Sasi Priya had control of the quizmasters baton at the last K-Circle outing. Here is her choice of questions, see how you fare: 1. American Navy officials came up with a interesting and amusing solution to keep away Somali pirates from attacking their vessels. The officers said that they were making use of Somali’s intense dislike and intolerance to Western culture and so they began playing X’s music, it worked so effectively that they hardly had to resort to using guns .Talking about all this , an official quipped that Id imagine using Y would be against the Geneva Convention”. Give X and Y 2. “He (the author’s friend) said at their previous board meeting (at World Bank, in 1970 ), members were asked to consider an extraordinary proposal from the colourful X. The proposal was for a scheme to bring peace to the strife-torn West Asia for which he required some small change amounting to (if I remember right) $500 million. Transport 250,000 of his followers (he called them ‘Yogic Flyers’) to Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and, at a given signal, make them levitate simultaneously. The tidal ‘peace wave’ thus cumulatively generated would be so powerful as to instantaneously flood the region awash in peace, with warring nations melting down emotionally and helplessly falling in love with each other.” This is a newspaper excerpt, the above mentioned exercise or phenomenon has been named after X , give X. 3. Food storage was very different in 15th century as refrigerators didn’t exist . Meat was hung on hooks, Bread was bought daily and very few things were stored in the pantry. X was very much a pantry item and Y ate X out of desperation than anything else, thus giving birth to a widely believed pop culture myth. What is it? 4. In 1950’s at the height of the Cold War USA developed a top secret plan known as Project A119 or ‘ a study of Lunar Research Flights. This project was proposed after the successful launch of Sputnik by Russia to showcase American dominance and be back in the space race. The research team included Gerard Kuiper and Carl Sagan. This project taken up by the US Air force was later abandoned due to fear of negative public reaction and also the harm it might cause to earth if it failed. What were the Americans planning under this project? 5. A plays a vital role in widely popular fantasy book series. Her character which is seemingly insignificant and phony in the beginning turns out to be the pivotal part in the central plot of the series. Though A displays her exceptional qualities on more than two occasions, her credibility is severely doubted and she remains as a weak oddity in the background. These traits of A are also to attributed to B, which B possesses because of a curse. B is also the daughter of King Priam of Troy in Greek Mythology. The Author of the fantasy series cleverly makes a connection between A and B, saying that A is a descendent of B. In the fantasy series B possesses the skills and is widely appreciated and A is portrayed as her near incompetent fraudster descendant living off A’s legacy. 6. Theophilus Van Kannel hated chivalry, and he put his energies from this cause into inventing something that we use today. His patent description is as follows : “three radiating and equidistant wings, provided with weather strips or equivalent for snug fit ; It is perfectly noiseless, effectively prevents entrance of wind, snow or dust ; there is no possibility of collision” what is his invention? 7. X is a successful Indian businessman who has gained notoriety in the recent days. In 2004, Time Magazine named his company the second largest employer in India after Indian Railways. Though neck deep in trouble in 2013, he made trips to Macedonia and promised to invest 2.7 billion Euros in their economy. Macedonian economy is severely troubled with record unemployment rate, these investment promises of X got their hopes high to the extent of believing him to be Macedonia’s return gift from India for Mother Teresa. Who is X? 8 The Casio –F 19W is a digital watch was launched in 1991 and remains unchanged even now and a global bestseller till date. This watch is known for its dependability and its accuracy to 30 seconds per month and the F-91W has a 1/100 second stopwatch with a count up to 59:59.99 (nearly one hour) and measuring modes of net time, split time, and 1st and 2nd place times. There are the options of an hourly time beep and a single daily alarm. It has a battery life of 7 years. Why has it been infamously in the news lately? 9. This technique adopted by this predator is called as persistence hunting and involves as the name suggests a combination of running and tracking to pursue prey to the point of exhaustion. While these predators can sweat to reduce body heat their prey would need to slow from a gallop in order to pant. The fastest land animal, the cheetah has also been a prey to this technique. Who is this predator ? 10. Last year the GOI ordered the state governments to reject any proposals involving the imports or capture of X for commercial entertainment private or public. It also released a statement noting that X are highly intelligent and sensitive and that scientist’s research of Y showed they exhibited unusually high intelligence and hence should be considered Non-human Persons. X is the order of the mammal and Y is the mammal, Name both. Answers : 1 X- Britney Spears Y- Justin Bieber 2 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi Effect. 3 Myth that Mice love Cheese. 4 They planned to blow up the moon with Atom Bomb. 5 A-Sybill Trelawney B-Cassandra 6 Revolving Doors, he hated the ‘you first please’ conventions and having to open doors for women 7 X-Subrata Roy of Sahara Group 8 These watches make excellent timers for terrorist bombs. 9 Man 10 X-Cetacea Y-Dolphins
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