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TEZ HAIN?Abhinav Dhar

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• 15 Questions.

• + π to the one who answers 1st.

• + e to the second who answers 2nd.

• + √3 to the third who answers 3rd.

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• A monocle (worn by Captain Haddock, on the left), is a kind of corrective lens which corrects the vision in one eye, and sometimes is also used to examine engravings and antique engraved gems.

• This served as a precursor to the X-glass or the Y (on the right), and are often ‘mis-described’ as monocles, but instead could be better described as ‘manocles’, because they were handheld.

• The Ys could be round, oval or oblong and the rim and, on occasions, the handles were decorated elaborately.

• The definition of Y in 1865 also was 'The act of mocking by a narrow examination through a X-glass or by pretended seriousness of discourse'. 

• Give me either X or Y.

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QUIZZING GLASS OR QUIZZER

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• This region in France is named after a Germanic tribe.

• The region is famous for wine of the same name and also gives its name to a shade of colour.

• It also appears in the title of a 2004 comedy film.

• What is name of the region/colour/wine?

• Also name the film.

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BURGUNDY

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

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• This thin fabric was traditionally woven in Palestine and was originally made of silk, and hence the English word for it is said to derive from the name of a centre of weaving in the region.

• Technically though, a X is a weave structure such as this (image).

• The English form of the word derived from the French ____, whose ultimate origin is uncertain, but is often attributed to the Arabic and Persian word meaning "raw silk", which itself is derived from the name of the weaving centre.

• But the first usages could also have been from the medieval Latin forms in Bologna in 1250 and Budapest in 1279.

• What am I talking about?

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GAUZE (FROM GAZA)

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• On a ‘racetrack’ which was first invented by a famous assistant in 1887, a race takes place.

• For 2011’s annual meeting in Colorado, the event took place with 70 competitors from 50 different centres, though local races around the world take place too.

• The track was given a coat of a substance to give traction to the participants.

• The winner took just over an hour to complete the race and was around 62% faster than the participant who came in second, while some participants even took more than 24 hours to complete the race, going back and forth on the racetrack. The slowest one was from the United States of America.

• Who are these participants? Who is the assistant?

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CELLS & JULIUS RICHARD PETRI

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• A theatre is often known as a “X”, which originated from England in the 1500s.

• A certain idiom possibly originated from this time, when the theatres were built with simple, thatched roofs and were relatively fragile structures.

• It (X) is now used in contexts beyond theatres.

• The idiom refers to tremendous praise or favour from an audience, and originates from the response of live audiences at playhouses and theatres. It's a facetious phrase that signifies applause or cheering so thunderous that it could, in theory, make the playhouse collapse.

• What phrase am I talking about?

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BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN

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• A new type of fence has been designed to keep elephants out of human habitat grounds in parts where elephants are found.

• The design has been tested in three rural farming communities in Kenya and has had a success rate of over 80%.

• The project is looking to benefit small scale farmers in different ways such as reduced invasive elephant crop raids that cause injury to humans; increased yield production through both reduced damage; and increased quality of life with greater income and less life-threatening Human-Elephant conflict situations.

• The basic reason of the success of the fence is that in every box, placed 10m apart, there is something which the elephants are afraid of, as well as the possibility for the farmers to have another source of income.

• What does each of the hanging boxes contain?

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BEE HIVES

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• Stephen Davis, a music journalist, in 1985 published an unauthorized biography of a music band called ‘Hammer of the Gods’.

• It has been reprinted thrice since.

• It is said to be the band’s best known biography, though the 3 living member have criticized it heavily calling the stories in it made up and untrue.

• The title of the book is derived from one of the most famous songs of the band from their 3rd studio album.

• Name the band and the song it derives its name from.

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LED ZEPPELIN AND THE IMMIGRANT SONG

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• Some different etymologies of the word suggest that:

1. It originated in 15th century Netherlands, when workers, fearful that automated machines might deem human workers obsolete, would throw their wooden shoes, such as these, also called Xs, into the cogs of the wooden gear of the textile looms to break it.

2. X-wearing workers were just less productive than others, as compared to ones who had changed their shoes to leather ones, so the term came to be associated with inefficiency.

• What word am I talking about?

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SABOTAGE

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• The name is derived from the Turkish ______ which means "the lake of Tekir". According to a legend, a blind and crippled old man named Tekir and his old donkey reached the shore of the lake by mistake.Trying to pull his stubborn animal out of the mud, Tekir was miraculously healed so he could see and walk normally again. Since then the lake has become famous for its healing properties.

• Tekir and his donkey are featured in a statue located in the centre of the town.

