Return to Neverland'15 Finals

STANDING RULES
• 56 QUESTIONS OF THE INFINITE BOUNCE TYPE. WE
SHALL REVERSE THE ORDER AFTER 28 ARE DONE.
• +10/-0 DURING THE NORMAL COURSE.
• POUNCE AT THE DISCRETION OF TEAMS. WHAT SAY
ABOUT +20/-10?
• ONE QUOTES ROUND AND ONE MEGA CONNECT
OPEN TO ALL.

(1)
X is a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy literature and art that
commonly features some aspect of steam-powered machinery, especially in
a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th
century. X works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th
century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-
apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream
use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. X perhaps
most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic
inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is
likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural
style, and art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those
found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors
Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and China Miéville. Other
examples of X contain alternative history-style presentations of such
technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital
mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

(2)
A boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island
of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle who
have moved to Denmark from southern Sweden to find work after the
death of Pelle's mother. But neither boy nor father is willing to give up
their dream of finding a better life than that which they left in Sweden.
In reality, Cera is left alone and desolate in the trenches, still
immobilized by the mine. Meanwhile, the UNPROFOR commander
has arranged false information to be passed to both Bosnian and Serb
troops, to make them believe their enemies will be trying to reoccupy
the trench at night (which each side would try to counter with an
artillery barrage that presumably will kill Cera and obliterate the
evidence).
Cabiria refuses to be bogged down by the numerous disappointments
of her life as a streetwalker and her final smile full of hope has
become a milestone.

(3)
X is an expression used to describe the design
aspects of a theatre or film production, which
essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a
story"—both in visually artful ways through
storyboarding, cinematography and stage
design, and in poetically artful ways through
direction. It is also commonly used to refer to
multiple single scenes within the film to
represent the film. X has been called film
criticism's "grand undefined term".

Dilettante’s Delight- Mise en scene

(4)
Some Salient points about the city:
• The etymological origins would put it as ‘a
city of good deeds’ on account of it being
located at the confluence of two rivers.
• Houses the country’s oldest privately governed
college
• Has the only known statue of Aryabhatta
• Other place of interest are the Pataleshwar
caves, Shaniwarwada and Dagrusheth temple

First Modern Representation of
Hammer and Sickle

(6)
It is loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica
national bobsleigh team's debut in the bobsled
competition of the 1988 Winter Olympics in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
It is a 1993 American sports film directed by Jon
Turteltaub, and starring Leon, Doug E. Doug,
Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba and John Candy.
The film was released in the United States on
October 1, 1993. This was the last film featuring
Candy to be released in his lifetime.

(7)
Born Prasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone, he is
known as India’s Orson Welles. Apart from havint a
global dedicated cult following, he is famous for his
early use of deep focus camerawork, introducing
among other, Zohra Sehgal to Bollywood.
He had a pact with Dev Anand assuring mutual
employment which Dev Anand was able to uphold with
the movie Baazi but the person in question didn’t
uphold his end of the bargain although he did produce
CID in which Dev Anad starred.

(8)
THE X(John William deforest)
. . . We may be confident that Y will not be written, no matter what genius attempts
it, until democracy, the idea of our day and nation and race, has agonized and
conquered through centuries, and made its work secure.
But X—the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American
existence—the American "Newcomes" or "Miserables" will, we suppose, be
possible earlier. "Is it time?" the benighted people in the earthen jars or
commonplace life are asking. And with no intention of being disagreeable, but
rather with sympathetic sorrow, we answer, "Wait.“……..—in the production of a
few outlines. Washington Irving was too cautious to make the trial; he went back to
fictions of Knickerbockers and Rip Van Winkles and Ichabod Cranes; these he did
well, and we may thank him for not attempting more and failing in the attempt.
With the same consciousness of incapacity Cooper shirked the experiment; he
devoted himself to Indians, of whom he knew next to nothing, and to
backwoodsmen and sailors, whom he idealized; or where he attempted civilized
groups, he produced something less natural than the wax figures of Barnum's old
museum. If all Americans were like the heroes and heroines of Cooper, Carlyle
might well enough call us "eighteen millions of bores." As for a tableau of
American society, as for anything resembling the tableaux of English society by
Thackeray and Trollope, or the tableaux of French society by Balzac and George
Sand,………

(10)
The original Indian architects were Sitaram Khanderao
Vaidya and D. N. Mirza, and the project was completed
by an English engineer, W. A. Chambers. The builder
was Khansaheb Sorabji Ruttonji Contractor who also
designed and built its famous central floating staircase.
An additional wing was opened in 1973. It was
designed by Melton Bekker.
A popular urban myth has it that the building was
mistakenly constructed the other way round as it was
intended to be and the said contractor committed
suicide after seeing the ‘atrocity’.

