My 5th Informal quiz at the CQC

1. The 2,3,4 Quiz - CQC
Questions from Aditya a.k.a. Sticky

2. The 2,3,4 Quiz
Titled so because almost all the
questions have
2, 3 or 4 sub-questions.

3. Question 1
• Wasim Akram
• Saqlain Mushtaq
• Chaminda Vaas
• ______________
1. Who is the 4th name in this exclusive list?
2. What achievement do they all have?
3. How did the 4th surpass the other 3?

5. Answer 1
1. Lasith Malinga
2. 2 or more hat-tricks in ODI Cricket
3. Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to have
taken 3 hat-tricks

6. Question 2
On the following slide is a Screenshot from the
‘Culture’ page of Lab126, a Silicon-valley tech
company.
1. Which company owns Lab126 (blanked out at
the bottom of the page)?
2. What has Lab126 developed for its owner?

9. Answer 2
1. Amazon.com, Inc.
2. The Kindle

10. Question 3
August Kowalczyk died at the
age of 90 years on 30th July,
2012 in a small town called
Oswiecim in Southern Poland.
He became a popular actor
during his life, among other
things.
Why does his death signify
the end of an era?

12. Answer 3
He was the last known survivor from the
Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Kowalczyk was brought to Auschwitz in
December 1940. In June 1942 he was among 50
Polish inmates who tried to flee the camp while
working in the fields. Most were killed in the
attempt and only nine escaped. Kowalczyk was
the last known survivor.

13. Question 4
“I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated. I feel I
have always been a Rastafari. I just didn’t have my third
eye open, but its wide open right now.”
This was a statement issued by Calvin Cordozar Broadus,
Jr. after a certain change in his life, leading up to a new
album called ‘Reincarnated’.
1. Who is this guy?
2. What change is he talking about?

15. Answer 4
1. Snoop Dogg
2. The change in question is a change in his
name from Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion
(although, in my opinion, he will always be a
Dogg)

16. Question 5
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAny1bIA
pcA
• This is a song called Seville by ,
recorded in 1967.
• Why has this song come back into focus in
2011-12 because of a certain Australian,
Belgian connection?

18. Answer 5
• Gotye’s ’Somebody That I used to know’ was
sampled on this song, along with additional
instruments such as the Xylophone.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4w
vIGY

19. Question 6
1. The image shown is a
parody/funny take on
what movie?
2. What has been
blanked out in the
panel on the bottom-
left?
3. What would the words
after Kidnap have
been for the first
movie?

21. Answer 6
1. Taken
2. ‘his wife’
3. ‘his daughter’

22. Question 7
1. Identify the painting shown on the next slide and
its artist, who said the following about it:
‘My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work.
I’ve embarked on a modern subject-a barricade.
And if I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll
paint for her.’
2. The main subject of the painting is seen wearing
a cap that is known to represent the pursuit of
liberty/freedom. What is this cap known as?
3. How is this painting known to the youth of today
thanks to a modern-day representation?

25. Answer 7
1. ‘Liberty Leading the People’ by Eugene
Delacroix.
2. The ‘Phrygian’ cap, which, particularly in
artistic representations symbolises the
pursuit of liberty/freedom.
3. The album cover of ‘Viva La Vida’ by Coldplay
(picture on the following slide). Viva la vida
translates to ‘Live the life’.

27. Question 8
• 31 May 2008 (+1.7 m/s)
• 16 August 2008 (-0.2 m/s)
• 16 August 2009 (+0.9 m/s)
1. What do these three dates represent?
2. What do the figures in brackets represent?

29. Answer 8
1. Usain Bolt breaking the 100m World Record.
(Times: 9.72s, 9.69s, 9.58s)
2. The wind-speed at the time of his breaking
the records.

30. Question 9
The _______X_________ is a Swiss political party, formed by former software
engineer Matthias Poehm ahead of the 2011 federal elections in Switzerland.
The party has two major goals:
• To become the fourth largest party in Switzerland in terms of membership
• To initiate a national “referendum in order to seek for a prohibition of
_________________________________________________________.”
The party claims that the latter "causes national-economic damage
amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" and lowers the quality of a __________ in
"95 % of the cases". The party advocates flip charts as an alternative.
The party also states that it does not support prohibition, but will use a
referendum to raise awareness about the cause.
What party? (or) What is this cause they are fighting against?

