Ender Bender 2

1. BQC Quiz
Nov 18th
By
Srinath Bhashyam

2. The words X and Y derive from the same root.
Both words derive from the greek root which was
used for the pilot of a ship – a person who
controlled how the the ship moved
X,popularly known in biotechnology, is to do with
the science of regulatory systems. It has also come
to mean the way computer programs control
robotics, or how social groups are arranged into
hierarchies
Y, generally came to mean a person in charge

3. Answer Follows

4. Ans: X – Cybernetics Y - Governor

5. Connect

6. Answer Follows

7. Ans: Both stamps are coated with material from
what is depicted on the stamp

8. Connect these stamps

9. Answer Follows

10. Ans: Glow in the dark stamps

11. From Ken Jennings’ book Maphead. Id similar
looking geographical entities

12. Answer Follows

13. Ans:

14. Connect

15. Answer Follows

16. Ans: Pythagoras theorem is also called Windmill
and Dhul Qarnayn

17. "If you write anything criticizing, editing or
proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in
what you have written“
What law states thus?

18. Answer Follows

19. Ans: Muphry’s law – the name of course is a
deliberate misspelling of Murphy’s law

20. The Manchester Murals are a series of twelve paintings by
Ford Madox Brown based on the history of Manchester. One
of those paintings is shown below. Who is the subject?

21. Answer Follows

22. Ans: John Dalton

23. In picture, Czechoslovakia’s first 100 Korun note
which entered circulation in 1919. Who designed
this note?

24. Answer Follows

25. Ans: Alphonse Mucha

26. What phrase meaning “deceive the eye” in French, is
an art technique involving realistic imagery in order
to create the optical illusion that the depicted
objects exist in three dimensions?

27. Answer Follows

28. Ans: Trompe l’oeil

29. The Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team
that was active from 1890 to 1913. The team
comprised of literary figures such Arthur Conan
Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome over various periods of
time. Who founded this team?

30. Answer Follows

31. Ans: J.M. Barrie

32. Who was the first American actor to be nominated
for multiple Emmy awards for playing the same
character in three different shows?

33. Answer Follows

34. Ans: Kelsey Grammer for playing Frasier Crane in
Cheers, Frasier and Wings

35. Which Sahitya Akademi winning poet was
mentioned by Allen Ginsberg in his poem
September on Jessore road?

36. Answer Follows

37. Ans: Sunil Gangopadhyay

38. The ceremony that you see in the picture gave rise to
what term?

39. Answer Follows

40. Ans: Ivy league from “Planting the ivy”

41. The Rostropria X was named after a reclusive
Hollywood movie star, as scientists thought that it
would be appropriate to name a solitary, female
wasp after her. Which actress?

42. Answer Follows

43. Ans: Greta Garbo, because of her famous “I want to
be alone” statement

44. Dans Le Noir is a chain of ‘concept’ restaurants and
spas. The chain was founded in 2004 in Paris, with
subsequent locations in London, Barcelon, NY, St.
Petersburg and Kiev.
The ‘concept’ is supposed to intensify the sense of
taste and smell. So what is unique about this chain?

45. Answer Follows

46. Ans: Dining in total darkness

47. The X Giraffe in picture is named after famous
family of the Tring Museum’s founder. The museum
houses one of the finest collections of stuffed
mammals, birds, reptiles and insects in the United
Kingdom. X?

48. Answer Follows

49. Ans: Rothschild’s Giraffe

50. Although the name of X sounds suspiciously close to
a famous baseball player, the Company claims that
they actually named the candy bar after the
daughter of President Grover Cleveland. Many
thought that the story was concocted to avoid paying
royalties to the above mentioned baseball player. X?

51. Answer Follows

52. Ans: Baby Ruth candy bars

53. The title of the blog about news on China on
Economist.com means “things gathered up” or
“literary fragments” and alludes to the title of a
Confucian classic. What is the title?

54. Answer Follows

55. Ans: Analects

56. What is Dutch/Afrikaans for ‘Seal’ as in the animal?

57. Answer Follows

58. Ans: Robben (Robben Island named so because of
the seals spotted there)

59. In linguistics, what is the term given to an idiosyncratic
substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound
similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect? This is as opposed to a
malapropism, where the substitution creates a nonsensical phrase.
Examples of such phrases:
Old-timers disease – Alzheimer’s disease
Baited breath – Bated breath
Ex-patriot – Expatriate
Preying mantis – Praying mantis
Mating name – Maiden name
The term itself is an example of this substitution for what you see
in pic

60. Answer Follows

61. Ans: An ‘Eggcorn’ (for acorn)

62. The scientific name for which plant is Dionaea
Muscipula?

63. Answer Follows

64. Ans: Venus Flytrap; Dionea meaning Diana’s
daughter referring to Aphrodite (the Greek
equivalent of Venus) and Muscipula meaning
mousetrap

65. These terms come from the science of phrenology,
the nineteenth-century science of regarding the
shape of the skull as the key to intelligence.
Phrenology thrived as a popular science in the late
nineteenth century and led eventually to the racial
theories of the Nazis, for whom the Jewish cranium
and pale, sunken face were clear indications of
Jewish racial inferiority.
A tall forehead meant intelligence and a short one
meant stupidity, and thus these terms have acquired
these very meanings in common English. What?