(11)
X was a king of Uruk, Mesopotamia, who lived
sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC. He is the
main character in the Epic of X, a Mesopotamian
poem that is considered the first great work of
literature.
In the epic, X is a demigod of superhuman
strength who built the city walls of Uruk to
defend his people and travelled to meet the sage
Utnapishtim, who survived the Great Deluge.
According to the Sumerian King List, X ruled his
city for 126 years.

(12)
The word “X" comes from X-wood, a tree that
once grew plentifully along the coast. In
Portuguese, Xwood is called pau-X, with the
word X commonly given the etymology "red like
an ember", formed from Latin and the suffix -il
(from -iculum or -ilium). As Xwood produces a
deep red dye, it was highly valued by the
European cloth industry and was the earliest
commercially exploited product from region.
Needless to say, the product itself ceased to exist
long before the aftereffects it had.

(13)
This documentary directed by Joshua
Oppenheimer and produced by, among others,
Werner Herzog won the Bafta for Best
Documentary in 2012, but was however snubbed
by the Academy. Even the Bafta would have
regretted retrospectively when in the acceptance
speech, which the Bafta edited in future and
online broadcasts, Oppenheimer said, “…..Britain
and America should both accept the fact that they
had a large part to play in the killings…..”

The Act of Killing about the massacre
in the aftermath of Suharto’s ascension

(14)
He played centre-forward for the celebrated Austria national team of
the early 1930s known as the Wunderteam, which he captained at
the 1934 World Cup.
Known as "The Mozart of football" or 'Der Papierene' – 'the Paper-
man' for his slight build, he was renowned as one of the finest pre-
war footballers, known for his fantastic dribbling ability and
creativity
Always refusing to leave his home country, he rejected to play for
Germany after the Austrian state was annexed by Nazi Germany in
1938 (Anschluss), citing old age or injury as his excuse.
His death remains shrouded in mystery and it has also been
suggested that he was killed for his opposition for the Anschluss.
The Nazi secret police force, the notorious Gestapo, had a file on
him and had kept his café under surveillance.

(15)
Connect the seven in this exhaustive list:
• Ajman
• _____
• Fujairah
• ______
• Ras-al Khaimah
• ______
• Umm-Al Quwain

(16)
In 1938, he obtained a job as secretary to Sarat Chandra Bose, a
political leader in the freedom movement in India. As a result he
was able to interact with political leaders of India. A growing
familiarity with the workings of the inner circle of Indian politics
led him to be skeptical about its eventual progress, and he became
progressively disillusioned about the ability of Indian political
leadership. In 1966, The Continent of Circe was awarded the Duff
Cooper Memorial Award, making him the first and only Indian to
date to be given the prize. The Sahitya Akademi, India's national
Academy of Letters, awarded him the Sahitya Akademi Award for
his biography on Max Müller, Scholar Extraordinary .
"The wogs took the bait and having read only dedication sent up
howls of protest", commented Chaudhuri's friend, editor, historian
and novelist, Khushwant Singh on this man’s magnum opus.

(18)
Complete the proportion:
Persian : Legend of Rostam
Germanic: Lady of Hildebrand
Irish: Setanta
Greek: ??

(19)
He is considered to be one of the greatest Roman historians.
He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin
literature. He is known for the brevity and compactness of
his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into
the psychology of power politics. examine the reigns of the
Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who
reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These
two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the
death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish–
Roman War in AD 70.His historical works focus on the
inner motivations of the characters, often with penetrating
insight. His style, although it has a grandeur and eloquence,
is extremely concise, even epigrammatic—the sentences are
rarely flowing or beautiful, but their point is always clear.