32. Answer 9
Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP), which advocates
a referendum that seeks for the reductions and
subsequent use of Microsoft PowerPoint and
other Presentation software for presentations.

33. Question 10
Frangistan was a term used by
Muslims and Persians, during
the Middle Ages and later
historical periods to refer to
people from a particular region.
Frangistan literally translates to
‘Land of the Franks’.
1. What did they mean to refer
to?
2. How can you connect that to
the picture on the right?
3. What is the legacy of this
term in modern-day India?

35. Answer 10
1. Frangistan, while originally alluding to the Franks
(from France), represents a wider set of people
from all over Western Europe.
2. The picture on the right is of Europa, a
Phoenician woman famous in Greek mythology
for having been abducted by Zeus. ‘Europe’
traces its origins to her name.
3. In modern-day India, most foreigners,
particularly from Europe are referred to as
Firangs, which derives from Frangistan.

36. Question 11
Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani is the Emir of
Qatar, and is among the richest Royals in the World.
Recently, he has made a large number of
investments, particularly in Sports, such as a £125m
shirt deal with FC Barcelona. He was also
instrumental in securing Qatar’s bid for the 2012
Olympics.
However, a particular investment he made in 2011,
for the Qatar Royal Family has caught the attention of
people all over the world.
1. What particular investment am I talking about?
2. Why did it catch people’s attention?

38. Answer 11
1. Paul Cezanne’s ‘Card Players’ (1 of 5 in the
world) for over $250 million.
2. It is the most expensive painting sold to date.

39. Question 12
It has been known that A, B, C & D were the main ingredients
to an old witches love potion (pics on next slide):
• _A_ has been used as a digestant, which should take the
bitterness out of certain comestibles. Some medieval
physicians used this herb in a spiritual manner.
• _B_ is renowned as a symbol of power.
• _C_ represents fidelity, love, and remembrance and is
therefore often used in traditional wedding customs.
• _D_ symbolizes courage, thus finding its way into heraldry.
In what context do we hear A, B, C & D together
(in the same order)?

40. A, B, C, D (Clockwise from Top-left)

42. Answer 12
A – Parsley
B – Sage
C – Rosemary
D – Thyme
There’s a refrain in the song Scarborough Fair
(covered by Simon & Garfunkel, who also have an
album by the name ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary &
Thyme’), that goes ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary &
Thyme’.

43. Question 13
Jerome Silberman is an American stage and screen actor, director and
screenwriter who began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the
TV series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962.
Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion
picture Bonnie and Clyde, his first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the
1968 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor.
This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks,
including 1974's Young Frankenstein, a script which garnered the pair
an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
1. Who is this Jerome Silberman character?
2. His role in a 1971 movie has gained cult popularity over the last couple
of years. What role/movie? Why the recent popularity?

45. Answer 13
1. Jerome Silberman is Gene Wilder’s original name.
2. He played the role of Willy Wonka in the 1971 musical Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a snippet from which is
popular today as the Condescending Wonka Meme.

46. Question 14
The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of
Information, was a United Kingdom government department created
briefly at the end of World War I and again during World War
II. Located in Senate House at the University of London during World
War II, it was the central government department responsible for
publicity and propaganda.
At the end of World War 1, the MOI printed 2.5 million copies of
something, although only a limited number of these were distributed,
and little else was known about it.
In 2000, this was rediscovered, and re-issued by a number of private
companies bringing it back into popularity.
What is this ‘something’?

48. Answer 14

49. Question 15
• _____ is also called a mutton
• _____ is used to indicate that a sentence is
unfinished because the speaker was interuppted.
• _____ can also be used instead of an ellipsis to
indicate aposiopesis, the rhetorical device by
which a sentence is stopped short not because of
interruption but because the speaker is too
emotional to continue.
• _____ derives its name from a unit of
measurement in typography.
What is this ______ I am talking about?

