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Gaurav Kabra

ETC – 2nd

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Mixed Bag Quiz (17 Questions)+5 for correct answer (Direct)+10/-5 for PounceNo Hints

• The Canary Islands lie off the southwest coast of Spain. Though Spanish has become the official language of the island, still some people on the island of La Gomera still use Silbo Gomero, an ancient language that’s “spoken” through an interesting method which is helpful in long distance communications over the hills. With only four vowels and four consonants, the key to understanding Silbo is understanding the nuances and meanings of the method implied.

• According to researchers, Silbo was most likely first used as an emergency signal, but over time, it developed into a full language. Unfortunately the language has nearly come to a decline since it requires the speakers to have a special skill to communicate.

What’s the method used in Silbo Gomero?

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ANSWERThe mode of communications was WHISTLING.

In fact, Silbo is taken from the Spanish word silbar, meaning “to whistle”

• He was an Indian character actor, born in Jammu. He is known for his pivotal roles in films like Dil Daulat Duniya, Chupke Chupke, Julie, Joroo Ka Gulam.

• Working in the All India Radio, he was known as “Fateh Din”, a radio personality and his programmes made him popular all over Lahore and Punjab. Soon after the Partition he came to Delhi and then to Bombay (now Mumbai). It was Dr. BR Chopra who had noticed his talent when he was a film journalist and critic, who urged him to carry on with his acting career.

• He died due to a heart attack.

ID him.

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OM PRAKASH

• X was an American medical doctor with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise. The good doctor was a bit uncomfortable about sex, thinking it detrimental to physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. He personally abstained from it, and never consummated his marriage. He and his wife kept separate bedrooms and adopted all of their children.

• He is known for inventing Y, originally called Granula/Granola, which was invented as part of an Anti-Masturbation crusade.

X & Y?

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X- John Harvey KelloggY- Corn Flakes

4. Connect & Give Funda

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All four films are based on Stockholm syndrome, a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors.

• The Washington Post described this dispute as "[the] drama that divided a planet”. Some articles suggested that this could prompt an "existential crisis" over the nature of sight and reality, or that the debate could harm interpersonal relationships.

• But Neuroscientists remarked saying-‘Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance.’

What is being talked about?

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The #dressgate

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• Smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha.

• The unit have become very well accepted by the public, to the degree that the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) implemented this marking scheme to measure its length. People walking across the bridge today can see painted markings indicating how many smoots there are from where the sidewalk begins on the Boston river bank.

• Google Calculator also incorporates smoots, which it reckons at exactly 67 inches.

Tell me the funda behind the usage of this shenanigan. ( How the unit was defined?)

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One smoot is equal to Oliver Smoot's height at the time of the prank, 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m).

To implement his use as a unit of measure, Oliver Smoot repeatedly lay down on the bridge, let his companions mark his new position in chalk or paint, and then got up again. Eventually, he got tired from all this exercise and was carried thereafter by the fraternity brothers to each new position.

• X is a fundraising campaign thrown by the nonprofit organization Comic Relief.

• This campaign is dedicated to raising money for children and young people living in poverty by simply having fun and making people laugh. The inaugural was held in the US on May 21st, 2015. People across the country came together to have fun and raise funds and awareness. Comic Relief has raised over £1 billion to help children and young people in need around the world

• Recently Y & Z penned a musical sketch in support of the campaign.

Give X,Y & Z.

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X - Red Nose DayY - ColdplayZ - Game of Thrones

A follower of Zoroastrianism, this man was a famous theatre actor, voice artist and photographer before joining his current profession.

This is a picture of him being cast as The Mahatma Gandhi in Feroze Khan's ’Mahatma Vs. Gandhi’.

ID the man.

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Boman Irani

• The Ancient Celts used X as an animal aphrodisiac (a food or a drink that stimulates sexual desire), or more specifically, to increase the fertility of sheep. Such became the mythic power of X that in addition to bringing a lamb-ful spring, it was hung over doorways to ward off fire, lightning and evil spirits.

• But despite its protective properties, X couldn't shuck its fertile past, and even though it was hung in people's doorways, it seemed as if ‘something’ should occur in its presence.

• There’s also a tradition being practiced when the power of X is believed to run out.

What’s X and the tradition which is still in existence in some places?

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X - MISTLETOE

Tradition - Every time a man steals a kiss under the mistletoe, he must pay by plucking one of its berries. When the berries are gone, no more smooching.

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This is a cocktail named after a place where the drink was developed. This drink was developed sometime before 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon, a bartender.

The name is composed of two words :(The city name)+(term for an American drink composed of spirit and water, sweetened and flavored)

Name the drink.

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Singapore Sling

• X is an American comedy science fiction TV series.

• Voiced by two women, the protagonist in X speaks with a Russian accent, although the rest of his family doesn't.

• In spite of its immense popularity, the segment "Dial M for Monkey" aired as part of the fourth episode of the first season was banned after a few years of being broadcast in the United States.

Give me X and the reason of the episode ban.

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DEXTER’S LAB.

Reason for ban - The shot featured a character named the Silver Spooner (a spoof of the Silver Surfer), which was perceived by Cartoon Network as a stereotype of gay men.

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• The inspiration for this game came to a man called Harold Thornton from a box of matches: by laying the matches across the box he had formed the basis of his game.

• The game was patented in 1923. There is a World Cup held for this game as well. The professionals remain silent during the matches and the act of ‘spinning’ is considered illegal.

Which game is being talked about?

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FOOSBALL

What is paraskevidekatriaphobia?

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It is the fear of Friday the 13th

(from the Greek words Paraskeví (meaning "Friday"), and dekatreís (meaning "thirteen").

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• The directors of X have stated that the characters Y were written into the script to make the protagonist more likeable. But Y became a huge sensational hit, so big that they are now the official mascot of Illumination Entertainment.  

• Y are a rambunctious bunch of simple-minded homunculi of similar size and shape, but have unique features to tell them apart, such as height, hair, eye/pupil size or clothing. They speak a mixture of Spanish, English, French, and Italian, with additional elements of Russian and Korean.

X & Y?

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X - DESPICABLE ME

Y - MINIONS

• X is a classic-type platform video game by Y that features a two-dimensional platform world featuring a main character at its focus and enemies roaming around. There are traps, secret areas and treasure all over the game. Despite its success, the game is known for its high difficulty.

• The game has 14 levels in which after every two levels X has to defeat a boss. At the end of each level the player will receive either a piece of the map or a gem.

What is X & Y?

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X - CAPTAIN CLAWY – MONOLITH PRODUCTIONS

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• X is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoki to promote sales of a ‘toy’ developed and manufactured by Takara Tomy, first released in 2000.

• An anime adaptation, also titled by the same name was released in 2001 spanning 51 episodes followed by a series of a couple of other seasons which was a huge hit.

• The toy usually included a ‘launcher’ for bringing it up to speed, with a rip chord.

X?

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X - BEYBLADE

17• Agloe, a place in New York (intersection between

Rockland and Beaver Kill) is very special to the General Drafting Company founder Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers who were the first to mark this place in their maps (picture in the next slide).

• This place (which was also available in Google Maps) was removed last year by Google for ‘some reason’ after 90 years of its existence in the maps made by the cartographers of the General Drafting Co.

Why was the place removed? Give complete Funda

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Agloe is a paper town (fictional place) that was created by The General Drafting to be conceived as a 'copyright trap‘.

Fun Fact - Town's name is an anagram of Lindberg and Alpers' initials - OGL and EA