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31 st May 2009. IISc Quiz Club. What has been blanked out?. 1. And the answer is. Barack “Usain” Obama. 1. Who is this statue a tribute to?. 2. And the answer is. Pythagoras. 2. What is this xkcd strip spoofing?. 3. And the answer is. 3.
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31st May 2009 IISc Quiz Club
Richard Stallman of FSF fame encourages people to celebrate Grav-mass on 25th December. In his words: One way to celebrate Grav-mass is to decorate a tree with apples and other fruits. Glue them or attach them, but not too well! The idea is that occasionally a fruit should fall. Put them on the tree no more than 2 feet up, so that they won't get damaged or hurt anybody when they fall. Investigating and perfecting the methods for doing this is a great way expose a child to the process of scientifically studying the behavior of the physical world. Why that date and why that name? 4
Weights in boxing (heavyweight, lightweight, bantamweight, flyweight, cruiserweight, featherweight) 5
In 1939, the Theosophical Society invited this Italian lady to India. She stayed for about eight years, in part because WW2 didn’t allow her to go back to Europe. She was nominated 3 times (1949, 50, 51) for the Nobel Peace prize but never won. She died in 1952. Her name is famous all over India. Who? She believed that "...mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.” 6
The Peace Sign, from the letters N & D and Goya’s 3rd of May In the designer’s words: "I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it." 7
An author wrote in his autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood that in 1929 he was attending Repton, a famous British public school. Every so often, the gourmet chocolate company Cadbury would send each student a box of their new chocolates and ask them to taste and rate them on excellence of flavor. In this way the company was able to get authentic feedback on their new products. What did this inspire? 8
Connect. 10
Alfred Nobel 10
A high school teacher was charged on 5th May 1925 with transgressing the Butler Act, which applied to employees of state-funded educational establishments in Tennessee. What did the trial become (in)famously known as? 11
The 3 countries in Asia named after a person (Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Philippines) 12
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Why is this a tourist attraction in one of Europe’s capital cities? 14
Anne Frank and her family lived in a cellar hidden behind this shelf 14
Connect. 15
Apple, Banana, Oreo, Coconut, Twinkie are all ethnic put-downs (white on the inside and red / yellow / black / brown on the outside) 15
