The XXI Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Inter-Collegiate Team Quiz Championship

Prelims

Kaustuba VenugopalVarun ShenoySohan Maheshwar

1.• He attained the rank of lieutenant in the Italian

Army and of commander in the Italian Navy. During WW1 he was placed in charge of the Italian military's radio service. Who?

• By mid 1920s he had become one of the most important and influential men in his country. Who then was the best man at his wedding in 1927?

• Marconi, Mussolini

2.• Film rights to this international runaway fugitive’s life story

were awarded to two separate movie production houses, one of which is being made under the title Running in the Background ? (The other is owned by Warner Bros and not much is known about their plans)

• He has also commissioned George Jung (famously portrayed by Johnny Depp in Blow) to write is official biography named No Domain.

• Who?

• John McAfee

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3.• What was the name given by the Japanese to

the “divine” intervention that twice thwarted attempts by Kublai Khan to invade Japan in the 13th century? The Mongols never made another attempt to capture Japan after this

• Kamikaze – meaning divine wind. They were basically typhoons

4.• A material called Cellucotton had been discovered by what was then

a small US firm in 1914. Then, once the US entered the war in 1917, they started mass producing the material for surgical dressing. (at a rate of 380-500ft per minute.)

• The end of the war in 1918 brought about a temporary suspension of the company's business because its principal customers - the army and the Red Cross - no longer had a need for the Cellucotton product

• But they found out that certain helpers at Red Cross realised a different use for it, and it was this unofficial use that ultimately made the company's fortune.

• The new product was named so for it's cotton like texture. What product is this?

• Kotex

5*.• American universities follow a certain course numbering

systems, designed to make transfer between colleges easier. In theory, any numbered course in one institution should bring a student to the same standard as a similarly numbered course available elsewhere within the same state.

• The standard generally adopted is that the first number refers to the academic level, whilst the following numbers indicate particular speciality within the field of study.

• _____ is normally a general course at beginners' level.• FITB

• 101

6.• Warner Bros owns a catalog of about 6,000 feature films in a library that last year

helped generate nearly $4 billion in licensing fees from television, home video and electronic delivery, according to SEC filings.

• The shortlist of films that drive much of the library's value include "The Wizard of Oz," "A Christmas Story," "Caddyshack" and another film that had an unsuccessful run at the box office when released, but has over the years proved to be like an insurance against unemployment for everyone involved in the film. Apparently, In the days of videocassettes, this was the top rental of 1995.

• Why the film didn't make any money during it's theatrical run is attributed to a variety of reasons. Lack of female roles, it's title with a religious connotation or probably being overshadowed by three of the biggest hits/ most iconic films of the decade releasing in the same year.

• What film?

• Shawshank Redemption• Movies that supposedly overshadowed Shawshank

were Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction. All released in the same month

7.• Much like the words ‘constable’ and ‘marshal’ that

originate from a person employed to take care of a horse/stable for a king or nobleman, this word too originally referred to someone who attended a horse for his employer

• But, today the word finds itself on the other side of the divide from constable and marshal. It is most often used to describe a hired guard or minion of a master criminal.

• What word whose equestrian reference comes from the old English word hengest meaning male horse?

• Henchman

8.• In the 70s, there was an Australian tv show

about a detective named Napoleon Bonaparte. The name of the show was the detective's nickname. This nickname served as the inspiration for the name of what music band that rewrote history with their songs?

• Boney-M

9.• The term has nothing to do with graves. It

took its current form because of a corruption of ‘gravy-eyed’ which refers to the time of the day when you’re blurry-eyed and tired. What term?

• Graveyard shift

10*.• In October 2013, a short story was published

in the New Yorker called Samsa in Love. • What was it a tribute to? Who wrote the story

which saw the writer draw inspiration again from a theme he had visited once before in 2002?

• Metamorphosis• Haruki Murakami

11.• Identify the gentlemen on the left and the

right.

• Yitzahk Rabin• Yasir Arafat

12.• The legacy of Ackworth Committe of 1921 is

still felt in India through an event that happens every February.

• What?

• Separate Railway budget every year

13.• The name of this dialect of Hindustani refers

to the "stiff and rustic uncouthness" of the dialect.

• What dialect?

