CQC Informals – 28/10/2012

People whose works have been plagiarized and paraded as my own

• Keshav “Ungil” Athreya

• Omkar <Insert one of his million names> Kamalapur

• Vidyuth “I am the America Maaplai” Anand

• Aditya “Sticky” Sriram

Infinite Pounce – Clockwise

Current Affairs Source: The Hindu – 26th October 2012

This unique ‘Missing’ poster was found pasted all over Tiruchengode on 25th October which have become highly popular among the locals. A small description of the poster:

Name: _______________Father’s name: Benjamin FranklinAge: More than 200 years“Dear __________,

We are suffering after you went missing many days ago. When will you return? – We are waiting in tears.”

The posters which were distributed by Youth Federation of India is planning to put more such posters in more prominent places to spread the message.

“Person missing” posters for Electricity.

Let’s hope that there is power inside PSG IM while I run through this quiz

What connects these films?

• Tabarana Kathe - Kannada (1987) • Sindhu Bhairavi – Tamil (1986)• Moondram Pirai – Tamil (1983)• Nayagan – Tamil (1986)• Indian – Tamil (1997)

Movies where a member of the Haasan family won the National Award for acting

• Tabarana Kathe - Kannada (1987) - Charu Hassan

• Sindhu Bhairavi – Tamil (1986) - Suhasini• Moondram Pirai – Tamil (1983) - Kamal• Nayagan – Tamil (1986) - Kamal• Indian – Tamil (1997) - Kamal

From the back cover of Donald McRae’s ‘Every second counts’:

“It was a race pursued by four very different men on two different continents, and after eight years of daringly, crazily innovative research it came down to a breathless attempt to find the right donor and the right recipient at the right time. A few feverish days, hours and even minutes in late 1967 revealed the winner, and sparked a media frenzy that made him a household name around the world.”

Who’s the man in question and what is his achievement?

Kvlt questionRanganathan said two people approached him saying the Baba Trading Company on Poonamalle High road, run by _________, was providing loans at low interest. Ranganathan sought Rs 20 crore to expand his business and was asked to pay Rs 50 lakh as 'commission' and other expenses. Even after he paid up, ___________ kept demanding more money but didn't disburse the promised loan, Ranganathan said.

G U Balasubramanian, a businessman and proprietor of UBS International was in need of Rs 10 crore to expand his business. Balasubramanian was asked to pay 5 per cent of the total loan amount as service charge and 1.5 per cent towards other expenses by ____________. The money was taken, but the promised sum of 10 crores was never given to Balasubramanian

Events leading to what?

Arrest of Power Star Dr.Srinivasan

Customary Question

Who are the two people being portrayed in the film which is titled “The girl”?

For a bonus of 5, identify the actors.

Alfred Hitchcock – Toby Jones

Tippy Hedren – Sienna Miller

This one is for all you foodies…

The earliest story dates to 1683, during the Ottoman Turks siege of Vienna. Legend has it that a baker working late at night heard the Turks tunneling under the walls of the city and alerted the military. The military collapsed the tunnel in on the Turks and eliminated the threat, saving the city.

The baker baked a crescent shaped pastry in the shape of the Turk’s Islamic emblem, the crescent moon, so that when his fellow Austrians bit into the dish, they would be symbolically devouring the Turks.

What dish?

The Croissant

Legends say that this feature was actually present on her and that it was covered up early in her career as she thought it to be unattractive.

She became highly skilled in applying makeup since she had to apply makeup above her lips to make it look fuller since her upper lip was slightly shorter.

When looked at a broad range of photographs, the feature is seen in different places in different photographs.

Today, the “__________ Piercing” is a popular style where the piercing is done above the lip, on the left side of the face.

Identify the person in question and the feature. (No part points)

Marilyn Monroe and her mole

Symptoms of what “Disease” and what is the cure for the same?

• Forgetting one’s own position either at work or in society

• Backtracking• Sidestepping• Denying publicly made statements

The cure promises a coverage of any pre-existing conditions.

Etymology time

This was the term used to refer to reaction of soldiers in World War I to the trauma of battle. It has been described as a reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic, or flight, an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk.

"Simply put, after even the most obedient soldier had enough bombs rain down on him, without any means of fighting back, he often lost all self control."

Identify this two word term which is now used in every day language.

Shell Shocked

When he was a child, _____X______ fell into the _____Y_____ river during a boat ride with his family. While he was fighting for his life, a mysterious lady came out of nowhere, saved his life and swam back to the shore never to be seen again .

Everyone thought that it was Y who had saved the child and from then on he was affectionately called by the sobriquet ___________ __________

X – Arulmozhivarman/Raja Raja Cholan

Y – Ponniyin Selvan

The clip played is the trailer for Muse's latest album 2nd Law. The drummer Don Howard says in an interview that the band went to see a show by X in October last year.

"We went, 'F--k, it's so heavy,' loved it. It was like a full metal gig, they had circles of death, people were moshing, I hadn't seen a reaction like that to this genre of music before."

