The finals of the 2nd edition of the Indian FLAMES (Films, Literature, Arts, Music, Entertainment and Sports) Quiz hosted by me, Baneswar and Archisman at Presidency University, Kolkata in January, 2016.
4. 1.
• X was 4 weeks pregnant when she informed Y
about it. The couple then approached a
gynaecologist who prescribed a strong
combination of drugs. After taking the
medicine, X started haemorrhaging and called
Y for help. Y then decided to take matters into
his own hand rather than risking going to a
hospital. He extricated the foetus and
disposed it off in the toilet. Identify this
“famous” couple.
10. 3.
• BJP won the Amethi seat in Lok Sabha only
once (1998-99) . Sanjay Singh won that seat
defeating Satish Sharma. Sanjay was
embroiled in controversy 10 years earlier
regarding a famous case.
What is this politician has to do with today’s
FLAMES quiz?
13. 4.
INDRAVADAN TAILOR was a junior artist.
As far as his movies are concerned, he had worked
in many movies as a side artist, but the prominent
ones are Tezaab, Hathkadi etc. He passed away in
the late 90s.
How is this actor came into news recently?
His photos are in next slide.
17. 5.
• He ranked seventh in the AIEEE'03. He was the
national Olympiad winner in Physics. He also cleared
11 national engineering exams, including the Indian
School of Mines at Dhanbad but he decided to stay in
delhi for Barry John's theatre and Shiamak Davar's
dance classes. He took admission in Delhi college of
engineering in mechanical branch. After three years
of studying engineering he realised that he was
getting claustrophobic in college and wanted to be
on stage. Then he left DCE, came to Mumbai and
joined Nadira Babbar's theatre group. Now he is
popular in Bollywood. Who’s he?
20. 6.
• Zeba Bakhtiar is a Pakistani film and television
actress, and television series director. She gained
a lot of fame through her Bollywood debut,
Henna. She has married 5 times.
How did his 4th husband qualified to be in this
quiz and who was her 3rd husband?
23. 7.
• X loved the song, “Oh boy, I am your soft toy”
but she felt the need for one change. She
suggested that girls should get an upper hand.
So, the lyrics were changed to “Oh boy, you're
my soft toy”. She also told TOI that this is her
contribution to the cause of feminism.
Which film has this song and who is X?
26. 8.
• Suraj was an orphan who was found as an infant
in a rubbish dump by Daku Halkan Singh, a
ruthless Dacoit, who used him as protection
against a police raid to save himself, but treated
him like a dog (and called him that). While in
Halkan's care, the child witnessed endless
horrors that would ultimately lead to his
becoming a sociopath.
How is Suraj better known to us?
29. 9.
• Uttam Kumar was portrayed as playing
football in “Saptapadi” where he easily
defeated Clayton’s team. Here he was also
seen taking powerful long range shots.
Which famous footballer was the body double
of Uttam in those scenes?
Actually he was behind all those trickery and
shots.
32. 10.
• He has four movies to his credit namely: Bahu Ki
Awaaz, Anaam, Sabse Bada Khiladi and International
Khiladi, of which Sabse Bada Khiladi made it to the
nominations of various awards including Screen
Awards.
• In 2010, a TV series based on his character “Keshav
Pandit” was aired on Zee TV. He has been approached
by the makers of films like ‘Dayan’ and ‘Talash’ for their
film’s promotion. Actor Aamir Khan has visited X and
has spoken highly of his writing prowess.
Which Hindi Pulp fiction writer ?
38. 12.
• X sang an over-the-top “Shabbir Kumar-
Mohammad Aziz” kind of version of a song.
He thought "I had blown my eight-year-long
struggle to be a singer over one glorious
spoof. My first song sounded ready to destroy
my playback singing dream”
It was credited as Rangeela and Rasila instead
as per his request.
Who is this reluctant singer of a famous song?
41. 13.
