No Prizes For Guessing- A Written Quiz on Awards

No Prizes For Guessing
Awards Quiz

GOVB Fest 2.0 - 2019 No Prizes for Guessing QMs – Souptik, Shankha, Soumyabrata
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Questions 1-13
Souptik Das
GOVB Fest 2.0 - 2019 No Prizes for Guessing Souptik, Shankha & Soumyabrata

In the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, in response to his wife's
preparations for his arrival from Troy, the titular character
says, "I cannot trample upon these tinted splendors without
fear thrown in my path."
What was Agamemnon referring to as the tinted splendors?
GOVB Fest 2.0 - 2019
Q1
No Prizes for Guessing Souptik, Shankha & Soumyabrata

Red Carpet
A1

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography went to an
extraordinary work by Tom Reiss, detailing the life of an 18th century
individual of mixed race born in colonial Haiti who overcame racial
prejudice to become a successful general. Enduring betrayal and unjust
imprisonment in Italy, he eventually returned to his homeland full of
vengeance, but he settled down, married and eventually became a loving
father to his only son.
As detailed by the book, how did his son immortalize him?
Q2

The Count of Monte Cristo
A2

At the Coloroda Women's Hall of Fame, Margaret, an acclaimed actress
herself, talked in detail about her mother, Antoinette's legacy.
She recounted her mother's troubled marriage, how she grew as an
actress, her long time collaboration with producer Brock Pemberton and
how that partnership set the stage for her immense success as a actress
and a director in a male-dominated industry by adapting multiple Pulitzer
Prize winning works.
How do we better know Margaret's mother?
Q3
Souptik, Shankha & SoumyabrataNo Prizes for Guessing

Tony Perry- the inspiration of the Tony Awards
A3

In his speech after he won Best Supporting Actor for the Cider
House Rules, Michael Caine talked about a change during the Oscars
introduced in the 61st Academy Awards and said it was rather
befitting because his co-nominees, all turning in acclaimed
performances, were not losers on the night.
What change was he referring to?
Q4

“And the winner is …” to “And the Oscar goes to …”
A4

This painting by Chris Ofili, the exemplary
work for which he won the 1997 Turner
Prize, was a tribute to Doreen Lawrence,
a black lady whose son was killed due to
police racism. Going by the fact that he is
asking her to refrain from doing what
is depicted here, what is the name of
the artwork, 4 words far more famous
in a different field?
Q5

No Woman, No Cry
A5

In 1972, when John Berger got his due recognition for his
romantic novel G, he decided that he had the perfect platform
to make a statement.
A radical communist in his worldview, he talked about the
exploitative tendencies and plundering by sugar plantations owned
by a conglomerate and how that led to the current poverty of the
Caribbean region.
Against which company did John Berger launch his vicious tirade?
Q6

Booker Group
A6

As Ghana celebrated independence from the British Regime, Kwame
Nkrumah decided on using sport as a vehicle for the expression of
nationalism and brought over a global superstar at the peak of his success.
This continued a love affair with the continent for the individual, as he went
there multiple times, even coaching one of the first all Black teams during
the height of Apartheid.
From the video of him receiving an honour in Ghana, identify this sporting
hero, being the first to be bestowed with a far more prestigious
honour the year before.
Q7

Stanley Matthews
A7

In & Out is a 1997 comedy film about a teacher who is revealed
to be homosexual by his student on the grandest of stages.
Even producer Scott Rudin went on to say he was inspired by
hearing the story of drama teacher, Rawley Fainsworth who came
into prominence 3 years before that.
How did Scott Rudin and all of us come to know about Mr.
Fainsworth?
Q8

Tom Hanks’ Best Actor Oscar speech for Philadelphia
A8

The most surreal people to win the most outlandish awards. Simply, tell me what is unique
about these winners of a particular prize, chosen specifically to highlight the absurdity of
these awards:
● Interdisciplinary Research: Josiah S. Carberry, for his work in psychoceramics, the
study of "cracked pots".
● Pedestrian Technology: Paul DeFanti, "wizard of structures and crusader for public
safety, for his invention of the Buckybonnet, a geodesic fashion structure that
pedestrians wear to protect their heads and preserve their composure".
● Physics: Thomas Kyle, for his discovery of "the heaviest element in the universe,
Administratium".
Q9

