QUIZ 27

Q1
It is an English legal charter, originally issued in the year 1215. It was written in Latin. It required the King to proclaim certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by the law. It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment. It was the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today. What?

Q2
An an early form of the sport was played in ancient Greece. The game was called "Poona" in India during the 18th century, and British Army officers stationed there took a competitive Indian version back to England in the 1860s, where it was played at country houses as an upper class amusement. Which game?

Q3
Leonhard Rauwolf described it as: 'A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful. It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.' It became more widely accepted after it was deemed a Christian beverage by Pope Clement VIII in 1600, despite appeals to ban the "Muslim drink". What?

Q4
White Chardonnay, or the black Pinot Noir or Pinot Meunier are requirements in order to make......what?

Q5
Name the famous uncle of Morty and Ferdie, who made his first appearance in Plane Crazy (May 15, 1928).

Q6
Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from
Tulkarm. When she was 17, she and her family fled during the Gulf War
to Egypt, where she attended primary and secondary school at New
English School in Kuwait, then earned a degree in Business
Administration from the American University in Cairo. After her
graduation in 1991, she worked at Citibank and Apple Computer in
Cairo, Egypt. How do we better know her as?

Q7
It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, also known as The Mother. It is an "experimental" township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. Paper and coin currency is not used. Residents PT account numbers to connect to their central account. Visitors, however, are requested to get a temporary account. Which township?

Q8
Jacques-Theodule was a French jeweller who ran the London branch. He
was the brother of Louis and Pierre. Louis popularized the wristwatch
whilst Pierre was a one-time owner of the Hope Diamond. What is the
surname of these three brothers?

Q9
Born to Stefano and Paola Maino in Lusiana, a little village 20 km from Vicenza, Italy, she spent her adolescence in Orbassano, a town near Turin being raised in a Roman Catholic family and attending a Catholic school. Her father, a building contractor, and former Fascist soldier, died in 1983. In 1964, she went to study English at The Bell Educational Trust's language school in the city of Cambridge. While enrolled in this certificate course she met her future husband, who was enrolled at the time in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She is a devout Roman Catholic. Who?

Q10
The pattern on the butterfly's back in the movie posters is not the natural pattern of the Death's-Head Hawk Moth. It is, in fact, Salvador Dalí's "In Voluptas Mors", a picture of seven naked women made to look like a human skull. Which movie?

Q11
Identify the car brand, whose logo is shown in the above image.

The Early Bird: Murli, Thiruvananthapuram

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