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Q.1: This incident, as well as a similar one 15 years prior, inspired what?


Q.2: Put funda


Q.3: This is the Bibendum Chair designed in 1926. It was inspired by which corporate’s mascot?

Q.4: Many in history have been classified under a term from Aristotle to Chanakya for what they gave theories or explanations about, but French philosopher Quesnay and his followers were notably the first to call themselves this term.
Later calling themselves the Physiocrats, their ideas regarding agriculture being the only true source of wealth influenced much of 18th century European and colonial policy.

What word did they use to refer to themselves, being the firsts to do so?

Q.5: Due to a certain monumental event in history, over 10 million people ended up abandoning their homes and scrambling to get to the right side of the new borders. Many estimate that two or three million people died in the carnage.

Since it was one of the biggest mass migrations , people faced the consequence of losing track of each other. Hence, in order to identify each other during the chaos, as well as prove their identity, people used _______ as a means of identification.

It was revealed that these would be done during melas and would be wide ranging; from birds and stars to your own name.

What is being talked about?

Q.6: In the early 1900s travelling circuses would display what they called " ____ shows." These shows featured either performers with some utterly bizarre abilities/physical feature, or a performance in which something extremely unusual happened.

Usually, that meant a person eating something disgusting, like biting the heads off live chickens. An alternate theory suggests that the word comes from an old German term meaning - "a stupid person". Currently, this word is used in a very different context.

FITB/ Which word is being described?

Q.7: Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He drew illustrations of various famous literary characters, one of them being X.

Tenniel’s black and white illustration of X depicts the character wearing a knee length puffed sleeve with a pinafore worn over the top and ankle strap shoes.

In an analysis of Masafumi Monden: “X’s sense of agency is further conveyed by their dress. Both the character and the dress of X point out that X is neither assertive nor passive but rather positioned comfortably in between the two.”

Id this literary character.

___________________________

Answers:

1. Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh

2. All are popular meme templates

3. The Michelin Man from Michelin Tyres

4. Economist

5. Tattoos being used as a mark of identification during Partition Of India

6. Geek

7. Alice from Alice in Wonderland

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