WELCOME ONE AND ALLTo This HURRICANE Quiz...1st of all, I would really like to thank the teams which have come from quite far in only a day's notice. The questions are set in just an evening...so....KEEP CALM

HERE COMES THE FINALS....

PATTERN:

• WRITE BROTHERS....

• INFINITE BOUNCE ( CLOCKWISE )

• LVC

• RETURN OF INFINITE BOUNCE ( ANTICLOCKWISE )

WRITE BROTHERS:

• WRITTEN ROUND OF 5 QUESTIONS

• 5 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER

• 30 POINTS IF YOU WRITE ALL 5 CORRECT...

HERE WE GO....

1. GOOGLE DOODLE ON:

2. ID THE CHARACTER?

3. KIRSTEN DUNST PLAYING WHOM?

4. BOOK COVER OF ??

5. POSTAGE STAMP ON:

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS:

HERE COMES THE ANSWERS:

1. GOOGLE DOODLE ON:

LEO TOLSTOY

2. ID THE CHARACTER?

MAHARAJA OF GAIPAJAMA

3. KIRSTEN DUNST PLAYING WHOM?

MARIE ANTOINETTE

4. BOOK COVER OF ??

LES MISERABLES

5. POSTAGE STAMP ON:

JAIPRAKASH NARAYAN

CLOCKWISE ROUND

WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY..LET'S START

• READY TO

1. STARTING WITH AN AUDIO....

• ID THE FEMALE VOICE...

AND THE ANSWER IS:

SULAKSHANA PANDIT...

2.• The person in the pic wrote

sometimes under the pen-name J.R. Johnson. He was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. However one of his books written on completely different field is cited as the best book on that field ever written.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

3.

• Grigory Chukhrai, director of the Immortal Ballad of a Soldier, was heading the jury. The members included Stanley Kramer, director of The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and Satyajit Ray. The high humanism of these names added weight to the awards: Grand Prize for Fellini’s 8 and a half, Best Actor Steve MacQueen in the Great Escape, Best Actress ____________

AND TNE ANSWER IS:

4.

• In 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle selected what he regarded as his best Sherlock Holmes short stories for Strand Magazine of London. He set them down in descending order of merit with his all-time favorite listed as number one.

• What was no. 1?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

5.

• When in 1192, Prithviraj Chauhan lost the battle from Md Ghori, he left for jungle. There he met one old person with a scar on his head. Being a very good doctor Prithviraj Chauhan confidently asked him that he can cure his scar. The old man agreed. But even after week’s medication it remained as it is. Prithviraj was surprised and understood the details. He asked old man if he is ________.The old man told that he was _________ and then he went away. This description is given in “Prithviraj Raso” the book written in 12th century on him.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

ASHWATTHAMA

6.

• Which book starts with ''I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.''?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

7.

• Though over times, it has been attributed to iron hydrogen phosphate, but researchers from IIT Kanpur discovered a thin layer of Misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen behind this mystery.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

8. ID BOTH OF THEM....NO PART POINTS

AND THE ANSWER IS:

MEHDI HAASAN AND AMEEN SAYANI

SCORES PLEASE...

9.

• The person in the pic is Theodore Van Kirk, also called 'Dutch'. He died on 28th July at the age of 93. He was the last surviving member of something, which became his c2f?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

• The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

• He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb deployed in wartime over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

10.

• Born in Bhagalpur in 1951 and brought up in Kolkata upto the age of 27, then to Mumbai.

• Studied in La Martiniere and then in Presidency. Wrote his 1st book of poems "Of Gods and Olives" at the age of 17. One of his books, Lonesong Street, sold a million copies.

• Padma Shree at the age of 25...• Something 1st in India was started by him in 1996 in

Hotel Leela Kempinski in Mumbai.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

PRITISH NANDY

11.

• The first one in Rome was brought in by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and exhibited to the public. In 1414, a ______ was shipped from Malindi to Bengal. It was then taken to China by explorer Zheng He and placed in a Ming Dynasty zoo. The animal was a source of fascination for the Chinese people, who associated it with the mythical Qilin. ______ continue to have a presence in modern culture. Dali considered the ______ to be a symbol of masculinity. It is the National animal of Tanzania.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

GIRAFFE

12. ID THE SINGER...

AND THE ANSWER IS:

YESUDAS

13.

• He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. At the age of 15 he entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After leaving Avignon, he(according to his own account) travelled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. By 1566, his gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into edema, or dropsy. On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." The Almanacs, by far the most popular of his works, were published annually from 1550 until his death.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

14.

