1 Ans Shoaib Akhtar claimed in his autobio that Sachin Tendulkar was fearful of his bowling in a particular match
2 Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff (aka Basil Zaharoff) was an arms dealer and financier who has been immortalized in a work of fiction as a cynical businessman who sells weapons to both sides of a conflict The conflict is loosely based on a real conflict called the lsquoGran Chao warrsquo that took place between 1932-35 between Bolivia and Paraguay In the English translation he works for Korrupt Arms a pun on corrupt but also on Krupp the German arms manufacturers Which work of fiction
2 Ans ndash Basil Bazarov is featured in Tintin and the Broken Ear
3 Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the 1950s making him one of the most successful drivers of all time He started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth (plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another car With this car he won many races in four successive years He drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts it Thomas eventually returned to being an ownerdriver at seasons end and had clinched second behind Petty in the championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby North Carolina The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been immortalized
3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
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Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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1 Explain
1 Ans Shoaib Akhtar claimed in his autobio that Sachin Tendulkar was fearful of his bowling in a particular match
2 Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff (aka Basil Zaharoff) was an arms dealer and financier who has been immortalized in a work of fiction as a cynical businessman who sells weapons to both sides of a conflict The conflict is loosely based on a real conflict called the lsquoGran Chao warrsquo that took place between 1932-35 between Bolivia and Paraguay In the English translation he works for Korrupt Arms a pun on corrupt but also on Krupp the German arms manufacturers Which work of fiction
2 Ans ndash Basil Bazarov is featured in Tintin and the Broken Ear
3 Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the 1950s making him one of the most successful drivers of all time He started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth (plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another car With this car he won many races in four successive years He drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts it Thomas eventually returned to being an ownerdriver at seasons end and had clinched second behind Petty in the championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby North Carolina The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been immortalized
3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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1 Ans Shoaib Akhtar claimed in his autobio that Sachin Tendulkar was fearful of his bowling in a particular match
2 Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff (aka Basil Zaharoff) was an arms dealer and financier who has been immortalized in a work of fiction as a cynical businessman who sells weapons to both sides of a conflict The conflict is loosely based on a real conflict called the lsquoGran Chao warrsquo that took place between 1932-35 between Bolivia and Paraguay In the English translation he works for Korrupt Arms a pun on corrupt but also on Krupp the German arms manufacturers Which work of fiction
2 Ans ndash Basil Bazarov is featured in Tintin and the Broken Ear
3 Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the 1950s making him one of the most successful drivers of all time He started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth (plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another car With this car he won many races in four successive years He drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts it Thomas eventually returned to being an ownerdriver at seasons end and had clinched second behind Petty in the championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby North Carolina The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been immortalized
3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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2 Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff (aka Basil Zaharoff) was an arms dealer and financier who has been immortalized in a work of fiction as a cynical businessman who sells weapons to both sides of a conflict The conflict is loosely based on a real conflict called the lsquoGran Chao warrsquo that took place between 1932-35 between Bolivia and Paraguay In the English translation he works for Korrupt Arms a pun on corrupt but also on Krupp the German arms manufacturers Which work of fiction
2 Ans ndash Basil Bazarov is featured in Tintin and the Broken Ear
3 Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the 1950s making him one of the most successful drivers of all time He started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth (plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another car With this car he won many races in four successive years He drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts it Thomas eventually returned to being an ownerdriver at seasons end and had clinched second behind Petty in the championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby North Carolina The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been immortalized
3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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2 Ans ndash Basil Bazarov is featured in Tintin and the Broken Ear
3 Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the 1950s making him one of the most successful drivers of all time He started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth (plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another car With this car he won many races in four successive years He drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts it Thomas eventually returned to being an ownerdriver at seasons end and had clinched second behind Petty in the championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby North Carolina The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been immortalized
3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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3 Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the 1950s making him one of the most successful drivers of all time He started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth (plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another car With this car he won many races in four successive years He drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts it Thomas eventually returned to being an ownerdriver at seasons end and had clinched second behind Petty in the championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby North Carolina The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been immortalized
3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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3 Ans Doc Hudson in Cars His prize winning car lsquoThe Fabulous Hudson Hornetrsquo is pictured above beside an image of the Cars character
4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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4 On a request from Brad Lewis renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry fame designed a fancy layered version of a dish which he called confit byaldi in honor of the original Turkish name The dish is a variation of a traditional dish created by chef Michel Gueacuterard Which traditional dish
