his pawns to the third rank, often developing his pieces to the second rank, and does not move any of his pawns to the fourth rank in the opening.

Grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Persson has written: “It looks almost ridiculously passive and many

theoreticians consider it to be a peaceful, almost meek animal. On closer scrutiny the animal, the position, and the statistics look almost entirely different. It is a fierce animal; ready to crush anyone who gets too close.”

What’s the blank?

Hippopotamus Defense

Q2. The subject of the portrait is Cecilia Gallerani,

painted at a time when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan.

It is currently displayed at Wawel Royal Castle whilst renovations are carried out at the painting's home, Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, Poland.

This painting is part of an exhaustive list of 4 elements of which the two are La belle ferronnière and Ginevra de' Benci.

Which painting is this? Identify the 4th one in this.

Lady with an Ermine

Mona Lisa

Only 4 portraits of women by Da Vinci

Q3. On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz, along with Salvatore

Naturale and Robert Westenberg, attempted to rob a branch of the Chase Manhattan bank at 450 Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn. The heist was meant to pay for paying his wife’s sex reassignment surgery.Wojtowicz and Naturale held seven Chase Manhattan bank employees hostage for 14 hours. Westenberg fled the scene before the robbery was underway when he saw a police car on the street. Wojtowicz, a former bank teller, had some knowledge of bank operations.

However, he apparently based his plan on scenes from the movie The Godfather, which he had seen earlier that day. The robbers became media celebrities. Wojtowicz was arrested, but Naturale was killed by the FBI during the final moments of the incident.

What from the world of Pop culture was inspired by this incident?

Q4. In 1872, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for service as

a civilian scout to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, for "gallantry in action" at Loupe Forke, Platte River, Nebraska. In 1917, the U.S. Army—after Congress revised the standards for the award—removed from the rolls 911 medals previously awarded to civilians or for actions that would not warrant a Medal of Honor under the new higher standards. His medal was among those revoked.

Movies about him inspired a youth subculture in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s, with young men and women dressing like him and forming neighborhood gangs. After Congolese independence some of the these men went on to have careers in the music industry.

Who?

Buffalo Bill

Q5 During the 1967 U.S. Open at Baltusrol in New

Jersey an Australian sportswriter Don Lawrence coined the nickname based on X’s blonde hair and burly physique. X’s agent Mark McCormack asked Lawrence what he thought of X, and the writer told McCormack he thought X looked like a “big, cuddly, ________ _____.”

In addition, X attended Upper Arlington High School in Columbus, Ohio, and the school’s mascot was also connected to the nickname.

Who is X? What nickname? Or fitb.

Jack Nicklaus Golden Bear

Q6. F. O. Oertel was a German-born archaeologist known for

playing an important role in the restoration of the Diwan-i-Amm and Jahangiri Mahal in the Agra Fort and the reconstruction of the four minarets of the south gateway of the Akbar tomb in Sikandra in 1905–1906 ,all work was done under the leadership of Lord Curzon as preparation to the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

He also guided the Prince and the Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary) around the fort of Agra during the Royal Tour of 1905–1906.

But he was well known for a certain project of his which happened prior to the Royal visit.

What was Mr Oertel’s claim to fame?

Excavation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka

Q7. Percy Shaw started the company Reflecting

Roadstuds Ltd to manufacture these devices. Sales were initially slow, but approval from the Ministry of Transport and the blackout in the Second World War gave a huge boost to production and the firm, located near Shaw's home, grew in size making more than a million units a year, which were exported all over the world.

What was his invention?

Cat’s eyes

Round 4

Clockwise Round 17 questions Infinite Bounce/Pounce +10/-5

Q1. The letter reads (in French) "Il suffit que

je sois bien malheureuse pour avoir droit a votre bienveillance" or in English, "Given that I am unhappy, I have a right to your help“.

Where would one come across this piece of paper?

SAFETY SLIDE

The Death of Marat

Q2. In 1951, Eugene Kolkey, an accomplished graphic artist

and Art Director for Leo Burnett, sketched a character for a contest to become the official mascot of X. Kolkey designed a mascot and named after an ad man at Leo Burnett—Raymond Anthony Wells.

The mascot competed against three other potential mascots for the public's affection: Katy the Kangaroo,Elmo the Elephant, and Newt the Gnu.