(20)
Some more ‘less obvious references’ are:
• "Eight miles high and falling fast" is likely a reference to The Byrds' hit
"Eight Miles High.”
• "I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but
she just smiled and turned away" is probably about Janis Joplin.
• "And while Lenin/Lennon read a book on Marx" has been interpreted
different ways. Some view it as a reference to Vladimir Lenin. The "Marx"
referred to here would be the socialist philosopher Karl Marx. Others
believe it is about John Lennon, whose songs often reflected a very
communistic theology. Some have even suggested that in the latter case,
"Marx" is actually Groucho Marx, another cynical entertainer who was
suspected of being a socialist, and whose wordplay was often similar to
Lennon's lyrics.
• "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter" - The Manson Family's attack on
Sharon Tate and others in California.
Who is the ‘Jester’ who had ‘a coat he borrowed from James Dean’?

(21)
Will Ritson: “Turnips grew so large in the Lake District that
people carved them out to make cow sheds.”
Abrie Krueger of South Africa: “Iwas crowned King of the
Wasdale Valley”
Sue Perkins: “How the ozone layer became damaged, ice
caps melted and people had to be taken to work on camels.”
John Graham: “Magical ride to Scotland in a wheelie bin
that went under the sea.”
Glen Boylan: “A snail race with Prince Charles (who
advised him to remove the shell to make it more
aerodynamic) and losing because his opponents cheated
with battery-operated snails.”

(23)
X was born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi on 14
February 1933 in Delhi. Actress Devika Rani was
impressed by her performance and potential, and
advised her to assume the screen name by which she
became famous. Her first lead role, at the age of 14,
was with producer Kidar Sharma when he cast her
opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947). This was
the last film in which she was credited as Mumtaz
before assuming her screen name.
Her 1950 film Hanste Aansoo was the first ever Hindi
film to get an "A" – adults only – rating from the
Central Board of Film Certification.

(24)
According to The Dawn, “X in Urdu literature was the
strongest movement after Sir Syed's education movement.
The progressives contributed to Urdu literature some of the
finest pieces of fiction and poetry. Undoubtedly, they were
the trend-setters for the coming generation of writers, and
their role cannot be denigrated or denied.”
The other writers in the forefront of the organisation, which
was inaugrated for populist reasons by Munshi Premchand,
were Dr Mulk Raj Anand, Dr Joshy Parshad, Permud Sen
Gupta and Dr Deen Mohammed Taseer.
The organisation regarded socialism as an anomic system,
which could end exploitation.

Progressive Writers Association

(25)
Sheldon Cooper is a fan and when he and Leonard Hofstadter are
discussing their roommate agreement, they instill a passage in which
they dedicate Friday nights to watching it, as Sheldon believes it
will last for years. Upon its cancellation, he brands Rupert Murdoch,
the owner of Fox, a traitor.
On the NBC comedy Community, the characters Troy and Abed are
fans of the show. They have an agreement that if one of them dies,
the other will stage it to look like a suicide caused by the
cancellation of the show.
One of the salient features of the show is its unabashed political bias
The story themes are often cautionary about too-powerful central
authority and its capacity to do bad while being considered by the
majority as good. The characters each exhibit traits that exemplify
core libertarian values, such as the right to bear arms , legal
prostitution , freedom of religion, logic and reasoning and anti-
conscription .

(26)
X made his international debut for India in 1956 during the
team's 1-0 victory over the Chinese Olympic team. He went
on to play for India in 50 international matches including in
Olympics, Asian Games, Asia Cup and Merdeka Cup. He
captained India to the Asian Games Gold Medal in 1962 and
a Silver in the 1964 Asia Cup in Tel Aviv and in the
Merdeka Cup. He made his first class debut for Bengal in
the Ranji Trophy during the 1962/63 season . After retiring
from football, he fully focussed on playing Cricket. He led
Bengal cricket team to a Ranji Trophy final. In his cricket
career, which spanned up to 1972/73 season, he played 46
first class matches, scoring 1592 runs and took 47 wickets.
He was also the Sheriff of Kolkata in 2005.

(27)
Who on receiving the Academy Award in 2008:
"That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a
knighthood".
He was actually knighted in 2012.
So Funda??

