Final yakshaprashnam - answers

Scoring pattern:
- The keywords that we are looking for have been underlined.
Give points only for the underlined words.
- If more than one answer can be accepted as correct for a
question, the multiple answers are separated by slashes.
- Part points are not applicable unless it has been mentioned in
the question.
- In questions where the answer is a real-life person, give full
points for the surname, unless stated otherwise. Not applicable
to fictional characters, where the full name or the commonly
known name is required.
- Spelling mistakes can be ignored as long as the answer is
phonetically correct.

***1.
Who, with a passport that listed his occupation as
“King (deceased)”, was received at Le Bourget airport
in 1974 just outside Paris, with full military honours
befitting a king?

2.
The Karvi, the snekkja (meaning ‘long and
projecting’), the skied (meaning ‘that which cuts
through water’) and the drekkar were types of which
object whose superiority was unrivalled for centuries,
until the arrival of the great cog?

Answer:
The Longship/The Viking Ship

***3.
La maison à vapeur (The Steam House) is an 1880
Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of
British colonists in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-
powered mechanical elephant. Verne used the
mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader
travel in nineteenth century India. The main popularity
of this book, however, was boosted in some ways,
because it featured a famous Indian of that era and
gave an explanation (of dubious veracity) regarding an
equally famous mystery involving that Indian, which
remains unsolved till date. Which Indian?

4.
Also known as “Nora Baker”, “Madeleine”, “Jeanne-
Marie Rennier”, and “Bang Away Lulu” (because of
her distinctively heavy-handed style when she was a
WAAF signaller), she, as an SOE agent, also became
the first female and the first Indian origin radio
operator to be sent from Britain into occupied France
to aid the French Resistance. Who is this posthumous
George Cross Awardee? (full name required)

5.
1st error: The refrigeration system keeps X cool but was out of
commission and tank 610 could not be cooled to slow down the reaction.
2nd error: The vent gas scrubber is supposed to spray caustic soda on
escaping vapours to neutralise them. The scrubber was under
maintenance.
3rd error: The water curtain which could have neutralised the X was
designed to reach a height of 12 to 15 metres, but the X vapour was
gushing out 33 meters above the ground.
4th error: The flare tower could not be used because a length of piping
was corroded and had not been replaced.
Which event is being talked about, and what is X?

Answer:
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy; methyl isocyanate/MIC

6.
The Battle of Karbala occurred in 680 AD in present-
day Iraq between a small group of supporters and
relatives of Hussein ibn Ali, and a much larger
detachment from the forces of Yazid I, the Umayyad
caliph, to whom Hussein had refused to give an oath
of allegiance.
Hussein was killed during battle, and most of his
supporters were massacred. Which tradition originated
as a direct consequence of the aftermath of this battle?

Answer:
The tradition of Muharram started to commemorate
the martyrdom of Hussein and his supporters

7.
Born George Kastrioti in 1405 to the noble Kastrioti
family, he grew up under Ottoman tutelage and rose to
be one of their greatest generals, earning a title
meaning Lord Alexander, equating his heroics with
those of Alexander the Great. He deserted the
Ottomans during the Battle of Nisand in 1443 and
became the ruler of Kruje, Svetigrad and Modric. Who
is this Albanian national hero, who had defended
Albania against the Ottoman Empire for twenty-five
years?

8.
The Grand Wizard was the national head of the
Invisible Empire; the Grand Dragon the ruler over a
state known as a "Realm”; the Grand Titan, the ruler
of a "Dominion" within a state; Grand Giant, the head
of a province or a county; Grand Cyclops, the
president or presiding officer of a meeting or "Den”;
Hydras the assistants to the Grand Dragon, usually
eight; the Furies, assistants to the Grand Titan, usually
six. These were titles and ranks in which group or
organisation?

9.
Which word, originally used to describe a period of
artistic style that began around 1600, in Rome and
spread to most of Europe, and defined by the art
historian Heinrich Wolfflin as "movement imported
into mass" in an 1888 work that started the
rehabilitation of the word, is derived from the
Portuguese or Spanish word meaning a "rough or
imperfect pearl"?

10.
According to an article published by BBC, which
artist's usage of the trademark stainless steel utensils is
associated with his obsession with the everyday and
the mundane, and is rooted in his observations during
his formative years in a middle-class family?

