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Take a q (quiz night)
1. What connects the Blake
Edwards movie ‘The Party’
staring Peter Sellers, the
American jazz
saxophonist John Coltrane
and Chilkur Balaji Temple
in Hyderabad in relation to
Kolkata?
Ravi Shankar (showed Peter
Sellers how to play the sitar
for that movie, Coltrane
named his son on Ravi
Shanker – Ravi
Coltrane, Shanker married
Anoushka’s mother in that
Temple)
2. In the movie ‘How to Lose
Friends and Alienate
People’, the actor Megan Fox
appeared in a cameo in a
satirical film-within-a-film
portraying a famous
Kolkatan. Who?
Mother Teresa
3. It is said that Satyajit Ray had 3
unrealized projects which he could
never     made.    One     was   ‘The
Alien’, which urban legend has
that Steven Spielberg copied it and
made into his movie ‘E.T.’ Second
was the ‘Mahabharata’ and third
was from a famous piece of
literature which now has been
made into a movie by David Lean.
Which was this third unmade
project?
E. M. Forster's 1924
novel ’A Passage to India’.
4. It is one of the 51 Shakti Peeths of
India. Legend has it that a devotee
discovered a luminant ray of light
coming from the Bhāgirathi (Ganges)
river bed, and upon investigating its
source came upon a piece of stone
carved in the form of a human toe. He
also found a Svayambhu Lingam of
Nakuleshwar     Bhairav  nearby,   and
started worshiping the Devi in the
midst of a thick jungle. Which Temple
am I talking about?
KALIGHAT Temple
5. He was born in Kolkata          on 18
December 1955. He attended La
Martiniere for Boys school in Kolkata,
where he was appointed House Captain
(the house was called Hastings house)
in his final year. He went up to St.
Xavier's College then in Kolkata from
which he graduated with a Bachelors of
Commerce degree. If you go to the DL
Khan Road in Kolkata, you can still see
his dilapidated ancestral house which
still has a certain grandeur about it.
Currently, a more or less controversial
public figure in India, who is he?
Vijay Mallya
6. What connects:

  Sabyasachi Mukherjee, the fashion designer
  from Kolkata who has designed costumes
  for Bollywood films such
  as Guzaarish, Babul, Laaga Chunari Mein
  Daag, Raavan etc.

  A digestive enzyme discovered by Theodor
  Schwann in 1836, the name of which was
  also coined by him from the Greek word for
  digestion.

  And, A world famous beverage?
Pepsi
(Sabyasachi’s
nickname is
Pepsi)
7. Kolkata is a city which is also
known for its nightclubs and
pubs. One of the most popular
pubs of this town is based at
the ‘Kenilworth Hotel’ in Little
Russel Street and is named
after a world famous English
structure. What is this pub at
the Kenilworth Hotel Kolkata
called?
The Big Ben
8. When Sourav Ganguly first burst
into the scene, he was nicknamed
after another very stylish left
hander          as        ‘Sourav
…………..Ganguly (the middle word
being the name of that cricketer).
Ganguly himself even admitted
that he followed that particular
cricketer as his role model and
wanted to bat like him. Which
cricketer?
David Gower (Sourav Gower
Ganguly)
9.
Ans: Mahasweta Devi
Pic 1: The Movie Gangor (2010) Directed by Italo Spinelli, based on her short
story, Choli Ke Peeche, from the Book, Breast Stories.

Pic 2: Ramon Magsaysay Award, which she got in 1997.

Pic 3: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak who has translated Devi's short stories into
English.

Pic 4: Her uncle Ritwik Ghatak.

Pic 5: At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006, when India was the first country to be
the Fair's second time guest nation, she made an impassioned inaugural speech
wherein she moved the audience to tears with her lines taken from the famous
film song "Mera Joota Hai Japani" by Raj Kapoor (the English equivalent is in
brackets):
This is truly the age where the Joota (shoe) is Japani (Japanese), Patloon
(pants) is Englistani (British), the Topi (hat) is Roosi (Russian), But the Dil... Dil
(heart) is always Hindustani (Indian)... My
country, Torn, Tattered, Proud, Beautiful, Hot, Humid, Cold, Sandy, Shining
India. My country.

Pic 6: She is the founding member of Budhan Theatre - the theatre group of
Chhara Denotified Tribals of Gujarat.
10. What phrase connects Ganesh
Pyne, the famous international
painter from Kolkata who was
known for his emphasis on human
skeleton with John Donne - the
English metaphysical poet of
medieval ages, John Webster - a
contemporary dramatist of William
Shakespeare who was known for
his tragedies and the name of a
detective novel by PD James and a
hard metal number by Megadeth?
'Skull beneath the skin‘ (Ganesh
Pyne, Donne and Webster were all
referred by this phrase that they
were people who could see the
skull beneath the skin. TS Eliot
made it popular by referring it for
Webster)
11. In the slums of Kolkata,
the local populace make a local
alcholic drink which they think
is the best in the industry and
they have named it as
'Shottur' (Bengali for
Seventy). But why do they call
it 'Seventy'?
They think that their drink is
even better than 'Vat 69'
12. During the Durga Pujas,
the artists who make the idols
of Ma Durga, collect the earth
from outside the brothels.
Why?
They believe that when people are
entering the brothels, they are
leaving all their virtues, all their
Godly qualities behind. So that
earth where they are leaving those
becomes pious. Hence……
13. You have seen
her in a Coke ad
with Aamir Khan a
few yrs back. A
very famous
heroine of
Kolkata, who is
she?
Sreelekha Mitra
14. In 1932, in an article in
the American Cinematographer in
US, what name was coined for the
first time by Wilford E. Deming, an
American engineer who was
involved in a lot of work in Kolkata
and India. This name now, though
is more synonymous with
something in South India?
Tollywood
15. She is a Pune based actress who got immense
popularity in Kolkata because of her role by the name
of ‘Brinda’ in a certain 2009 Bengali movie. What is her
name?
Radhika Apte