4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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4 Ans Ratatouille He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created this dish specifically for the film
5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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5 Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures of X published in the 1980s In the comics Supremo was an alter ego of X As described in a contemporary article in The India Magazine Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses which resemble welding glasses a skin-tight costume with a wrap which resembles those worn by fishermen on Indias western coast and a chakra pendant He loves peanuts and music is his passion which is why he carries a Walkman Supremo has two helpers boys named Vijay and Anthony He also has a dolphin named Sonali and a falcon scout Shaheen
ID X
5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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5 Ans Amitabh Bachchan
6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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6 X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France he fled to Basel Switzerland where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536 (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher best known today for his work on political philosophy His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theoryID X and Y
6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
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Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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6 Ans - Calvin and Hobbes
7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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7 On Black Monday Sept 29 2008 all except one stock on the SampP 500 fell ie 499 stocks fell in value while 1 rose Identify the company whose stock rose
7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
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Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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7 Ans ndash Campbell Soup Company ndash fear of a great depression leading to an increase in soup kitchens
8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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8 In what context would you see a derivation of the latin phrase taken from Ciceros book On the Ends of Goods and Evils
The English translation of the phrase is Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it
8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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8 Ans The standard templates in Microsoft
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum
9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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9 He was born on April 24 1853 in Strood in the county of Kent in the South East of EnglandAt the age of 16 he boarded a ship to Argentina with some friends of his father He acquired a property and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red and black colour scheme and emblem The colours were a mixture of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German Empire (his wifes nationality) It was in 1884 that the first football and set of rules arrived in Argentina He decided to alternate study at the college with sporting activity Over the years the sport gained in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in 1903 The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its youth and senior versions including Maradona Messi Valdano and Batistuta Identify the club
9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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9 Ans Newellrsquos Old Boys
10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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10 Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a colloquial name similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox
The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and the second half to the name given to a type of road construction called rdquoMacadamized roads after its Scottish inventor John Loudon Macadam who lived in the 18th century The trademark material was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley What is the material whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as a generic term
10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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10 Ans - Tarmac
11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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11 Identify
11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
null
108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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11 Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who inspired his painting lsquoLucy in the Sky with Diamondsrsquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiLucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds
12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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52 Connect
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12 US Supreme Court Case FCC v PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978) Explain
12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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12 Ans George Carlin ndash Seven Words you cannot say on television httpenwikipediaorgwikiSeven_dirty_words
13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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13 Frau Eva von _____________ a direct descendent of a famous Count was upset by a band that had the Countrsquos name as part of their band-name She asked the band through repeated press interviews to change the name of their band while performing in Denmark The band invited her to meet them to show that they meant no ill will and she did But later she saw the artwork of their album cover and freaked out Eager to avoid confrontation the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to The Nobs a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the Countess from being flexible
Name the band
13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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13 Ans Zeppelin
14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
null
108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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14 The first French satellite was launched on November 26 1965 by a rocket of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria It was originally designated A-1 as the French Armys first satellite but later renamed to this
14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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14 Ans Asterix-1
15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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15 In a popular film of recent vintage the actor based his character on the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards His get-up was unusual in that he had
ndash strands of beads on his hairndash a Spanish dollar (piece of eight) on his bandannandash a silver chain-link charmndash a reindeer shin bone needlendash puffy white shirt with a long vest amp dark brown breechesndash an unusual leather belt (baldric) amp silver bucklendash scabbard and black sabrendash four rings on his hands
15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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15 Ans ndash Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
null