11.
Which word, originally used to describe the method
of carving an object such as an engraved gem or
jewellery which featured a raised relief image, comes
from a word used in Kabbalistic slang to signify a
"magical square"? The word also finds use in the
world of entertainment in a different sense.

***12.
This 2010 installation by German artist Florian
Kuhlmann titled 'The Alpha and the Omega' is a mash-
up of two famous works of art. If one is Marcel
Duchamp's The Fountain, what is the other? Also
name the artist. (0.5+0.5)

Answer:
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of
Someone Living by Damien Hirst

13.
Originally the artists specializing in this “sacred” art
used a range of uhi (chisels) made from albatross bone
which were hafted onto a handle, and struck with a
mallet. Which art form, described as having “such a
luxury of forms that of a hundred which at first
appeared exactly the same no two were formed alike
on close examination”, is this?

Answer:
Ta moko (also accept Maori tattoo art)

***14.
In her first performance titled Rhythm 10 in 1973, she
played the Russian game, in which rhythmic knife jabs
are aimed between the splayed fingers of one's hand.
Each time she cut herself, she would pick up a new
knife from the row of twenty she had set up, and
record the operation. After cutting herself twenty
times, she replayed the tape, listened to the sounds,
and tried to repeat the same movements, attempting to
replicate the mistakes, merging past and present. In
this, she set out to explore the physical and mental
limitations of the body, a common theme in all her
works. Which artist?

15.
This painting, titled Bedroom at Arles, is based on Van
Gogh’s eponymous series of three paintings of his bedroom.
Who is the artist?

16.
Which mythological being is depicted in this
sandstone sculpture attributed to the Shunga period
(about 50 B.C.), around Madhya Pradesh?

17.
To name characters belonging to a certain clan or
family in a famous literary work, its author quite aptly
used the names of different stars from different
constellations like Alpha Canis Majoris, Gemini and
the Pleiades. Which author?

Answer:
J.K. Rowling (members of the Black family – Sirius,
Arctructus, Draco, Regulus etc.)

18.
This fictional place, a recurring theme in a 20th
century writer’s works, is, in the writer’s own words,
“not so much a place as a state of mind, which allows
you to see what you want, and how you want to see
it.” Cultural commentator Ilan Stavans notes of this
place, “its geography and inhabitants constantly
invoked by teachers, politicians, and tourdepictsist
agents..." makes it "...hard to believe it is a sheer
fabrication.” Which place and who is the writer?
(0.5+0.5)

Answer:
Macondo; Gabriel Garcia Marquez

19.
This comic character’s superhero life was cut short
when she came under the mind control of Zebediah
Killgrave, who sent her to kill Daredevil. Due to her
damaged psyche, she attacked Scarlet Witch on seeing
her in a red costume and was beaten up by the
Avengers who mistook her for a villain. Following this
incident she left her career as a superhero and opened
a private detective agency. Which character?

20.
______, king of Shinar, was, according to the Book of
Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush, the
great-grandson of Noah. A mighty warrior and hunter,
he founded Babylon, the first great empire after the
devastating flood and is also credited with
constructing the Tower of Babel. The name is now
commonly used in American English to mean a dim-
witted or a stupid person, a usage first recorded in
1932 and popularized by the cartoon character Bugs
Bunny, who sarcastically refers to the hunter Elmer
Fudd as "______". FITB.

***21.
Sir Henry Hudson was a legendary sea explorer who explored
the region around present day New York City. In 1611, after a
particularly exhausting and dangerous exploratory trip, Hudson
refused to allow his crew to return home, because he wanted to
keep moving. As a result, there was a mutiny and consequently,
Hudson, his teenage son John, and seven crewmen—men who
were either sick and infirm or loyal to Hudson—were set adrift
in a small boat, ironically in Hudson Bay itself. They were never
heard of again. As tribute to this incident, this group of sailors
reappeared after more than 200 years in a famous work of
fiction. Where?

22.
I think of you and I say to myself: “I have lost him.”
I cannot bear the pain and I wish I were dead.
This is an extract from the poem 'Canterbury', one of
the eight poems written to young actor Ninetto Davoli,
who the poet regarded as “the greatest love of his life.”
Who is this poet, who has come to be valued as a
prophetic intellectual since his tragic death?

***23.
The LongPen is a tele-remote device that allows a
person to remotely write in ink anywhere in the world
via tablet PC and the internet, and allows for audio and
video conference between the end-points, enabling
authors to give readings and do book signings without
being physically present. It was conceived and
developed by an Arthur C. Clarke Award and Booker
Prize-winning author whose trilogy of speculative
fiction novels published in 2003, 2009 and 2013 is
being adapted into a TV series for HBO by Darren
Aronofsky. Which author?

