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March 2015 – Part 1
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Abhinav Kadambi
1
What connects the two?
2
Answer
• “Hey Babyy” was a copy of “3 men and a
baby”, which was directed by Leonard Nimoy
3
Why did Julius Ceasar like to wear a laurel
wreath while appearing in public?
4
Answer
• To hide his receding hairline (his soldiers sang
songs making fun of that)
5
The fruit of the “Asimina triloba” (shown here) is
similar to a fruit from the tropical part of the
Americas, which is probably why they both share
which common popular name?
6
Answer
• Paw paw
7
Where would you find the phrase
"ordem e progresso" (order and
progress) written on it?
8
Answer
• Brazil's Flag
9
Which city / town in India is an
Anglicised version of the Sanskrit
word for a Fort?
10
Answer
• Cuttack, Orissa
11
Which Indian politician and
President was involved in the Irish
Freedom struggle?
12
Answer
• V. V. Giri, former president of India
13
• About a century ago there was a labor union
battle in the West Virginia coal mining business. A
group of striking miners were bandanas of a
certain colour around their necks
When you work in the sun, the back of your neck
eventually becomes a dark reddish brown colour
with a 'leathery' look to the skin
• Alternative origins of what?
14
Answer
• Redneck
15
The uniforms of Scotland at the
World cup cricket currently
underway, cleverly incorporate
what pattern into their jerseys?
16
Answer
• The tartan
17
Which Grand Prix race is scheduled
to return to the Formula One
calendar this year after a 23 year
gap?
18
Answer
• Mexican GP
19
What do you call this type of shoe
design where the tip of the ladies shoe
is open to reveal the toes?
20
Answer
• Peep toes
21
The film 'Big Hero 6' is set in a fictional
city whose name is a sort of mash-up
of two cities - One an Asian capital and
the other being a city on USA's west
coast known for a famous structure
Name it.
22
Answer
• San Fransokyo
23
Why is Southampton FC nicknamed
'the Saints?'
24
Answer
• Founded by the young men of St Mary’s
Church, the mother church of Southampton.
In the early years the club was known as
Southampton St Mary's.
25
Which leading pair of a hit 2014 film
had played brother and sister in
another film of the same year?
name the films for bonus points
26
Answer
• Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort; “The fault
in our stars” ..which came after “Divergent”
27
If it is by-two in Bengaluru, what is it
(mostly) in Mumbai?
28
Answer
• Cutting (Cutting Chai)
29
The zurna is a wind instrument played
in countries like Turkey. Etymologically
speaking, its name has the same
root/meaning as the name of which
familiar Indian musical instrument?
30
Answer
• Shehnai
31
What food is the Japanese
Emperor forbidden from eating?
32
Answer
• Fugu
33
What words have been blanked out?
34
Answer
• Nude Descending a
Staircase ...referencing
this famous painting
by Marcel Duchamp
35
Whose song is used in the opening
sequence here? (starts at about 01:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L
SyUxb_CXbo
36
Answer
• "Boom Shack-A-Lak" by Apache Indian
37
• The 1941 film 'Dumbo' helped Disney recoup the losses that he encountered after making 'Fantasia'. Which film-maker is making a modern version of this film?
• One of the smartest dialogues in the 1941 movie goes thus
"Crow #1: Did you ever see an elephant fly?
Crow #2: Well, I've seen a horse fly.
Crow #3: Ah, I've seen a dragon fly.
Crow #4: Hee-hee. I've seen a _____ fly."
• FITB
38
Answer
• House
39
What is this a list of?
which name has been blanked out?
40
41
Answer
• Woodstock - fees paid to various performers;
Ravi Shankar's name was blocked out
42
After a disastrous 2013 film, which
acclaimed director, who is just two
films old has returned with this new
film (poster on left)
and how does this new film connect
with another new film whose poster is
also shown here.
43
44
Answer
• Neill Blomkamp (of District 9 fame); Dev Patel
is in both films
45
• Este Haim, Kendra Morris, Julia Haltigan and
Holly Miranda make up a band along with a
Hollywood star. Their recently released single
ran into a problem recently as their band
name 'The Singles' is also the name of a band
that has existed for some 17 years.
