IISc Quiz Club

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IISc Quiz Club

• Fourth General Quiz

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1. The word X, first recorded in 1782, meant an
odd or eccentric person. From the noun in this
sense came a verb meaning to make fun of and
to regard mockingly. How it acquired its
current meaning is unknown and could be a
corruption of a Latin word, meaning "Who are
you?. The Oxford English Dictionary has a
cite from 1847 where the word appears "She
com back and _ _ _ _ us", which could be a clue
to its origin. American Heritage says it
may be from the English dialect verb Y, meaning
to question. Which is this word X?
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• The construction of this famous/notorious
  structure was started in 1896 and was completed
  in 1906. The original building was a puce-colored
  (a shade of red) brick building. The bricks used
  to build the building were brought from Burma
  (Myanmar). The building had seven wings, at the
  centre of which a central tower served as the
  fulcrum. The wings forked out of the tower in
  straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle
  wheel. A large bell was kept in the tower to
  raise an alarm in any eventuality. Each of the
  seven wings had three stories. There were in
  total
• 698 rooms, no dormitories , each with a
  dimension 4.5m x 2.7 m with a ventilator located
  at a height of three metres. Identify the
  building.

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3. Identify the place marked
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4. I don't know how you manage this, but it
seems to me that all the _ _ _ _ of fact and of
fancy would be children in your hands. That's
your line of life, sir, and you may take the word
of a man who has seen something of the world.'
      And that recommendation, with the
exaggerated estimate of my ability with which he
prefaced it was, if you will believe me, the very
first thing which ever made me feel that a
profession might be made out of what had up to
that time been the merest hobby. At the moment,
however, I was too much concerned at the sudden
illness of my host to think of anything
else. Identify the famous fictional
character, who made a profession out his merest
hobby on the advice of a man who has seen
something of the world
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This painting is from The Treachery of Images (La
trahison des images), a series of paintings by
Belgian Surrealist painter René Magritte. This
painting is often cited to illustrate the concept
of "perception always intercedes between reality
and ourselves" and is famous for its inscription.
Magritte commented on his work thus, "The
famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And
yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a
representation, is it not? So if I had written
otherwise on my picture ' I'd have been
lying! What is the inscription?
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6. Which famous automobile manufacturers name
literally means "people's car" ?
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7. This prize is awarded, once in four years, to
two, three, or four people not over 40 years of
age for outstanding achievement in a particular
field of study. The medal carries a portrait of
Archimedes, along with his proof concerning the
sphere and the cylinder. The inscription around
the head of Archimedes is a quote attributed to
him which reads in Latin "Transire suum pectus
mundoque potiri" (Rise above oneself and grasp
the world). Which is this award?
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8. Hera, the queen of gods in Greek mythology,
placed a nymph Io in the charge of Argus Panoptes
(Argus "all eyes"), to keep her separated from
Zeus. Zeus then commanded Hermes, an Olympian
god, to kill Argus, which he did by lulling all
one hundred eyes to sleep. In Ovid's
interpolation of this story, when Hera learned of
Argus' death, she took his eyes and placed them
in the body of a particular species. Identify the
species
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This common European plant is generally
considered a weed and is an indicator of light
soils. Scientific name is Anagallis arvensis
also known as the red chickweed, poorman's
barometer, shepherd's weather glass, or
shepherd's clock. The barometer (weather glass)
common names have their origin in the fact that
the flowers close when atmospheric pressure
decreases and bad weather is approaching. But
it has a more famous name and is well known for
being the emblem of a fictional hero, who is a
precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such
as Zorro, Superman and Batman. He first appeared
in a play, opened on 15 October 1903 at
Nottinghams Theatre Royal and subsequently in
the book version that came after the play became
a success. Name the flower or the play or the
novel, all bearing the same name
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10. Anvar-e Soheyli (Persian, 'The Lights of
Canopus') Kalilag and Damnag (Syriac), Kalilah
wa Dimnah (Kalila and Dimna) (Arabic), The
Fables of Bidpai (or Pilpai), The Morall
Philosophie of Doni (in various European
languages). All the above are the various
names of the most frequently translated literary
product of India. Which is this great
literary work?
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Thank you
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A1. Quiz. Latin Qui es, meaning "Who are
you? _ _ _ _ - quiesed Y- quiset
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A2. The Cellular Jail, in Andaman and Nicobar
Islands
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A3.Challenger Deep in Mariana Trench, deepest
part of the world's oceans, and the deepest
location on the surface of the Earth's crust with
a maximum depth of about 10,911 meters (35,798
feet 6.78 miles)
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A4. Sherlock Holmes. _ _ _ _ - detectives The
Gloria Scott, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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A5. This is not a pipe (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)
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A6. Volks-Wagen In 1933, Adolf Hitler gave the
order to Ferdinand Porsche to develop a
"Volks-Wagen" . The name means "people's car" in
German, in which it is pronounced folksvag?n).
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A7. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded at each
International Congress of the International
Mathematical Union. The medal was first awarded
in 1936 has been regularly awarded once in four
years since 1950. Congregati ex toto orbe
mathematici ob scripta insignia tribuere (The
mathematicians having congregated from the whole
world awarded because of outstanding writings)
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A8. The Peacock
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A9.
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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A10. Panchathanthra Kalilah and Dimna
transmogrified from Karataka ('Horribly Howling')
and Damanaka ('Victor'), the two jackals in the
first story, Bidpai from Sanskrit
Vidya-pati Anton Francesco Doni who
translated it from Latin to Italian
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