What mascot? Tracing back to 1986, X battled with a different situation

in regards to trademark. It was discovered that a certain mascot named Hadori was so similar to the above mentioned mascot and resulted lawsuits.

What was Hadori the mascot of?

SAFETY SLIDE

Tony the Tiger – Mascot of Kellogg’s1988 Seoul Olympics

Q3. When his biographer, Arthur H. Saxon, tried to track

down when he had uttered this phrase, he was unable to verify it. According to Saxon, "There's no contemporary account of it, or even any suggestion that the word ______ was used in the derogatory sense in his day.

Some sources claim the quote is most likely from famous con-man Joseph ("Paper Collar Joe") Bessimer, and other sources say it was actually uttered by David Hannum, spoken in reference to his part in the Cardiff Giant hoax.

In the John Dos Passos novel The 42nd Parallel, the quotation is attributed to Mark Twain.

Who? What quotation was attributed to him?

SAFETY SLIDE

P.T.BarnumThere's a sucker born every minute.

Q4. Samuel Orchart Beeton was an English publisher, best known as

the publisher of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.He also founded and published Boy's Own Magazine (1855–90), the first and most influential boys' magazine. He launched The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, a pioneering serial for middle-class women, the same year. Beeton made his first fortune as he secured the rights of a famous 1852 work and became its first British publisher.

Which book,one of the best selling books of all time?

His other claim to fame is that he was also the founder of Beeton's Christmas Annual , a paperback magazine printed in England yearly between 1860 and 1898 .They paid £25 for the rights for a work and published it in its Novemeber 1887 edition.

What work?

SAFETY SLIDE

Uncle Tom’s CabinA Study in Scarlet

Q5. When Mary Anderson received her patent, she tried to sell

it to a Canadian manufacturing firm, but the company refused: The device had no practical value, it said, and so was not worth any money. Though her invention became a standard equipment by around 1922, Anderson never profited from it. People scoffed at Anderson’s invention, saying that it would cause accidents. Her patent expired before she could entice anyone to use her idea.

In 1922, A company which took its name after a French explorer became the first to adopt them as a standard equipment.

What was her invention? Which company?

SAFETY SLIDE

Windshield ViperCadillac named after Antoine de la Mothe

Cadillac

Q6. The famous rivalry which consists of two epic contests,

gave rise to a paradox, a concept in sports economics. It was first identified and named by Walter C. Neale, in his article "The peculiar economics of professional sports", published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in February 1964. The paradox, as identified by Neale, is that the general rule that monopoly is the "ideal market position of a firm" does not hold for professional sports. Where non-sporting firms are "better off the smaller or less important the competition", sporting firms require competitors to be successful”.

Identify the paradox/Name the two people involved in the rivalry.

SAFETY SLIDE

Louis–Schmeling paradox

Q7. Robert Tor Russell was a British architect who worked as

the Chief Architect to the Public Works Department, Government of India.

Russell also served with distinction during the First World War, and later, after retiring from India, became a civil servant for the British Government.

His most famous creation was named after Prince Arthur, third son of Queen Victoria who visited India in 1921.

The creation is modeled after a building designed by John Wood the Younger ,built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom.

What creation? What was it modeled on?

SAFETY SLIDE

Connaught Place

Royal Crescent in Bath

Q8 Chris Messina is a former American Developer

Experience Lead at Uber, where he enforced the terms and conditions of Uber's proprietary APIs.Previously an open source and open standards advocate, Messina is best known for his idea which is now universally adopted.

A certain Evan Williams admitted that when Messina came up with the idea, he didn’t see the concept becoming so popular.

What was the claim to fame of Chris Messina?

SAFETY SLIDE

Using hashtags in Twitter.

Q9. The company's roots go back to 1857 when the Saucona Iron

Company was first organized by Augustus Wolle.The Panic of 1857, a national financial crisis, halted further organization of the company.

In 1893. the company manufactured an entity which was named in honor of its creator George Washington Gale _____ Jr and it generated nearly $750,000 profit.

In 1898, X joined the company as a management consultant in order to solve an expensive machine shop capacity problem and rest is history. X was also an accomplished tennis and golf player. X and Clarence Clark won the inaugural United States National tennis doubles championship at Newport Casino in 1881. In the 1900 Summer Olympics, X finished fourth in golf.

