Muses Club QuizGeneral Electric CompanyJohn F Welch Technology CenterBangalore22 September 2008

Quiz Master

Shourya Sarcar

Round OneRound One

Person on the right is CEO of GE International, Nani Becalli-Falco, winner of European Business Leader of the Year, 2008. Young guy on the left has done 50 M&A since 2006 and was named EBL of the Future 2008. Who is he ?

Aditya Mittal

The kid in the middle grew up to be a heavyweight Bollywood music director. His musical roots lie in his parents being famous artists of their time. Identify the kid.

Bappi Lahiri

This car needs no reverse gear because it can pivot 360 degrees on its wheels. Name the car/make.

Nissan Pivo 2

“I have carried the manuscript of these translationsabout with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. “

The gentleman on the left wrote this. Who is he and what was he referring to as the “manuscripts” ?

W.B Yeats on Rabindranath’s Gitanjali

What’s the significance of this newspaper ?

First African American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States

“ You will be cursed by the other generations,

and you will come to rule over them “

Using the clues, name the painting on the left, a work of art by Giotto di Bondone

The Kiss of Judas

Identify the incident

Self-immolation triggered by the Mandal Commission

Round Round TwoTwo

Recently the elderly lady in the center captured the news and a lot of public sympathy, attention and support surfaced for her. Who is she ?

Julie – the nurse who claimsto have served and healed

Amitabh Bachchan in Bangalore after hisnear-fatal accident on the sets of Coolie.

Now, she herself needed money for her treatment

Virginia, 1781

Lord Cornwallis receives sons of Tipu Sultan as hostages, 1792

Bangalore, 1792

Name the person connecting the two incidents depicted by these paintings

Lord Cornwallis

Surrendered to G. Washington – 1781Receiving Tipu Sultan’s sons as hostage - 1792

Left: Steve Jobs.Who’s the guy on the right ?

Dan Lyons, fake Steve Jobs

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to

land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a

torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned

lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles.

A poem written by Emma Lazarus. Where will you find this inscribed ?

Statue of Liberty

“As far as my photographs go, what is obscene about it? If navel-showing is obscenity, then our traditional Indian

outfit - the traditional sari - should be banned in the first place."[ -- Who is this PETA activist ?

Shilpa Shetty

A 1927 silent movie about fighter pilots in WW I – what’s this movie’s claim to fame ?

Awarded Best Picture at the FIRST Academy Awards in 1928.

Also the only silent movie to win a Best Picture at the Oscars

Nobel – 1932

63 patents

GE employee

Identify the laureate

Irving Langmuir

Round Round ThreeThree

Which city are we talking about ? (Bonus: Identify the picture source of the kid)

Benaras

The pic is from Aparajito,a part of the Apu Trilogy

by Satyajit Ray.Apu spent a part of his childhood in Benaras

This organisation was involved in a controversy over its members' persistent refusal to allow female membership well into the 1990s. Eventually, the govt. of that country intervened threatening to cut funding on the grounds it was being sexist, ending 212

years of male exclusivity. Name the organisation.

Marylebone Cricket Club

Bob Dylan and Who ?

Alan Ginsberg

Born in England, received hon. Doctorate from Penn, Harvard, Yale. Knighted in 1982. Advised four U.S. presidents on economic matters and in 1980 was named the most

respected U.S business executive in Wall Street Journal. Identify the man.

Reginald Jones, the CEO of GE from whom Jack Welch took over

An investment called India

Whose theme song ?

National Stock Exchange of India

50 most stylish men by GQ

FIFA Hall of Fame: 2004

Never played the World Cup

“Pele good, Maradona better, … “

Identify the footballer on the left, a huge hit with female fans of his time

George Best

Whose ad ?

GE Water Technologies

Round Round FourFour

Peter Parnell wrote a play called QED which hit Broadway starring Alan Alda. Whose life was it based on ?

Richard Feynman

After the Great Fire of London, Nicholas Barbon, a physician and a doctor started the first “Fire Brigade”. He also started a concept/industry which has become quite

popular today.

InsuranceHe started a company called

“The Insurance Office”to provide fire insurance

When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;

Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;

The welkin will ring loud,

The great crowd will feel proud, Identify the Trophy

The Ashes

Fazilka is a small town in Western India recently hit the news to become the first town to do something related to rickshaw pullers. What ‘first’ are we talking here ?

First city in the world to have

“Dial-A-Cab”

for rickshaws

A dilapidated urban area in L.A has the same name as a metal band featuring Gary Moore. Name the band.

Skid Row

Madan Mohan wrote the music for this film but there was something quite unique about it. What ?

Madan MohanHe was dead at the time the film was made

Melodies were picked from his archives

Lady on the left is Victoria Woodhull. How is she realted to the man on the right ?

First African-Americanlady to run for US president

1872

Round Round FiveFive

This lady is Myra Hindley who was jailed in 1966 for murder of five children. She died in 2002 and a picture of her is kept in a museum in London. Somebody showed her

picture to someone and somebody got upset. Why ?

Her photo was shown as a part of a videoto promote London 2012 olympics to global

delegates after the Beijing olympics.The Mayor of London and British politicians

were surprised and mad

What’s going on ?

La Tomatina a festival held

in Spain

A document signed by George Washington, dated July 31, 1790 and numbered X000001.

What is this ?

First patent issued by USPTO

The doctor (left) observed a patient Mrs. Auguste Deter(right). The 51-year-old patient had strange behavioral symptoms, including a loss of short-term memory.

This patient would become his obsession over the coming years. In April 1906, Mrs. D. died and the doc had the brain sent to Munich where he was working. After a few

years, a disease was named after the doctor. Which disease ?

Alzheimer’s

This movie is based on which artist’s life ?

Vincent Van Gogh

Won the Nobel in 1954 for chemistry and the Nobel Peace prize in 1962. Identify the genius.

Linus Pauling

This movie by Hrishikesh Mukherjee is well known as “Abhimaan”. Why does the poster say

“Amiya Abhimaan” ?

Amiya comes from Ami(tabh) + (Ja)yaAmitabh Bachchan and

Jaya Bachchan nee Bhaduriare said to have put money behind the film.

Finito