QUIZ 8

Q1
Founded in 1889, and named after the street in which it is located, it
is nicknamed the Maroon and Green Brigade. It had a commemorative
stamp issued by the postal department of India during the centenary
celebrations of 1989. The stamp showed bare footed Indians and booted
Englishmen. What am I talking about?

Q2
A javelin plunged into his shoulder during a bizarre and horrible training session in 2007. He feared that his career was over and had the javelin hit a few inches farther left and punctured his throat, his life would have been over. Nevertheless, he still won gold at the world championships and also qualified for Beijing 2008. Who?

Q3
A not very well known fact is, that in 1944, during a promotional tour of Liverpool, England he actually signed for Liverpool Football Club as a player. As of today the records still state that he was on the books and is classed as having been a Liverpool player. Who?

Q4
He was a devout Lutheran whose explicit Christian beliefs shaped his
philosophy of science. During his university studies he felt a deep
calling from God to study philosophy and mathematics, rather than more
lucrative pursuits. He wrote in a letter to a Dominican priest in
early February 1896, "From me, Christian philosophy will be offered
for the first time the true theory of the _________." The integers
considered as a completed set were his first demonstration of his
theory, followed by his hierarchy of what he called ordinal numbers.
Who, and what concept?

Q5
This author broke into writing in 1922 with a collection entitled
"Life, My Sister" but attained fame posthumously, when his second work
was banned in the Soviet Union, and first issued by an Italian
publisher. In 1958, he was forbidden to accept the Nobel Prize. Who?

Q6
D.A. Pennebaker made a film entitled "Don't Look Back" which was
inspired by the letters to, from and about Byron in the years at Pisa
with the Shelleys. The film was based on a legend in his own right,
and featured Allen Ginsberg and Alan Price. Who was the subject of the
film?

Q7
Once an Indian disciple of Tagore met this person. In a letter to Lady
Gregory in America, he mentioned that he had told the disciple that
Sarojini Naidu's brother was unhappy that Tagore wrote a poem
welcoming King George V, namely the Jana Gana Mana. On the same day,
on December 12th, King George V had proclaimed the annulment of the
partition of Bengal. Who was this person, who brought out the real
background of the National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana?

Q8
On board this historic journey, two infants were born. One's name was
lost in time and the other was named Oceanis Hopkins. Which journey?

Q9
He spent his entire life playing with microscopes and himself, not
necessarily in that order. He was the first to describe the
spermatozoa and he reported the discovery very nervously to the
authorities and nearly lost his job because his discovery was thought
to be obscene. Who?

Q10
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Build a better one and the earth will
be at your door." 300 people and 20 years have improved on it, making
it the most reinvented machine according to the US Patent office.
Lavish ones come with a profusion of gears, levers, springs etc. What
are we talking about?

Q11
Identify the logo in the above image.

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