Visuals Quiz conducted at BCQC October Open Set by Subhankar Gokhale and Aditya Gadre

1. presents
Bhasant! Bhisol kahaan hai?
Fidel and Demetrius
The elims answers

2. Achtung, Baby!
This is a visuals quiz – so do look at the picture before
yelling out the answer
Most of the answers are guessable, so take guesses
These prelims have 30 questions
Ties will be resolved first with star marked questions
(Q11 – Q17) and then by sudden death starting from Q1

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Which movie’s ending
scene is a reference to
this WWI poster?

4. Dr Strangelove
or How I learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb

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One of these people is Richard Nixon. Name the other three
0 for 1; 0.5 for 2; 1 for all 3

6. Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin ,
Michael Collins
This picture was taken while they were in quarantine
after coming back to Earth

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Who was this
guy supposed
to meet on the
morning of 31st
October, 1984?

8. Indira Gandhi
was on her way to an
interview with Peter
Ustinov the morning
she was shot

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Name this kid

10. Aamir Khan
as a child actor in
Yaadon ki Baraat

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What words have been blanked out?

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Recently celebrated sesquicentenary. What?

14. Bombay High Court

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What is this
pizza called?
Or
What is special
about the
ingredients
used?

16. Four Seasons Pizza
Named so because the ingredients on each of the
four quadrants of the pizza are those primarily
available in each of the four seasons

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Several Star channels
were bought over and
renamed.
Which organization
bought over these
channels?

18. Anand Bazaar
Patrika

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Original promo of
what?

20. Contra

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Name the old lady in
the white hat

22. Princess Anne
She participated in the Equestrian events at the
Olympics. Seen here presenting the silver medal to
Zara Phillips (another royal)

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A mosaic on the streets of Barcelona. Name the
artist.

24. Joan Miro

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Name the author of this WWII information pamphlet

26. Dr Seuss
aka Theodore Geisel

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The headgear, famously
used by this guy, gets its
name from which literary
work?

28. Trilby
Trilby hats get their name from the fact they
were used extensively in the stage version of the
book by George du Maurier
The guy is Frank Sinatra

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The mausoleum was commissioned by Nūr Jahān, the wife
of Jahangir, for her father Mirzā Ghiyās Beg, who was given a title
meaning “pillar of the state”. What was this title?

30. Itimad –ud- Daula
One of the many things to see in the Agra area

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Who dat?

32. Todd Akin
The image makes fun of his controversial
“legitimate rape” comment

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What has been blacked out?

34. Red Bull Stratos
Recently took Felix Baumgartner to the brink of
space

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An iconic
scene
from
which cult
movie
was shot
under this
'Y' Bridge
in Byculla?

36. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
The famous “runaway corpse” bridge scene was
shot here

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What is
happening in
this historic pic?

38. Ottoman Surrender to end World
War I

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Who as whom?

40. Bill Maher as Steve Irwin
Typically controversial shit from Maher

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Version of which painting? By which artist?

42. Sleep by Salvador dali
No points for mentioning Angelina Jolie

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_________ene is a Carbon molecule, shaped like a hollow
sphere, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons.
Though it resembles a Football more than anything else, it
is named after X whose creation it also resembled.

44. Buckminster Fullerene

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The name for these structures is a portmanteau
combining the technology they use and the shape.

46. Radome
A portmanteau of Radar and Dome

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Name both the poses.

48. To-Di-World and the Mo-bot
The signature poses of arguably the greatest sprinter
and the greatest long distance runner of these
Olympics

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Original cover
of which
book?

50. A Clockwork Orange
The book by Anthony Burgess. The speech bubble
contains some samples of Nadsat

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Identify the guru-shishya pair

52. Sawai Gandharwa
and
Bhimsen Joshi

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Identify the in-the-news group

54. Pussy Riot
Recently the subject of a major controversy
triangle involving them, Putin and the Russian
Orthodox Church

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Name this person’s famous
TV personality spouse

56. Ellen Degeneres
The lady in the picture
was Portia De Rossi
(you may have seen her
on Arrested
Development)

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2009 2010 2011
?
2012

58. The European Union
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
2009 – Obama
2010 – Xiaobo
2011 – Sirleaf and Gboweh

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In which Bihari city
(sharing its name with
a restaurant in Pune),
the birthplace of
Mahavira, would you
find this Ashokan
pillar?

60. Vaishali

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Poker face reaction to what?

62. The Britney Spears –Madonna kiss at
the 2003 VMA awards