by BALASUBRAMANYAM PATTATH

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30 questions

30 points

Questions 1,5,10,15,20,25,30 are star marked to resolve ties.

No googling or other unfair practices pls.

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Questions 1-5 have a picture of a dish and in certain cases, related clues. Name the dish

1*. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel of Honolulu claims their bartenders were the first to serve this nonalcoholic drink in the 1930s. It was named after a regular guest of the hotel at the time.

The Shirley Temple

2. In 1815, X’s personal chef decided to honour him with a special dish, which looked somewhat like a boot.

Beef Wellington; Arthur Wellesley

3. The dish was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to honour the Australian soprano.

Peach Melba; Nellie Melba

4. The dish was named after X, the richest American at the time, for the intense richness of the sauce.

Oysters Rockefeller; John D. Rockefeller

5*

Le Zlatan Burger; Zlatan Ibrahimovic

6 The sensitive tissue inside your mouth is

susceptible to burns more so than some other tissues in the body. The _____ ____ can occur if one bites into a piece of _____ too quickly as a result of a burn on the upper hard palate.

FITB, a term which was also used to describe a series of incidents earlier this year(March 2015) when tourists vandalised the outsides of a particular home in New Mexico.

Pizza Roof

7 If you were to travel from the tropical town of

Trivandrum through Delhi, Calcutta to the village of Cherrapunji, which has been called the wettest place on Earth for two months in 1987, what would you have been doing as per the title of a 1991 publication?

You would have been “Chasing the Monsoon”

8 In 1998, studies published in Pediatrics reported

three cases of children who developed intestinal and esophageal obstructions. The most severe case involved a one and a half year old girl who had a “peculiar, sticky, wax-like substance.” The only established harms are that the additive sorbitol can lead to diarrhoea and abdominal pain as well as ulcers and mechanical injuries and studies are yet to confirm the widely held myth in terms of duration as it has always been prone to ejection in 1/1000th the duration.

What myth?

Chewing gum stays in your stomach for 7 years

9  What used to happen between 1990-95 when

Ecce homo qui est faba recorded by Southwark Cathedral Choir in 1990 plays in a deserted London street against the backdrop of St Paul's Cathedral. 

Mr. Bean would fall on the pavement

10* A theory that’s accepted sometimes is that the

strong winds and waterspouts transport them from 200 km away. However, a significant number of scientists claim they are from the current and appear on the ground. National Geographic sent a team to investigate this, and they found that despite their scarcity in any surrounding bodies of water, the fact that they are blind support this occurrence. When this happens in the city of Yoro, residents are all too happy to rush to the streets to collect them for sustenance and nourishment.

What am I talking about?

11 This was a picture

posted by @EmoPhilips on Twitter with the caption:

“If ______ ____ had been an architect.”

FITB

Donald Duck

12 Enrique Bastate Gutierrez claimed he invented it

in Tijuana in the 1940s for a Shawshank Redemption poster girl whose real name was _________ Cansino, and another story connects the drink to her during an earlier time when she was dancing in Tijuana nightclubs under that name.

FITB

Margarita; Rita Hayworth

13 Designed in 1945 as a weekend retreat, this is one of

the most celebrated homes in American history. There are even Lego kits available of it.

Having asked the architect to build her a country getaway, the owner was horrified to discover she was being asked to live inside a pristine work of art. The almost transparent simplicity meant the house’s heating bills were astronomic, not to mention the lack of privacy thanks to the innumerable number of tourists who flocked to see the architectural marvel by the superstar architect. At night, the vast windows and isolated location turned the house into a giant moth lamp, causing insects and mosquitoes to flood the open plan rooms.

Identify the building and the architect.

The Farnsworth House or the Glass HouseMies van der Rohe

14 Leo Hirshfield

was the developer of the first paper-wrapped penny candy, in New York, 1896. What is he credited with naming after the nickname of his daughter, Clara Hirshfield?

Tootsie Roll; Clara ‘Tootsie’ Hirshfield

15* This practice began in 1950s when cults of African origin

such as Candomblé and Umbanda gathered in small groups dressed in white for ritual celebrations. The first fireworks display occurred in 1976, sponsored by a hotel and has been carried forward.

An assessment in 1992 highlighted the risks associated with the dispersal of increasing crowd numbers after the fireworks display and from 1993/94, concerts have been held to retain the public.

What practice, which has now become famous enough to compete with The Carnival?