24.
This 2015 novel by Anthony Horowitz is titled as a
pun on the word for 'stiffening of the body after death'.
The novel, the first in the literary series to be set
during the original timeline since 1968's Colonel Sun,
also contains unpublished material written by the
original author for an unfilmed TV series 'Murder on
Wheels'. What is the title of the novel, and who is its
protagonist?

Answer:
Trigger Mortis; James Bond

***25.
Each episode of the first and second seasons is named
after an element of French cuisine and Japanese haute
cuisine respectively. The first seven episodes of the
third season are named after Italian cuisine, while the
subsequent five episodes are named after a series of
paintings by William Blake. Which TV series?

26.
If metric, rhythmic, tonal and overtonal are four, what
is the fifth? Also, what is this a list of?

Answer:
Intellectual; these are the five “methods of montage”
developed by Sergei Eisenstein (for the second part
give points for any one of the keywords montage,
editing or Eisenstein)

27.
The only time this prize (which is given annually to
one contemporary and one classical musician) was
awarded only to one composer was in the year 2003
when it was given to Keith Jarrett “for his outstanding
musical contributions in fields as diverse as classical
interpretation and jazz improvisation.” Which prize?

Answer:
Polar Music Prize (considered the music equivalent of
the Nobel Prize)

***28.
This class of stringed instruments derives its name
from the German rendering of the Latin root from
which the word ‘guitar’ is also derived. A chance
meeting in 1948 of musician Anton Karas and a
certain British filmmaker who was desperately
searching for a theme tune for his next film led to
Karas composing the iconic score of the film,
featuring only this one instrument, which shot Karas to
international fame and resulted in renewed interest in
the instrument in the 1950s. Which instrument and
which film?

29.
“You’re walking in the woods.
There’s no one around,
And your phone is dead.
Out of the corner of your eye you spot him.”
These are the opening lines of which musical
production which currently has more than 27 million
views on YouTube?

Answer:
Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf

30.
In the 1870s, the Canadian showman William Leonard-Hunt aka The
Great Farini built a spring-powered device whilst working at London's
Royal Aquarium. 14-year-old acrobat, Rossa Matilda Richter aka
“Zazel”, was chosen to be the first performer. In the early 1920s the
Zacchinis, an Italian family who moved to America, revitalised the act
with the introduction of some new methods to increase the fun. Their
shows sometimes involved as many as six brothers and two sisters. Give
the name of this act/performance, which is the also the name of a minor
DC Comic character who grew up in the circus and is a friend of Lois
Lane.

31.
According to its Wikipedia disambiguation page,
which term can refer to all of the following things:
- an expression meaning ‘instant’ or ‘a very short time’
- a very famous song by The Eagles, released in 1989
- a 2004 American teen comedy starring Mary-Kate
and Ashley Olsen

32.
'Walk and Talk' is a cinematic technique in which a
number of characters have a conversation en route,
and is frequently used as a means of emphasizing how
busy the characters are. This technique was
popularized by a critically acclaimed, multiple Emmy
and Golden Globe winning TV series, so much so that
all parodies of this series almost always features this
technique. Its use also ensured that the constantly long
and weighty political and social dialogues on the
series did not end up boring people. Name the series.

33.
The sun and the crescent moon on this entity had
human faces until 1962, when the faces were removed
in a bid to modernise it. Which entity, a simplified
combination of two single pennons, are we talking
about?

34.
What is the most famous creation of Paul Maximillien
Landowski (who had won a gold medal at the 1928
Summer Olympics for sculpture), which he created in
collaboration with civil engineer Heitor da Silva Costa
and architect and sculptor Gheorghe Loenida?

***35.
In which capital city, which in Dutch means “fountain
of flowers”, was J.R.R. Tolkien born on 3 January
1892?

36.
Chosen as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1986 for its
extensive cultural and monumental heritage and historical
co-existence of Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultures, it is
called Europe's "Imperial City". Also the subject of this
painting by El Greco, what is this place?

37.
Formerly known as Potomac due to being bordered on
three sides by the Potomac river, this town in the US
state of Virginia serves as the location for one of the
largest U.S. Marine Corps bases in the world, the
presidential helicopter squadron airbase, the United
States Drug Enforcement Administration's training
academy, and headquarters of the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service and the Air Force Office of
Special Investigations. The town has become a pop
culture staple due to its being the location of another
important American administrative centre here.
Identify the town.

