Yakshaprashnam 2015Answers

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HISTORY

***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?

Answer:Ramesses II

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?

Answer:Nana Sahib

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)

Answer:Noor Inayat Khan

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?

Answer:Skanderberg

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?

Answer:The Ku Klux Klan

ART

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"?

Answer: Baroque

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?

Answer:Subodh Gupta

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.

Answer: Cameo

***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?

Answer:Marina Abramovic

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?

Answer:Roy Lichtenstein

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

Answer: Yaksha

LITERATURE

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?

Answer:Jessica Jones

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.

Answer:Nimrod

***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?

Answer:Rip Van Winkle

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?

Answer:Pier Paolo Pasolini

***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?

Answer:Margaret Atwood

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

ENTERTAINMENT

***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?

Answer:Hannibal

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?

Answer:Zither; The Third Man

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.

Answer:Human Cannonball

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

Answer:New York Minute

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.

Answer:The West Wing

WORLD

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?

Answer:Flag of Nepal

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?

Answer:Christ the Redeemer

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

Answer:Bloemfontein

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?

Answer:Toledo

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.

Answer:Quantico

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?

Answer:Shanghaiing

***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?

Answer:Siachen

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?

Answer:Yulin

SCIENCE

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?

Answer:Alpha-Beta-Gamma

***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.

Answer:Fermium

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?

Answer:Snell’s 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.

Answer:Dirac Comb

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?

Answer:Magnetic Hill

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

LIFESTYLE

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?

Answer:Gin and Tonic

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

Answer:Hubert de Givenchy

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?

Answer:Guacamole

***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?

Answer:Molecular Gastronomy

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?

Answer:Skyclad

***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.

Answer:Kosher

BUSINESS

***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?

Answer:Nutella

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)

Answer:Perrier; Andy Warhol

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?

Answer:Mazda

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?

Answer:PVR

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.

Answer:Wrigley

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?

Answer:Purell

SPORTS

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?

Answer:Jousting

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?

Answer:Tifosi

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.

Answer:Poohstick

***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.

Answer:Moneymaker

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.

Answer:Chess

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

The End.