Mythology+Etymology+History Quiz, conducted by Ria Chopra, Vindhuja Vijayan and Disha Rawal

1. Mythology, Etymology,
History Quiz
Quiz Society x Interface
Lady Shri Ram College For
Women

2. Preliminary Round: Rules
✣ There are 25 questions in total
✣ Question Number 3, 6, 12, 17 and 25 are star
marked questions and will be used as tie-
breakers.
✣ The top 6 teams will qualify for the finals
✣ Use of mobile phones is prohibited and will lead
to disqualification.
(QMs: Vindhuja Vijayan and Ria Chopra)

3. 1.
This city was founded by Rajendra Chola I to commemorate his
victory over the Pala Dynasty. The name means The town of the
chola who took over X or he who defeated the kings near X. It
is now a small village, its past eminence only remembered by
the existence of the great Lord Maha Shiva Temple.
ID X / Give the name of the city.

4. Ganga/ Gangaikonda Cholapuram

5. 2.
2.
The deity worshipped at the Hindu temple___________ used to be bery friendly
with St. Sebastian. This ideal of religious harmony draws temple pilgrims to
Arthunkal Basilica.
Vavar, an arab muslim warrior/pirate too became close associate of the deity,
Prince of Panthala, and helped him in the wars in the mountainous region.There is
a shrine dedicated to Vavar in _________ next to the main temple. As per Islamic
teachings there is no idol, but just a carved stone slab symbolises the deity of
Vavar, maintained by a Muslim priest.
FITB: the name of the temple that has been subject to controversy in recent times.

6. Sabarimala

7. 3.*
In 1761, Shamsher Bahadur and his army contingent in the Third Battle of Panipat
between the Marathas and Afghans.
Upon his death,Shamsher Bahadur (Krishna Rao)'s son X I (Krishna Sinh) was
given the Rajputana provinces that came in Y's dowry - Jhansi, Sagar and Kalpi.
In 1858, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 his son, X II responded to a rakhi
from Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi and fought against the British.
ID X, Y

8. X Nawab Ali Bahadur
Y- Mastani

9. 4.
X, During his lifetime, witnessed such important historical events as the
creation of Bach's Brandenberg Concertos and Handel’s “The Messiah,"
the death of Peter the Great, the discovery of Pompeii, the French and
Indian Wars and the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. X was a
humorist, post master, a civil activist and diplomat, among a lot of other
things.
The phrase ___ is often incorrectly attributed to him. Instead in his work
called Advice to a Young Tradesman, he gives an alternate, more
nuanced quotation while writing about Time, Money and Credit.
ID the rather common phrase and X.

10. X- Benjamin Franklin;
“A Penny saved is a penny earned”/“A
penny saved is twopence dear.”

11. 5.
Record has it that X never came to Madras proper and passed by its outskirts.
Or did he? Local tradition has it that one night, unknown to anyone, X slipped
into the city. It was entirely in keeping with his nature and his shrewd desire to
assess enemy preparedness for war. It is said that he came and offered
worship at the temple of Kalikambal on Thambu Chetty Street. It is a well-
known fact that X was a worshipper of the Goddess Bhavani and perhaps he
had a sudden urge to offer prayers at a shrine dedicated to the Goddess.A
portrait of X on a horseback hangs at the temple even now and below it a
board that commemorates the visit. It gives the date of the visit as October 16,
1677.
ID X

12. Chhatrapathi Shivaji

13. 6.*
The X is occasionally seen divided in quarters and vertically red and white.
More often, the X is depicted as a double ____, white on red and is always
described, heraldically, as "proper".
X badge has been used by every English and British Monarch since Henry
VII.
The X is also used in the badges of some Portuguese Army units, after
William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, namely Lisbon Classification and
Selection Cabinet and Graça Fort. The X is used as the emblem of the
Nautical Training Corps, a uniformed youth organisation founded in Brighton
in 1944 with 20 units in South East England.
ID the symbol X

14. The Tudor Rose

15. 7.
Derived from the French for “memory” or “remembering,”
X has been used in English since the 18th century. However its
use in military slang to refer to wounds, scars, shrapnel, and
other permanent reminders of battle emerged during the First
World War, and has since been traced back as far as 1915.

16. Souvenir

17. 8.
X have been an important food source for many cultures, except
for the ancient Egyptians, who thought X were too sacred to eat.
Europeans traditionally baked X cakes for a feast on the
Christian holiday of Epiphany, or Twelfth Night. Some ancient
lore linked X with the dead. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras
thought that the souls of the dead resided within X, while the
Romans dreaded the lemures—the evil spirits of the dead—who
brought misfortune on a home by pelting it with X at night.

18. Beans

19. 9.
Derived from vilayati, an Urdu word meaning "foreign," X is an
old military nickname for Great Britain. It first emerged among
British troops serving in India in the late 19th century, but didn’t
really catch on until the First World War; the A "X wound" or "X
one" was an injury severe enough to warrant being sent home,
the English equivalent of a German Heimatschuss, or “home-
shot.” Self-inflicted X wounds were punishable by death,
although there are no known reports of anyone being executed
under the rule.
ID X

20. Blighty

21. 10.
The World of Homosexuals (1977) by X is considered the first study of
homosexuality in India. She treated homosexuality in an understanding
light and is considered a pioneer in the field. In the documentary For
Straights Only, she said that her interest in the topic came out of her
marriage to a homosexual man and her desire to look at homosexuality
more closely to understand it.
However, we remember her for her certain unique talent in a different
field. In 1988, she travelled to the US to have her abilities studied by
Arthur Jensen, a professor of psychology at the University of
California, Berkeley.
ID X.