These are the only fictional people to have won the IgNobel
Prize
A9

A revolutionary until his last breath, Erwin was a major player in the 20th
July Plot to assassinate Hitler, eventually hanged in a public execution in
1944.
Unbeknownst to most Germans at the time, Erwin's then 87 year old
father had written to Hitler pleading for his son's life given how the Fuhrer
held his achievements on the word stage in the highest regard,
but all that fell on deaf ears.
Simply tell me who Erwin's much more renowned father was, a man who
made a qua drastic leap from a Nazi sympathizer to one of Hitler's
harshest critics.
Q10

Max Planck
A10

Noted skeptic James Randi issued a new tongue-in-cheek award in 1982, seeking
to expose parapsychological or paranormal fraud. The original trophy was a
stainless-steel utensil bent in a pleasing curve apparently due to
paranormal means.
Who was the original award named after?
Since 1996, however, the trophy has been that of an animal with wings, in
reference to a famous phrase- which is used as a hyperbole to describe the
impossibility of anything.
Going by the description of the award, tell me the name of the award, which is a
pun of mythological proportions.
Q11

Uri Geller
Pigasus Award
A11

In 1989, in the aftermath of an infamous internationally panned
human rights violation, who was chosen as the Nobel Peace Prize
winner to put pressure on the country's government?
In 2010, when the same honour was bestowed upon a dissident of the
government, the country decided to establish a Peace Prize of their own,
naming it after an individual called Master Kong, who we all know by the
Latinized version of his name.
Who was this alternative award named after?
Q12

Dalai Lama
Confucius
A12

This award bestowed by a foundation of the same name is unique in the way that it is
given to individuals from any field, not for past achievements, but for encouragement
for future endeavours.
What honour is this?
OR Given the fact that the hefty prize money is given to individuals of
exceptional intellectual ability, what is the alliterative nickname of this honour.
In what can be described as tale of separation rather than union, who received
this honour, only for the prize money to be contested in a nasty divorce settlement?
Q13

MacArthur Fellowship OR Genius Grant
Charlie Barber/ Adam Driver from Marriage Story
A13

Questions 14-26
Soumyabrata Mahapatra
GOVB Fest 2.0 - 2019 No Prizes for Guessing Souptik, Shankha & Soumyabrata

“Worst Cooks in America” is an American reality TV series
that takes 12-16 contestants with very poor cooking skills
offering cash prize of 25k $.
Who won the celebrity edition of season 16 in 2019, someone
who came under the spotlight some 25 years back for some
nefarious reasons, which came as a result of her negotiation
with her ex-husband?
Q14

Tonya Harding
A14

Initiating in 1990, this award is conferred up to once a year to an Indian
woman who despite facing social injustice, overcomes all the adversities
with guts & grit and helps others in similar social distress.
The award consists of 1.5 Lakh rupees in cash along with a citation & a
trophy, source of which is the insurance money offered to the family of
an Ashok Chakra Awardee with the remaining contributions coming
from a world famous entity that ceased operations in 1991.
The award is named after which personality?
Q15

Neerja Bhanot
A15

Along with Aruna Asaf Ali & APJ Abdul Kalam, which former
professor of Economics was bestowed upon the Bharat Ratna
in 1997?
The person is mostly remembered for his stopgap duty in
two terms, for the duration of 13 days in each of the
occasions.
Q16

Gulzarilal Nanda
A16

What is the Urdu translation for ‘Great Leader’?
The answer will obviously remind you of some anti-national
event, continuing since 1953-54?
Q17

Quaid-i-Azam
A17

Since 1980, ‘The Right Livelihood Award’ is presented every
year on 4th December.
Which daring prodigy is till date the youngest to receive the
same, who narrowly missed the opportunity to be the
youngest to achieve something bigger 6 days later?
Q18

Greta Thunberg
A18

Starting his career with 1960 movie “Bewakoof”,
this Mumbai based man later went on to work in
100+ films & also in the famous TV Series
“Buniyaad”.
His most noted assignment came when his finishing
touch helped to tell some greatest ever story &
that earned him the only Filmfare award of his
life.
Id the person.GOVB Fest 2.0 - 2019
Q19