108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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16 This legendary temple is not located in South India However traditionally it is administered by priests from South India Ostensibly Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th century and it continued until very recently The priests are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval Recently a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home town His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from 1927-2005) Which temple
16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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16 Pashupatinath temple Kathmandu
17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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17 A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on hispoem The Vision of Sinrsquo In your otherwise beautiful poem he said one verse reads
Every moment dies a manEvery moment one is born
If this were true he went on the population of the world would be at a standstill In truth the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]rdquo
Every moment dies a manEvery moment 1 116 is born
Strictly speaking X added the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line but I believe the figure 1 116 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry Who was X
17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
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Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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17 Charles Babbage
18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
null
108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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18 Sherlock Holmess trademark phrase lsquoElementary my dear Watsonrsquo is a key example of phrases that were never writtensaid by the persons to whom these are attributed The nearest the fictional detective got to elementary was a single use of the word in one short story The Crooked Man published in 1894 The full phrase was coined 21 years later by _______ whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase
18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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18 P G Wodehouse Psmith Journalist You can read the book here httparthursclassicnovelscomwodehousepsmth10html
19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
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House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
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Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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19 What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram Seths book An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstatedHad our words turned to other thingsIn the grey park the rain abatedLife would have quickened other stringsI list your gifts in this creationPen paper ink and inspirationPeace to the heart with touch or wordEase to the soul with note and chord
How did that walk those winter hoursOccasion this No lightning cameNor did I sense when touched by flameOur story lit with borrowed powers -Rather by what our spirits burnedEmbered in words to us returned
19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
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James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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19 Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honorersquo (Check out the first alphabet of every line)
20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
null
108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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20 The lyrics of Bad Sign Good Sign written by Julian More and Monty Norman are as follows
I was born with this unlucky sneezeAnd what is worse I came into the world the wrong way roundPundits all agree I am the reason whyMy father fell into the village pond and drowned
>
House for Mr Biswas
Monty Norman Julian Moore
Quiz
Other
38304
>
James Bond Theme By Monty Norman - YouTube
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108828926
21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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21 James Bond Theme Listen to all three versions here httpwwwmontynormancommusicmusic01asp
21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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21 Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best English language novels of the 20th century A French soldier had a copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet meant for him In gratitude the soldier gifted the novel (with embedded bullet) amp his Croix de Guerre to the author who returned it to the soldiers son after the formers demise The father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an appearance in the novel So does a weapon which is an exhibit in that museum Which novel
Hint A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when he was a child in Ambala Cantt One of his fathers friends commented Weve got a proper little _____ hererdquo and the nickname stuck
22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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22 Ans - Rudyard Kiplingrsquos lsquoKimrsquo The spy was Harold Adrian Russell lsquoKimrsquo Philby
22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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22 Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in Adidasrsquo ldquoImpossible is Nothingrdquo campaign Hersquos the subject of Khushwant Singhs biography ldquoTurbaned Torpedordquo which he canrsquot read because hersquos illiterate His Facebook page has over 16000 members And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011 The vegetarian claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea He is running as part of an all England running club comprising members of his religion What is the name of his running club that is a pun on a famous sitcommovie
22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
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Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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22 Ans ndash Sikhs in the City
23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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23 _____ of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878ndash1900) of her husband Umberto I In 1881 a mining town in Assam India was named after her In 1889 during a visit to Naples she was served a dish in the colors of the Italian flag and named after her Name her
23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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23 Ans - Margherita The dish was Margherita pizza
24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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52 Connect
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24 Year 2006
Person A If you want my shirt Ill give it to you afterwards Person B preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer the
whore that is your sister)
What happened next
24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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24 Ans ndash Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the WC final
25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
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Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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25 On Monday Dec 02 1929 Time Magazine ran an article whose headline was C-C-C-Cured What was it about
25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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25 Ans The Duke of Yorkrsquos stammering (made famous by the Kingrsquos Speech) Read the article here httpwwwtimecomtimemagazinearticle0917173817700html