• Khadi boli

14.• According to the Sikhs, who is last and the

final among the Sikh gurus? (Guru Nanak was the first)

• Guru Granth Sahib

15*.• Karan Singh, is a member of the Rajya Sabha and has

authored several books - Hinduism, Essays on Hinduism, Mundaka Upanishads, Hymn To Shiva to name a few. He was born in Cannes France in 1931.

• He went to Doon school and later went onto secure his PhD from Delhi University.

• The question is, who was his father?

• Maharaja Hari Singh

16• A couple of years ago in Karachi, the financial capital

of Pakistan, the government inaugurated a program to improve the tax collection rates in the country. Less than one percent of its population pays taxes. The govt appointed a group as the chief drivers of this ambitious plan, putting them in charge of collecting taxes, as they are seen as relentless in their pursuit. The said group has already been employed in neighbouring India by private firms to do pretty much the same job. What group?

• Eunuchs

17.• Which Vietnamese dynasty's rule started in

1802 and ended after WW2? • The name is one of most common

surnames/first names(in the western sense) in the world.

• Nguyen

18.• The image shows an event called 'altar

lottery'. What is happening here?

• Coptic Papal election

19.• Rahi Mazoom Raza was a urdu poet, a Sanskrit

scholar and a lecturer from UP. • He won the Filmfare award for Best Dialogue(for

the movie Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki) in 1979. • He is best remembered for his lasting

contribution to a television show, that also aired on the BBC.

• Identify the TV show

• Mahabharath

*20.• Farinelli, an Italian singer from the 18th century,

is considered as one of the greatest opera singers.

• The secret to his success is probably is because he did not 'allow' his larynx from being transformed by the normal physiological events of puberty.

• What kind of voice did Farinelli possess?(a particular word, please)

• Castrato

21.• When Richard Linklater was asked about how

he felt after filming ‘Boyhood’, at The Sundance Film Festival he replied with the name of an Oscar-winning movie that also referenced the time taken to film the movie.

• Which movie?

• 12 Years A Slave.

22.• This file format is a modification of the open

standard PDF format endorsed by a certain organization after which it is also named. The format is promoted as being more environmentally friendly and are simply PDF files with the security settings for printing set to "not allowed".

• The initiative was criticized for being ineffective and for also violating the BSD license.

• What format is this?

• .wwf format named after World Wildlife Fund

23.• The title of this Alex Bellos book is a bad pun on a Pulitzer

Prize winning book published in 1939.• Incidentally there’s also a Scholastic book about arithmetic

puzzles, with the same name. Name the book(s)

24.

X and Y

• Back in 1998, Z was axed from Y’s World Cup squad.• So Z decided to have the toilet doors at his Cafe do Gol sports bar

painted with a cartoon depiction of the national manager sitting on a toilet. Y’s, No. 2 (heh) X didn't escape punishment either: he was depicted on another door with a loo roll in his hand.

• Y launched a lawsuit, stating that "the cartoons are personal revenge for him being dropped from the national team".

• Justice officials subsequently ordered the removal of the images and the entire doors of Z’s bar were taken away. Y also received damages.

• X, Y and Z.

• X – Zico• Y – Mario Zagallo• Z - Romario

25*.

• This cycle is displayed at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

• X cycled through the countryside weighing children, in a study where he showed that there was a weight difference between baby girls and boys.

• Who?

• Amartya Sen

26.• ______ is a chemical element with atomic

number 72. It is used in making filaments and electrodes.

• It gets its name from the Latin word for the city of Copenhagen.

• Element ?

• Hafnium from Hafina

27.• New logo of who/what? Part of a $3.5 million

rebranding by Landor Associates.

28.• When X was 15, a group of his dad's mates

each placed $100 bets with British bookmakers that he would play Test cricket by the age of 30.

• The odds they were given were 500-1. X recently made his debut thus earning a cool $50,000 pay-off for each punter now.

• X ?

• Josh Hazelwood

29.

29.• This flag of an American city has each section representing a

country that once controlled it. • The lower left quarter represents France, which founded the

fort and settlement in 1701. • The upper right quarter represents Britain, which controlled

the fort from 1760 to 1796• The lower right has 13 red and white stripes and the upper

hoist has 13 white stars on a blue field, representing the original thirteen colonies of the United States.