Daniel Day Lewis on being ‘knighted’
by Helen Mirren

(28)
The Douglases became so powerful that by the early fifteenth
century they were seen as a threat to the stability of the nation. In
1440 William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, about 16 years old, and
his brother were invited to dine with the ten-year-old King James II
of Scotland. Later called the Black Dinner, the occasion was
organised by the Lord Chancellor, Sir William Crichton. A black
bull's head, the symbol of death, was brought in. After the dinner the
Douglas chiefs were dragged out to Castle Hill, given a mock trial
and beheaded. The Clan Douglas then laid siege to Edinburgh
Castle. Perceiving the danger, Crichton surrendered the castle to the
king and was rewarded with the title Lord Crichton. It is still unclear
exactly who else was ultimately responsible, though it is thought
Livingstone and Buchan were likely candidates.
Why this obscurity?

‘Yunki Yeh Kaun Bola?!’- The
Quotes Round
+5 for each correct
Bonus +10 if all correct

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune, must
be in want of a wife.
• Check him out in Saturday Night Fever: white
suit, kipper tie, big flares. You can tell by the way
he used his walk; he's a Hindi man, no time to
talk!
• I have all the characteristics of a human being:
flesh, blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear,
identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.
Something horrible is happening inside of me and
I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has
overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge
of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to
slip.

• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose
that counts,' probably lost.
• From the very beginning, existentialism
defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
• At what point then is the approach of danger to
be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it
must spring up amongst us. It cannot come
from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must
ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation
of freemen, we must live through all time, or
die by suicide.

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a
wife.- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Check him out in Saturday Night Fever: white suit,
kipper tie, big flares. You can tell by the way he used
his walk; he's a Hindi man, no time to talk!- The ‘Mr.
Everything Comes from India’, Goodness Gracious Me
• I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh,
blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable
emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something
horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know
why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days.
I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of
sanity is about to slip.- Thomas Bateman, American
Psycho

• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose
that counts,' probably lost.- Martina Navratilova
• From the very beginning, existentialism defined
itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.- Simone de
Beauvoir
• At what point then is the approach of danger to be
expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must
spring up amongst us. It cannot come from
abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must
ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of
freemen, we must live through all time, or die by
suicide.- Abraham Lincoln

(29)
Why is the SWP Hangar, where most of you
shall be having the last hurrah of the insti,
called the SWP Hangar?

South West Pacific
Built by the recruits at the Roorkee
Cantonment for their preparation for
deputation in the Guadal Canal Pacific Region
in World War II.

(30)
X & Y are two sisters who also happen to be doyennes of British
Literature. However, their writing has taken its toll on their personal
relationship with either of them refusing to read the other’s work.
The detonation took place when X(arguably the more famous of the
two) cried foul over Y having misappropriated a family heirloom
(tea-set) in one of her works.
X has been knighted and her more famous works include the
criticisms of Iris Murdoch who was a close friend.
Y’s renown increased in the aftermath of America’s invasion of Iraq
because she had said: ‘My anti-Americanism has become almost
uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my
throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now
loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of
the helpless world’

A.S. Byatt and Margaret Drabble

Rod of Asclepius and Staff of
Caduceus

(32)
Why is Steffi Graf’s 1988 Grand Slam termed
the Golden Slam?

Slams and Gold at Seoul
She defeated Sabatini. The slide could
only accommodate one looker.

(33)
Following are the points of controversy of this famous
comic:
• About Rebecca Addlington he said: “She looks like
someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a
spoon“
• Pretending to be The Queen, he said: “"I am so old, my
pussy is haunted“.
• He likened Palestine to “a cake being punched to pieces by
a very angry Jew”.
• He opened his performance back on the BBC by
exclaiming: "Genuinely quite surprised to be here. I thought
the only way I'd ever get back on the BBC would have been
if I started fucking kids."

(34)
X is a 1968 British drama film produced and directed by
Lindsay Anderson satirising English public school life.
Famous for its depiction of a savage insurrection at a fictitious
boys boarding school, the X certificate film was made at the
time of the May 1968 protests in France by a director strongly
associated with the 1960s counterculture. The film stars
Malcolm McDowell in his first screen role and his first
appearance as Anderson's "everyman" character Mick Travis.
McDowell's performance caught the attention of Stanley
Kubrick, who subsequently cast him in his 1971 film
adaptation of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.
Additionally, McDowell used his performance in his
inspiration for the Clockwork Orange protagonist, Alexander
DeLarge.