• The Hindu states : "The famous X (zigzag pattern
of irregular colour stripes) is a visual invocation of
the flow of water at the same time painstakingly
showing the depths of indigo after multiple mud-
resistant and dyeing processes. No small wonder
that the blues in X attract the eyes instinctively."
Just Id X.
54. 1.
“Who says God is hidden? He is omnipresent From
Him the Sun gets its luminescence.”
The above are lines are translated into English. The
original lines were written by the poet X who also
made a tongue-in-cheek reference to himself who
started a newspaper whose name means Sun.
57. 2.
The pic (next slide) splashed on the internet with
the rumour that the actors were part of a biopic on
X to be produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Even
though the lady in the pic is now said not to be part
of the film, sources say the male actor is said to
have been confirmed to play X where the actor
plays the protagonist.
The pic however belongs to another movie Y where
the male actor plays a poet.
Give me X and Y.
61. 3.
Out of all the Indian official submission to the
Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language
Film, Satyajit Ray has directed most of them (three).
Three directors (X,Y,Z) come next with two movies
each.
X had both of his movies sent as an official entry in
consecutive year.
Y’s two movies have been sent with one year in
between.
Z’s two movies were sent in two different decades.
ID X, Y, Z.
62.
63. X = Sudhendu Roy
Y = Shankar
Z = Vidhu Vinod Chopra
64. 4.
“Village born Lalloo re-locates to Bombay, and returns a
wealthy man. He goes to meet his friend, Shankar alias
Bhompu, and together they meet and share tales, mostly
about women, sex, and playboy magazines' pictures. A
Bollywood movie director is shooting a film nearby, and
they go and meet him and his beautiful actress, Urvashi.
After meeting Urvashi, Shankar feigns a racking cough,
and tells his family that he must go to Bombay, and seek
medical treatment. Together he and Lalloo take the next
train to Bombay to see if they can find the biggest
happiness in life.”
Considered one of the first sex comedies of Bollywood,
ID the movie.
76. 8.
Souram Singh, a 53-year-old retired Army subedar living with
his family in Babina, Jhansi, recounts,
"I was 18 then. Our opponents, who were our distant relatives,
attacked our house. My father was not home then. In self-
defence, my elder brother came out with a rifle and fired in
the air. My father had gone to Sihonia police station then to
complain about a brawl that had taken place between the two
families earlier. But the police did nothing and surprisingly the
sub-inspector of police asked my father why had he come so
early. 'You should come after two or three people are shot
dead,' he had said. While returning, my father came to know
about the attack on his house.”
What happened next?
79. 9.
The poster alongside is of
the movie Miley Na Miley
Hum, which had Kangana
Ranaut and X. X makes his
debut in the film. The film
was a critical and
commercial failure, and X
decided to join politics. X is
currently an MP and it is
said that he was
instrumental in his party
becoming part of the NDA in
2014.
ID X?
90. Vaijayanthimala (Devdas) and Reena Roy
(Apnapan) refused the Filmfare Awards for the
Best Supporting Actress because they felt their
roles were leading and not supporting.
91. 13.
Review by Madhulika Liddle on Goodreads:
“On a moonlit night in a 1940s Punjab torn by communal riots, a
Muslim woman leads an elderly Sikh couple whom she's briefly
sheltered to what may be safety. As they creep out of the village and
along a dried riverbed, they see flames reaching up into the sky from a
burning village on one bank of the river. Then, “In a copse of trees, they
saw the white grave of a saint. No lamp was burning on it. On this
night, people had forgotten to light a lamp here.”
A poignant and ironic reflection on what was going on: people were
too busy burning homes, too busy killing each other—and that too in
the name of religion—to think of lighting a lamp at the otherwise
revered grave of a saint.”
ID the novel which has been adapted into a movie which won Nargis
Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.
94. 14.
Standing at just 5 foot 6 inches and weighing
just 58 kgs, he never let his small stature affect
his game. He is the joint most successful Indian
Olympian, winning 3 Olympic gold medals and 1
silver medal. After his playing career, the
diminutive hockey player took charge of the
Indian team as manager winning the silver
medal at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 and the
1970 Asian Games in Bangkok.
ID the sportsperson.