• In 2013, it became the largest US city to file for bankruptcy. Identify.

• Detroit

30*.

30*.• This painting by X depicts the legendary story

of the American patriot Y, as learned from an 1863 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called Y’s Ride.

• X is a painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest.

• Identify X and Y.

• X – Grant Wood• Y – Paul Revere

• FINALS!

Write Bros.• +10 per correct answer• Bonus +10 if you get all correct

1.• 2 DC comics covers are parodies of 2 different

movies. Name ‘em.

2.• Identify both

3.• Identify the band behind this clever album

title that means ‘The Painter’ in Spanish

4.• Identify both

5.• This author once said “If I could choose, I think that I would prefer to be

remembered as a Lepidopterist, instead of a writer'. He has made numerous contributions to lepidopterology,

• Exchange Sheets

1.• 2 DC comics covers are parodies of 2 movies.

Name ‘em.

2.• Identify both

• Sting (the musician)• Sting (the wrestler)

3.• Identify the band behind this clever album

title that means ‘The Painter’ in Spanish

4.• Identify both

• Zinedine and Enzo Zidane (his son)

5.• This author once said “If I could choose, I think that I would prefer to be

remembered as a Lepidopterist, instead of a writer'. He has made numerous contributions to lepidopterology,

• Vladamir Nabakov

Clockwise Round• 15 questions• +10 for right answer• Infinite pounce• 3 pounces per team• Partial pounce allowed

1.• In 2005, a flagging Japanese economy convinced Takashi

Hashiyama, president of the electronics firm Maspro Denkoh, to sell the corporate collection of French impressionist paintings including a major Cézanne landscape and lesser works by Sisley, van Gogh, and Picasso.

• Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s gave presentations to Hashiyama touting their expertise and ability to achieve the highest auction prices. In Hashiyama’s judgment, the presentations were equally convincing.

• How did they resolve this?

• Answer

• Through a game of rock, paper, scissors.

2.• This voice actress got into some trouble in 2009

after she used the voice of her most famous character to promote an upcoming Scientology event.

• “She says: 'Hey, what’s happening man, this is <character>! 'Just kidding, don't hang up, this is <actress>. This is a very special phone call to you.’

• Character/Actress?

• Answer

• Nancy Cartwright• Bart Simpson

3.• Aaron Shikler was commissioned by Y to carry out this task.• Y told him “I don’t want him to look the way everybody else

makes him look, with the bags under his eyes and that penetrating gaze. I’m tired of that image”

• Shikler found inspiration from a photograph of X’s brother, grieving after X’s death. Shikler got to work and presented Y with a sketch of X in a similar pose.

• Identify X and Y.• What was Shikler commissioned to carry out and why is it

unique?

• Answer

• X – JFK• Y – Jackie Kennedy• The official Presidential portrait. JFK is the only

President looking down in his portrait.

4.

• This is the HMT Kanchan which was also known as the “_______ watch".

• Collector Prashant Pandey recounts stories he has heard of people lining up outside HMT showrooms as early as 5 am with letters from various political leaders recommending that a Kanchan watch be given to the bearer of the letter.

• “If there was no Kanchan watch then <something> would not happen,” said Pandey.

• FITB.

• Answer

• This was known as the ‘dowry watch’.

5.• In 1989, X won his first Grammy Award in a category that

was introduced for the first time that year.• Sometime later he met Benny Medina, a music producer

who pitched him an idea. • X was particularly receptive to Medina’s pitch for one

simple reason: He had already spent a fortune and he neglected to send the government its share of his earnings. X was nearly bankrupt after the IRS assessed his unpaid taxes at $2.8 million. The idea was a shot at solvency and X agreed to give 70% of his earnings to the IRS.

• What resulted thus? Name X.

• Answer

• X – Will Smith who agreed to star in Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

6.• What’s the hidden joke?

• Answer

• The children's letter blocks "D" and "S" on either side of a RUG under a table − to spell out "drugs under the table" in code.

• (Drugs is the operative bit)

7.• Chelsea v

Coventry 1997

• Leicester City v Brighton 2009

• Sheffield Wednesday v Millwall 2013

^Barnsley v Crystal Palace 2013

• What unfortunate instance took place in these games? (non-exhaustive list)

• Visual important

• Answer

• Instances where the away team had to where the away-kit of the home team due to kits being misplaced / kits clashing with the home teams’.

