Quizzically Yours

1) Note left by whom?



2) In India _____ are produced mainly in four major cities. These are Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Whenever a ____ is produced out of these cities, they put an identification mark on every ____ .

Identification mark on the _____ is :
Delhi – A dot.
Mumbai – A diamond.
Hyderabad – A star.
Kolkata – No mark.

3)________ is the largest media conglomerate in India. It is headed by brothers Samir and Vineet Jain. The company has

• eleven publishing centers
• fifteen printing centers
• fifty-five sales offices
  
• over 7000 employees
  
• five dailies, including two of the largest in the country with approx 4.3 million copies circulated daily
  
• two lead magazines (Femina and Filmfare)
  
• twenty-nine niche magazines reaching 2468 cities and towns
  
• thirty-two Radio Stations (including Radio Mirchi)
  
• two Television News Channels
  
• one Television Life Style Channel
  
• turnover in excess of USD 700 million.

Which company?

4) In the year of 1284, on the day of Saints John and Paul
on 26 June
130 children born in X were seduced
By a Y, dressed in all kinds of colours,
and lost at the place of execution near the koppen.

This is the earliest account of a tragic event in the city of X. Rats were later added to the account as it passed on through generations. People believe today the phrase, "pay the ___" arose from this event. To "pay the ___" now means to face the inevitable consequences of one's actions.The phrase is also attributed to meaning to recompense a minstrel or similar musician in the mediaeval period for services rendered. Minstrels were a significant status symbol, hence refusing payment would be great mark on the nobleman's reputation and a noticeable loss in his social standing.

Funda pls.

5) Operation ______ , was the program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of WW-II (1939–45). It was executed in the context of the burgeoning Cold War(1945–91). One purpose of Operation _____ was to deny German scientific knowledge and expertise to the USSR and UK.

President Harry Truman's order expressly excluded anyone found “to have been a member of the Nazi Party, and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazi militarism.” Said restrictions would have rendered ineligible most of the scientists the JIOA had identified for recruitment, among them rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the physician Hubertus Strughold, each earlier classified as a “menace to the security of the Allied Forces”.

Werner Osenberg, the engineer-scientist heading the Wehrforschungsgemeinschaft (Military Research Association), recorded the names of the politically-cleared men to the Osenberg List, thus reinstating them to scientific work.

Name the operation.

6)Identify

7) Identify the brand being advertised.

8)Kraken Opus, works to produce definitive publications featuring the finest writers, stunning images displayed on an epic scale and presented in a beautifully-designed, luxury format. So far, Kraken Opus has successfully produced Opus-es for Manchester United, Arsenal, Burj Khalifa and Michael Jackson to name a few.

For the print version of an Opus for a famous sportsperson, they decided to go for a "blood edition". The signature page will be mixed with X's blood – mixed into the paper pulp so it's a red resin. Kraken asked for a sample of his saliva and used this to create his DNA profile, which will be printed on a two-metre gatefold in the book. The book which weighs 37kg, measures half a metre square and stretches to 852 pages edged in gold leaf. It will be out next February.

Which sportsperson?

9) This grisly phrase is the proper name for the death sentence. The sentence was given to others after 1790 but not carried out. It was the punishment for traitors. Women traitors were burned at the stake. The punishment was most often meted out for high treason - acts of betrayal, or actual or attempted murder of the sovereign.

The victims were first hung by the neck but taken from the scaffold while still alive. The entrails and genitals are then removed, the head cut off and the torso was chopped up. A very famous account of such an execution was when the sentence was meted out to conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot. (Robert Keyes, Guy Fawkes, etc.)

The above paras have almost everything you need to guess the phrase. Please do the needful.

Nanda, Sparky and Nabarun get it right in parts

1. Christopher McCandless ('Into the Wild' guy)

2. Indian coins

3. The Times Group

4. Pied Piper of Hamelin

5. Operation Paperclip

6. Simo Hayha (The White Death. More here)

7. Winston Cigarettes

8. Sachin Tendulkar

9. Hung, Drawn and Quartered