22. Shakunthala Devi

23. 11.
The X has often been referenced in other political protests.
When Mohandas K. Gandhi led a mass burning of Indian
registration cards in South Africa in 1908, a British newspaper
compared the event to the X. When Gandhi met with the British
viceroy in 1930 after the Indian salt protest campaign, Gandhi
took some duty-free salt from his shawl and said, with a smile,
that the salt was "to remind us of the famous X."
ID X.

24. Boston Tea Party

25. 12.*
According to Hindu mythology, the lands of X were recovered from the sea by the
axe-wielding warrior sage Parasurama, the sixth avatar of Vishnu (hence, X is
also called Parasurama Kshetram).
Parasurama threw his axe across the sea, and the water receded as far as it
reached.The land which rose from sea was filled with salt and unsuitable for
habitation; so Parasurama invoked the Snake King Vasuki, who spat holy poison
and converted the soil into fertile lush green land.
The Matsya Purana, among the oldest of the 18 Puranas, uses the Malaya
Mountains of X as the setting for the story of Matsya, the first incarnation of
Vishnu, and Manu, the first man and the king of the region.

26. Kerala

27. 13.
In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is an eight-legged horse ridden by
Odin. Sleipnir often described to be 'the best of all steeds', and
his prowess is commended. According to popular folklore,
Sleipnir is fathered by Svaðilfari, a giant's horse. Who is his
mother?

28. Loki

29. 14.
The word X comes from a Nahuatl Indian (Aztec) word
“ahuácatl” meaning testicle. It is thought that the reference is
either due to the shape of X or the fact that it was considered to
possess aphrodisiac qualities by the Aztecs.
X also became known as an “alligator pear” given the alligator-
like appearance to its outer skin.
What is X?

30. Avocado

31. 15.
Harper Collins' definition of the word X included a "real example" of usage:
"the Canadian election was so X"
When complaints arose over this choice of example, Harper Collins'
lexicographer Cormac McKeown, who chose the election reference,
insisted that he meant "no slight to Canada".
X, while not an offensive word, is used to convey boredom, apathy, or a
reaction to an unremarkable or mediocre phenomenon.
ID X

32. Meh

33. 16.
There are various stories about the origins of the word X. One of
the most common beliefs is that X is derived from the word
“Hashishiyyin”, a reference to a specific sect of Ismailis. The
sect had the reputation of getting high on hashish and then
committing drug-induced murders of their enemies.
What is X?

34. Assassin

35. 17*.
Patented by Douglas and Paul Sak in 2010, this proposed
grammatical character is used to denote a very particular figure
of speech.
As the story goes, this character was born out of necessity,
when Douglas Sak was writing an e-mail and had no way to
ensure his words would not be misinterpreted. The visionary Mr.
Sak decided that a new punctuation mark was exactly what the
English language needed.
What does this groundbreaking, extremely useful mark denote?

36. Sarcasm

37. 18.
“Said the actress to the bishop” is a phrase that originated in
Britain, apparently used as far back as the Edwardian Era. The
phrase reflects the belief that actresses were immoral women,
often involved in prostitution, and confessed the secrets of their
debauchery too their bishops.
This phrase was popularised by the character of David Brent in
the UK version of The Office.
The US version, however, features an evolved, more popular
version of this phrase. What?

39. 19.
A large cylindrical bag made of cloth or other fabric, usually with
a top closure using a drawstring, these share their name with
the Belgian town from where they originated.

40. Duffel bag (from Duffel, Belgium)

41. 20..
Pictures from where?

44. Tutankhamen’s Tomb

45. 21.
This political personality submitted a screenplay for a film about
a naval battle, but it was rejected by the movie studios.
However, this person did come up with a story about a
millionaire faking his death and starting a new life. Several
prominent writers got together and wrote a novel based on that
premise, and when it was made into a film in 1936, The
President's Mystery (1936).
Identify this politician from this childhood photo, taken in 1884.

46. FDR

47. 22.
Britain's King George V lay on his deathbed in 1936, doctors
were concerned about more than his failing health. For a very
particular reason, steps were taken to "hasten" the king's death,
and he was euthanized in his sleep shortly before midnight on
January 20th.
According to the notes of his physician, Lord Dawson, the king
was given lethal doses of morphine and cocaine for the
euthanasia. Why was he euthanized?

48. So that his obituary could make the
morning papers

49. 20.23.ID the
poet

50. Karl Marx

51. 24.
This day, October 4, in 1927, construction began on a
monument in the USA.
It was helmed by architect Gutzon Borglum, son of Danish
immigrants, who believed that American monuments needed to
be iconically American, "drawn from American sources,
memorializing American achievement," according to a 1908
interview article.
ID the famous monument.

52. Mount Rushmore

53. Synopsis of a romance novella titled "Clisson et Eugénie" :
“Clisson, a heroic revolutionary French soldier, but tired of war, meets and falls
for Eugénie at a public bath. Retiring from the military, Clisson and Eugénie
marry and raise several children within an idyllic countryside retreat, but war
returns and Clisson feels compelled to serve his country. Unfortunately, Clisson
is injured in battle and Berville, a comrade sent to reassure Eugénie, seduces
his wife, who stops sending Clisson letters. Heartbroken at the end of his
marriage, Clisson then sends off one final letter to his unfaithful wife and her
new lover before deliberately engineering his death at the front of an armed
charge toward the enemy.”
ID the author of this tragic war romance.
25*.

54. Napoleon
Bonaparte

55. Thank you!