• The name also means (in Turkish) "Striped Lake" (tekir - striped, and ___ - lake). This is because of the salinity of the lake; when the wind blows, white salt stripes appear on the surface of the lake.

• It is now an internationally recognized spa resort, and the properties of the highly mineralized salt water and of mud extracted from the lake were known even from the times of the Ottoman Empire, and the place is now a tourist attraction.

• Name the town.

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TECHIRGHIOL

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CONNECT (INEXHAUSTIVE) AND GIVE ME THE BOLLYWOOD MOVIE WITH THE SAME CLAIM TO FAME.

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ONE ACTOR MOVIES AND YAADEIN

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• Since the Middle Ages, in Northern Italy, it was common for the participants of carnival parades to hurl objects at the crowd, mostly mud balls or eggs.

• The use of throwing objects at parades is well documented in Milan since the 14th century. The nobles used to throw candies and flowers during the parades while dames threw eggshells filled with essences and perfumes. Lower-class people mocked the nobles by throwing rotten eggs.

• After a ban on the eggs throwing by the city governor, the custom disappeared for about a century, coming back in the 1700s in the form of launch of small candies, but then small chalk balls were used instead and then after their ban, mud balls.

• In 1875 an Italian businessman from Milan, Enrico Mangili got an idea for a product, which he named after the Italian for coriander seeds, as the seeds used in the sugar candies were mostly Coriander, and the product became common in whole Europe in just a couple of decades.

• What was created hence?

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CONFETTI

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• Two separate domestication events are believed to have occurred, to be what is said to be the origin of the legume.The first, taking place in the Andes around 2000 BC which produced a large-seeded variety (X type), while the second, taking place in Mesoamerica around 800 AD, produced a small-seeded variety (Sieva type).By around 1300, cultivation had spread north of the Rio Grande, and in the 1500s, the plant began to be cultivated in the Old World.

• The Moche Culture (0-800 CE) cultivated these heavily and often depicted them in their art. During the Spanish Viceroyalty of Y, Xs were exported to the rest of the Americas and Europe, and since the boxes of such goods had their place of origin labelled “X,Y”, the beans got named as such.

• Despite the origin of the name, when referring to the bean, the word is generally pronounced differently than the normal pronunciation.

• The other term for the same legume is widely used for a large, flat and yellow/white variety.

• What am I talking about?

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LIMA BEANS

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• In January this year, Chris Johnson found a butterfly from the Lexias pardalis family, with a condition most commonly noticed in birds and butterflies.

• Johnson noticed that the insect's two right wings were larger, and brown with yellow and white spots. But its two left wings were smaller and darker, with splashes of green, blue and purple.

• The curious case of the butterfly’s physical appearance is due to a fault in something which happens during cell division in early development.

• Why did the butterfly have such a condition?

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HALF MALE AND HALF FEMALE

• A butterfly expert later confirmed that the remarkable insect was a Common Archduke butterfly (Lexias pardalis) with a rare condition called gynandromorphy, which means outwardly having both male and female characteristics.(This is distinct from hermaphroditism, in which an organism has both male and female reproductive organs, but has external characteristics of one gender.)

•  It can occur when the sex chromosomes fail to separate during cell division in early development, a process known as nondisjunction. As a result of this failure, some of the animal's cells have a female genotype, and others have a male genotype, giving rise to an animal with both male and female characteristics.

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• This work by X, is a tribute to a French novelist (Y), whose most famous work was a sequence of short stories and novels which depicted a vista of French life in the years succeeding the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815, and was completed 47 years after his death.

• X studied Y’s head and body simultaneously and depicted both the parts in their own individual ways.

• The head was studied by X through Y’s portraits and X depicted his face with expressive features, while the body was covered with monk-like robes, which he used to wear while writing, as X wanted to portray his personality rather than his physicality.

• The structure of the portrait was such that X wanted to show how Y’s gaze dominated the world, but the sculpture itself was met with such outrage that when it was unveiled, the commission was cancelled.

• Give me both X and the name of the sculpture.

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AUGUSTE RODIN’S MONUMENT TO BALZAC

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• X is a municipality in Columbia, which is situated on a river of the same name.

• A notable Nobel Prize winner based his fictional town Y, in a 1967 classic, on this town, his hometown, and named it Y after the local name of this tree which grows in abundance in and around the town of X.

• The town of Y made its first appearance in a novella by the same author, 12 years prior to his magnum opus.

• In the June of 2006, a referendum was held to rename the town as X-Y, but due to the poor turnout, it was rejected.

• Give me the author’s name, his 1967 novel and Y. Brownie points for X. Half points for giving any two.

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 GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

• One Hundred Years of Solitude.

• Y- Macondo

• X- Aracataca

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