10Q (Jan 21, 2024)

1. Shown below are a satellite image of Guanabara Bay and an early 20th-century picture of a city on its banks. The bay was first encountered by Europeans on January 1, 1502, when the Portuguese explorers Gaspar de Lemos and Gonçalo Coelho arrived on its shores. The name given by the exploration team to the bay originally used the Portuguese word for lagoon as part of the name of the bay, but some confusion in spelling led to it being called a river instead. The resulting name of the bay was later also given to the city on its shore. What is it called?

2. Watch this title sequence of a children's TV series very popular in the 1990s, and name the singer.

3. Formerly part of Hyderabad Division in the province of Sindh, the division in red below was renamed Shaheed _______abad District in 2008, on the demand of most of the Members of the Provincial Assembly. Whose first name fills the blank?

 

 

4. In Greek, 'ateleia' is a word used for, among other things, 'tax exemption'. In the 1860s, Frenchman George Herpin combined this with a Greek prefix to come up with what word for something he loved doing?

5. This is a plaque outside a building called Blavatsky House in Mumbai. Which organisation's 'Three Objects' are listed on it?

6. Which toy brand's mascot Murph is this?

7. In medieval Japan, a Tessen was a disguised weapon that samurai could take into places where swords or other overt weapons were not allowed. Apart from as a weapon of offence, it was also used for fending off arrows and darts, as a throwing weapon, and as an aid in swimming. What everyday object was the Tessen a variation of?

In the following 2 questions, use the letters (a), (b), (c) to identify your answers 

8. (a) What word has been blanked out in the Amul Topical shown below? (b) What popular TV show is the subject of this ad?

9. Three parts to this question.
Who (a: with the red headdress) is shown guiding whom (b: in the brown robes) through Hell in this 1822 painting by the French painter (c)?

10. Give me a 2-word term that connects the 3 visuals below.

Answers

1. Rio de Janeiro (January River, because of the date of discovery)

2. Amit Kumar 

3. Benazir Bhutto (the division is now called Benazirabad) 

4. Philately – Herpin loved collecting stamps, which were a new invention at the time

 

5. Theosophical Society

 

6. Nerf – he's made up of the darts shot from a Nerf gun

 

7. A fan – the tessen is an iron-reinforced war fan, sometimes incorporating sharp metals tips and throwing knives

 

8. Oven, 'Made in Heaven'

9. (a) Virgil (b) Dante (c) Eugène Delacroix 

10. Round Table – Algonquin Round Table, Knights of the Round Table, Round Table India