8.• The Three-mile Limit refers to a traditional and

now largely obsolete conception of the international law of the seas which defined a country's territorial waters, for the purposes of trade regulation and exclusivity.

• Why specifically three miles?

• Answer

• Three miles is the distance of a canon shot.

9.• When you step off the elevators at this company’s gleaming

headquarters, which it has occupied since 2013, you see three massive and strange photographs: a plump young guy yawning awake in bed, a woman brushing her teeth with her hair in a towel, and a skinny bald guy raiding the fridge.

• These are the pictures of the first three guests, in Rausch Street, San Francisco.

• The company’s brand colour – a distinctive shade of pink, is called "Rausch” and there’s also a meeting room with that name modeled after the original found at Rausch Street.

• Which company?

• Answer

10.• Few days ago, International Space Station

commander Barry Wilmore needed a wrench (aboard the ISS of course).

• How did NASA transport it to him?

• Answer

• The emailed it to him.• There’s a 3D printer aboard the ISS and they

just emailed the physible.

11.• These are 4 Parisian Suburbs• ________• St Germain• Trianon• Neuilly• Serves

• Name the 5th suburb missing from the list and put funda

Answer…

• Versailles• Treaties named after these suburbs

12• Sometime in 2008, a certain

Ms Nilamben Parikh scattered some ashes in the Arabian sea and the family believed that the ceremony healed the rift between the two in the afterlife.

• Who are the two?

Answer…

• Harilal and M.K. Gandhi. Nilamben is Harilal's daughter. MK and Harilal had an estranged relationship

13.• John Eales is an Australian former rugby union player

and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby.

• He won two World Cups and played 84 times for his country.

• What was his nickname, coined because he was a perfect player?

• Answer

• ‘Nobody’ because Nobody’s Perfect.

14.• Put full funda behind Vulfpeck’s album ‘Sleepify’.• “..we prefer Vulpeck’s earlier albums,” said Spotify

spokesman Graham James. “'Sleepify' seems derivative of John Cage’s work.

• Answer

• Spotify pays artists $0.005 per play if 30 seconds of a song is played.

• Thus Vulfpeck made an album of 30 second silent songs that they asked their fans to play while they’re asleep, in order to fund an upcoming free tour.

• Both these architectural features (the white section at the top of the arch and the grey section on the wall) have entered English language as words that mean the crux/ linchpin/ backbone of something. What are they?

15

Answer…

• Keystone• Cornerstone

Differential scoring round• 5 questions• 1 or 2 teams – 10 points• 3 or 4 teams – 7 points• 5 or 6 teams – 5 points• 7 or 8 teams – 3 points

• 1. In language, a juncture loss refers to a process where multiple words — usually an article and a noun — fuse into one word. More often than not, this happens when the word migrates from one language to another and is usually accompanied by a change in meaning as well.

• Example: Al-ghattas in Arabic used to refer to the pelican (literal translation – the diver), became alcatraz in Portuguese and from there became albatross in English

• On similar lines - What is the meaning of the Spanish word lagarto? By interacting with its Spanish article, what new word did it give birth to in the English language?

• 2. Follow up question• As per OED, albatross and alcatraz

were initially names of two different birds in Portuguese. In fact, the word albatross might have come about to distinguish the white coloured bird(Latin albus meaning white) from the black coloured alcatraz, which is another commonly found marine bird,.

• How do we better know alcatraz?

• 3. “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world <dash dash dash dash>”

• —Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789

• What famous aphorism’s origin is often attributed to this letter from Benjamin Franklin where he hopes the constitution he and others wrote would stand the test of time?

• PS: The quotation in the form we know it today was popularized by Franklin. But he didn't invent it.

• 4. Shown here is a solid metal plate that printers used when there was a need to print the same things repeatedly. A metal plate like this with precast letters would be used instead of arranging the letters over and over again (let's say on later editions of a novel). What were these solid metal plates known as?

• While printing from these, the ink running over the plate produced a kind of repeated clicking sound. What was the name given to the sound?

• Clue: both these words today loosely mean an overused expression or an image of something.

