2. RULES :
1. Please don’t use any electronic devices
during any round of the quiz.
2. Brownie points for punny answers (but
no actual points if they are incorrect).
3. 24 questions (12 clockwise, 12 anti-
clockwise) .
4. +20/-5 on pounce.
5. 10 on bounce.
6. Infinite bounce.
7. Blame me for the poor design of the
slides.
10. Q3. “Fish and chips” is a popular take-away food
in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New
Zealand and Canada. It consists of battered fish
which is deep-fried and served with chips.
The Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest
usage of "chips" in this sense the mention in
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (published in 1859).
How do we better know these “chips” today?
13. Q4. A convention that particularly began being
practiced in fashion in the late 1700s was the
result of the fact that women were dressed by
maids or servants whereas men dressed
without any external aid.
This practice is still very prevalent as a relic of
an old tradition that we have ported into the
contemporary world. Which practice am I
talking about?
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16. Q5. Perhaps they are names for their resemblance
to a fungus, this is a type of chocolate
confectionery that is traditionally made with a
chocolate ganache center coated in chocolate or
cocoa powder, usually in a spherical, conical, or
curved shape. Other fillings may replace the
ganache.
What?
22. Q7. _____ Alexandrovna of Russia married Prince Alfred,
Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert and became Duchess of Edinburgh and
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. From 1893 until her
death, she had the distinction of being a Russian grand
duchess (by birth), a British royal duchess (by marriage), and
the consort (and later widow) of a German sovereign duke.
Something was prepared for her wedding to the Prince and
named after her, which has now become a household name.
What?
Image (unhelpful) on the next slide.
28. Pubic hairstyles for women
1. The Brazilian
2. The Landing Strip
3. The big bush
4. The Bermuda Triangle
5. The Vajazzle
29. Q.9 Called Schwarzwälderkirschtorte in German. The origin of
____ is unknown, but historians believes it originated in the late
16th century in the ____ Region (Der Schwarzwald in German)
located in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
The name, Schwarzwald, evokes darkness and mystery coming
from the romantic woods in Germany. It contains whipped
cream, extract from sour Morello cherries and chocolate. The
confectioner Josef Keller claims to have invented _____ in its
present form in 1915 in the then prominent Café Agner in Bad
Godesberg. This claim, however, has never been substantiated.
What?
32. Q10. A good fact about X would be that it was
evolved for use in the sport tennis rather than Y
it is confused to be.
While playing the sport Y players often
complained about the design problem in X and
how it hindered their performance. This led to a
very famous trend Z in the feild of fashion.
Identify X, Y and Z
39. Q12. In the late 1700s, this fruit was considered
poisonous due to the fact that many aristocrats
would get sick and die after eating it. In fact, the
fruits weren't poisonous, but they were eaten from
pewter plates which contained lead, and the
acidic juices from the fruit would cause the lead to
be leached out from the plates and be consumed,
hence causing lead poisoning. Which popular
fruit am I talking about?
42. Q 13. Its creation is generally attributed to an Italian immigrant who
operated restaurants in Mexico and the United States. He was living in
San Diego but also working in Tijuana where he avoided the
restrictions of Prohibition. His daughter recounted that her father
invented the dish when a Fourth of July 1924 rush depleted the
kitchen's supplies. He made do with what he had, adding the dramatic
flair of the table-side tossing "by the chef."
Julia Child said that she had eaten this at the original restaurant when
she was a child in the 1920s. The first documentation of this dish dates
to 1946, when the newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen wrote:
“The big food rage in Hollywood—the X—will be introduced to New
Yorkers by Gilmore's Steak House. It's an intricate concoction that
takes ages to prepare and contains (zowie!) lots of garlic, raw or
slightly coddled eggs, croutons, romaine, anchovies, parmeasan,
cheese, olive oil, vinegar and plenty of black pepper.”
What are we talking about?
45. Q14. The first convincing evindence of use of
this wearable dates back to 500 A.D. in caves
of france.
It was made out of animal intestines, linen, silk
and questionably leather.
There have been reportedly used in
roadbuilding and to protect guns from damage
and for water transportation, none of which was
it’s primary purpose. What?
48. Q 15. XY consists of a whole roasted nut encased
in a thin wafer shell filled with chocolate and
covered in milk chocolate. Its ingredients are milk
chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, skim milk powder,
butteroil palm oil, wheat flour and lowfat cocoa
powder.
It is named as XY, where X is the surname of the
inventor and Y is comes from French and means
rock or boulder. What?
51. Q 16.When Mughals invaded India, they brought
along their own cuisine. They did not take to any
Indian food items except one item. They adopted
the Indian tradition with respect to this item and
decided that no feast is complete without this item.
Which item that is an integral component of any
feast in India am I talking about?
54. Q.17 Christian Louboutin is a person who has made his career
by designing high end heels. He said :
“My sketches were not reproduced exactly as I had designed
them and I couldn’t figure out why. The two dimensional sketch
was so powerful on paper, but when turned into a three-
dimensional object, it was somehow lacking energy. Frustrated
after having tried different things to liven up the design, I
spontaneously grabbed my assistant’s red nail polish and
_________. I instantly knew that this would be a success!”.
What was the famous spontaneous action which led it to
become his signature?
57. Q.18 In 1985, a certain Carmela Vitale patented
a plastic tripod stool that would sit in the middle
of a certain box. It would be used in food
packaging to prevent the box from touching the
food itself.
What food item and what is the tripod called?
(Half points each)
60. Q. 19 : According to the 1986 Oxford Dictionary
supplement, the term was coined in Britain to
describe a “Sunday meal for Saturday night
carousers (late nighters)”.
Today, it is a rage in the western world in a
different sense. Which term?
63. Q.20 X is a town near Lucknow, UP. It is infamous
for a train robbery that took place between X and
Alamnagar in 1925 under the British rule. X is also
famous for its delicious Kebab that is made with
minced meat and often considered the softest
Kebab in the world.
What is X kebab?
66. Q 21. In the second movie of the Lord of the
Rings franchise, Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin)
wishes for taters. When Smeagol (later Gollum)
asks what they are, he says, “_______! Boil ‘em,
mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.”
Taters are actually slang for what?
69. Q 22. According to a legend, when Napolean and
his army were travelling through southern France,
they decided to rest for the night at a town called
Bessieres. The local innkeeper greeted Napolean
and offered him a feast of Q. Q was so new and
delicious to Napolean, that he ordered for a huge
Q to be made for his soldiers. This is how Q came
to be known as an easy and tasty dish.
What is Q?