26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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26 The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894ndash1969) often used an expression when cabling his followers in the West In the 1960s the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up on inspiration cards and posters of the era In 1988 a world renowned JazzClassicalOperaBeatbox singer noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck amp Patti in San Francisco Inspired by the expressions charm and simplicity he wrote the now famous song which was included in the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail and became a hit single the next year Name the singer and the song
27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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27 Ans Bobbie McFerrin ldquoDonrsquot Worry Be Happyrdquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiDon27t_Worry_Be_Happy
27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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27 The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
In the second act of the musical Nettie Fowler the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan sings that song to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband Billy Bigelow the male lead kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julies daughter) is a member Billy watches this ceremony during his return to earth The version by Gerry and the Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort
Which song
>
Youll Never Walk Alone With Lyrics - YouTube
16865517
Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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Ans Yoursquoll never walk alone ndash Liverpool httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=T00x5sRbZrc
27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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27 What was unusual about this newspaper announcement
27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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27 Ans ndash The man who never wasOperation Mincemeat See httpenwikipediaorgwikiOperation_Mincemeat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible) and the film
28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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28 Identify the woman
28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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28 Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See httpenwikipediaorgwikiPakistan_Movement
29 Connect (Hint Films)
29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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29 Ans ndash Real life people who were played by Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi) Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata See imdb
30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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30 Connect
30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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30 Salman Rushdiersquos lsquoThe Moorrsquos last sighrsquo_ Boabdil the last Moorish ruler of Spain depicted in a famous painting (sighing)_ The place lsquoSuspiro del mororsquo where he is supposed to have sighed- Raman Lamba fielding The novel has a character called Raman Fielding based on Bal Thackeray
31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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31 This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain According to author Westerveld the new rules coincide precisely with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469) This coronation took place at 13 December 1474 This event Westerveld claims inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules in accordance with her newly gained powers ndash powers that were even greater than those of her husband the king
What rules
31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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31 Ans Chess httpwwwchessvibescomcolumnsvalencia-and-the-origin-of-modern-chess
32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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32 George Speck Crum (1822ndash1914) son of a mulatto jockey and an Indian maid according to a menu used at Moons Lake House[1][2] was the cook at Moons Lake House a resort at the south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs New York USA According to one story on August 24 1853 a customer complained that the contents of Crums dish were too thick The angered cook was frustrated by this remark so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about he sliced the ingredients paper-thin over fried them and seasoned them with an excess of salt When they were prepared he gave them to the customer expecting him to be dissatisfied However the customer loved them Soon its popularity became widespread
Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits But it remained a local (Saratoga NY) delicacy until the prohibition era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it across the US Name the dish and X
32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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32 Ans Potato Chips Lay
33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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33 Connectbull Fade-In Iron Cowboy (1968) directed by Jud Taylorbull Death of a Gunfighter (1969) directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegelbull City in Fear (1980) directed by Jud Taylorbull Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) bull Stitches (1985) directed by Rod Holcombbull Lets Get Harry (1986) directed by Stuart Rosenbergbull Morgan Stewarts Coming Home (1987) directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsorbull The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) directed by Michael Gottliebbull Solar Crisis (1990) directed by Richard C Sarafianbull The Birds II Lands End (1994) directed by Rick Rosenthalbull National Lampoons Senior Trip (1995) directed by Kelly Makin bull Raging Angels (1995)bull Hellraiser Bloodline (1996) directed by Kevin Yagherbull Mighty Ducks the Movie The First Face-Off (1997) co-directed by Steve Langleybull An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) directed by Arthur Hillerbull River Made to Drown In (1999) directed by James Merendinobull Woman Wanted (2000) directed by Kiefer Sutherland
33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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33 Ans - Directors who disowned their movies credited it to a fictitious lsquoAlan Smitheersquo See httpenwikipediaorgwikiAlan_Smithee
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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34 Ans ndash The Insider
35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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35 Fill in the blanksFulano Zutano y Mengano mdash in SpanishHinz und Kunz mdash in GermanJan en Alleman mdash in DutchTizio Caio Sempronio Mevio Filano e Calpurnio mdash in ItalianFulano Beltrano e Sicrano mdash in PortugueseIvanov Petrov Sidorov mdash in RussianAre Oore Shamsi Kooreh mdash in Persian_______ _____________ amp _____________ in English
35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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35 Ans ndash Tom Dick Harry
36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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36 We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani However can you name another very prominent retired international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed Kirmani He is better known by his middle two names