• If Italy= Napoleon Bonaparte.

Pakistan= M. A. Jinnah,

Bangladesh= Shibnarayan Das

India=???

AND THE ANSWER IS:

PENGALI VENKAIAH

15.

• Joseph Karimpani was a schoolmaster in India. He was instrumental in bringing on several future stars, including Mohd. Azharuddin.

• Currently, he is again in the news....

AND THE ANSWER IS:

COACH OF VATICAN CITY CRICKET TEAM

16. ID THE MOVIE...

AND THE ANSWER IS:

A KING IN NEW YORK

SCORES PLEASE...

17.

• X once said of Y, "He's been with me throughout my career. I didn't find him. He found me... I would say he symbolises the mute millions of India, or perhaps the whole world, a silent spectator of marching time."

AND THE ANSWER IS:

RK LAXMAN ON COMMON MAN

18.

• Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, by a sniper in 1915, X worked with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University, and his research provided confirmation of the previously theoretical concepts of atomic number and the periodic table of the elements. At the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. It is speculated that because of X’s death, the British and other world governments began a policy of no longer allowing their scientists to enlist for combat.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

MOSELEY

19.

• Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg which focuses on his time in India and In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1994. She also writes for the Los Angeles Times. Her latest book, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011), is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born Margaret Marcus) a Jewish woman from New York who converted to Islam.

• However her husband is more famous. ID HIM..

AND THE ANSWER IS:

20.ID THE MOVIE... AUDIO CLIP

AND THE ANSWER IS:

RUPKOTHA NOY

21.

• A certain person named Bill Finger found a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt wearing make-up for the silent film The Man Who Laughs, and it was from this photograph that the character was modeled. Which character?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

22.

• "We should have the ability to carry on a big bank, to manage efficiently crores of rupees in the course of our national activities. Though we have not many banks amongst us, it doesn't follow that we are not capable of managing crores and tens of crores of rupees."

• These inspiring words were spoken by Mahatma Gandhi when he inaugurated the head office of a bank in 1921. Their tagline is 'Good people to bank with'.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

UNION BANK OF INDIA

23.

• In a blog post, Facebook released the list of books named by its users in a recent popular tag that asked users to name 10 books that have 'stayed with them'. After the analysis of 1,30,000 statuses, Facebook's data science team ranked the books by the number of times they have appeared in lists. The Harry Potter series came 1st, and the LOTR series came third. Which was 2nd?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

24. ID THE PAINTER

AND THE ANSWER IS:

UPENDRAKISHORE ROYCHOWDHURY

SCORES PLEASE...

END OF CLOCKWISE ROUND...

HERE COMES THE LVC...

• 8 VISUALS

• POINTS ON CRACKING LVC ARE GIVEN IN THE RESPECTIVE SLIDES..

• THE LIST IS NON-EXHAUSTIVE...

1. +40/-20

2. +35/-18

3. +30/-15

Anyone going for the connection...

4. +25/-12

5. +20/-10

Anyone going for the connection...

6. +15/-8

7. +10/-5

8. +5

AND THE ANSWER IS:

AMITABH BACHCHAN AS VIJAY

SCORES PLEASE...

HERE COMES THE ANTICLOCKWISE ROUND

25.

• When Indian economist Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, he chose lines from a poem  to open his dinner speech. He wasn't the first to have done so. Fifteen years earlier, the Indian physicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, quoted the same poem, perhaps the best known in Modern India.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR

26.• In 1991 Feroz Abbas Khan met A.R.

Guerney in Mumbai, and the producer started working on the play, based on Guerney’s ‘Love Letters’. Feroz approached playwright and screenwriter Javed Siddiqui to work on script. Siddiqui in turn also liked the play and wrote it as a new play, set in Indian context to be produced under the banner of Javed Siddiqui Productions. Shabana Azmi and Farroque Shaikh agreed to play the leads. The central character of the play is reportedly based on a bohemian Indian painter.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

TUMHARI AMRITA

27.

• David Katoatau won Gold weightlifting's 105kg Group A, in this year's Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. Incidentally, he is the 1st medallist from his country, which attained its independence in 1979.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

KIRIBATI

28. ID THE MUSIC DIRECTOR

AND THE ANSWER IS:

KISHORE KUMAR

29.

• International best-selling novelist Sophie Hannah recently released " The Monogram Murders". Why is this book in the news?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

• 1ST EVER OFFICIAL AGATHA CHRISTIE CONTINUATION NOVEL. HERCULE POIROT MAKES A COMEBACK HERE...

30.