38.
‘Crimping’ refers to the 19th century practice of
kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive
techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence.
What is the more popular name for crimping, which
arises from the fact that a large segment of these
unfortunate crimping victims came from a specific
region in Asia?

***39.
Tom George Longstaff was an English doctor, explorer
and mountaineer, most famous for being the first
person to climb a summit of over 7,000 meters in
elevation, Trisul, in the Indian Himalayas in 1907.
During one of his explorations in 1909, he named a
geographical region after seeing the abundance of
widely dispersed rose plants in the region. Which
region, considered the superlative of its kind in the
world, did he name thus?

40.
In which city is the Lychee and Dog Festival held
every year in June in which about 10,000 to 15,000
dogs are consumed during the ten days of the festival,
an activity believed to counteract the heat of summer?

41.
In 1948, eminent American cosmologist, Ralph Alpher
submitted his now famous PhD dissertation on ‘Big
Bang nucleosynthesis’, which explained how various
elements originated after the Big Bang.
Alpher's PhD advisor, George Gamow, came up with
the idea of adding his friend—physicist Hans Bethe—
to the list of authors of Alpher's thesis. As a result, this
paper came to be famously known by what name,
which later turned out to be quite apt?

***42.
The names for the chemical elements with atomic
numbers 104 to 106 were the subject of a major
controversy starting in the 1960s, described by some
nuclear chemists as the ____________ Wars because it
concerned the elements following a certain specific
element on the periodic table. This controversy arose
due to disputes between American scientists and
Soviet scientists as to who had first isolated these
elements. The final resolution of this controversy in
1997 decided the currently-accepted names of
elements 107 to 109. Name the element.

43.
1.It can survive a decade in a desert, without a drop of
water to drink, or in the deepest trenches of the sea.
2. It was taken down to a temperature of -272 degrees
Celsius (which is just one degree above absolute zero)
and it managed to survive for a few minutes.
3. It has travelled to space – and survived.
4. It has outlived the dinosaurs.
Which animal, considered the Earth’s most tenacious
and toughest known creature, is known to have
achieved the above mentioned feats?

Answer:
Tardigrade/Water Bear/Moss Piglet

***44.
This law was first accurately described by the
scientist Ibn Sahl, at the Baghdad court in 984, who
published his findings in the manuscript On Burning
Mirrors and Lenses. The law was rediscovered
by Thomas Harriot in 1602, who however did not
publish his results although he had corresponded
with Kepler on this very subject. The law is often
called “la loi de Descartes” in France as the French
believe it to have been discovered by Descartes. By
what name do we know this common textbook law?

45.
The first part of the name of this mathematical function, used often in
electrical engineering, comes from the name of an English theoretical
physicist, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin
Schrodinger for “the discovery of new productive forms of atomic
energy” and was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Cambridge. The second part of its name is because of the resemblance
of its graph to a particular object. Give the two-word name of this
function.

46.
The most important factor contributing to this
illusion/phenomenon is a completely or mostly
obstructed horizon; without a horizon, judging the
slope of a surface is difficult as a reliable reference is
missing. Objects one would normally assume to be
more or less perpendicular to the ground (such as
trees) may actually be leaning, offsetting the visual
reference. Which phenomenon?

47.
Alligator, anteater, armadillo, auroch, axolotl, badger, bat, beaver,
buffalo, camel, cat, chameleon, cheetah, chipmunk, chinchilla,
chupacabra, cormorent, coyote, crow, dingo, dinosaur, dolphin, duck,
elephant, ferret, fox, frog, giraffe, gopher, grizzly, hedgehog, hippo,
hyena, jackal, ibex, ifrit, iguana, koala, kracken, lemur, leopard, liger,
lion, llama, manatee, mink, moose, monkey, narwhal, nyan, cat,
orangutan, otter, panda, penguin, platypus, python, quagga, rabbit,
racoon, rhino, sheep, shrew, skunk, slow loris, squirell, tiger, turtle,
walrus, wolf, wolverine, wombat.
Pictures of this enormous list of both fictional and real animals are used
by a famous technological organisation for one of the services it
provides.
Name the service. Also for what purpose are these pictures used.
(0.5+0.5)

Answer:
Google Drive ; To denote anonymous users

48.
If one of the entities represented in this image is Mt.
Everest, what are the other two?

Answer:
Mauna Kea; Olympus Mons

49.
It is primarily concocted with X and Y was originally
created by the British East India Company as a way to
get soldiers to have quinine to prevent and treat
malaria. Quinine (in X) was too bitter. In order to get
them to drink X, officers added the solders' Y rations
with sugar, lime and water. What are we talking about?

