Mosstermind Fun n Fundas

Week 12

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•6 sets of 5 questions each•Each set has four 1 pointers and a 3 pointer

•No negatives•Teams of max 4 people•More than 4 - play as separate tables

•All answers to be written down•Include table # on your answer sheet

•Hand in answers at the end of each set

The Rules

Set 1

Kings

1The Aztec believed these were the incarnation of their fallen warriors, wearing the colors of battle. ID.

2ID the story

3We know a lot about him through Hiuen Tsang’s accounts. Who?

What is this? 4

Also the name of a line of 36 rulers, from 1299 to 1923, what are these pieces of furniture called?

5

Answers1.The Monarch butterfly2.King Solomon’s Mines3.Harshavardhana4.King Tutankhamen’s tomb5.Ottoman

Set 2

Crime Fiction

Identify the film

1

2Her first published appearance was in issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for December 1927, with the first printing of the short story The Tuesday Night Club. First full-length novel was Murder at the Vicarage.

Sources claim that the character is partly modeled on the author’s grandmother.

Name, please.

3

This is a depiction of a short story first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841.

It is claimed to be the first detective story.

Which story / author?

4The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in New Forest, Hampshire, reads:

STEEL TRUEBLADE STRAIGHT

_____________KNIGHT

PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS

Who?

5“He has no original. He is a dream man… For your private detective wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client.”

This is the author talking about which character?

Use this actor as

a clue

Answers1.Nancy Drew2.Miss Jane Marple3.Murder in the Rue Morgue by

Edgar Allen Poe4.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle5.Sam Spade from Maltese

Falcon

Set 3Parliament 2009

1If Shashi Tharoor and Preneet Kaur are the current Ministers of State for this ministry, who is the Cabinet Minister?

He is a former CM and governor.

There are 33 Cabinet-rank Ministers in the govt currently. 27 of them are from the Congress. From the non-Congress parties are A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, MK Azhagiri, Mamta Bannerjee, Sharad Pawar and who else?

He holds the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

2

3There are four father – son pairs in the 15th Lok Sabha.

1.Ajit Singh - Jayant Chaudhary2.Mulayam Singh Yadav - Akhilesh Yadav3.Adhikari Sisir Kumar - Adhikari Suvendu

Name the fourth pair.

The youngest Cabinet Minister in the current Cabinet is 42 years old, and holds the Textiles Ministry after being elected from the Chennai Central constituency.

Who?

4

5The Cabinet Minister for Water Resources in India vacated the post 3 days after being sworn into office and went on to create a record of sorts.

Who is this, and for what reason?

Answers1.SM Krishna2.Farooq Abdullah3.HD Deve Gowda and HD

Kumaraswamy4.Dayanidhi Maran5.Meira Kumar, who became

the first Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Set 4

World Cup Cricket

1ID this cricket umpire who was the only India umpire selected to officiate the 1992 world cup?

2CONNECT

Who is missing?

1975: Faroukh Engineer1979: Surinder Khanna1983: Syed Kirmani1987: Kiran More1992: Kiran More1996: Nayan Mongia1999: Nayan Mongia2003: ???

3

Who was the captain of the Indian cricket team in the 1975 Prudential World Cup?

4

5CONNECT:

Dennis Amiss 137 vs Ind 1975J Miandad 103 vs S.L 1987Martin Crowe 100 vs Aus 1992Nathan Astle 101 vs Eng 1996Brian Lara 116 vs S.A 2003

Answers1.Piloo Reporter2.Anderson Cummins, Graeme Hick

and Kepler Wessels – Represented multiple countries in World Cups

3.Rahul Dravid4.Srinivas Venkatraghavan5.Centuries in the first matches of

each of these World Cups

Set 5heard here

Set 6

Queens

1Fill in the blank.

2Name the lady with Michelle Obama.

Cheese was not added until 1889, when the Royal Palace commissioned the Neapolitan Raffaele Esposito to create one in her honor. She strongly preferred one in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella).

What are we talking about?

3

If this is his latest, what was the earlier one?

4

5In 353 B.C. Queen Artemisia decided to build the most splendid tomb ever, in memory of her husband. It became so famous that it is now associated with stately tombs everywhere.

Answers1.Queen Victoria2.Queen Rania of Jordon3.Margherita Pizza4.Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur’s next

film5.Mausoleum