Finals@27/09/14

WELCOME ONE AND ALL
To This HURRICANE Quiz...1st of all,
I would really like to thank the teams
which have come from quite far in
only a day's notice. The questions are
set in just an evening...so....KEEP
CALM

PATTERN:
• WRITE BROTHERS....
• INFINITE BOUNCE ( CLOCKWISE )
• LVC
• RETURN OF INFINITE BOUNCE
( ANTICLOCKWISE )

WRITE BROTHERS:
• WRITTEN ROUND OF 5 QUESTIONS
• 5 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT
ANSWER
• 30 POINTS IF YOU WRITE ALL 5
CORRECT...

3. KIRSTEN DUNST PLAYING WHOM?

WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY..LET'S START
• READY TO

1. STARTING WITH AN AUDIO....
• ID THE FEMALE VOICE...

2.
• The person in the pic wrote
sometimes under the pen-name
J.R. Johnson. He was an
Afro-Trinidadian historian,
journalist, socialist theorist and
essayist. His writing on the
Communist International stirred
debate in Trotskyist circles, and
his history of the Haitian
Revolution, The Black
Jacobins, is a seminal text in
the literature of the African
Diaspora. However one of his
books written on completely
different field is cited as the
best book on that field ever
written.

3.
• Grigory Chukhrai, director of the Immortal
Ballad of a Soldier, was heading the jury.
The members included Stanley Kramer,
director of The Defiant Ones and Guess
Who’s Coming to Dinner, and Satyajit
Ray. The high humanism of these names
added weight to the awards: Grand Prize
for Fellini’s 8 and a half, Best Actor Steve
MacQueen in the Great Escape, Best
Actress ____________

4.
• In 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle selected
what he regarded as his best Sherlock
Holmes short stories for Strand Magazine
of London. He set them down in
descending order of merit with his all-time
favorite listed as number one.
• What was no. 1?

5.
• When in 1192, Prithviraj Chauhan lost the
battle from Md Ghori, he left for jungle. There
he met one old person with a scar on his head.
Being a very good doctor Prithviraj Chauhan
confidently asked him that he can cure his
scar. The old man agreed. But even after
week’s medication it remained as it is.
Prithviraj was surprised and understood the
details. He asked old man if he is
________.The old man told that he was
_________ and then he went away. This
description is given in “Prithviraj Raso” the
book written in 12th century on him.

6.
• Which book starts with ''I hope I shall
be able to confide in you completely,
as I have never been able to do in
anyone before, and I hope that you
will be a great support and comfort to
me.''?

7.
• Though over times, it has been
attributed to iron hydrogen
phosphate, but researchers from IIT
Kanpur discovered a thin layer of
Misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen
and hydrogen behind this mystery.

8. ID BOTH OF THEM....NO PART POINTS

9.
• The person in the pic
is Theodore Van Kirk,
also called 'Dutch'. He
died on 28th July at
the age of 93. He was
the last surviving
member of
something, which
became his c2f?

• The last surviving member of the crew that
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
• He was 24 years old when he served as
navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29
Superfortress that dropped the first atomic
bomb deployed in wartime over the
Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6,
1945.

10.
• Born in Bhagalpur in 1951 and brought up in Kolkata
upto the age of 27, then to Mumbai.
• Studied in La Martiniere and then in Presidency.
Wrote his 1st book of poems "Of Gods and Olives"
at the age of 17. One of his books, Lonesong Street,
sold a million copies.
• Padma Shree at the age of 25...
• Something 1st in India was started by him in 1996 in
Hotel Leela Kempinski in Mumbai.

11.
• The first one in Rome was brought in by
Julius Caesar in 46 BC and exhibited to
the public. In 1414, a ______ was shipped
from Malindi to Bengal. It was then taken
to China by explorer Zheng He and placed
in a Ming Dynasty zoo. The animal was a
source of fascination for the Chinese
people, who associated it with the mythical
Qilin. ______ continue to have a presence
in modern culture. Dali considered the
______ to be a symbol of masculinity. It is
the National animal of Tanzania.

