Derek O'Brien

Should we say ‘Happy Birthday Calcutta’ today? If you are not touchy about legalese, you could. However, if you were to comply with the findings of a committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court in 2003, you wouldn’t. The committee concluded: “Calcutta does not have a birthday. Its origin is part of a general process of rural settlements. It is generally held and commonly taught that Calcutta was founded by Job Charnock when he raised an English flag on a ghat on the bank of the river (Hooghly) at Sutanuti.”

YOUR QUESTIONS

1 Which pseudonym did Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov adopt during his exile in Siberia?

Biswajit Roy, Calcutta

2 Which author created the detectives Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver?

Tulika Sen, Burdwan

3 Which colour gets its name from the Greek word for ‘Indian dye’?

Keya Ghosh, Calcutta

4 Which award statuette was based on a design by Cedric Gibbon?

Arghya Chatterjee, via e-mail

5 Which character in The Thousand and One Nights is the child of a Chinese tailor?

Praful Banerjee, Calcutta

6 Which fast food chain uses Colonel Sanders’ cooking techniques?

Kiran Purohit, via e-mail

7 Who is the first bowler to have taken a hattrick in Twenty20 Internationals?

Rituparna Ghosh, Calcutta

8 Which singer introduced the Drupad style of singing to Akbar’s court?

Godhuli Biswas, via e-mail

9 Which desert is bounded by the headwaters of the Zambezi River in the north?

Saurav Mitra, via e-mail

KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK

Siraj-ud-Daula renamed Calcutta Alinagar after the previous Nawab, and his maternal grandfather, Alivardi Khan.

TEN ON TEN

True, false and floating are three types of what in the human body?

Nibedita Dutta, Calcutta

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Identify this famous author

POINT OF VIEW

1. Identify this rapper

 

 

2. Name this tennis player

 

 

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ANSWERS

1 Lenin
2 Agatha Christie
3 Indigo
4 Oscar
5 Aladdin
6 Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
7 Brett Lee
8 Tansen
9 Kalahari desert

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POINT OF VIEW 1 Baby Bash
POINT OF VIEW 2 Jelena Dokic
TEN ON TEN Ribs