Their album 2nd Law has a lot of influence from X's style of music.

Identify the artist and genre of music.

Skrillex and Dubstep

In the Thomas Crown affair, Pierce Brosnan tries to steal paintings from an art museum where the security is reinforced by using Thermal Imaging cameras. Brosnan then places a suitcase under a bench which contains a heating apparatus which increases the room’s temperature to 90 degree Fahrenheit. This high temperature causes the cameras to malfunction allowing Brosnan to steal the paintings.

The idea for this scene came to director John McTiernan while filming another movie (X). While shooting the film (Where thermal imaging cameras were used and locations where temperatures reached the high 90s), McTiernan noticed this phenomenon and eventually used it in the Thomas Crown Affair.

Identify X

Predator

Thermal imaging cameras were used to film the scenes having the POV of the PredatorThe entire film was shot in the jungle where temperatures soared during the day

Trappist beer is a type of beer which is brewed only in 6 locations – Six in Belgium and One in the Netherlands. A few criteria for brewing this beer is as follows:

• The beer must be brewed with the walls of a ____________• The brewery must be of secondary importance within the

___________ and it should witness proper business practice

• The brewer is not intended to be a profit making venture. The money should be used to run the ___________ and whatever remains should be given to charity

What is unique about this beer?

Trappist beers are brewed in monastaries

A was founded October 5, 1947, by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, Robert Lewis and Anna Sokolow. Lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17, 1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

Best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. This approach was originally developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of B. Actors work together to develop their skills in a private environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles.

(A) and (B) please.

A – Actor’s Studio

B – Stanislavski

When Josefin Sockertopp, 23, and Sonnie Gustavsson, 29, travelled from Sweden to London to exchange their vows, there was a mad media frenzy surrounding the ceremony.

What these two did was the first of its kind in the UK. What was unique about the wedding?

The wedding was performed in Klingon

There are actually more than 2600 websites which make the list. Listed below are the most notable ones.

• Google• Facebook• Picasa• YouTube• Yahoo• Twitter• Blogspot• Wordpress• IMDB

What is this list and what was the latest addition?

These are websites which are banned in China

The latest prominent site added to this list is The New York Times after it published a report on the wealth of Wen Jiabao’s family

Infinite Pounce – Anti Clockwise

Identify the band (For 7 points).This band had 3 guitarists in the top 5 of the Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of Top 100 guitarists. Name 2/3 for 1 point. Name 3/3 for 3 points.

The Yardbirds

Eric Clapton (#2)Jimmy Page (#3)Jeff Beck (#5)

Sir Manfield Smith was the first director of UK's Secret Intelligence Service, the MI6. In this role he was particularly successful in building a post-imperial intelligence service. During the course of his career, he got his nickname after his habit of initialing all papers in a peculiar way. He is a very popular man and his life has been discussed in the popular series QI.

The question. Another famous personality (X) used Sir Mansfield and his unique nickname in his works by creating the character (Y).

Sir Mansfield use to sign by just putting a big M

Ian Fleming pays tribute to Mansfield by naming the head of the MI6 in the James Bond universe ‘M’

Community FTW

An episode of community where a 1989 movie is being referenced. Id the film (5 points)

What is the very apt name given to the professor? The name is a key motif in the original film. (5 points. Will give full points for just the Surname)

Dead Poet’s Society

Prof. Eustice Whitman. Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain” and other references to his works are found throughout the flim.

Easy pickings

Whose quote?

I'm heading home.The whole world is watching me now.And I wish they could see what I can see.Sometimes you have to be really high, to see how small you really are.I'm going home now.

Felix Baumgartner before he made his jump from outer space

This author got addicted to video games, primarily Super Mario Brothers thanks to his son. He would play the game for hours together and completed the game multiple times. So much did video games inspire him, that his future works seem to have a lot of plots and elements that work on “Video game” logic.

In one book (X), one of the protagonists’ tasks is to rescue the talkative and tuneless princess Batcheat from Khattan-Shud, the Emperor of silence. There is also a moustached water genie, Iff, who uses a plumber’s wrench to turn on/off the faucet through which the Stream of Stories flow

In another book (Y), the protagonist has 999 lives to pass through several levels of increasing difficulty to reach his final destination. Each level is given a suitable “Video gaming title”. Each time the protagonist dies, it is represented by the term “BLLLAAARRRTT”

ID the author for 5 points. And the two books for 2.5 points each.

Salman Rushdie

X – Haroun and the Sea of StoriesY – Luka and the Fire of Life

Characters from which universe? Specific answer is required.

• Hans Olo• Jean-Luc Skywalker• Alpaca• Princess Peach• Garth Vader• Emperor Pepitone• General Gracious

“Der Fuhrer’s Face” is an American propaganda cartoon produced by Walt Disney. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck in a nightmare setting working at a factory in Nazi Germany, was made in an effort to sell war bonds.

The cartoon is ranked #22 in the Greatest cartoons of all time. The said dream sequence was inspired by X’s film Y.