(35)
His first paper in genetics, written with his sister Naomi,
published in 1915 became a landmark as the first
demonstration of genetic linkage in mammals. He was also
one of the first writers to expound the concept of neo-
Darwinism for which Richard Dawkins is most famous
today.
Among his more famous aphorisms are:
• "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer
than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.“
• "I had gastritis for about fifteen years until I read Lenin and
other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our
society and how to cure it. Since then I have needed no
magnesia."

(36)
The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant
Staircase,or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters (41 feet)
wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters (70.8 feet) wide. The
staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater
length. The stairs were so precisely constructed as to create an
optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the
landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees
only steps, and the landings are invisible.
In 1837 the decision was made to build a "monstrous staircase",
which was constructed between 1837 and 1841. An English engineer
named Upton constructed the stairs.

(37)
Originally a little-known town, it became famous
in India in 1957 owing to its connection with
Vividh Bharati. Young listeners from the town
would compete among themselves to send out the
most song requests in a day or month. Vividh
Bharati Radio listeners thus became familiar with
the town. Comperers Rameshwar Bernwal and
Nandlal Sinha of Vividh Bharti used to doubt the
existence of such a place and appeared
circumspect on the show.

(38)
1776: The site of the demolished St Anne’s church and the adjoining
plot were granted to Thomas Lyon, after whom Lyons Range is
named, to construct buildings to accommodate the junior servants.
Was the first three storeyed building in the city.
1780: Barwell leased out the range of buildings by his own rate at
31,700 current rupees per annum to be paid half-yearly in advance”.
The building looked like a “shabby hospital, or poor-house”.
1800: Fort William College, opened to train writers in Oriental
languages, later moved to this building. Over the next 20 years,
structural changes were made: a hostel for 32 students and an exam
hall, which still exist.
Which building that underwent major renovation in 2013?

(39)
X is a play written by Heather Raffo. In the original
version of the play, a single performer plays all nine
characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in some
productions. Some productions opt to use multiple
actors.
The title originates from a statement from Ali about the
distribution of desire between the two genders which
also has many parallels with what Kautilya has to say in
Arthashastra. Lauren Sandler of The New York Times
wrote that "The play's emphasis on sex is inherent in its
title.” Geraldine Brooks had used this statement as a
title of her 1995 book, X.

Sorrentino mentioning El Diego in his
Oscar speech

(41)
The film has been cited by Roger Ebert as an anti-establishment film
which was shot during the time of the Vietnam War, in which the
protagonist endures "physical punishment, psychological cruelty,
hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism". His
influence on his prison mates and the torture that he endures is
compared to that of Jesus, and Christian symbolism is used
throughout the film, culminating in a photograph superimposed over
crossroads at the end of the film in comparison to the crucifixion.
“______________. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what
we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it.
And I don't like it any more than you men.”
This quote from the movie has become a major entertainment byline
with some interpreters arguing that it best captured in the middle of
the Cold War and the Vietnam war, the suspiria state of the world.

‘What we have here is failure to
communicate’

(42)
X was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and
essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and
historiographical contexts. A tireless political activist, his writing on the
Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history
of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the
literature of the African Diaspora.
In his attempt to remain in America, he wrote a study of Herman Melville,
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and
the World We Live In, and had copies of the privately published work sent
to every member of the Senate. He wrote the book while being detained on
Ellis Island. In an impassioned letter to a friend, he said that in Mariners he
was using Moby Dick as a parable for the anti-communism sweeping the
United States—a consequence, he thought, of Americans' uncritical faith in
capitalism.
His Magnum Opus, however begins with a twist of Kipling’s English Flag’s
‘What do they know of England who only England know?’

(43)
X is known for his particular Persianized style
and the beautiful use of his takhllus. According to
legend, Mirza Ghalib (his contemporary and also
a rival) offered him his entire diwan (collection of
poetry) in exchange for a particular verse of his.
The couplet in question was:
"Tum mere pas hote ho goya
Jab ko'i dusra nahin hota"
He was a contemporary of Zauq, today his grave
lies near the parking area near Maulana Azad
Medical College, Delhi.

