Fresher's H.E.L.M Quiz

1
Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata,
And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself
come forth ;
For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-
doers,
For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am
born from age to age.
How is this verse popularly known as?

2
There are 2 temples in Kerala dedicated to this villainous
uncle and nephew duo from Indian Mythology. Who are
they?

__ ________ is the symbol that reppresents the One
Supreme Reality and is a central tenet of Sikh religious
philosophy. It is the first phrase in Mul Mantar, referring to
the existance of the ‘one consonant’ and is consequesntly
a part of the Sikk morning prayer, Japji Sahib.
3

According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the
X of Cyrene is a small snake, "being not more than twelve
fingers in length", that is so venomous, it leaves a wide
trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise
lethal; its weakness is in the odor of the weasel. It’s
presence could scorch surrounding shrubs and grass.
More popularly know from another source, identify X.

Basilisk
(mosst famously sseen in HP)

When Zeus struck down X's son with a lightning bolt for
resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead, X in revenge killed
the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus. X
would have been banished to Tartarus forever for this, but
was instead sentenced to one year of hard labor, due to
the intercession of his mother, Leto. There is a new series
from Rick Riordan which is a modern take on this story of
his punishment.
Identify X

X is a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology. X was the
goddess Y's servant and her defining task for X was to
guard the white heifer Io from Zeus, keeping her chained
to a sacred olive tree. X’s wakeful alertness was explained
for an increasingly literal culture as his having so many
eyes that only a few of the eyes would sleep at a time:
there were always eyes still awake. Io was only freed
when X was killed by Hermes. Who first put all of X eyes
asleep with spoken charms, then slew him by hitting him
with a stone. To commemorate her faithful watchman, Y
had the hundred eyes of X preserved forever, in a
peacock's tail.
Id X and Y

She was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived
alone in a cave and is known primarily for being the
mother of monsters. He was a monstrous snaky giant and
the most deadly creature in Greek mythology. He
attempted to overthrow Zeus for the supremacy of the
cosmos. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus
finally won. Defeated, he was cast into Tartarus, or buried
underneath Mount Etna. They are the parents of most of
the worst monsters in Greek mythology like Orthus,
Cerberus, the Hydra, Chimera, Sphinx, the Nemean Lion,
Ladon, Scylla and many more.

1
What spells/potions in HP comes from Latin for:
cut + always
love + to direct a weapon
to bite + death
Full points for all 3 and half for any 2.

1
Sectumsempra – sectus –> cut (past participle) + semper
–> always
Amortentia potion – amor –> love + tendere –> to direct a
weapon; Cupid’s bow?!
Morsmordre – mordre –> to bite + mors is a homonym for
mort –> death. Appropriate feels for conjuring the Dark
Mark, which is typically placed over the site of a murder

2
The national currency of X is the Quetzal, which is also
the name of the national bird. In turn, "quetzal" means in
náhuatl "precious tail of iridiscent feathers" or "feather of
the [quetzal] bird", and it was also part of the word
Quetzalcóatl ("snake with feathers", the name of an
ancient Aztec god).
Name the country.

3
What is this called? Also name
the guy carrying it
The name comes from "upright
monumental stone," literally
"long stone," from
French/Breton
Bonus if anyone can tell me the
significance of what they are
used for.

3
Menhir
Obelix
A long running joke in the Asterix comics are that no one
knows what menhirs are used for.. but in real life they
were used as some kind of religious marker. Often
indication graves or other significant spots.

4
This animal gets its name due to its basking habits, from
Greek for kroke "pebbles" + drilos "worm." Herodotus
used it to describe the ones he saw in the Nile.

5
Render and the root for "surrender" descend from a Latin
verb "reddo" (give back), whose conjugations include the
name of quizzers favourite website and its users.
Incidentally the source of this question.

5
Reddit and redditors
Sadly this doesn’t imply that reddit means giving back or
anything like that. Its just a coincidence.
The actual origin for the name reddit is a pun on the
words read it: as in “I read it on reddit”

6
This word comes from feudal England, where lords of the
manor would own most of the land in a certain village. The
Lord of the Manor would employ some peasants to be the
wardens of the pigpens. The old English for [a pig's] pen
was stig, or stī, which is today spelt sty. Thus they were
'sty-wardens' and the word has evolved to what we know
today.

6
Steward
So a steward literally means a 'keeper of a pig-pen'.
Judging by most budget airlines today, an air-steward's
job isn't far removed from that description.

7
This word is a contracted form of 'Shire-Reeve', with the
'reeve' being the archaic word for an administrative
officer, and 'shire' meaning, as it does today, a large
county.

8
This word means "hodgepodge, a confused mix" ,
"medley, mixed fodder, mix of grains for animal feed"
from far - Latin for "grain"

9
This word has multiple meanings
"surpass, beat"
"playing card of a suit ranking above others"
"fabricate, devise"
Very relevant in today’s news. Especially the third meaing.

10
The germ theory of disease wasn't proposed until the 16th
century and not fully accepted until the 19th. Before then,
people blamed the concept of "bad air", the belief that
disease was caused by vapors that were endemic to
certain places. They knew that visiting a swamp could
lead to a fever but didn't understand the true cause, so
they just blamed it on bad air.
Or in Latin _______. Which is how we know know it.

10
Malaria
Latin mal - “bad” + aria - “air”

Driver Takes Wrong Turn, War
Ensues!

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In Sarajevo, he survived an assassination attempt wherein
several Bosnian revolutionaries threw a grenade towards
his motorcade. Later, Franz’s driver took a wrong turn and
incidentally, one of the revolutionaries, Gavrilo Princip,
was standing right there on the street corner.