• Name the Hollywood star
46
Answer
• Scarlett Johansson
47
• On January 24, 1961, an accident on Sunset Blvd left himgravely injured. With multiple broken bones and otherinjuries he went into coma at the hospital. For two weekshe lay in a vegetative state, unresponsive to any effortstrying to revive him.
• After nearly a fortnight, a doctor at the hospital casuallyasked him, even as he lay unconscious, how he was. But hedidn’t address the patient by his name. He called himsomething else. And to everyone's amazement the patientresponded to the question.
• Encouraged by this, the doctor repeated the exercise callinghim by different names and each time the patientresponded to the question in a different manner. And sureenough, after a while he woke up from his coma Who is thisperson?
• How is he supposed to have responded to the first question from the doctor?
48
Answer
• Mel Blanc responded with “What’s up doc?”
49
• When Google bought Motorola in a multi-
billion deal in 2011, one of its stated reasons
was to offer "better phones at lower prices."
what did Industry watchers widely believe was
the intention of the deal?
50
Answer
• to acquire a portfolio of patents ..sort of
defense against patent trolls
51
• 2061 and 2063 are important dates in sci-fi /
Speculative fiction world.
the first is the setting for a lesser known book
in a trilogy and the second is related to the
Star Trek universe.
• What reference(s) are being made to here?
52
Answer
• 2061: Odyssey Three, the science fiction novel
by Arthur C. Clarke
• April 5, 2063 - first open contact between
Humans and Vulcans (Star Trek Universe)
53
• There was a time when “&” was actually part
of the English alphabet and school children
reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet
with the &. Since would have been confusing
to say “X, Y, Z, and &", the students said, “and
per se and” since “Per se” means “by itself"
• What did this lead to?
54
Answer
• the supposed origin of 'ampersand‘ (&)
55
• Major museums in the world, including the
Louvre are moving to ban which modern
contraption fearing accidental damage to their
artwork?
56
Answer
• Selfie sticks
57
What's the inspiration for this album
cover?
58
Answer
• Death of Marat
(Jacques David
painting)
59
Deriving from a Greek word for ‘band’
what do you call this kind of headband
worn by many monarchs particularly
those in Egypt and Eastern Europe?
60
Answer
• Diadem
61
• Otto Hahn won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
"for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei".
It is widely believed that the lady in the image
should have received it with Otto Hahn. About
this, Physics Today said in an article in 1997 "a
rare instance in which personal negative opinions
apparently led to the exclusion of a deserving
scientist ". Element # 109 is named after her.
• ID the lady.
62
63
Answer
• Lisa Meitner
64
• What was the last instance of a Summer
Olympics being held at a city which is not a
national capital?
65
Answer
• Sydney
66
Which book of the Bible does not
contain the word 'god' anywhere in it's
entire narrative?
67
Answer
• Esther and the Song of Songs (two books)
68
• Witnesses say they saw the pilot was bleeding profusely from the face. The pilot is an experienced pilot who has been flying since the 1960s. Golfers said that watching the pilot bring the plane down, it was clear that he made sure to avoid people's homes. He was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after crashing a vintage plane on a Venice, California golf course
• Who was the pilot who recently crashlanded this vintage WW2 in a golfcourse recently?
69
70
Answer
• Hero pilot Harrison Ford crash landed his vintage plane on a golf course to avoid catastrophe over homesActor was flying a vintage plane in Venice, California on Thursday
• Ford, 72, was transported to a Santa Monica hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries including a broken ankle and pelvis.
• Witnesses say they saw the actor bleeding profusely from the face. Ford is an experienced pilot who has been flying since the 1960s. Golfers said that watching Ford bring the plane down, it was clear that he made sure to avoid people's homes
71
Why might this superhero remind you
of a transition metal in the Periodic
table?
72
Answer
• Mercury...which is also called Quicksilver
73
Connect the 2
74
Answer
• Pakistani batsman Mohammad Yousuf has the best bowling average (0.00) in World Cup history. Yousuf took the wicket of Zimbabwe's Christopher Mpofu with the very first ball he bowled in the 2007 World Cup. Contrastingly, New Zealand off-spinner John Bracewell has the worst average. Featuring in two World Cups (1983, 1987), Bracewell played seven matches, conceded 310 runs and picked up just 1 wicket, meaning he had an average of 310.