37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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37rdquo Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects managing your affairs for five years I hope with prudence and not altogether without success or a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himselfrdquo
Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an insane covenant (27 July 1878)
How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)
37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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37 Ans - Wait wait wait You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity
The opening lines of lsquoMy name is Anthony Gonsalvesrsquo from Amar Akbar Anthony
38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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38 This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byronrsquos Childe Haroldrsquos Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies
XXXVThe Psalmist numberd out the years of manThey are enough and if thy tale be trueThou who didst grudge him even that fleeting spanMore than enough thou fatal Waterloo Millions of tongues record thee and anewTheir childrens lips shall echo them and say --Here where the sword ______ ________ drewOur countrymen were warring on that dayAnd this is much and all which will not pass away
38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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38 Ans ndash United Nations
39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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39 The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food soap lotion fuel for lamps and furnaces a base for perfumes and a cure for heart ailments stomach aches hair loss and excessive perspiration They also considered it a sacred substance cult statues like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia were rubbed regularly with oil People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums anointed their bodies as well using oils that were scented with pressed flowers and roots
Belief in the sacred health-giving properties of olive oil continued in Judaism Christianity and Islam ldquo___________rdquo is from the Greek ______ meaning ldquothe anointed onerdquomdashanointed with olive oil
Fill in the blanks
39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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39 Christ from Christos
40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Slide 5
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40 During the George W Bush administration what was termed as lsquothe Goyal foilrsquo by Dana Millibank of the WaPo
40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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40 Ans ndash Raghubir Goyal who was used as a ldquodeviating from the topicrdquoFoil by Ari Fleisher and Bush See below
41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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41 It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington DC Its riverside location made it susceptible to atmospheric conditions Much of this area is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University Also in the neighborhood are the headquarters of the US Dept of State the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the Watergate Complex and other federal buildings How do we know this area better
41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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41 Ans ndash Foggy Bottom ndash often used as a nickname for the Dept of State
42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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42 Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History What is this
42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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42 Jefferson Bible See httpenwikipediaorgwikiJefferson_bible
43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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43 This patent application for a scrotal support garmentrdquo was first filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol TN Many more patents for similar garments have been filed The Atlantic claimed that the patent office rejected them For what reason
43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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43 Ans ndash PriorArt used in Borat See httpwwwtheatlanticcomtechnologyarchive201203the-best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat255180
44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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Slide 3
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
Slide 61
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Slide 63
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Slide 69
34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
Slide 71
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44 Identify the desi speaker Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla ndash httpspaceflightnasagovgalleryaudioshuttlests-107htmlndxpage1html
>
>
45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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45 What is this Ans This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of The Beatles song lsquoShe Loves Yoursquo in a cockney accent In fact he has done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=tRwWjHG3xnU
More here httpwwwyoutubecomresultssearch_query=peter+sellers+beatlesampoq=peter+sellers+beatlesampaq=fampaqi=g1ampaql=ampgs_l=youtube-reduced3054017549020550737304401443321j23000o4QVSNh7F1Q
>
Peter Sellers She Loves You Cockney Versionwmv - YouTube
1001293
45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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45 Identify the performer and the composerAns This was Jeremy Irons performing lsquoDonrsquot put your daughter on the stagersquo by Noel Coward httpjeremyironscommediaaudio
>
Dont put your daughter on th
Jeremy Irons
Other
138696
46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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46 Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22 1909 ndash July 5 1965) was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo He made his mark as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and his legendary prowess with women Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world In this role he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his time he also served at the embassies at Vichy Buenos Aires Rome Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution) and Brussels He was a frequent visitor to New York Washington Florida and California After World War II Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions polo and car racing both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his American wives He is supposed to have inspired two characters of fiction James Bond and X X is played by a 72-year old actor Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the lsquofilmrsquo is provided by Will Lyman the narrator of PBS Frontline Who is X
Disclaimer Goldsmith claims in a New Yorker article that the inspiration behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas lsquothe greatest swordsman who lived in Hollywoodrsquo
46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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Slide 61
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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46 Ans ndash lsquoThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldrsquo Dos Equis beer
47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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47 What are these