5. On British navy vessels, from the 16th century to the 19th, sailors were made to do without meat one day every week (the measure was intended to conserve provisions while at sea). These meatless days came to be known as ‘banyan days’. Why so?

Exchange Sheets

• 1. In language, a juncture loss refers to a process where multiple words — usually an article and a noun — fuse into one word. More often than not, this happens when the word migrates from one language to another and is usually accompanied by a change in meaning as well.

• Example: Al-ghattas in Arabic used to refer to the pelican (literal translation – the diver), became alcatraz in Portuguese and from there became albatross in English

• On similar lines - What is the meaning of the Spanish word lagarto? By interacting with its Spanish article, what new word did it give birth to in the English language?

• Lagarto – Lizard• El lagarto became Alligator

• 2. Follow up question• As per OED, albatross and alcatraz

were initially names of two different birds in Portuguese. In fact, the word albatross might have come about to distinguish the white coloured bird(Latin albus meaning white) from the black coloured alcatraz, which is another commonly found marine bird,.

• How do we better know alcatraz?

• Frigate bird

• 3. “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world <dash dash dash dash>”

• —Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789

• What famous aphorism’s origin is often attributed to this letter from Benjamin Franklin where he hopes the constitution he and others wrote would stand the test of time?

• PS: The quotation in the form we know it today was popularized by Franklin. But he didn't invent it.

• "Nothing is certain in this world, but death and taxes“ (any variation also accepted)

• The earliest known instance of this phrase is 'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes." was by one Christopher Bullock in 1716

• 4. Shown here is a solid metal plate that printers used when there was a need to print the same things repeatedly. A metal plate like this with precast letters would be used instead of arranging the letters over and over again (let's say on later editions of a novel). What were these solid metal plates known as?

• While printing from these, the ink running over the plate produced a kind of repeated clicking sound. What was the name given to the sound?

• Clue: both these words today loosely mean anything that’s overused.

• Stereotype (Stereo in Greek means solid)

• Cliché

5. On British navy vessels, from the 16th century to the 19th, sailors were made to do without meat one day every week (the measure was intended to conserve provisions while at sea). These meatless days came to be known as ‘banyan days’. Why so?

• From Baniya – who don’t eat meat

Anti-clockwise• 15 Questions• +10 for every right answer• Infinite Pounce• 3 strikes per team• Part pounce allowed

• 1. For what non military purpose did the notorious Roman emperor Nero maintain a cohort of 5,000 knights and soldiers, who would accompany him wherever he went?

• Nero being a wannabe musician employed them as his applause brigade. They would applaud and cheer his concert performances

Answer…

• 2. Sir Charles ___________ (1802 – 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). But a device in the field of electrical sciences his name is most often associated with, was not invented by him. It was invented by one Samuel Hunter Christie.

• Who or what device?

Answer…

• Wheatstone of the Wheatstone’s bridge fame

3. On January 24, 1961, an accident on Sunset Blvd left X gravely injured. With multiple broken bones and other injuries he went into coma at the hospital. For two weeks he lay in a vegetative state, unresponsive to any efforts trying to revive him.

After nearly a fortnight, a doctor at the hospital casually asked him, even as he lay unconscious, how he was. But he didn’t address the patient by his name. He called him something else. And to everyone's amazement the patient responded to the question. Encouraged by this, the doctor repeated the exercise calling him by different names and each time the patient responded to the question in a different manner. And sure enough, after a while he woke up from his comaWho is X?How is he supposed to have respond to the first question from the doctor?

Answer…

• Mel Blanc, “What’s up, doc?”• Source - Radiolab

• 4. This ad, for Soft N Dry deodorant featuring an octopus, is often cited as an example of trans border marketing campaign failures on account of a lack of cultural awareness of the local region. It is supposed to have bombed in Japan. What is the reason given for the failure?

Answer…

• Americans view Octopus tentacles as arms, whereas Japanese see it as legs. So…

• 5. Lucha libre is a form of professional wrestling that has developed within Mexico. The name translates to "freestyle wrestling", referring to an amateur wrestling style without the restrictions of Greco-Roman variants. It is characterized by rapid sequences and "high-flying" maneuvers that require high agility.