50.
Which famous fashion designer designed the iconic
Little Black Dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in
‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’?

51.
Prepared since as early as the 16th century by the
Aztecs, the main ingredient is avocado, with sea salt,
along with tomato, garlic, cayenne, jalapeno and basil.
Also termed 'salad of alligator pear', which rich
colored dip is this?

***52.
The name of this culinary practice, coined by physicist
Nicolas Kurti and French chemist Herve This, was
disliked by Hetson Blumenthal because it sounds very
“complicated” and “elitist”. What is the term given to
this cooking style which was popularised by Ferran
Adria in his 3 Michelin star restaurant, elBulli?

53.
This panentheistic religion was founded and
propagated by Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th
century in the state of Assam. It rejects Vedic and
other esoteric rites of worship, and instead replaces
them by a simplified form that requires just uttering
the name (naam) of God. The central religious text of
this religion is the Bhagavat of Sankardeva, which was
transcreated from the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana by
Srimanta Sankardeva and other religious preceptors.
This book is supplemented by the two books of
hymns: Kirtan Ghoxa by Sankardeva and Naam
Ghoxa by Madhabdev. Name this religion.

Answer:
Eksarana Dharma/Mahapuruxia Dharma

54.
'Can't Take This Shit Anymore' is a documentary by
Vinod Kapri, which has won this year's National
Award in the Best Film on Social Issues category. Set
in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, what is the subject of
this documentary?

Answer:
Lack of toilets for rural women

55.
In Wicca and Paganism/Neo-Paganism, the concept of
ritual nudity is usually attributed to the influence of
Gerald Gardner who had supposedly picked it up from
the Digambara Jains, a sect in which the monks do not
wear clothing, during the several years he had spent in
India. What is the term used to refer to this ritual
nudity, which is the literal English translation of the
Sanskrit digambara?

***56.
______-Zumba is a specific kind of the dance fitness
routine, which first began in Brooklyn, NYC, around
two years back to ensure that religious sentiments of a
particular community were not hurt. Men are not
allowed to attend the dances and any kind of
suggestive lyrics in the songs used is toned down, or
converted to something ‘less dirty’. Women of this
community have responded with great enthusiasm,
although religious leaders are far from happy. FITB.

***57.
A baker in Alba, Piedmont sold an initial batch of 300
kilograms (660 lb) of "Pasta Gianduja" in 1946. This
was originally a solid block, but later he started selling
a creamy version in 1951 as "Supercrema". What was
it renamed to in 1963 with the intention of marketing
it throughout Europe?

58.
X is a famous German auto company, which made a
humble beginning as a manufacturer of sewing
machines in a cowshed, and later moved on to
bicycles. After being impressed with X's state of the
art production facilities, X was taken over by a famous
American auto company.
Since X's sales dipped in recent years, it roped in
famous German sports personality Y, who has been in
the news recently, for a series of televised ads. As a
result, by their own admission, their sales increased by
almost 35%. Give X and Y.

Answer:
X – Opel;
Y – Jurgen Klopp

59.
In 2013, this brand, exclusively associated with a
spring in Vergeze in the Gard department of France,
celebrated its 150th anniversary by launching a limited
edition series of bottles paying tribute to an artist who
had created over forty works featuring the iconic
bottle in 1983. Name the brand and the artist.
(0.5+0.5)

60. This company’s name is derived from the god of
light, intelligence, and wisdom from the first
civilization in West Asia, Persia. The company website
also notes that the name also derives from the name of
the company's founder, Jujiro Matsuda. Which
company?

61.
Which company, which has its origins in Vasant Vihar,
South Delhi, began as a joint venture agreement in
1995 between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and an
Australian media company which has produced films
like The Great Gatsby, the Matrix trilogy, the Sherlock
Holmes franchise, among others?

62.
In 1981, businessman William _______, Jr. noticed
the curious trend that a certain product he was giving
out for free with his wares were proving more popular
than necessities he sold like soap and baking powder.
This was the origin of a company, one of whose early
aims was to combat the stereotype that only women
should consume that product. Name the company,
which was acquired by Mars Inc. in 2008.