75
• The Wheaton is the measurement of thisrelative to celebrity Wil Wheaton. Themeasurement was standardized when WilWheaton achieved half a million of this , withthe effect that Wil Wheaton now has 5.2Wheatons himself (as of June 2014). Themilliwheaton (500 of these) is more commonlyused.
• What am I talking about ?
76
Answer
• Measure of Twitter Followers
77
Official description of what?
• "A map of the world representing an
azimuthal equidistant projection centred on
the North Pole, inscribed in a wreath
consisting of crossed conventionalized
branches of the olive tree, . . . The projection
of the map extends to 60 degrees south
latitude, and includes five concentric circles"
78
Answer
• The UN Flag
79
• The Webster dictionary describes this feature
as “a bend in a coast forming an open bay” or
as ”a bay formed by such a bend.” It forms the
name of a large body of water off the
southern coastline of mainland Australia.
What word?
80
Answer
• Bight
81
What is remarkable about Misbah-ul-
Haq crossing the 5000 run mark in
ODIs?
82
Answer
• No century yet
83
The title of which 1982 hit collaboration
between these two legends reflects two the two
materials required to make piano keys? (though
they rarely use one of them these days)
84
Answer
• Ebony and Ivory
85
• Which hit 2004 film begins with a Friedrich
Nietzsche quotation 'Beware that, when
fighting monsters, you yourself do not become
a monster'?
(the quote is quite central to the theme of the
film)
86
Answer
• Ab Tak Chhappan - directed by Shimit Amin,
otherwise known as the director of 'Chak De
India'
87
Identify the person next to Jamie Foxx
in Django Unchained
88
Answer
• Franco Nero...Django in the original film
89
What is his mother's name?
90
Answer
• Enola Gay ...the
plane's name came
from there.
• That is of course
Hiroshima Pilot
Paul Tibbets, Jr.
91
• In Affectionate Remembrance of X, which died
at the Oval on 29 August, Deeply lamented by
a large circle of sorrowing friends and
acquaintances
• R.I.P.
• N.B.—The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to Australia.
• ID X
92
Answer
• English cricket
93
Who is the man punching Big B? (the
incident brought half the nation to a halt)
94
Answer
• Puneet Issar
95
Who is their famous progeny?
96
Answer
• Actress Rekha
• Pushpavalli and Gemini Ganesan..(they had
two children together..one was Rekha)
97
In the late 18th century, what was
“The National Razor” in France?
98
Answer
• The Guillotine
99
The USA released a set of four stamps in 1989
under the "dinosaurs" series. Why did two of the
stamps (shown here) create much controversy?
100
Answer
• It was argued that the Pteranodon was more
of as flying reptile than a dinosaur..as for the
Brontosaurus, it was already known by then
that no such creature ever existed ..The
Brontosaurus was a result of a mix-up and
sloppy work from 19th century fossil collectors
(the latter has since been reinstated)
101
If a 110 ms Olympic hurdle race has 10
hurdles, how many hurdles are there
in a 400ms hurdle race?
102
Answer
• 10
103
• The first American to achieve a perfect 10 in
Olympic Gymnastics, he led his country to
team gold in 1984 and has two moves named
for him.
An additional trivia involves him doing the
stunts for Robin in Batman Forever (1995)
Identify him.
104
105
Answer
• Mitch Gaylord
106
When Eddie Ray Routh was sentenced
to life in prison by a Texas jury late last
month, why did the conviction make
big news?
107
Answer
• He killed Chris Kyle (the American Sniper guy)
in a rather senseless murder
108
• First used successfully in the Middle east in
1991 during Operation Desert Storm , this
method of warfare sees the application of
overwhelming and disproportionate force and
firepower in a devastating manner in order to
compel the adversary to surrender.
• What three word phrase describes this war
concept?
109
Answer
• Shock and Awe
110
Whose hollywood walk of fame star is
located at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard?
111
Answer
• Roger Moore
112
Nollywood makes it movies on
budgets of USD 20,000 to USD 40,000
with most films going directly to DVD.
where is Nollywood located?
113
Answer
• Nigeria
114
Who looks like this now?
115
Answer
• Dum Laga Ke Haisha Actress Bhumi Padnekar
116