New Year’s Eve Celebrations on Copacabana Beach

Questions 16-20 are interior/ aerial/ lateral views of famous monuments/buildings/structures.

Identify the structure in question.

16

St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

17

Petronas Towers/Twin Towers; Malaysia

18

Sapporo Dome, Japan

19

Sydney Opera House

20*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport Terminal 2, Mumbai

21 Iconic 60s-70s commercial

Identify

Video removed

Answer: Hawaiian Punch

22 The term gobstopper derives from 'gob', which

is slang in the United Kingdom and Ireland for mouth. The sweet was a favourite among British schoolboys between World War I and World War II and has been described as "Everlasting Gobstoppers“ in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They are also known as ___________ in another famous portrayal of certain kids from the Cul-de-sac who perform various scams to procure them.

FITB.

What famous portrayal?

JawbreakersEd, Edd n’ Eddy

23 Voters in Zurich approved spending up to

SFr2.4m ($2.6m) on the project last year as a way of moving away from a downtown area where it had become a public nuisance and because of safety concerns over a lack of sanitation, aggressive men and associated drugs and violence. To use the place, a worker must also must obtain a special permit, at a cost of 40 Swiss francs ($43) a year, and pay 5 francs ($5.40) a night in taxes, which helps the city offset maintenance costs.

What project, which has constant outside surveillance and comes with a panic button to ensure the safety of the workers?

Zurich Sex Boxes

24 A well-known, but inaccurate, story about Julia

Child may have contributed to this idea gaining currency. Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child committing an act and following up with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know. Jillian Clarke investigated this scientifically during an apprenticeship in a microbiology laboratory at the University of Illinois in 2003 where she and her colleagues inoculated rough and smooth tiles with the bacterium E coli (certain strains of which cause stomach cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting) and put gummy bears or cookies on the tiles for a certain amount of time.

What am I talking about?

The 5 Second Rule

25* X was the first person from his field to get his

own statue and it stood tall in Crystal City, Texas since 1937. Crystal City was known as the _______ Capital City of the World where the _______ festival is held on second week of every November, which attracts many farmers to the city. From January 16th to 18th 2004, the Empire State Building went green in colour in order to honour X on his 75th birthday.

FITB.

Spinach

26 The X's are applied to them in a process that is

described as “akin to offset printing.” Blanks sit on a special conveyor belt that has a dimple for each to sit in, and roll through a machine where vegetable dye is transferred from a press to a rubber etch roller that gently prints the X on each piece.

The printer can stamp some 2.5 million an hour. Some do make it off the conveyor belt without the X but they are rejected.

X?

The M’s on M&M’s

27 On Sep 19,20 2014, The Red Bull World Series

Cliff Diving Championships leg was held at a location with a certain architectural wonder in the backdrop. This ‘fish-scaly’ wonder has been characterised by critic Calvin Tomkins, as "a fantastic dream ship of undulating form in a cloak of titanium,“ and it was designed by X, born Owen Goldberg.

Identify the architectural wonder.

How do we know Owen Goldberg today?

Guggenheim Museum, BilbaoFrank Gehry

28 Known as "The _____ ____," this was the site of

Michael Phelps's unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals in 2008. Sydney-based firm PTW Architects won an online vote by the Chinese public to build it. Its form was created in order to invoke a "yin and yang of the Beijing Olympics" when looked at next to the neighbouring (and circular) National Stadium. The building's popularity has spawned many copycat structures throughout China - there's even a one-to-one copy of the facade near the ferry terminal in Macau.

FITB

Water Cube

29 The factoid contained in the famous dialogue points

to the fact that Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) could have been used to treat him, and there are three things you're not allowed to have whilst on them. Because of his profession, he would have been aware of this fact, and so he was cracking a joke for his own amusement and hinting that he hadn't been taking his meds, not to mention the fact that he was making the hearer uncomfortable.

Who am I talking about?

What(roughly) is the famous dialogue?

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”

30* A. R. Venkatachalapaty recently offered explanation

on an appeal by the HuffPost India Chief Editor who asked for a certain reform in the serving of a famous and popular food item. He said that while the original intention in the late 19th century was for lukewarm consumption, the current hot usage has led to a problem aggravated by the utensils, the inspiration behind the design and use of which was Brahminism and its attendant horror of the saliva, even one's own, as a pollutant.

Which food item?

Filter Coffee

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