66. Answer Follows

67. Ans: Highbrow and Lowbrow

68. Connect:

69. Answer Follows

70. Ans: Usage of initials to increase chance of
publishing – S.E Hinton, J.K Rowling and E.L
James

71. Connect:

72. Answer Follows

73. Ans: Mackerel – Mackerel fish, tabby and cloud
patterns

74. Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that
was popular in the engineering circles well into the
20th century. The simple and the low-cost process
enabled them to produce large scale copies of their
work. The two chemicals used in the process are
Ammonium iron citrate and Potassium ferricyanide.
What were these copies called?

75. Answer Follows

76. Ans: Blueprint

77. This dispute of semantics is leading to significant
disputes between Iran and Azerbaijan. A major bone
of contention is access to mineral resources.
The definition of the subject of dispute leads to far
reaching economic dispute as there are separate
laws governing sharing of resources based on the
semantics.
What are we talking about?

78. Answer Follows

79. Ans: Caspian sea or lake?

80. Asterix in Belgium - Reference to which painting?

81. Answer Follows

82. Ans: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the
Elder

83. In 1924, Bram Stoker’s Dracula premiered on stage
in London, adapted by Irish actor and playwright
Hamilton Deane. Without the subtleties a novel
provides, Count Dracula’s sophisticated demeanor
and seductive nature was communicated more
explicitly for the stage.
How was this production responsible in forming the
image that we currently associate with Dracula?

84. Answer Follows

85. Ans: Dracula’s clothes – with tuxedo, stand-up
collar and clothes

86. This book was originally titled the ‘Land of wild
horses’. Shortly after starting working on this book
the author realised that he did not know how to
draw horses. When his editor asked him what else
he could draw, he gave her an ambiguous answer
and a classic resulted out of that ambiguity.
Which book are we talking about?

87. Answer Follows

88. Ans: Where the wild things are

89. X was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor. He won
notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no
recognition of or concern for his peers' opinions of his
work.He wrote about 200 poems, including his infamous
"The Tay Bridge Disaster", which are widely regarded as
some of the worst in English literature. How has he been
commemorated in Harry Potter?

90. Answer Follows

91. Ans: William McGonagall; J.K Rowling named Professor
McGonagall after him
"Beautiful railway bridge of the silv'ry Tay
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last sabbath day of 1879
Which shall be remembered for a very long time."

92. Which creature has the scientific name Xiphias
gladius?

93. Answer Follows

94. Ans: Swordfish (Xiphias – Greek for sword Gladius
– Latin for sword)

95. Connect:

96. Answer Follows

97. Ans: Marlinspike (seaman’s tool) and Marlinspike
hall modelled after Chateau de Cheverny. Miami
Marlins – Marlins are named after the Marlinspike

98. Which word derives from the fact that in Ancient
Rome, people running for political office would
usually wear togas chalked and bleached to be bright
white at speeches, debates, conventions, and other
public functions?

99. Answer Follows

100. Candidate from Candida meaning ‘white’

101. Which vegetable gets its name from the fact that
milk like white latex gets exuded by cut stems?

102. Answer Follows

103. Ans: Lettuce

104. Which term referring to a free-standing structure
sited a short distance from a main residence, whose
architecture makes it an object of pleasure, derived
from its tent like structure resembling butterfly
wings?

105. Answer Follows

106. Ans: Pavilion from Papillon

107. The word is result of a mistranslation of the Old
Testament by William Tyndale in 1530. He
mistakenly confused the Hebrew word "azazal," the
name of a Caanonite demon, with "ez-ozel,"
meaning, "the goat that departs"
What?

108. Answer Follows

109. Ans: Scapegoat

110. What you see in picture is the origin for what word
meaning a ‘point of entry or beginning’

111. Answer Follows

112. Threshhold

113. The Bermuda rig refers to a configuration of mast
and rigging for a type of sailboat. It is also known as
the X Rig, whose apparatus resembled the Bermuda
Rig. This configuration was used by X to support the
the apparatus he devised.