MS Shinde
A19

“How could Liberia possibly deal with ___ ?” -----
The question appeared in a 2014 edition of TIME, where they
declared their POTY.
The person(s) were represented on the covers by 5 different
personalities, each being connected to some major issue that costed
about 30000 lives.
Who was(were) the POTY of 2014?
Q20

The Ebola Fighters
A20

“The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year’ Award
is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as
determined by the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company.
It aims to find the book that has the most compelling and enjoyable
insight into modern problems.
The “rich” language of which radical book, aiming to provide
solutions, won the award in 2011?
Q21

Poor Economics
A21

In the sets of “Seeta Aur Geeta”, this lady (then a 16-year old
actress) met an emerging star & they later tied the knots. The
duo was blessed with a son & a daughter, both of whom later
went on to pursue successful filmy careers.
Their troubled married life, however, didn’t last long as her husband
got engaged to a Bolly heroine.
After their divorce, her long struggle finally became fruitful as she
managed to make a second career for herself in the B-Town. She
received the Filmfare for “Kya Kehna” in a category that her ex-
husband had previously won on 3 occasions collaborating with
someone having several filmy connections.
Who was her ex-husband?
Q22

Javed Akhtar
A22

In the book “Palace of Clouds- A Memoir”, author
Rajyashree Kumari describes her formative years during the
sixties. Her book traces the erstwhile culture, traditions &
her illustrious ancestors.
It also reveals her journey as a sportsperson in her early days.
In 1969,when she received the prestigious Arjuna Award at
the age of only 16,she became the only second person from
her concerned sport to achieve the feat while her father, a 5-
time Olympian being the first.
Who was Rajyashree’s more famous father?
Q23

Maharaja Karni Singh
A23

X was an independence activist & a famous Gandhian leader who achieved
international fame for peace activism. In the year 1977, he became the oldest
Indian & also the first non-Congressman to hold a prestigious post.
In 1990, X was honoured with an award announcement of which is normally made
on 14th August every year.
Which award?
Between 1952 & 1956, he served as the CM of which erstwhile state that was
dissolved after the formation of Maharashtra & Gujarat?
Q24

Nishan-e-Pakistan
Bombay
A24

As a screenwriter, the gentleman received two Academy Award
nominations for “How Green was My Valley” and “David and
Bathsheba” & also a Golden Globe nomination for “The Agony and
the Ecstacy”.
During the days of cold war, his association with blacklisted people
received wide acclaim.
His mother, a Calcuttan by birth was the first US woman to
achieve something in 1900, a landmark that his grandmother
also tried to achieve simultaneously, but failed narrowly.
Identify the gentleman in the pic.
Name his mother too.
Q25

Phillip Dunne
Margaret Abbott
A25

In 2017,the selection of two brothers for Yuva Purashkar funded by Sangeet Natak
Akademi raised controversies as both of them were above 35 which violated one of the
prime conditions.
However they refused the award stating that it should be awarded to younger ones & thus
avoided criticism.
Name the two brothers who are supposedly part of the 7th generations of their family
heritage.
The award, initiated in 2007, is named after a certain Qamruddin who got his popular name
after his grandpa exclaimed something in the name of God seeing the new born
grandchild.
Give me the popular name.
Q26

Ustaad Aman & Ayan Ali Khan
Bismillah
A26

Q27-39
SHANKHA

Girish Karnad was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award (1994) and the Jnanpith Award
(1998) for his 1990 Kannada political play titled “Taledanda”. An octogenarian from
Kolkata translated the same play into Bengali and also received the Sahitya Academy Award
for its translation in 1998. Simply, name this person who can hopefully be recognized unless
his face gets covered with some promotional material.
Q27

A27
Shankha Ghosh Dastidar

A 2020 release would see someone breaking stereotypes and donning the screenwriter’s
cap; thus becoming only the second one to do so for this series of films.
Who am I talking about, who won an Emmy for creating and acting in a story/play about a
sex addicted and morally dubious Londoner?
Q28

A28
Pheobe Waller Bridge

X: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is a book
by Lynn H Nicolas that won the National Books Critics Circle award for general non-
fiction in 1994. The book talks about how the Nazi took control of the European countries
and how they conducted organized plundering and looting of art from art galleries,
museums as well as from private collections. The book shares its name with a work
involving a titular Phonecian princess.
Give me the name of the book (X).
Q29