Momin
Woh jo ham men tum men qarar tha; tumhen
yad ho, keh nah yad ho…..
Wohi, yani wadah nibah ka; tumhen yad ho,
keh nah yad ho……

(44)
It has been estimated that in the 10th century X was the
most populous city in the world, and under the rule of
Caliph Al Hakam II it had also become a centre for
education under its Islamic rulers.
During these centuries it had become the intellectual
centre of Europe and was also noted for its
predominantly Muslim society that was tolerant toward
its minorities.
Its most famous landmark is a highlight of Moorish
architecture which was built as a Church, then was
turned into a mosque and later reconverted into a
Catholic Church.

(45)
X, also known as the great writ, is a summons with the
force of a court order; it is addressed to the custodian (a
prison official for example) and demands that a
prisoner be taken before the court, and that the
custodian present proof of authority, allowing the court
to determine whether the custodian has lawful authority
to detain the prisoner. If the custodian is acting beyond
his or her authority, then the prisoner must be released.
is one of what are called the "extraordinary", "common
law", or "prerogative writs", which were historically
issued by the English courts in the name of the monarch
to control inferior courts and public authorities within
the kingdom.

(46)
Robert Frost wrote of the author, "In one book ... he
surpasses everything we have had in America".
Robert Louis Stevenson judged the author’s
endorsement of rebelling against modern society, to be
a mark of effeminacy, calling it "womanish solicitude;
for there is something unmanly, something almost
dastardly" about what he preaches.
But the final word must go to John Updike who said:
“……so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit
saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as
the Bible”.

(47)
Etymology of the two terms:
• Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered by use of a
specialized steering oar, which was held by an oarsman located in the stern
of the ship and, due to the prevalence of right-handed sailors, on the right-
hand side of it. The word comes from Old English, literally meaning the
side on which the ship is steered, cognate with the Old Norse words stýri
meaning "rudder" (from the verb stýra, "to steer" or "to govern") and borð
meaning the "side of a ship".
• In Old English the word was bæcbord, of which cognates are used in other
European languages. The origin of lade has not been determined but some
would connect it with the verb lade (to load), referring to the side on which
cargo was loaded. The term larboard, when shouted in the wind, was
presumably too easy to confuse with its opposite and so the word came to
replace it. It is derived from the practice of sailors mooring ships on the left
side at ports in order to prevent the steering oar from being crushed.

(48)
Where would you expect SBI’s first lock free
bank branch to be located? It opened sometime
in 2011.

(49)
“On the one hand it would seem that in the course of a myth
anything is likely to happen. But on the other hand, this apparent
arbitrariness is belied by the astounding similarity between myths
collected in widely different regions. Therefore the problem: If the
content of myth is contingent , how are we to explain the fact that
myths throughout the world are so similar?”
He argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the
"civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same
everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book
Tristes Tropiques that established his position as one of the central
figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology,
his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including
philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the
underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity."

(50)
• X was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his
performing career in the United Kingdom. He became a citizen of
Switzerland in 1970, and a British citizen in 1985. He is widely considered
one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
• In 1952, X met and befriended the influential yogi B. K. S. Iyengar before
he had come to prominence outside India. He arranged for Iyengar to teach
abroad in London, Switzerland, Paris and elsewhere. This was the first time
that many Westerners had been exposed to yoga.
• X made several recordings with the German conductor Wilhelm
Furtwängler, who had been criticized for conducting in Germany during the
Nazi era. He defended Furtwängler, noting that the conductor had helped a
number of Jewish musicians to flee Nazi Germany.
• X also had a long association with Ravi Shankar, which began with their
1966 album West Meets East

(51)
If you are in the high skies on a flight or on the
high seas on a vessel, laws of which country
apply to you?

(52)
X was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused
the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland
Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th
century. He was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who
began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Because of his controversial undertakings and the scarcity of
reliable sources of information about him, it has become difficult to
assert anything definitive about his personality and motivations. As
a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be
simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
His personal account of the conquest of Mexico is narrated in his
five letters addressed to Charles V. These five letters, the cartas de
relación, are his only surviving writings.
Which conquistador who is subject of a famous semi-
autobiographical song by Neil Young?

