C What I Did There? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Carrots

Gajar ka halwa is also known as carrot halwa, not to be confused with the Middle Eastern nougat-like sweet of the same name. This particular halwa is made with milk, sugar and water and garnished with khoa (a ricotta-like cheese) nuts which have been sautéed in ghee, a type of clarified butter often used in Indian cooking.

Some varieties of halwa contain papaya or beetroot, and the 'red velvet' version uses rosewater and saffron as additional flavouring.

Answer: Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

Yes, there really is a band called Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine! They are also known as Carter USM for short. Carter USM consisted of Jim 'Jimbob' Morrison and Les 'Fruitbat' Carter, who used a mixture of samples and drum machines. Jimbob and Fruitbat were originally in a band called Jamie Wednesday and formed Carter USM in 1987, when they were the only band members to turn up for a gig at the London Astoria and had to perform with backing tapes.

They released their first album, '101 Damnations', in 1990.

They had a fondness for parodies and wordplay, and their gigs would feature an MC known as Jon Fat Beast, who would introduce the band while topless. Carter USM became a six-piece in 1996, but split two years later, although they later reformed as a duo in 2008 and were supported by fellow early '90s indie travellers EMF.

Answer: Castor

Castor and Pollux are known as the Dioscuri Twins and were the children of Leda, a Spartan queen, but had different fathers. Castor was the son of Tyndareus, Leda's husband, but Pollux was a demigod and one of the many children of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the form of a swan.

They also had notable sisters; Castor's sister Clytemnestra, who went on to marry and murder the general Agamemnon, while Pollux's sister was Helen of Troy. All four children were said to have been born from two separate eggs laid by Leda.

The twins travelled on the Argo with Jason, and later were tricked by their cousins Idas and Lynceus into handing over their share of some cattle they had stolen. While staying with Helen, the twins went to steal Idas and Lynceus' cattle in revenge. Lynceus fatally injured Castor with his spear, Castor called for help before he died, and Pollux killed Lynceus in revenge.

He was attacked by Idas, but saved when Zeus shot Idas down with a thunderbolt. Zeus gave Pollux the choice of coming to Mount Olympus or sharing his immortality with his dying brother, and Pollux chose the latter. Zeus placed the twins in the sky and they became the constellation Gemini.

Answer: Carrie White

Based on the book by Stephen King, 'Carrie' stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, an unpopular teenage girl who lives with her religious fundamentalist mother Margaret (Piper Laurie) and is regularly bullied at school. She has had telekinesis since an early age and uses her power to break a mirror and an ashtray.

In one of the most notorious scenes in the film, she is crowned prom queen and drenched in pig's blood by a group of bullies. She thinks that everyone is laughing at her and her telekinesis goes into overdrive, shutting the doors of the gym, loosening cables and setting off a high-pressure hose, and setting the gym on fire, killing nearly everyone inside. Two of the bullies, Chris (Nancy Allen) and Billy (John Travolta), try to run Carrie over but she destroys their car and kills them.

She also kills her mother with knives and sets their house on fire. Sue (Amy Irving), a girl who felt sympathy for Carrie and is the only survivor of the massacre, later has a nightmare about Carrie's arm coming out of her grave and grabbing her.

Answer: Cleopatra of Macedon

Cleopatra of Macedonia - not to be confused with the more famous one played by Elizabeth Taylor, Cleopatra Philopator - was Alexander the Great's sister. Their father, Philip II of Macedon, had several wives and Alexander and Cleopatra were the offspring of his fourth wife, Queen Olympias of Epirus. Philip was assassinated at Cleopatra's wedding to her uncle, Alexander I of Epirus. Several of Alexander's generals proposed to Cleopatra after his death, and she accepted Ptolemy's proposal, but was assassinated herself in 308 BC before the two were married.

Cleopatra Philopator did, however, have Macedonian blood; she was a descendant of Ptolemy, who governed over Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. She was the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Answer: Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday was a sympathiser of the Girondins, who were initially the more liberal faction of the Jacobins (the main republican movement during the French Revolution) until they were purged by the more radical Montagnards, the faction which included Robespierre. Jean-Paul Marat, a French doctor and journalist, was an outspoken opponent of the Girondins and incited violence against them.

The Montagnards and the National Convention (the first post-revolutionary government of France) distanced themselves from Marat after the purge of Girondins, which marked the beginning of the Reign of Terror. Corday saw Marat as a threat with the potential to incite a civil war. Marat had to take baths for a skin condition, and Corday went to his flat, claiming she had information on major Girondin figures.

She stabbed Marat to death and was subsequently guillotined by Charles-Henri Sanson, the Royal Executioner.

Answer: Chanticleer

Chanticleer the Rooster is one of the animals appearing in the tales of the trickster Reynard the Fox, along with Isengrim the Wolf (Reynard's wicked uncle), Bruin the Bear and Tybalt/Tibert the Cat. He has several wives, the most famous of which is Pertelotte (also known as Partlet or Pertok) and lives on a farm.

In the story of 'Chanticleer and the Fox', the rooster dreams that a predator is after him. The dream turns out to be true when Reynard tricks Chanticleer by telling him to shut his eyes and crow, to prove that he is a worthy successor to his father, and carries him off to eat.

However, Chanticleer gets his own back when the farmer sets his dog and some farm workers on the fox, and tells Reynard to open his mouth and denounce the pursuers.

When Reynard does as asked, Chanticleer escapes.

Answer: Cait Sith

Cait Sith is a robotic cat who rides on the head of a giant toy Moogle (a kind of winged cat-like creature with fangs), and gives orders to the Moogle through his megaphone. In later versions, he rides on Red XIII instead. He is named for the mythical Scottish cat, and has the same black and white fur.

The party initially meet him in the Golden Saucer, where he works as a fortune teller. He is actually being controlled remotely by the scientist Reeve Tuesti, who is working for Shinra, and is used to spy on the group.

However, he has a change of heart and later helps Barret escape from Shinra, and passes on information about them to Avalanche.

Answer: Canterbury

Canterbury's Roman and religious heritage make it a popular tourist destination. It is home to Canterbury Cathedral, founded by St Augustine in 597, the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. History buffs might recall that Thomas Becket was murdered on the orders of Henry II in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170; a shrine for Becket was visited by pilgrims until it was removed on the orders of Henry VIII, but a Martyrdom Altar was set up in his honour in 1986.

The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' are all paying a visit to Becket's shrine.

The town also hosts a Norman church, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Roman museum, which contains an in-house mosaic pavement and a hoard of Roman silver known as the Canterbury Treasure.

Answer: Catalyst

A catalyst is a substance added to a chemical process to increase the chemical reaction rate, and as it is not consumed in the process, it can be used several times. There are two types of catalyst: a homogeneous catalyst is in the same phase as its reactant substance (i.e. both substances are a solid, liquid or gas), while a heterogenous catalyst is in a different phase. For example, in the Haber process, iron powder is used as a heterogeneous catalyst, which reacts with nitrogen and hydrogen to create ammonia. The process of adding a catalyst is known as catalysis.

The term 'catalyst' can also be used in general terms to describe an event which triggers or speeds up an event, such as the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand being the catalyst for the First World War.