114. Answer Follows

115. Ans: Marconi rig – used the same configuration to
organise his radio antennae

116. The constellation you see in picture is named
‘Circinus’ after what object it resembles?

117. Answer Follows

118. Ans: Drawing Compass

119. Naranath Branthan is a character in Malayalam
folklore. He was considered to be a divine person
and he pretended to be mad. His chief activity
evokes the activity of which other person from
Greek mythology?

120. Answer Follows

121. Ans: Sisyphus – Rolling a stone up a hill repeatedly

122. The Pitons are two volcanic plugs in a World Heritage Site in this
country. The bigger one is 771 m, and the smaller 743 m. Both are
linked by the Piton Mitan ridge. These Pitons are recognized
symbols of the country and feature on the flag. Also the local beer
is named after them. Identify the country.

123. Answer Follows

124. Ans: St Lucia

125. Unawatuna is a coastal village in Galle district of Sri
Lanka and is a major tourist attraction famous for
its beautiful beach and corals. The name literally
means ‘ fell- down’. Why is it called so?

126. Answer Follows

127. Ans: It is believed that a part of the Sanjeevani hill
fell here

128. What is the reason attributed to the Russian
Olympic team turning up 12 days late for the 1908
Olympics?

129. Answer Follows

130. Ans: They were still using the Julian calendar

131. Which country gets its name from the name of a
region in a nearby country, you see in the picture?

132. Answer Follows

133. Ans: Cape Verde from Cap Vert in Senegal

134. Why was the character in the picture from the movie
Inception named so?

135. Answer Follows

136. Ans: Yusuf – islamised name for Joseph, the biblical
character. Joseph had the ability to interpret
dreams

137. Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr. was an American
diplomat and statesman, who worked actively for
the United Nations. In 1965, he accepted on behalf
of UNICEF, the Nobel prize for peace. Who was his
more famous mother in law ? X
While he was in office in the U.N, Y was the
secretary general, who is till date the only person to
be awarded a posthumous Nobel peace prize. Y
X and Y?

138. Answer Follows

139. Ans: X – Marie Curie Y – Dag Hammarskjöld

140. What does this monument in Ibiza Spain
commemorate? Why is it shaped so?

141. Answer Follows

142. Ans: Discovery of America by Columbus; Egg of
Columbus

143. The Boston X are wealthy Yankee families characterized by a
highly discreet and inconspicuous lifestyle. Based in and
around Boston, they form an integral part of the historic core
of the East Coast establishment. The term has been applied
to the old, upper crust New England families of British
Protestant origin that were extremely influential in the
development and leadership of arts, culture, science, politics,
trade, and academia. It was applied partly in jest to
characterize the often erudite and pretentious nature of the
New England gentry to outsiders.
X?

144. Answer Follows

145. Ans: Boston Brahmins

146. Whose last words were these
1. “Put that bloody cigarette out”
2. “LSD 100 micrograms”
3. “Do not disturb my circles”
4. “Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub”
5. “Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here”
6. “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said
enough!”

147. Answer Follows

148. Whose last words were these
1. “Put that bloody cigarette out” - Saki
2. “LSD 100 micrograms” – Aldous Huxley
3. “Do not disturb my circles” - Archimedes
4. “Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub” –
Conrad Hilton
5. “Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here” - Nostradamus
6. “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said
enough!” – Karl Marx

149. X was a famous 19th century American actor who
toured throughout America and the major capitals
of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869
he founded a theatre in New York that was quite
modern for its time. Some theatrical historians
consider him the greatest American actor, and the
greatest Hamlet, of the 19th century. He also saved
Abraham Lincoln’s son’s (Robert Lincoln) life
during a train mishaps. However he is better
remembered because of his infamous sibling. X?

150. Answer Follows

151. Ans: Edwin Booth – John Wilkes Booth’s brother

152. Connect

153. Answer Follows

154. Ans: Ferrari 150, Lotto shoes, Opera Risorgimento!
all to commemorate the 150th year of Italian
unification

155. In picture is a statue of an Irish person called Annie
Moore. Where can you find it? What is her claim to
fame?

156. Answer Follows

157. Ans: Ellis island; First immigrant to pass through
Ellis Island

158. Hatra is an ancient city in the Ninawa Governorate
and al-Jazira region of Iraq. The city is a world
heritage site since 1985. Where was the city
famously seen in the early 1970’s?

159. Answer Follows

160. Ans: The site of the dig in ‘The Exorcist’

161. Historic photograph taken on June 6, 1944, by
Robert F. Sargent, a Chief Photographer's Mate in
the United States Coast Guard. Image was evoked in
the 1998 Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan.Part
of the name of the photograph derives from a refrain
in Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.
Name?

162. Answer Follows

163. Taxi to hell - and back – Into the Jaws of death

164. X (Best Actress) and Y (Best Supporting Actress)
were nominated for playing the same character in
different movies for the Academy awards held in
2000. X also has the distinction of being the only
person to be nominated twice for the same
character, when she was nominated again nine years
after the first movie.
X and Y?

