10Q (September 13, 2024)

1. Born in Nairobi of Goan parents, journalist, politician and freedom fighter [X] was elected Member of the Kenyan Parliament in 1963, the year Kenya gained independence from Britain. Less than two years later, he was assassinated, the first Kenyan politician to face this fate after the nation's independence. Name him.

2. [A] is a 7-letter word for a type of tale, usually one with a moral. [B], the 8-letter Latin word from which it derives, also survives in English, as a geometric shape. What are [A] and [B]?

3. Chanel came up the design of these bags (pic below) in 2008, inspired by a certain 'accessory' a celebrity was forced to wear around that time. Who and what?

4. Which author would include 'coded' messages like the ones shown below, in his books' title pages?

5. The beautiful pink-concrete building shown below is the Zebun Nessa Mosque, named after the late mother of the owner of the land where it stands. Designed by Saiqa Iqbal Meghna of Studio Morphogenesis and completed earlier this year, it is situated in the middle of an industrial area, whose workers it serves. In which city would you find it?

6. This man in the photo collage below is Indi Khanna who has worked in the X industry for around 50 years. After stints in Kerala, Dubai, Assam, and Sri Lanka, he moved in 2005 to the Nilgiri Hills, where he set up the X Studio, an architecturally stunning micro-factory in Coonoor. In 2022, he won the Lifetime Achievement award at the Leafies International X Academy Awards, a major highlight of the X industry's year, whose logo is shown above Khanna's picture. What is X?

7. After working almost all her life in Osaka, Japan, Ayano Tsukimi (pic below) retired in 2003. Returning to her native village of Nagoro on the island of Shikoku, she was surprised to find how lifeless her village was, with many people having left for work in the cities. To bring some life to the village, and to have something to do during her retirement, she decided to create 'kakashi' modelled on the absent people. About 350-400 of these now populate Nagoro, which has come to be known as 'kakashi no sato', meaning 'village of __________'. What does kakashi mean in Japanese?

8. Staying in Japan, the popular Japanese cooking style X was introduced to the island nation in the 16th century by Portuguese missionaries. Taking its cue from dishes made during Lent by the clerics, the word X originates from a Latin word for 'time', referring in this case to the fasting period. What is X?

9. At age 25, X took leave from his position as an officer in the Prussian Army in 1863 and travelled to the United States to act as a military observer with the Union Army during the American Civil War. Afterwards he travelled through the north-western United States. In St. Paul, Minnesota, he encountered German-born balloonist John Steiner. That encounter led, through a series of steps, to the founding in 1909 of DELAG, Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft, the world's first airline, with the first passenger air service commencing the next year, in aircraft named after X. Who was X? Just a surname will do.

10. Combining the names of two people well known to us on the Konkan coast, in which film franchise would you find the character Sumbhajee Angria, a member of the Brethren Court?

Answers
1. Pio Gama Pinto
2. Parable, parabola
3. Lindsay Lohan's ankle monitor

4. JRR Tolkien

5. Dhaka
6. Tea
7. Scarecrows

8. Tempura
9. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
10. 'Pirates of the Caribbean'