47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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47 Ans ndash Highest and Lowest checkins From space (highest) and tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest)
See httptechcrunchcom20101022foursquare-space-astronaut and httpwwwslatecomblogsbrowbeat20120326how_did_james_cameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_html
48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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48 Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____ Iconic lunatics they are
48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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Slide 3
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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48 Ans ndashUsual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazinendash Sergio Aragones Jack Davis and Al Jaffee This was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert
49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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49 It probably originated in Bruumlnnhildes final aria from Die Walkuumlre or Goumltterdaumlmmerung since it lasts 20 minutes Its use in sports journalism has been attributed to writerbroadcaster Dan Cook who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets What
49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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49 Ans ndash The phrase ldquoIt ainrsquot over until the fat lady singsrdquo
50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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50 Many elements in the periodic table have been named after countries Which is the only country that was named after an element
50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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50 Ans - Argentina
51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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Slide 3
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51 The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs women and the like They penned Hotel California as an allegory to this addiction to fame A line in that song was a return favor to this group The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan That group had included the line turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening in lsquoEverything you didrsquo
51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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51 Ans ndash Steely Dan See httpenwikipediaorgwikiHotel_California_(song)
52 Connect
52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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52 Ans ndash Salman Rushdie He was a copywriter for OampM and those were his taglines He acts as a gynaec in the film ldquoThen she found merdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ZUtjrskSBAU and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film lsquoInternational Guerillasrsquo httpenwikipediaorgwikiInternational_Guerillas
53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
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34 Vanity Fair article 1996 Film based on it
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53 Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial)Monument to whom erected in 2005
53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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29 Connect (Hint Films)
Slide 61
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53 Ans Justice Radhabinod Pal the only man to submit that the Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII ndash see httpenwikipediaorgwikiRadhabinod_Pal Therersquos a Japanese blockbuster film called lsquoPridersquo based on him (2000s) The role was played by Suresh Oberoi I havenrsquot been able to get a copy of the film Anyway herersquos a right-wing Japanese video with original footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times review of Pride here httpmoviesnytimescommovie168188Prideoverview
54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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54 The song is traditionally sung in funerals specifically ldquojazz funeralsrdquo Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s A professional sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title since it was most identified with that city Which song
55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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55 Ans ndash lsquoWhen the Saints go marching inrsquo See the marvelous version by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here Brilliant httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics featuring classical music composers
55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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55 Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter Dear Sir I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me Very soon it will be behind me
55 Ans ndash Winston Churchill
56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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56 Press Release in 2011 by the Indian pharma company Kayem
ldquoIn view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this drughelliprdquo
The Indian company Kayem has already sold thiopental to Nebraska and South Dakota and had been approached by 13 other states to buy it the companys managing director Navneet Verma said in a telephone interview from Mumbai where the company is located
56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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56 Ans ndash Lethal Injection
57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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57 From a compilation of the greatest literary insults
Vladimir Nabokov on X ldquoAs to X I read him for the first time in the early lsquoforties something about bells balls and bulls and loathed itrdquo
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y ldquoYrsquos novels seem to me vulgar in tone sterile in artistic invention imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society without genius wit or knowledge of the world Never was life so pinched and narrow The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageablenessrdquo
57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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57 Ans ndash X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen
58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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58 Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and Japan but is now popular worldwide Its aura was probably enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in A Beautiful Mind A key element of the game is the verbal warning to an opponent that his piece is about to be captured The Japanese term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to name it What wasis the name of this company which was not founded in Japan
58 Ans - Atari
59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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59 The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol The solvent is then evaporated and the remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water and pressurized What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum
59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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59 Ans ndash Pepper Spray
60 Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of what
60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
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60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo
SF Bay Quiz
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60 Ans ndash The first Indian talkie lsquoAlam Ararsquo