13.
• He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first
edition of which appeared in 1555. At the age of 15 he
entered the University of Avignon to study for his
baccalaureate. After leaving Avignon, he(according to
his own account) travelled the countryside for eight years
from 1521 researching herbal remedies. By 1566, his
gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years
and made movement very difficult, turned into edema, or
dropsy. On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have
told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find
me alive at sunrise." The Almanacs, by far the most
popular of his works, were published annually from 1550
until his death.

14.
• If Italy= Napoleon Bonaparte.
Pakistan= M. A. Jinnah,
Bangladesh= Shibnarayan Das
India=???

15.
• Joseph Karimpani was a schoolmaster in
India. He was instrumental in bringing on
several future stars, including Mohd.
Azharuddin.
• Currently, he is again in the news....

COACH OF VATICAN CITY CRICKET TEAM

17.
• X once said of Y, "He's been with me
throughout my career. I didn't find him. He
found me... I would say he symbolises the
mute millions of India, or perhaps the
whole world, a silent spectator of marching
time."

18.
• Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, by a
sniper in 1915, X worked with Ernest
Rutherford at Manchester University, and
his research provided confirmation of the
previously theoretical concepts of atomic
number and the periodic table of the
elements. At the outbreak of World War I
he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. It is
speculated that because of X’s death, the
British and other world governments
began a policy of no longer allowing their
scientists to enlist for combat.

19.
• Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist.
She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in
India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg which
focuses on his time in India and In Extremis: The
Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize in biography in 1994. She also writes for
the Los Angeles Times. Her latest book, The
Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011),
is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born
Margaret Marcus) a Jewish woman from New
York who converted to Islam.
• However her husband is more famous. ID HIM..

21.
• A certain person
named Bill Finger
found a photograph
of actor Conrad Veidt
wearing make-up for
the silent film The
Man Who Laughs,
and it was from this
photograph that the
character was
modeled. Which
character?

22.
• "We should have the ability to carry on a
big bank, to manage efficiently crores of
rupees in the course of our national
activities. Though we have not many
banks amongst us, it doesn't follow that
we are not capable of managing crores
and tens of crores of rupees."
• These inspiring words were spoken by
Mahatma Gandhi when he inaugurated
the head office of a bank in 1921. Their
tagline is 'Good people to bank with'.

23.
• In a blog post, Facebook released the list
of books named by its users in a recent
popular tag that asked users to name 10
books that have 'stayed with them'. After
the analysis of 1,30,000 statuses,
Facebook's data science team ranked the
books by the number of times they have
appeared in lists. The Harry Potter series
came 1st, and the LOTR series came
third. Which was 2nd?

HERE COMES THE LVC...
• 8 VISUALS
• POINTS ON CRACKING LVC ARE
GIVEN IN THE RESPECTIVE SLIDES..
• THE LIST IS NON-EXHAUSTIVE...

Anyone going for the connection...

HERE COMES THE
ANTICLOCKWISE ROUND

25.
• When Indian economist Amartya Sen was
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, he
chose lines from a poem to open his
dinner speech. He wasn't the first to have
done so. Fifteen years earlier, the Indian
physicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,
quoted the same poem, perhaps the best
known in Modern India.

WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR

26.
• In 1991 Feroz Abbas Khan met A.R.
Guerney in Mumbai, and the producer
started working on the play, based on
Guerney’s ‘Love Letters’. Feroz approached
playwright and screenwriter Javed Siddiqui
to work on script. Siddiqui in turn also liked
the play and wrote it as a new play, set in
Indian context to be produced under the
banner of Javed Siddiqui
Productions. Shabana Azmi and Farroque
Shaikh agreed to play the leads. The central
character of the play is reportedly based on
a bohemian Indian painter.

27.
• David Katoatau won
Gold weightlifting's
105kg Group A, in this
year's Commonwealth
Games at Glasgow.
Incidentally, he is the
1st medallist from his
country, which attained
its independence in
1979.

29.
• International best-selling novelist Sophie
Hannah recently released " The
Monogram Murders". Why is this book in
the news?

• 1ST EVER OFFICIAL AGATHA
CHRISTIE CONTINUATION NOVEL.
HERCULE POIROT MAKES A
COMEBACK HERE...