What company? What 1893 creation? Who is X?

George Washington Gale _____ Jr

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Bethlehem Steel

Ferris wheel

Frederick Winslow Taylor

The series of management principles established by Taylor would later be known as scientific management principles to increase mass production.

Q10. Mary Pickersgill stitched it from a combination of

cotton and dyed English wool bunting, assisted by her daughter, two nieces, and an African American indentured servant. (Her elderly mother may also have helped.)

A 2-inch by 5-inch scrap of this thing- white and red, with a seam down the middle - was sold at auction in Dallas, TX on November 30, 2011, for $38,837: the snippet was, presumably, cut from this as a souvenir in the mid-19th century.

Where exactly was this snippet sourced from?

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Star-Spangled Banner, or the Great Garrison Flag

Q11. In June 1929 a squad of embarrassed policemen raided the

Warren gallery in London, and seized 13 paintings by X. They were spared from being burned on condition that they were never exhibited in Britain again.

The paintings were exported - "to corrupt some other poor buggers" as X remarked - but a set of replicas was on view at the Pan bookshop in London back in 2003.

Identify the painter who went through a lot of legal troubles for a different work as well.

The originals were inherited by X's widow, Frieda, then by her third husband, and most were then sold to a Greek hotelier in New Mexico called Saki Karavas, who once offered to return them to Britain under a certain condition. What condition?

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D.H. Lawrence

Repatriation of Elgin marbles to Athens.

Q12. This Lea & Perrins brand was commercialised in 1837 and

has continued to be the leading global brand of X. The packaging originally stated that the X came "from

the recipe of a nobleman in the county". The company has also claimed that "Lord Marcus Sandys, ex-Governor of Bengal" encountered it while in India with the East India Company in the 1830s, and commissioned the local apothecaries to recreate it.

X is also an important ingredient in a dish which was supposedly created by an Italian immigrant when a Fourth of July 1924 rush depleted the kitchen's supplies.

X? Dish?

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Worcestershire sauce

Caesar salad

Q13. The first person with this distinction was Annie Moore, a

17-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who arrived on the ship Nevada on January 1, 1892. She and her two brothers were coming to America to meet their parents, who had moved to New York two years prior. She received a greeting from officials and a $10 gold coin. It was the largest sum of money she had ever owned. The last person to have the same distinction was a Norwegian merchant seaman by the name of Arne Peterssen in 1954.

What distinction? A famous American businessman got his surname thanks

to the entity associated with the above distinction. Who?

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Ellis Island immigrants

First and the last immigrant to the United States to pass through federal immigrant inspection at the Ellis Island station in New York Harbor.

Larry Ellison

Q14. Directly taken from the official website of a company

______ ___ . X was felicitated with the award for her 'Personal

Achievement in Adventure Sports and Women’s Upliftment in the country' by Shri Lakshmikant Sharma, Minister of Culture, Madhya Pradesh at a function held in Gwalior on June 18, 2013. 

X joined ______ ___ in 1984 as the Chief of ______ ___ Adventure Foundation, after her successful achievement and since then she has been involved in promoting multifarious adventure activities for the community in general and ______ ___ in particular.

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Bachendri PalTata Steel

Q15. The Boston Public Garden was

established in 1837, when philanthropist Horace Gray petitioned for the use of land as the first public botanical garden in the United States.

The number of visitors to this particular landmark within the garden was increased for a great extend in August 2014.

Why?

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Death of Robin Williams

Q16. Serafim Todorov now lives on a monthly pension of

$435. He and his wife are both unemployed after working at supermarkets and sausage factories. Todorov's neighborhood in Bulgaria is ridden with drug dealers and "underworld bosses" who have offered Todorov positions, but he has turned them down.

Todorov was the last person to have done something in 1996. He said he was approached by three men after his achievement who offered him a professional contract, but he didn’t accept any of those.

What was Serafim Todorov’s claim to fame?

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Last boxer to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Q17. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented

a gold-plated replica to King Salman of Saudi Arabia back in April 2016, he was underlining the trade links that existed between India and Saudi Arabia since the first millennium BC.

What was this a replica of?

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Cheraman Juma Masjid

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