Quiz 7

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1. Jana Tylová(2006), Thomas Snyder(2007). Which "sport" would you associate these World Champions with?

2. Written over a period of 9 and a half years, it is a major source of information about events like the English Restoration, The Great Plague of London (1665), The Great Fire of London(1666), The second Anglo-Dutch war etc. The manuscripts ended with the author declaring that he no longer had the eye sight for continuing it. Which journal?

3. It is theorised that the new system ("X") was introduced by the Carolingian Emperors as a synthesis of the Roman and Gallican systems. The story goes that, emperors Pepin and his son Charlemagne abolished the local rites and introduced the Roman system to build their relations with Rome. But soon the Roman system, influenced by the local rites evolved into the new system("X") and overtook the Gallican, the Celtic, Beneventan, Mozarabic and other traditional systems. The system was probably named after the reigning Pope of Vatican, but is widely misattributed to a predecessor with the same name.(i.e. The popular belief is that the earlier Pope developed the system). What are we talking about?

4. Which US state was the first to secede from the Union just before the Civil War?

5. Who was the last French man to win the French Open?

6. In 1984, he was jailed in the US on an extradition warrant for allegedly embezzling $922,000 from his nation’s government. He escaped from a Massachusetts prison by sawing through a bar of his cell and sliding down a knotted sheet. He later became president of his country after bloody wars before finally being ousted in 2003. Identify the first African head of state to be tried by an International court.

7. Which small wine making town in Luxembourg is associated with an agreement signed aboard a ship (“Princesse Marie-Astrid”) in the Moselle river, that opened up travel across Europe?

8. He was killed in 1718, in a fight with Lieutenant Robert Maynard, the leader of the British forces sent to hunt him down. It is said that he continued to fight despite being hit by bullets until he was struck down by a sailor named Demelt. Lt. Maynard hung his head on the ship’s bow as a trophy. Legend has it that his decapitated body swum around the ship before sinking. Who was this colorful character whose real name was Edward Teach?

9. Born as “Gerrit Gerritszoon”, in Rotterdam, he was an independent scholar and humanist who is often credited with the saying “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” He was a lifelong catholic who believed in Church reform, but did not agree completely with Martin Luther with whom he shared a great mutual admiration. Identify the scholar who also wrote a book called “In Praise of Folly”.

10. Which molecule was discovered by Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1840, who named it after the Greek word for smell, from the peculiar odor in lightning storms? It was the first allotrope of a chemical element to be described by science.

Answers:

1. Sudoku World Cup
2. The diary of Samuel Pepys. He was a civil servant and a naval employee for many years.
3. Gregorian Chant named to honour Pope Gregory II, but popularly believed to be after Gregory the Great, an earlier Pope.
4. South Carolina
5. Yannick Noah.
6. Charles Taylor of Liberia.
7. Schengen. The accord signed in 1985 led to the “Schengen Visa”, which allows people to travel to many countries in Europe.
8. Blackbeard, the pirate.
9. Erasmus.
10. Ozone.

Scores:

Rajesh Mohan: 5

Bondu 5.5 (0.5 for Q2)

Hrishi: 5

Arun A S: 3

Sreeram Iyer: 5