97. 15.
• The historical legacy of trophy X has not been
universally well-received, in fact, Sean Smith,
whose book The Union Game: A ______
History accompanied the BBC TV series of the
same name, has said of it that:
• “It speaks volumes for the traditions of class
prejudice in England and Scotland that the
two countries play each year for a trophy
made in the Raj.”
100. 16.
• At the age of nine years, X spent a whole day
on a tree when the tsunami struck the Car
Nicobar base where her father was employed.
X took up her sports even though she liked
long jump as a kid, and at this moment she is
ranked fourth in the World in Women’s Elite
Eligibility Ranking in 500m Time Trial. At the
Asia Cup, she won three medals which helped
India finish third.
ID the sportsperson.
104. Filmfare Hat-tricks
• The next slide will mention a set of award categories.
• Name all the people who have achieved a hat-trick of Filmfare
Awards in that category.
• The number of people who have achieved a hat-trick is mentioned
for every category.
• Winning a Filmfare in three consecutive years will be considered
as a hat-trick.
• Duos like Abbas-Mustan are considered as a single answer.
• Please number your answers in the correct order.
• +7.5 for every correct answer.
• +15 for a full house.
• -5 for every extra answer.
• Time : 3 minutes.
105.
106. Award Categories :
1. Best Director. (1, but did it twice.)
2. Best Actor. (1)
3. Best Supporting Actor. (1)
4. Best Music Director. (4)
5. Best Lyricist. (1)
6. Best Male Playback Singer. (2)
7. Best Female Playback Singer. (4)
8. Best Actor in a Comic Role.(1)
9. Best Choreographer. (1)
127. 1.
• The novel X, published in 2010, deals with a ritual
that has been practiced at the Kailasanathar temple
in Tiruchengode a century ago. As per the ritual, a
women could go with any man on the night of the
festival. A child born out of such a relation was
treated as gift of God. In the novel X, a couple is
childless and the wife wants to take part in the ritual.
The husband is opposed to it but is forced to be a
silent witness when the wife choses to go her way.
ID the novel and the author.
130. 2.
• X has its origins in the folklore of North India about a
princess with incomparable beauty who was so
delicate that she weighed only as much as a flower.
This folklore took the shape of a drama, or a sangeet,
X Shehzadi. Soon the drama became so popular that
the name became that of the genre itself.
• The word, X, consists of two words, ___ meaning
“Nine” and ____ referring to a “Silver coin weighing
around four grams”. And, thus, it implies that the
graceful princess weighed only around 36 grams.
What is X?
133. 3.
• In early 2000, Kannada actor Rajkumar was kidnapped
by Veerappan from the actor's farmhouse in Gajanur,
Tamil Nadu. He was released by Veerappan after
spending 108 days in his custody. He died in 2006,
leaving behind his children : Shiva, Raghavendra,
Puneeth, Lakshmi and Poornima.
• A superstar in his own right, Shiva Rajkumar, has acted
in over a hundred movies, including a multilingual
docudrama thriller that released recently. In the movie,
he played the role of an STF Superintendent of Police
named Senthamarai Kannan.
Which movie?
138. THEY ARE THE ONLY ARJUNA AWARDEES IN THEIR FIELD OF
SPORTS.
(A. Maria Irudayam : Carrom, Samir Suhag : Polo, W. Sandhyarani Devi : Wushu.)
139. 5.
• Omkar Kapoor has recently been seen in the 2015 hit Pyaar Ka
Punchnaama 2. His most famous role before that was in a superhit
song that was picturized on him.
Which song?
142. 6.
• In the early 2000s, men started calling the Mumbai
number 022-6400895 expecting to have a good time.
But their hopes were crushed and they found
themselves in an awkward position when they realised
that the number connected them to the Bandra police
station.
What was the reason behind the sudden surge of calls to
this number?
