Selected Questions from PornobGraphy

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Selected Questions from Pornob-Graphy

• By Kaustabh (aka dhoomk2) Anand Taneja and Sumit
  GoGo Roy
• For the Kutub Quizzers

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WHO WAS THE POTENTIAL SPONSOR?

• The Seattle Supersonics face the challenge of
  getting a new arena within the next one year or
  it would have to move out of Seattle. Probably,
  this could have been averted if it had finalised
  a deal with a sponsor who had approached this
  team in 1994, with a deal to sponsor its new
  stadium outside the city limits. However, the
  fans protested against the foreign takeover,
  especially as they considered the demand to
  change the mascot to be a unpalatable break from
  tradition. Who was the potential sponsor?

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WHICH CHARACTER?

• Edwin Aldrin's autobiography has the fact that
  the Eagle was originally supposed to be named
  after another animal, in honor of a comics book
  character known for his space exploits. however,
  it was shot down by Richard Nixon as the name
  could have been rhymed badly. Which character or
  which animal/ comic book character?

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WHAT WAS ESTABLISHED?

• In 1846, this first locomotive in India was used
  here to move soil away from the construction site
  of an acqueduct. The locomotive frequently used
  to break down and the costs of maintenance ran
  upto 70,000 pounds as the engineers and parts
  were frequently brought from UK to help. Thus,
  the administration thought of a permanent
  solution to this and in 1849, established this in
  the same place. What was established?

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WHAT TERM?

• In 1930, George Trevor of the New York Sun
  commended X and said that he had reached an
  impregnable quadrilateral. The term was thought
  to be too unwieldy and Atlanta Journal's OB
  Keeler came up with the new name which he
  borrowed from watching his wife at her evening
  pastime, which he proposed in his newspaper. What
  term?

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WHAT DID THEY DO?

• The NY Stock Exchange declared their bi-annual
  Holiday on October 29, 1886 to assist in cleaning
  of the trading floor and the office of excess
  paper and other material. It was the same day
  that the Statue of Liberty was being dedicated to
  the nation and a few young traders went upto the
  rooftop to observe the event. After the ceremony
  was over, they did something which became a
  tradition which was met with great approval by
  the city officials, who instituted this. What did
  they do?

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WHAT TRADITION?

• In 1949, summers were delayed across India.
  Farmers were worried about the result of the
  delay on their crops and people too were worried
  about the effects on the fledgling economy. At
  this time, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his daily walk,
  saw this and asked a couple of photographer
  friends to accompany him the next day.
• They took a photograph which was published under
  the heading, summers here. This was the
  beginning of a tradition which is carried on till
  today. What?

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WHAT DID THE START?

• University of Glasgow students on a field trip to
  UN in 1977, saw that there was lot of chaos and
  confusion during the discussions in the General
  Assembly and Security Council, which made them
  start something in January 1981. What did they
  start?

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WHAT FILM AND WHO WAS THE DIRECTOR?

• This film was supposed to be a sequel to an
  earlier hit by the director. The story revolved
  around one of the kids (now an adult) going back
  in past to discover how an ordinary man became
  the super-villain. The stars were signed up and
  the villain was signed to reprise his role, for
  which he charged 50 lakhs, which was an unheard
  of amount at that time. However, the director
  lost interest and the project never got off the
  ground.
• What film and who was the director?

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WHAT BRAND?

• Haji Mastan's niece started this company to give
  a front to Haji Mastan when he became legal.
  Through her father's connections, she got major
  regional heroes to model for the leading product
  of this company.
• However, the brand hit big-time when this leading
  Bollywood hero also threw his weight behind the
  company. Incidentally, she had an interest in
  astrology and numerology amongst other things
  which she passed on to the hero's family and
  which also reflected in the choice of the brand
  name. What brand?

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WHAT LOCALITY?

• This locality of Delhi was initially named for
  the British officer who shifted the population
  from Raisina to this new site for the buillding
  of New Delhi. However, the land on which this new
  locality was established was used by nearby
  Gujjars for grazing their cattle, and a huge
  fight soon broke out between the settlers and the
  Gujjars, going down in local legend and leading
  to the name of the locality changing from the
  initial name to how we know it today. What
  locality?

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WHAT WAS COMMON?

• 1) On 9 November, 1942, an Italian battalion
  stationed in Egypt, was asked to fight the Allied
  forces in Libya after their landing in North
  Africa. However, the men refused to go and
  mutinied, insisting that they were only willing
  to fight this war.
• 2) In April 1943, 2 companies from the 2nd
  Battalion of Panzergrenadier Regiment 950,
  refused to go fight in Holland and asked for a
  move to the Eastern Front as the war on the West
  was not their war.
• 3) In late 1943, Himmler proposed disbanding the
  Regiment 950 and asking the Muslim soldiers to
  join the 13th SS Volunteer Bosnian-Herzegovinian
  Mountain Division. However, the soldiers
  protested against what they called was a Divide
  and Rule policy that the German High Command had
  learnt from the British.

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WHAT ONE WORD CONNECTS
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WHY WAS THIS IN BAD TASTE?

• In a 1998 a Super Commando Dhruv comic was banned
  in Gujrat following widespread protests as it was
  seen as being in bad taste. The comic featured
  Dhruv doing an elaborate trapeze over a city in
  Gujrat and using his superb understanding of
  animal languages to make cats stampede through
  the city below him to rid it of a menace. Why was
  this seen as being in bad taste?

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THE PERSON/ THE PLACE

• His girlfriend left him and went to another city.
  He followed her to that city and spent a week
  wandering around, searching for her, finally
  bumping into her at a beach. He fell down on his
  feet and pleaded with her to get back with him
  she resisted but finally won over by his passion,
  gave in. Overjoyed, he made a vow that one day he
  would buy a house to mark the place where he
  found her again. About a decade later he
  succeeded.
• The person? The place?

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WHAT PRACTICE ORIGINATES FROM THIS CONVENTION

• In the early 18th century in Meena Bazaar, Lahore
  a dwarf was assigned the responsibility of
  opening all the shops in the market. What
  practice originates from this convention?

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WHAT GAME?

• In the thirteenth century, Mongol invaders
  advancing towards India met stiff resistance from
  the Chagatai Turks on the way. To ensure that the
  army would not meet with similar resistance on
  the way back, they cut off one limb of every
  able-bodied man they could find.
• However, on the way back as well, the Mongols
  were attacked and the Chagatai were able to take
  off with a lot of the loot. The tactics employed
  by the Chagatais are probably the origin behind
  this game, which was played by Taimur the Lames
  soldiers to keep fit. What game?