165. Answer Follows

166. Ans: X – Cate Blanchett Y – Judi Dench; Both for
playing Queen Elizabeth (Henry VIII’s daughter)

167. What is the official bird of the Madison, Wisconsin?

168. Answer Follows

169. Ans: The pink plastic flamingo. Designer Don
Featherstone won an Ig Nobel for it in 1996

170. Mountains round

171. What is Spanish for “Snowy mountain range”?

172. Which city is named after the hill in the picture,
which in turn is named after King Francois I of
France?

173. Which American state literally means “The green
mountains”?

174. Which American state literally “mountainous
country” and was used by Spanish explorers to
describe the entire mountainous region of the west
of the state?

175. Which surname of French origin derives as a
corruption of the Latin for “X’s hill”. X,a biblical
patriarch, was the eldest son of Japheth and father
of Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah?

176. This mountain in Spain translates to “Jagged
Mountain” in Catalan. The mountain in a namesake
for a Caribbean island

177. This ‘conflicted’ region in Russia means “The land of
the mountains’ in Turkish

178. If Ghana was Gold Coast, what was Liberia earlier
(will accept two answers)?

179. Answer Follows

180. Ans: Pepper coast/ Grain coast

181. Sunandha Kumariratana, a daughter of King Mongkut and
Princess Consort Piam, was one of the four queens of King
Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
She was on her way to the summer palace, when the royal
boat capsized in the river and she drowned to death. What
were the bizarre circumstances surrounding her death?

182. Answer Follows

183. Ans: Despite the presence of many onlookers, they were
forbidden on pain of death to touch the queen – not even to
save her life

184. In Italian culture, this number is treated as unlucky probably
because the Roman digits for this number can be rearranged
to a term in Latin meaning "I have lived" but can be a
euphemism for "I am dead”. Cesana Pariol, the bobsleigh,
luge and skeleton track used for the 2006 Winter Olympics,
had the turn of this number originally named "Senza Nome"
("without name" in Italian). Renault had to change its name
of car in picture because it had the number in its name.

185. Answer Follows

186. Ans: The number 17 (XVII rearranged to VIXI). Renault R17
changed its name to R177

187. The phrase ‘X America’ refers to the belief that a more
detailed analysis of the voting results of recent United States
national elections reveals that the U.S. electorate is not as
polarized between Republicans and Democratics as is often
depicted in news analysis. The term refers to the color coding
used to indicate when a state or congressional district has
been won by a Republican or Democratic candidate.
X?

188. Answer Follows

189. Ans: Purple America

190. Columba is an open source email client for Unix-like
operating systems and Windows, written in Java. The name
is appropriate as it evokes imagery to some methods of
relaying mail. What is so apt ?

191. Answer Follows

192. Ans: Columba means ‘Dove’ in Latin thereby invoking an
imagery to pigeon-post

193. Which constellation was known as Toxeutes to the
ancient Greeks?

194. Answer Follows

195. Ans: Sagittarius – the archer (Sagitta meaning
arrow).
Toxeutes from Toxon – meaning bow

196. Connect to what you see below

197. Answer Follows

198. Ans: Genus of aquatic plants called Sagittaria
because of the arrow shaped leaves

199. What was deceptive about the naming of the unit as
Seal Team Six?

200. Answer Follows

201. Ans: At the time of naming there were only two
SEAL teams – unit was named to confuse Soviet
Intelligence

202. Which Melbourne born athlete who came into
limelight in the year 1954 was also the 26th Governor
of Victoria from 2001-2006

203. Answer Follows

204. Ans: John Landy

205. What are capitonyms?

206. Answer Follows

207. Words that change meaning with capitalization
(march, March; moon,Moon; august,August) etc

208. X is an architectural ornament originally forming
the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but
afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers
and in many other situations. It looks like a small
spire and was mainly used in Gothic architecture. X?

209. Answer Follows

210. Ans: Pinnacle

211. X is a French word that carries the connotation of a
flamboyant manner and reckless courage.
The literal translation is a plume, such as is worn on
a hat or a helmet, but the reference is to King Henry
IV of France. As a brave military leader, he was
famed for wearing a striking white plume in his
helmet and for his war cry: "Follow my white
plume!"
X has come to mean the same in English. X?

212. Answer Follows

213. Ans: Panache

214. What is the name given to this art form?

215. Answer Follows

216. Ans: Rubik Cubism/ Rubik’s Cubism

217. Connect:

218. Answer Follows

219. Ans: Kalach bread; AK 47 on flag of Mozambique –
Kalashnikov means ‘maker of Kalach bread’

220. Connect

221. Answer Follows

222. Ans: SS Gairsoppa named after the Jog falls