51. Answer 15
• The ‘em dash’
• –

52. Question 16
Leonhart Fuchs was a
German physician and one of the
founding fathers of botany, along
with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus
Bock.
The plant (shown in picture) was
first discovered on the Caribbean
island of Hispaniola in 1703 by the
botanist, Charles Plumier and
named after Fuchs.
What, from the name of this plant,
also referenced in the Pokémon
universe, lives on today?

54. Answer 16
The colour Fuchsia

55. Question 17
This (shown on next slide) is a painting by
Joseph Wright of Derby.
1. What is the title of the painting?
2. What is being depicted in the painting?
3. The subject of the painting is a recreation of
one of whose works?

58. Answer 17
1. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
2. A bird that is held in an ‘air pump’ is being
deprived of air.
3. This is a recreation of the Air Pump
experiments of Robert Boyle, famous among
school children for the ‘Boyle’s Law’

59. Question 18
Two separate extracts from a conversation:
• “John Humphreys: Your occupation?
__________: Principle Ballerina of the Mariinsky State
Opera.”
• “John Humphreys: You always say Conan Doyle’s
Sherlock Holmes. Was there another?
__________: Well, yes, since Conan Doyle wrote the
last ones in about 1926, infinitely more stories have
been written by others including his nephew and
there about 2 written every week on the net.”

60. Question 18 contd…
1. Where are these extracts (this conversation)
from?
2. Whose name have I blanked out?
3. Connect the second extract to something this
person did in 2011.

62. Answer 18
1. This is an extract from a Celebrity episode of
BBC’s Mastermind.
2. Stephen Fry. His specialty for the show was
‘Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes’.
3. Stephen Fry played the character of Mycroft
Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’ brother in
Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows.

63. Question 19
______ spent a vast majority of his productive life at Trieste, Paris
and Zurich, during which time he is said to have written Y.
While in Paris, he travelled frequently to Zurich to get his eyes
operated upon, and also for the treatment of his daughter, Lucia,
who _____ and his family assumed suffered from Schizophrenia.
Lucia was analysed by X, a renowned psychiatrist, who concluded,
after reading Y, that _____ also suffered from schizophrenia,
famously stating that Lucia and her father were both heading to the
bottom of a river, except that he was diving and she was falling.
Identify: 1. _____, 2. X, 3. Y.

65. Answer 19
1. _____ - James Joyce
2. X – Carl Jung
3. Y – Ulysses

66. Question 20
The following are historical and literary instances of the use
of something or its variation:
• Historical Uses
– during the Battle of Verdun in World War I by French General
Robert Nivelle
– during the Spanish Civil War, at the Siege of Madrid
by Dolores Ibárruri Gómez
– by British anti-fascists during the October 1936 Battle of
Cable Street
– by Colonel Emmanuel Maurin, commanding a French Foreign
Legion unit in the Ivory Coast

67. Question 20
• Literary Uses
– In the Star Wars New Jedi Order book Traitor by Jedi Knight
Ganner Rhysode
– In Asterix in Spain, by Pepe
– In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, by the character
Edmure Tully in a letter
– In X, by Y
1. The usage of what?
2. Give me X and Y, probably one of the more
famous instances of its usage. There is a slightly
different variation used in the film adaptation of

69. Answer 20
1. ‘They shall not pass’ or its variations.
2. By Gandalf in Lord of the Rings as ‘You
cannot pass’, and in the movie as:

70. Question 21
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known
for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of
such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books
– that is, he painted representations of these objects on
the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole
collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the
portrait subject.
1. Identify the 4 paintings by him (shown on next slide)
2. Connect it to the pizza and the set of violin concertos
by the man in the picture.

71. Question 21

73. Answer 21
1. Winter, Autumn, Spring & Summer (from top-
left, clockwise)
2. The connect is Four Seasons.
– The 4 paintings representing the Four Seasons
– The Pizza is called ‘Quatre Saisons’ or ‘Four
Seasons’, with toppings from all Four Seasons
– Antonio Vivaldi’s set of violin concertos famous
as the ‘Four Seasons’