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Take a q (quiz night)

  • 2. 1. What connects the Blake Edwards movie ‘The Party’ staring Peter Sellers, the American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and Chilkur Balaji Temple in Hyderabad in relation to Kolkata?
  • 3. Ravi Shankar (showed Peter Sellers how to play the sitar for that movie, Coltrane named his son on Ravi Shanker – Ravi Coltrane, Shanker married Anoushka’s mother in that Temple)
  • 4. 2. In the movie ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’, the actor Megan Fox appeared in a cameo in a satirical film-within-a-film portraying a famous Kolkatan. Who?
  • 6. 3. It is said that Satyajit Ray had 3 unrealized projects which he could never made. One was ‘The Alien’, which urban legend has that Steven Spielberg copied it and made into his movie ‘E.T.’ Second was the ‘Mahabharata’ and third was from a famous piece of literature which now has been made into a movie by David Lean. Which was this third unmade project?
  • 7. E. M. Forster's 1924 novel ’A Passage to India’.
  • 8. 4. It is one of the 51 Shakti Peeths of India. Legend has it that a devotee discovered a luminant ray of light coming from the Bhāgirathi (Ganges) river bed, and upon investigating its source came upon a piece of stone carved in the form of a human toe. He also found a Svayambhu Lingam of Nakuleshwar Bhairav nearby, and started worshiping the Devi in the midst of a thick jungle. Which Temple am I talking about?
  • 10. 5. He was born in Kolkata on 18 December 1955. He attended La Martiniere for Boys school in Kolkata, where he was appointed House Captain (the house was called Hastings house) in his final year. He went up to St. Xavier's College then in Kolkata from which he graduated with a Bachelors of Commerce degree. If you go to the DL Khan Road in Kolkata, you can still see his dilapidated ancestral house which still has a certain grandeur about it. Currently, a more or less controversial public figure in India, who is he?
  • 12. 6. What connects: Sabyasachi Mukherjee, the fashion designer from Kolkata who has designed costumes for Bollywood films such as Guzaarish, Babul, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, Raavan etc. A digestive enzyme discovered by Theodor Schwann in 1836, the name of which was also coined by him from the Greek word for digestion. And, A world famous beverage?
  • 14. 7. Kolkata is a city which is also known for its nightclubs and pubs. One of the most popular pubs of this town is based at the ‘Kenilworth Hotel’ in Little Russel Street and is named after a world famous English structure. What is this pub at the Kenilworth Hotel Kolkata called?
  • 16. 8. When Sourav Ganguly first burst into the scene, he was nicknamed after another very stylish left hander as ‘Sourav …………..Ganguly (the middle word being the name of that cricketer). Ganguly himself even admitted that he followed that particular cricketer as his role model and wanted to bat like him. Which cricketer?
  • 17. David Gower (Sourav Gower Ganguly)
  • 18. 9.
  • 19. Ans: Mahasweta Devi Pic 1: The Movie Gangor (2010) Directed by Italo Spinelli, based on her short story, Choli Ke Peeche, from the Book, Breast Stories. Pic 2: Ramon Magsaysay Award, which she got in 1997. Pic 3: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak who has translated Devi's short stories into English. Pic 4: Her uncle Ritwik Ghatak. Pic 5: At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006, when India was the first country to be the Fair's second time guest nation, she made an impassioned inaugural speech wherein she moved the audience to tears with her lines taken from the famous film song "Mera Joota Hai Japani" by Raj Kapoor (the English equivalent is in brackets): This is truly the age where the Joota (shoe) is Japani (Japanese), Patloon (pants) is Englistani (British), the Topi (hat) is Roosi (Russian), But the Dil... Dil (heart) is always Hindustani (Indian)... My country, Torn, Tattered, Proud, Beautiful, Hot, Humid, Cold, Sandy, Shining India. My country. Pic 6: She is the founding member of Budhan Theatre - the theatre group of Chhara Denotified Tribals of Gujarat.
  • 20. 10. What phrase connects Ganesh Pyne, the famous international painter from Kolkata who was known for his emphasis on human skeleton with John Donne - the English metaphysical poet of medieval ages, John Webster - a contemporary dramatist of William Shakespeare who was known for his tragedies and the name of a detective novel by PD James and a hard metal number by Megadeth?
  • 21. 'Skull beneath the skin‘ (Ganesh Pyne, Donne and Webster were all referred by this phrase that they were people who could see the skull beneath the skin. TS Eliot made it popular by referring it for Webster)
  • 22. 11. In the slums of Kolkata, the local populace make a local alcholic drink which they think is the best in the industry and they have named it as 'Shottur' (Bengali for Seventy). But why do they call it 'Seventy'?
  • 23. They think that their drink is even better than 'Vat 69'
  • 24. 12. During the Durga Pujas, the artists who make the idols of Ma Durga, collect the earth from outside the brothels. Why?
  • 25. They believe that when people are entering the brothels, they are leaving all their virtues, all their Godly qualities behind. So that earth where they are leaving those becomes pious. Hence……
  • 26. 13. You have seen her in a Coke ad with Aamir Khan a few yrs back. A very famous heroine of Kolkata, who is she?
  • 28. 14. In 1932, in an article in the American Cinematographer in US, what name was coined for the first time by Wilford E. Deming, an American engineer who was involved in a lot of work in Kolkata and India. This name now, though is more synonymous with something in South India?
  • 30. 15. She is a Pune based actress who got immense popularity in Kolkata because of her role by the name of ‘Brinda’ in a certain 2009 Bengali movie. What is her name?