A29 Rape of Europa

On the next slide, you will see the winning entry of the 2017 Turnip Prize. It is awarded
annually to the best pieces of silly art and can be considered as a parody of the more
serious Turner Prize. Give me the name of the winning entry, which shares its name with a
popular barbecue food item.
Q30

Q30

A30
Pulled Pork

An Iranian group , affiliated to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, awarded someone
the Wet Gunpowder Award in 2013. Speaking about the occasion, a commander of the
Guard Corps commented that she won the award because few months ago she showed
the world that the Zionists at the highest level of government have an immense influence
and control over the Hollywood film industry. He further mentioned that ____ is an anti-
Iranian film and not even worthy of any award, let alone an Oscar.
Going by the comment, identify the winner of the 2013 Wet Gunpowder Award.
Q31

A31 Michelle Obama for presenting Argo
with the Best Picture award at the
Oscars

This author claimed in a letter to his literary agent that such arid “structures” could
swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways. The observation was made while he was on a
trip to the coastal city of Florence in Oregon in 1957. He then spent the next five years
researching, writing and editing stuff about such “structures”. What was the culmination of
such an effort of his which went on to win both the Hugo and the Nebulae awards?
Q32

A32

Q33
On August 1936 (a mere three months after the conquest of Addis Ababa), this AIA
gold medal winner wrote to Mussolini to offer his technical services and to comment on
the appropriate design for the new cities of the Italian colonial empire. X’s ideas on
functional zoning, rigid lines, and three-dimensional urbanism were often too radical and
futuristic to be realized on the European mainland, this colony was the ultimate
laboratory to test these concepts. But his proposed designs were never realized and
most of it remained paper architecture.
Who am I talking about (X)?

A33

The X is a prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal
issues. The aim of it is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking
to address problems facing the modern world. The name of the prize
references a lateral thinking puzzle that only be solved by thinking outside the
box. Going by the logo given below, give me the name of the prize.
Q34

A34 The Nine Dots Puzzle (Accept Nine Dots Game
as well or anything which explains what it is)
The challenge is to connect the 9 dots without
lifting the pen/pencil from the paper.

Identify the following winner of the Polar Music Prize , founded by Stig Anderson, from
their description.
2001: for his design of the _______, the first compact, easy-to-use synthesizer, which
paved the way to the realm of electronic sounds that has revolutionized all genres of music
during the past half-century."
Q35

A35 Robert Moog

The title of a 2014 feature-length documentary film directed by James Erskine, about the
life and death of road racing cyclist Marco Pantani is inspired by the most famous play by a
Noble prize winning playwright about the inadvertent demise of a person who rebels
against authoritarian regimes.
Give me the name of the playwright OR the title of his play.
Q36

A36 Dario Fo OR The Accidental Death of an Anarchist

On the next slide, you will see someone creating a work of art in
collaboration with an American photographer. Simply give me the name
of the photograph which can be considered an amalgamation of sexual
desire and death. A version of the same appeared very subtly on the
poster of a multiple Oscar winning film.
Also, name the film
Q37

Q37

A37 In Voluptas Mors / Voluptuous Death
Silence of the Lambs

A 53 minute National Geographic documentary produced by R. Whittaker that
focuses on the natural history about a certain member of the Ophiophagus
genus received the Emmy award for Outstanding News and Documentary
Program Achievement in 1998. The documentary shares its name with a 1950s
Tony Award and also a multiple Oscar winning film adapted from the play.
Give me the name of the documentary.
The animal/species was given the genus name of Ophiophagus due to what
aspect of its behavior?
Q38

A38
The King and I (Accept King Cobra and I)
Eats other snakes (Accept cannibalism)

The man in question once took off his jacket and put on a sweater. He then took off his
shoes and put on a pair of sneakers and thus went on to become a familiar face in the
territory. Who am I talking about, a Presidential Medal Award winner and a subject of a
2019 biopic?
The above 2019 biopic is based on an article by National Magazine Award winner Tom
Junod. He also wrote an investigative piece regarding the identity and the whereabouts of
someone who apparently plummeted to his death on a fateful morning the past decade.
Who am I talking about?
Q39

A39 Mr. Rogers/ Fred Rogers
Falling Man (Accept WTC falling man and its variants)

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