ID X and Y.

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times

Erythema ab igne is a skin condition caused by long-term exposure to heat (infrared radiation). Overexposure to heat causes a mild red rash that might be described as "blotchy". Prolonged and repeated exposure causes a marked redness and colouring of the skin. Some people may complain of mild itchiness and a burning sensation, but often, unless a change in pigmentation is seen, it can go unnoticed.

Recently, this is condition has been named as “_______________ Thigh” after a steep increase in the number of people suffering from this due to usage of ________________

Laptops

Vaasanthi, the former editor of India Today Tamil, wrote a history of politics in Tamil Nadu since the 1940s that she subtitled ‘The World of Tamil Politics’

The alliterative title of the book derives from three things (Three words) that according to her determine Tamil Nadu politics

Give me the title of her book (2/3 words for full points).

Woody Allen’s love for the arts is seen throughout most of his movies: • The discussion about Rodin’s Thinker in “Midnight

in Paris” • The discussion about paintings inside the

Guggenheim museum in “Manhattan”

In the movie Match Point, Woody Allen decided to show the creation of a new artist. The artist hails from Bristol and his style of art is completely different from the ones shown in Allen’s previous movies.

ID the artist. (Picture in the next slide)

Banksy

Spin the yarn!!!!

The logo on the left is the Buddh International Circuit in Noida

The coat of arms on the right belongs to the Italian navy

The Ferrari team is sporting the Navy coat of arms for the Indian GP in support of freeing the Italian sailors who have been imprisoned for the murder of 2 fisherman

A new method to market movies is by actors making cameos in the soaps and portraying characters from their upcoming film, thereby creating a buzz around the film.

In this episode of CID, Rani Mukherjee plays a character from which one of her films?

No one killed Jessica in which Rani Mukherjee plays the role of a journalist investigating the murder of Jessica Lal

In the food industry chickens and shrimps are fed antibiotics so as to fatten them and make them larger quickly. A while back the Indian Government passed a rule whereby such animals which are fed antibiotics can only enter into the human food chain after a particular number of days.

For milk and eggs it was 7 days, for meat from poultry and mammals it was 28 days and for fish it was 500 degree days.

For what reason did the Indian Government pass this rule of having a time limit before allowing the meat to enter the food chain?

This is to prevent humans from becoming resistant to antibiotics.

The residue of the antibiotics tends to remain in the animals which is consumed by humans and thus making us resistant to it. This time limit ensures that the residues are not present in the animals before entering the human food chain.

Many banks in post-Renaissance Europe issued small, porcelain "borrower's tiles" to their creditworthy customers. Like credit cards, these tiles were imprinted with the owner's name, his credit limit, and the name of the bank. Each time the customer wanted to borrow money, he had to present the tile to the bank teller, who would compare the imprinted credit limit with how much the customer had already borrowed.

If the borrower were past the limit, the teller do something to the tile. This action is now used in everyday usage to describe the same scenario.

The tiles were broken and from this the term “Broke” came into existence

“When ________ and I turned up for the first day of shooting, he looked like a devotee and I looked like a shopkeeper, owning a stall outside a temple. We had an innocent look on our faces, with our hair neatly combed and sacred ash on our forehead. The director was stunned. It was then that he chided us. He said, 'You guys are playing thieves in this film. I don't need you to look this innocent. I need you to get your body language right.'

"So, both of us set out to look for thieves to learn their body language. We roamed for a couple of days before I finally found a guy called X Y . I roamed around with him for a few days to observe his actions and then returned to the sets to begin work on the project. We chose to retain his name for the character in the film.

"A few months later, I had the cops knocking on my door in connection with an investigation. They told my dad that I was into stealing mobiles. Apparently, Mr X Y , who, after having stolen a sovereign of gold and a few mobiles, had been caught by the cops. And at the station, during interrogation, he had named me as one of his friends."

"I had a tough time convincing my dad that I was not into stealing mobiles, thanks to Mr X Y. I don't know if he is in prison or outside, but I wish to dedicate this award to him.“

Who is the actor explaining the story and which character is he talking about (X Y)

Santhanam and Kaatu Poochi

The name was originally an acronym of the Dutch phrase “Door Eendrachtig Samenwerken Profiteren Allen Regelmatig” which means “Through united co-operation everyone regularly profits". The acronym was then shortened to its current format.

The name is Dutch for "The spruce", hence the logo of the spruce. The word means “To save money" in some Germanic and Scandinavian languages.

Which organization?

'Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana' starring Huma Qureshi and Kunal Kapoor is a film produced by Anurag Kashyap and Ronnie Screwvala which is slated to release by November.

Kashyap has come up with a unique way of marketing the film. This marketing technique can be used effectively only in one particular state in India.

What is the marketing ploy?

Kashyap would be marketing the film through the Dabbahwaalahs.

The dabbahs are to be tagged with the film’s sticker and also on the Dabbahwaalah’s uniform.