145. 7.
• It started on October 4, 2006, with Aishwarya, Bipasha,
Celina and Diya. In early 2007, it expanded to include
Esha. Soon, it added Katrina, Riya and Udita, among
others.
What am I talking about, which almost everyone on stage is
familiar with?
148. 8.
• The story goes that in 1955, S. M. Naidu, the producer of the Dilip
Kumar - Meena Kumari starrer, Azaad, started approaching music
directors to compose the music for the film with just two weeks’
notice. All of them turned Naidu down. Naidu, therefore, turned
to X, who took on the challenge and composed the music for the
ten songs that made up the score of Azaad within the fortnight he
had been allotted. Azaad went on to be a huge hit, with many of
its songs topping the charts.
• Another story that talks about X's speed goes as follows : X
received the lyrics for the lullaby “Dheere se aaja ri akhiyan mein”
for the movie Albela just two hours before the recording, and
composed the tune in the taxi on his way to the studio. The
veracity of this story is not known.
Who is X?
154. 10.
• Karan Johar’s love for the Yash Raj banner is well known.
Aditya Chopra is one of his best friends and Yash Chopra
was a father figure to him. And Karan’s film-making style
is like that of YRF, larger than life and sumptuous.
• One of Karan’s favourite YRF movies is X. So, when he
made Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, he decided to pay his
tribute to his guru and the movie X by making a slight
change.
ID X.
What was the tribute?
160. 12.
• Namit Das is playing the lead role in
Sumit Sambhal Lega, the official
Indian adaptation of the TV series X.
• The actor called Sumit Sambhal Lega
a “slice of life show” that “shows the
idiosyncrasies of every member in a
family and basically how a family
handles situations in difficult times”.
He said, “The show focuses on day-to-
day affairs which may be mundane
and banal but they are important
because that is what life is at the end
of the day. That’s where the comedy
of life lies.”
Identify X.
163. 13.
• X is a 1987 Tamil film directed by Manivannan
and starring Sathyaraj, Radha and Sivaji
Ganesan. The plot revolves around Arjun
(Sathyaraj) whose family is killed by the
owners of a factory and he is framed for
multiple crimes. While placed in house arrest
for his crimes, he plans to “chase down, catch
and torture” the antagonists. How he does
that forms the rest of the movie.
In news, for reasons unrelated to the film, what
is X?
166. 14.
• Isabel Colegate of New York Times Book Review writes about two works,
A and B, neither originally in English, but released in English as
companion volumes :
"In the two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories
of their love. Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of
young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was
tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide."
• C, a Bollywood film, takes its inspiration from the two novels, although
the film does not give credit to either.
• C was remade (or, ripped-off) in 2009 by Sujit Guha as Neel Akasher
Chandni.
Identify A, B and C.
Or, identify the authors of A and B and the movie C.
[Half points going for two correct answers.]
167.
168. NA HANYATE (IT DOES NOT DIE) BY MAITREYI DEVI.
LA NUIT BENGALI (BENGALI NIGHTS) BY MIRCEA ELIADE.
HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM.
169. 15.
• In 2012, a ten-year-old girl, Aishwarya Parashar, filed an
RTI query after she read about something in her school
textbook and “wanted to know when did the
government issue an order” to declare the same.
• “We have not come across any order or notification in
the Ministry declaring it. It is known only in general
parlance.”, said SPS Tomar, a Secretary under the Union
Ministry, while responding to the query. The response
was shocking as it contradicted the Government of
India's own announcement on its official website.
What am I talking about?
172. 16.
• X was exhibited at the Palace of Versailles in
2015 and was a topic of controversy due to its
“blatantly sexual” nature. The artist referred to it
in the feminine, calling it “she”. And in the press,
it was swiftly nicknamed “The Queen’s Vagina”.
• On hearing the nickname, the artist retorted by
asking the press, “If you take a teacup and put it
on its side, it’s a vagina?”.
What is X and who is the artist?