• What distinct feature of lucha libre helps distinguish proponents of this style from other wrestlers and, ironically enough, lends a sense of identity to every lucha librist? Matches are contested where the wager would be for the loser to give up on the identity forever.

• The said feature also lends a touch of mystery to the wrestlers, and leads to their taking up names that is meant to highlight this persona. We're familiar with one such person whose name translates to the king of mystery. Who be this wrestler?

Answer…

• Every lucha librist tends to have a unique mask of his own.

• 6. Some of the most famous brands of Cuban cigars are named after works of literature. Monte Cristo, Romeo y Julieta etc. Why were such names chosen?

Answer…

• Cuban cigar factories usually have this practice of employing a person, known as a lector, to read out the day's news, famous works of literature etc to the workers as a form of entertainment to help keep them going during the long working hours.

• So the factory adopted the practice of naming some of their premium brands after the books most demanded by the rollers

• 7. The ancient English game of Pall-mall also lends its name to the Pall Mall brand of cigarettes, first brought out in the UK, but eventually gaining greater popularity in the US where it was the country's number one brand for several decades.

• The original pronunciation of the brand name was 'pel mel'. But, today the pronunciation has changed to 'paul maul'. What is the reason for this shift?

Answer…

• With a ban on advertising of cigarettes in television and radio in 1970, it became impossible to communicate the right pronunciation.

• Earlier the company used to tutor the tv radio presenters to get the pronunciation right. Old timers who have seen the ad still pronounce it pel-mel. The newer generation just went with the intuitive way of pronouncing it

• 8. During the coronation of King George V in Delhi in 1911, the following three Indian kings were conferred the privilege of a 21 gun salute as a reflection of the state of the raja's relations with the British.– The Nizam of Hyderabad– The Maharaja (Gaekwad) of Baroda State– The Maharaja of Mysore

• But by 1921 the Maharaja of Gwalior and the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir were upgraded to a permanent and hereditary honour as the above kings.

• As a reward for what did the latter two kings have their status upgraded?

Answer…

• For contributing troops to the WW1 cause

• 9. Moray eel is a kind of eel that has a pharyngeal jaw with which it attacks its prey. Although many species of fish have pharyngeal jaw, that of Moray is highly mobile. This is the reason the extra jaw is known as _____ jaw, a reference to 1979 work that made such a feature famous.

• Alien jaw

• 10. Whose brand of cologne is this? What's the story?

Answer…

• In response to Sony gaining the exclusive rights to advertise the game Destiny, xbox created this fictitious brand of cologne in order to be able to associate its name with Destiny.

• 11. Before the LTTE came to be identified with the tiger striped military uniforms, they were most commonly seen wearing a shirt and sarong (lungi). An early LTTE cadet explained that the sarong served a practical use that could not be realized with trousers. What practical use? Why couldn’t the trousers serve the purpose?

Answer…

• To hide a gun• The generally well educated Tamilian men

from Northern Srilanka always tucked their shirt in with trousers, so hiding a gun became impossible. And leaving the shirt out would draw attention

• 12. How do we better know these glam rock bands?

• They were previously known as ______ N’ chains

• Pantera• Alice in Chains (earlier known as Alice N’

Chains)

13. Connect the following to…

…to this photograph

Ingres’s violin (violon d'Ingres) - The phrase refers to a person who is known for one talent but is so good at another they could be equally well know for the second.

The 19th century French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave rise to the expression.

Man Ray used this expression as the title of a famous photograph portraying Alice Prin (aka Kiki de Montparnasse) in the pose of the Valpinçon Bather.

• 14. The venue of one was the Kreditbanken (name of a bank) at the Norrmalmstorg square in Sweden in 1973 while the venue of its counterpart was the Japanese embassy in Peru in 1996 where diplomats and other high ranking people were attending a party in celebration of Emperor Akihito's 63rd birthday.

• Put funda.

• Stockholm Syndrome, Lima Syndrome

• 15. The perpetrators of the crisis that gave rise to Lima syndrome were members of a revolutionary group called MRTA.

• The T in the abbreviation stands for the name of the leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish in Peru. Although unsuccessful, he later became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and indigenous rights movement. He himself was named after the last Inca ruler before the Spanish conquest.

• Which famous US personality was in turn named after this revolutionary?

Answer…

• Tupac Shakur