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Satish's Quiz - Sep 1998

1. Who became the first Indian to sign a contract with the Ford Modelling Agency, New York?

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2. What do the Chinese regard as the highest form of visual art?

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3. What was the Ministry of Charles II, whose members were Ashley, Arlington, Buckingham, Clifford and Lauderdale called?

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4. In Kipling's HOW THE LEOPARD GOT ITS SPOTS, name the leopard.

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5. Along the banks of which river did King Arthur fight his last battle?

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6. The TV serial THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN was based on Paul Scott's THE RAJ QUARTET. But who was the first person to describe India as 'the jewel in the crown'?

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7. The most expensive of Kashmiri shawls are also called Ring Shawls. Why?

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8. Which writer was encouraged by Flaubert to take up writing (in 1880)? Over the next 13 years he wrote over 300 short stories before being confined to an asylum for suffering from 'general paralysis of the insane.'

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9. For almost four decades, she was the undisputed first lady of Odissi. Name this dancer who died of cancer on June 24 1997. Also identify
i. her guru.
ii. her husband, who provided vocal accompaniment to her dance.

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10. What is the name of the apprentice devil in C. S. Lewis' THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS? (Clue: Think C & H)

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11. During the First War of Independence, which fort and capital of a state did Rani Lakshmibai and Tantia Tope capture and defend against the British?

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12. Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La were symbols used by Guido d'Arezzo in the Eleventh Century for his Hexachord classification. They also occur in the following hymn -
Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famuli tuorum
Solve polluti
Labii reatum.
So, what are these (Ut, Re, Mi, ...) collectively called?

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