63.
K.V. Kamath has served as chairman of Infosys
Limited and as the Non-Executive Chairman of ICICI
Bank. He also serves as an independent director on the
boards of Schlumberger and Lupin. A mechanical
engineer, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2008.
In May 2015, he was appointed as the first chief of
which organisation for a 5-year term?

Answer:
The New Development Bank (also accept BRIC
Development Bank)

***64.
This brand, which claims to kill “99.99%” of most
common germs that may cause illness in as little as 15
seconds, is currently owned by Gojo Industries, after
they bought it back from Johnson & Johnson.
Recently, residents of Silicon Valley started mailing
packages of this product to a famous American, as a
reaction to his meeting with a famous Indian. Which
brand?

65.
Which medieval sport was discontinued in France
after the death of King Henry II in an accident in 1559
in a tournament held to celebrate the Peace of Cateau-
Cambrésis at the conclusion of the Eighth Italian War?

66.
This Italian word is used to describe a group of sporting
supporters or fans, usually in club football and cycling.
However its main claim to fame stems from its use in F1
racing, where it specifically refers to the Italian supporters
of Scuderia Ferrari. These supporters show up in large
contingents with an enormous Ferrari flag in all race
circuits, especially at home and nearby European tracks.
Besides cheering Italian drivers, they are also known to
vocally support non-Italian drivers in some special cases, as
was seen during the playing days of Michael Schumacher.
What word?

67.
X is a simple sport which may be played on any
bridge over running water. Each player drops a stick
on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose
stick first appears on the downstream side is the
winner. The annual World X Championships have
been held at Day’s Lock on the River Thames in the
UK, since 1984. Identify this sport, which is named
after a literary character.

***68.
The __________ Effect is the name given to the
sudden growth in interest in poker after the 2003
World Series of Poker Main Event in which Chris
__________, a 27-year-old accountant and amateur
poker player from Tennessee outlasted 838 other
players to win the title of World Champion, this
improbable win making him the new poster boy for
poker, and started a new era in poker in which “a
nobody could topple the feared pros.” FITB with a
name that can only be called apt.

69.
Caïssa is the name of a fictional Thracian tree nymph first
created during the Renaissance by an Italian poet called
Hieronymus Vida. She appears in one of his poems, which
portrays Apollo and Mercury indulging in a session of X. In
1763, pioneering English orientalist, Sir William Jones re-
used Caïssa in his own poem, which tells another fictional
story of how Caïssa initially repels the advances of Mars.
Spurned, Mars seeks the aid of the god of sport, Euphron,
who creates X as a gift for Mars to win Caïssa's favor. All
these depictions have resulted in Caissa being declared the
patron goddess of X. Supposedly, people engaged in X often
invoke her name for inspiration or luck. Id X.

70.
The 1963 Army-Navy American college football
rivalry game on Dec 7th ended with the Army
Quarterback, Rollie Stichweh’s touchdown in the
fourth quarter of their 21-15 loss. This touchdown was
worth noticing for the commentator stating to the
television viewers, “Ladies and gentlemen, Army did
not score again!”.
Why did he say this?

Answer:
This was the first ever use of Instant Replay

71.
Brett Lee was once briefly nicknamed ‘X’ by former
Australian captain and New South Wales teammate
Steve Waugh during his early international career.
During an ODI around 2000, Brett Lee was in the
batting order behind his brother Shane and Ian Harvey.
When Waugh read out the batting order, he jokingly
referred Brett as X, thereby providing him “notoriety”.

Answer:
Oswald
(When Waugh read out the batting order, instead of
reading "Lee, Harvey, Lee", he read out "Lee, Harvey,
Oswald" who was the assassinator of JFK)

***72.
X’s Y rate of three in 441 means we can expect him to take a Y
every 147 matches. The following things are less likely than
this thing happening -
• Bitten by a shark while swimming in the ocean (one in 3.7
million)
• Struck by lightning once across an 80 year lifespan (one in
10,000)
• Dying from a hornet, wasp or bee attack (one in 75,852)
• Being killed by a firearm in the United States (one in 6,509)
• Living on a coastline and experiencing a tsunami (one in
50,000)
• Hit by an asteroid (one in 700,000)
Give X and Y. (0.5+0.5)

Answer:
X – Luis Suarez
Y – Bite

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