________ Politely Asks For
Independence,
Receives Independence (1867)

Canada
Okay, it’s not quite that simple, but the essence is true. On
July 1st, 1867 the British North America Act established
Canada as a self-governing colony of the British Empire.
The peculiar thing about this “act of independence” was
that its causes consisted mostly of trans-Atlantic debate
and political discourse. Compared to other “acts of
independence,” like the American Revolution, it was
nearly absent of violence.

_______ Defeats 'Dewey Defeats
_______'
FITB and give funda

Harry Truman
Every exit poll showed that Dewey would win the US
presidency. He was charming, charismatic, and popular.
Truman was the complete opposite…quiet and unknown.
People were so sure of the outcome that the Chicago
Tribune even ran a headline saying “Dewey Defeats
Truman.” But in one of history’s most unexpected upsets,
Truman won. In fact, he won by a landslide.

Scientist Who Talks To Pigeons
Builds Death Ray And Earthquake
Machine

Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a prolific and somewhat eccentric
inventor who was known as the archetypal “mad
scientist” by much of the public. The headline refers to
some of his incredibly strange inventions, one of which
was a supposed “death ray” that could be used by the
military. The “earthquake machine” that is referenced was
actually his electro-mechanical oscillator which he used
to generate electricity. At one point Tesla had claimed that
the machine was responsible for a mini-earthquake in
downtown New York City. As for the talking to pigeons
part, Tesla just really loved to feed pigeons. He even
stated on occasion that it gave him purpose.

Europe Exiles ________ As
Punishment For Coming Back From
Previous Exile
FITB and name the two places of exile.

Napoleon
Elba and Saint Helena
Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba (off the coast of
Italy) after being defeated by the Allies in 1814. He
managed to escape, however, and once again took control
of France. His army was defeated yet again at the Battle of
Waterloo and Napoleon was then exiled to Saint Helena in
the South Atlantic where he would remain until his death.

Persians' ______s Defeat Egypt
FITB for an unconventional secret weapon.

Cats!
Cambyses II knew how much the Egyptians venerated
their cats so he decided to put thousands of cats on his
front line. The Egyptians were too scared to fight for fear
of injuring the cats, so they surrendered.
Hopefully no one uses this trick with cows...

1
The New Columbia Encyclopedia described Lillian Virginia
Mountweazel as a fountain designer-turned-photographer
celebrated for her photographs of rural American
mailboxes. The New Oxford American Dictionary defined
the word ‘esquivalience’ as “the willful avoidance of one’s
official responsibilities”.
What is the lexicological connect?

1
They are both made-up entries inserted as copyright traps
to catch plagiarists. If any other encyclopedia or
dictionary included these entries, the original publishers
would know that their works had been copied.

2
In which book series (just the name of the first book in
the series will do) would you find mention of these works,
among others – ‘The Celestial Home Care Omnibus’,
‘Fifty-Three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity’, and the
trilogy by Oolon Colluphid: ‘Where God Went Wrong’,
‘Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes’, ‘Who Is This
God Person, Anyway’?

2
Douglas Adams’s ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’

ID the authors
6 illustrations by British cartoonist Ronald Searle, of
authors to be identified

8
This is a still from a film showing a fictitious book first
mentioned in a real 1914 novel, in which the protagonist
refers to it as “a book which ascends to such rarefied
heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was
no man in the scientific press capable of criticising it”.
Who is the fictional author of this fictitious book?

8
Professor James Moriarty.
The 1914 book was ‘The Valley of Fear’; the movie still is
from ‘Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows’

9
The book shown is a love story weighed
down by caste,
ideologies, and a tragedy. The book has
Ratna, the young protagonist, recalling
her days with a love interest whom she
had met on December 6 the year before.
That meeting had taken place at the Maha
Parinirvan at Chaitra Bhumi in Mumbai,
the place of pilgrimage for dalits, where
she went twice a year with her father,
marking Baba Ambedkar’s death
anniversary. Who is the author, who was
at the centre of a minor international
crisis three years ago?

10
A visit to apartheid South Africa in
1973, following that country lifting
its ban on his best-known book,
resulted in the book shown. The
title was a reference to his visa
status, which granted significantly
more privileges than enjoyed by
the native black population. Who?

10
E.R. Braithwaite,
author of ‘To Sir With Love’

Everyone has heard of Beatlemania- The Beatles' young
female fans' tendency to go completely batshit crazy at
the mere mention of their names.
This 19th century classical composer has been called the
"world's first rock star" by some. It was a mostly
European phenomenon, following X wherever he went,
but it hit the city of Berlin particularly hard. Frauleins
would attack him, fight over broken piano strings, tear
bits of his clothing and handkerchiefs to stow as
souvenirs, and even kept his used cigar butts in their
cleavage.
Identify this player (pun intended)

(fanboy question)
What famous fantasy author wrote these 3 ‘Laws of Magic’
1. An author's ability to solve conflict with magic is
DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader
understands said magic
2. Limitations > Power
The limitations of a magic system are more interesting
than its capabilities. What the magic can't do is more
interesting than what it can.
3. Expand on what you have already, before you add
something new.

Brandon Sanderson
They are known as Sanderson’s
Three Laws of Magic.
He is the author of great series like
Mistborn, the Reckoners and the
Stormlight Archive.
He was also chosen to complete the
Wheel of Time series after Robert
Jordan’s death.

Last question
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, a French military chemist
and botanist, and Louis XVI got the French people
interested in the cultivation of X by planting 100 acres
outside of Paris and guarding them heavily with troops.
One night Parmentier allowed the guards to go off duty
and, as he had hoped, farmers came in and stole X to
plant in their own farms.

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