Quiz 16 : Borrowing

Hi !

This quiz is on the borrowing of concepts or ideas or notions or acts from something or someone and their translation into art or reality. They are basically connect questions and the level separators (double black lines) are only there to indicate the direction of borrowing. For the first and third sets, there are 2 level separators and the direction of borrowing is from top to bottom. For the second set, there is 1 level separator and the direction of borrowing is from left to right. The answer I'm looking for is the concept being borrowed (sets 1 & 3) or what resulted out of it (set 2).

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Have fun !

Zed

Answers : Quiz 15 - Historical Paintings

1. The Great Fire of London, 1666
2. Tipu Sultan, 1799
3. Destruction of Pompeii due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 72 AD
4. Guy Fawkes caught in the cellar while attempting to execute the Gunpowder plot, 1605
5. Vasco-da-Gama landing on the shores of Calicut, 1498

Scores : Quiz 15 - Historical Paintings

Prithvi - 2

Scores : Quiz 14 - Food Etymologies

Ajay - 4
Vasanth - 2

Quiz 15 - Historical Paintings

Hi,

This one's on paintings depicting famous events.

1. Name the event.



2. Identify the personage being stabbed by an employ of the British army.




3. Which cataclysmic event is depicted in this painting ?




4. Sometimes things don't go to plan. What is shown in this painting ?




5. Name the occasion.




Have fun !

Zed

Answers : Quiz 14 - Food Etymologies

1. Blood Mary
The cocktail is supposedly named for either of two women :

a) Queen Mary I of England (pic 1) who succeeded in restoring England to Roman Catholicism but in doing so, had 300 heretics burned at the stake. This gave her the moniker 'Bloody Mary'.

b) Mary Pickford (pic 3), influential Canadian born Hollywood Actress who founded United Artists along with D W Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. She was also one of the founding 36 of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which awards the Oscars.

The 2nd pic shows the ghost or witch from folklore, Bloody Mary who was believed to appear in the mirror when called three times.

2. Tandoor

The cuisine 'Tandoori' (pertaining to the Tandoor) gets its name from Tandoor, which is a cylindrical oven used in cooking and baking.

3. Dom Perignon

The préstige cuvée of Moet et Chandon (now under LVMH), the brand got its name from the 17th century monk of the same name. He made invaluable contributions to the quality of Champagne wine and over the years, the invention of sparkling Champagne has been attributed to him.

4. Marie / Maria Biscuit

Marie is actually a generic type of sweet biscuit made of wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil and vanilla flouring. It was created by the bakery Peek Freans in London in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. Peek Freans had a controlling interest in Britannia Industries in the 19th century and Britannia have continued to use the name Marie.

5. Pizza Margherita

Rafael Esposito, considered to be the inventor of the modern pizza - the Margherita, named it in honour of Queen Margherita of Savoy, Queen of Italy between 1878 and 1900. He baked three different pizzas for the King and the Queen during their visit to Naples. Today it is one of the three official variants of the Neapolitan Pizza variety, the other two being Pizza Marinara and Pizza Margherita Extra.

Scores : Quiz 13 - Sculptures

Mahesh - 5
Vasanth - 6