(53)
He explains that his pen name comes from a warning from his father
and mother not to speak his mind while outside, because of China's
revolutionary political situation from the 1950s, when he grew up.
The pen name also relates to the subject matter of his writings,
which reinterpret Chinese political and sexual history.
Like most things/people Chinese he has made polarized
impressions.
A specific criticism was that he hand-copied Mao Zedong's
influential Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art in commemoration of
the 70th anniversary of the speech, which described the writer's
responsibility to place politics before art. He not only agreed but has
gone further than others to explain that the “Talks,” in their time,
had “historical necessity” and “played a positive role.” He has also
attracted criticism for his supposed good relationship with the
Chinese Communist Party in general.

(55)
This capital city was built in complete secrecy and was named such
as the name means
"seat of the king" or "abode of kings“.
At least 25 construction companies were hired by the military
government to build the city, including Asia World and Htoo Ltd.
The government began moving government ministries to the city on
6 November 2005 at the astrologically auspicious time of 6:37 a.m.
The government originally prohibited families of government
workers from moving to the new capital.
Indian journalist Siddharth Varadarajan, who visited the city in
January 2007, described the vastness of the new capital as "the
ultimate insurance against regime change, a masterpiece of urban
planning designed to defeat any putative "colour revolution" – not
by tanks and water cannons, but by geometry and cartography".

(56)
X was a Punjabi Sufi poet of Chisti order, renowned for his
contribution to Punjabi literature. He is best known for his seminal
work Heer Ranjha. He was a consummate artiste, deeply learned in
Sufi and domestic cultural lore. His verse is a treasure-trove of
Punjabi phrases, idioms and sayings. His minute and realistic
depiction of each detail of Punjabi life and the political situation in
the 18th century, remains unique. Waris Shah sublimated his own
unrequited love for a girl (Bhag Bhari) in writing romance.
Many verses of Waris Shah are widely used in Punjab in a moral
context. One of the more popular is
"Waris Shah; Naa adataan jaandiyan ne, Bhavein katiye poriyan
poriyan ji”
Which poet who was made even more famous after an eponymous
cri de Coeur to him written by Amrita Pritam?

MEGA-CONNECT
• We’ll go through the pieces of information by
the slide.
• Alphabets are persons, numbers are name of
movies.
• +10 for getting each person, movie of the
‘puzzle’.
• +20 bonus for getting all correct.

A
BC
D E
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
9 HOURS TO
RAMA
1,2
34 49TH PARALLEL

A was an English playwright, composer,
director, actor and singer, known for his wit,
flamboyance, and what Time magazine called
"a sense of personal style, a combination of
cheek and chic, pose and poise". Among his
more famous works are screenplay for movies
like Paris When it Sizzles and Brief Encounter,
directed by B. ‘The A Pose’, is a photograph
pose named after him.

B, considered one of the greats of ‘epic
moviemaking’, made his magnum opus in lieu of
another project on which he had an eye on for a
long time. To be based upon the book ‘9 Hours to
Rama’, the project was shelved due to its
controversial nature. The project was taken up,
albeit in a changed form by C, (1) and the project
lived up to its hype becoming a crown jewel in his
glittering career. Both the movies won Academy
Awards and A,B,C have been/were knighted.

C directed D in movie 1 and co-starred with
him in movie 2, a movie which won the
National Award for Best Film and earned D his
sole Filmfare Award for best supporting actor.
D, a veteran of Indian and British theatre was
directed by B in an adaptation of a famous
colonial novel (3), one he made after a 14 year
hiatus and one that also proved to be the last of
his career.

C directed E in the movie (4)which featured an
ensemble cast of, among others, Michael Caine,
Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox,
Liv Ullman. The movie has since gathered a cult
following and has become one of the more
famous movies about WW II. E has been said to
be ‘the personification of British 20th Century
theatre’ and is famous more as a theatre artist and
a director than an actor. Another movie in which
he featured was a propaganda film by the name of
‘49th Parallel’ made in 1941 and edited by B.

ANSWERS
• A- Sir Noel Coward
• B- Sir David Lean
• C- Sir Richard Attenborough
• D- Saeed Jaffrey
• E- Sir Laurence Olivier
• 1- ‘Gandhi’
• 2- ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’
• 3- ‘A Passage to India’
• 4- ‘A Bridge Too Far’

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