• Tagore visited this city 3 times, from 1916 to 1927. Even the plaque is there in the building still now, where he stayed. After the death of his parents, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee took the job of a clerk and came here. You can associate this place with an important centre for the Azad Hind as well. Bengalees were so much related to this place that there's a road, called 'Calcutta Street', still existing.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

RANGOON

31. WHOSE VOICE IS THIS?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

OM PURI

32. ID THE PERSON WITH MR. EINSTEIN

AND THE ANSWER IS:

LE CORBUSIER

SCORES PLEASE

33.

• Ideal Toy Company was founded as Ideal Novelty and Toy Company in New York in 1907 by Morris and Rose Michtom after they had invented the Teddy bear in 1902.The company changed its name from "Ideal Novelty and Toy Company" to Ideal Toy Company in 1938. In 1982, the company was sold to CBS Toy Company, which in turn sold Ideal to Viewmaster International in 1987, which renamed itself View-Master Ideal in the process. View-Master Ideal was later bought by Tyco Toys, Inc. of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. The Ideal line remained part of Tyco until Tyco’s merger with Mattel, Inc., in 1997. Their first doll was “Yellow Kid” from the “The Yellow Kid” comic strip by Richard Felton Outcault. In 1980 what did they buy from its inventor and continues to manufacture it???

AND THE ANSWER IS:

34.

• It was an exhibition sport way back in 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1982, it was demonstrated in the Asian Games, and in 2005, at the 1st Afro-Asian Games. Kiran More played in the national championship as part of the team from Vadodara. Sandeep patil, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar all played this sport in their schooldays. Yuvraj was playing this to warm up in 2006 when he was seriously injured.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

KHO-KHO

35. LEGO TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHAT?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

36.

• There was a cultural function going on in protest of fascism at Shraddhananda Park. For singing songs, Hemanga Biswas brought X, originally from Srihatta. That was the humble beginning. He acted in Utpal Dutt's 'Angar' and even sang songs. Co-incidentally, he and his equally-famous son died at the same age, 59.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

NIRMALENDU CHOUDHARY

37. ID ALL OF THEM...

AND THE ANSWER IS:

• INGRID BERGMAN

• ROBERTO ROSELLINI

• JEAN RENOIR

38.

• When Sardar Patel, K. M. Munshi and other leaders of the Congress went to Gandhi with the proposal Gandhi blessed the move,but suggested that the funds for the construction should be collected from the public and should not be funded by the state. He expressed that he was proud to associate himself to the project. However, soon both Gandhi and Sardar Patel died and the taskcontinued under K. M. Munshi, who was the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies in the Nehru Government. In May 1951, Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic of India, invited by K M Munshi, performed the installation ceremony.

AND THE ANSWER IS:

SOMNATH TEMPLE.

39. CONNECT apart from being US President

AND THE ANSWER IS:

DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY

• JOHN ADAMS

• THOMAS JEFFERSON

• JAMES MONROE

40. ID THE BAND

AND THE ANSWER IS:

EAGLES

SCORES PLEASE

41.

• Satyajit Ray was approached by the freelance producer Henri Fraise to make a film for a French TV Channel, France3. Ray said in his biography, that when Henri Fraise approached him to make a film, he briefed Ray by saying ".... you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house-next-door, we will accept that. "

• As a result, which film was made by Ray?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

PIKOO

42.

• ID YUSUF....

AND THE ANSWER IS:

MS SATHYU

43.

• The Dewey Decimal System was 1st published in 1876 in US by Melvin Dewey. It has been revised and expanded through 23 major editions, the latest issued in 2011, and has grown from a four-page pamphlet in 1876 to a four volume set. This is used in atleast 135 countries. What is it used to categorise?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

BOOKS IN LIBRARY

44.

• Franz Reichelt(1879 – February 4, 1912), was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his accidental death. How did he die???

AND THE ANSWER IS:

• By jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design

45..

• The Night of the Long Knives, sometimes called Operation Hummingbird was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Bernhard Stempfle,was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives. What is his claim to fame?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

EDITOR OF MEIN KAMPF

46. ID THE LYRICIST AS WELL AS THE SINGER

AND THE ANSWER IS:

• NAWAB WAJID ALI SHAH

• BHIMSEN JOSHI

47.WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS PAINTING?

AND THE ANSWER IS:

FELUDA'S DRAWING ROOM

48. LAST OF THE LOT...

• MUSIC DIRECTOR PLZ

AND THE ANSWER IS:

HEMANTA MUKHERJEE

FINAL SCORES...

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