30.
• Tagore visited this city 3 times, from 1916
to 1927. Even the plaque is there in the
building still now, where he stayed. After
the death of his parents, Sarat Chandra
Chatterjee took the job of a clerk and
came here. You can associate this place
with an important centre for the Azad Hind
as well. Bengalees were so much related
to this place that there's a road, called
'Calcutta Street', still existing.

32. ID THE PERSON WITH MR. EINSTEIN

33.
• Ideal Toy Company was founded as Ideal Novelty and
Toy Company in New York in 1907 by Morris and Rose
Michtom after they had invented the Teddy bear in
1902.The company changed its name from "Ideal
Novelty and Toy Company" to Ideal Toy Company in
1938. In 1982, the company was sold to CBS Toy
Company, which in turn sold Ideal to Viewmaster
International in 1987, which renamed itself View-Master
Ideal in the process. View-Master Ideal was later bought
by Tyco Toys, Inc. of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. The Ideal
line remained part of Tyco until Tyco’s merger with
Mattel, Inc., in 1997. Their first doll was “Yellow Kid” from
the “The Yellow Kid” comic strip by Richard Felton
Outcault. In 1980 what did they buy from its inventor and
continues to manufacture it???

34.
• It was an exhibition sport way back in
1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1982, it was
demonstrated in the Asian Games, and in
2005, at the 1st Afro-Asian Games. Kiran
More played in the national championship
as part of the team from Vadodara.
Sandeep patil, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin
Tendulkar all played this sport in their
schooldays. Yuvraj was playing this to
warm up in 2006 when he was seriously
injured.

35. LEGO TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH
ANNIVERSARY OF WHAT?

36.
• There was a cultural function going on in
protest of fascism at Shraddhananda
Park. For singing songs, Hemanga Biswas
brought X, originally from Srihatta. That
was the humble beginning. He acted in
Utpal Dutt's 'Angar' and even sang songs.
Co-incidentally, he and his equally-famous
son died at the same age, 59.

• INGRID BERGMAN
• ROBERTO ROSELLINI
• JEAN RENOIR

38.
• When Sardar Patel, K. M. Munshi and other leaders
of the Congress went to Gandhi with the proposal
Gandhi blessed the move,but suggested that the
funds for the construction should be collected from
the public and should not be funded by the state. He
expressed that he was proud to associate himself to
the project. However, soon both Gandhi and Sardar
Patel died and the taskcontinued under K. M.
Munshi, who was the Minister for Food and Civil
Supplies in the Nehru Government. In May 1951,
Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic
of India, invited by K M Munshi, performed the
installation ceremony.

39. CONNECT apart from being US
President

DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY
• JOHN ADAMS
• THOMAS JEFFERSON
• JAMES MONROE

41.
• Satyajit Ray was approached by the
freelance producer Henri Fraise to make a
film for a French TV Channel, France3.
Ray said in his biography, that when Henri
Fraise approached him to make a film, he
briefed Ray by saying ".... you can place
your camera at your window and shoot the
house-next-door, we will accept that. "
• As a result, which film was made by Ray?

43.
• The Dewey Decimal System was 1st
published in 1876 in US by Melvin Dewey.
It has been revised and expanded through
23 major editions, the latest issued in
2011, and has grown from a four-page
pamphlet in 1876 to a four volume set.
This is used in atleast 135 countries. What
is it used to categorise?

44.
• Franz Reichelt(1879 – February 4, 1912),
was an Austrian-born French tailor,
inventor and parachuting pioneer, now
sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor,
who is remembered for his accidental
death. How did he die???

• By jumping from the
Eiffel Tower while
testing a wearable
parachute of his own
design

45..
• The Night of the Long Knives, sometimes
called Operation Hummingbird was a
purge that took place in Nazi Germany
from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the
Nazi regime carried out a series of political
murders. Bernhard Stempfle,was
murdered during the Night of the Long
Knives. What is his claim to fame?

46. ID THE LYRICIST AS WELL AS
THE SINGER

• NAWAB WAJID ALI SHAH
• BHIMSEN JOSHI

47.WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS
PAINTING?

48. LAST OF THE LOT...
• MUSIC DIRECTOR PLZ

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