Please mind the errors.

1. THE QUIZ
27 SEPT 2014

2. Who(in coat) is imitating
whom?

3. Shushant Singh as Byomkesh Bakshi in
Dibakar Baneerjee’s latest.

4. Every religion has it’s code and conduct. You see
here Sudreh, kind of vest, and Kusti, religious
thread. One would be a follower of which faith if
wearing the two?

5. Zoroastrianism

6. The Japanese have the oldest.
The Spanish have the wordless.
The Cypriots (of Cyprus) have borrowed
from the Greeks.
What?

7. National Anthem

8. Connect - a classic dice game for two or more
players requiring the ability to deceive and
detect an opponent's deception having its roots
in South America - to an Indian movie.

9. India’s entry for Oscars this year.

10. It was written on the occasion of the first
Republic Day, 26th January 1950. But it became
synonymous with the times of emergency
(1977). Though the title was Jantantra ka Janm.
But it’s popular by the last line of first stanza.
Give me the popular line.

11. Dinkar’s singhasan khali karo ke janta aati hai..

12. It’s a scene from the 1994 hit, Quiz Show was in
contention of the 1995 Oscar’s Best Motion
Picture. This famous gentleman played a cameo in
the movie. Who is he?

13. Film-maker Martin Scorsese

14. He had set out to be a politician who got entangled
in fraud charges several times in his life. But had to
take up the pen to pay off his debts. Then came his
best-selling debut which actually sold only 3,000
copies globally and his wife advised him that he
should rather take up a regular job. Though it is as
an author that we know him best but he has also
been a parliamentarian and an athlete. Who?

16. If you are visiting the Maha Vishnu of Mount
Road in Chennai, then what are you visiting?

18. When he was being honoured with a Lifetime
Achievement award at a ceremony in the House
of Lords recently, he remarked on a lighter note-
"I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am
happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play
very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very
well."
Who?

20. The director described the philosophy of the last
scene as –
“In this case, it’s about adversity and the possible outcome as a
rebirth. It’s the optimistic scenario, the Darwinian chart at the
end. She comes from the primordial soup, crawling out into the
mud, and then she’s on all fours, and then she’s standing up
curved like an ape, until she goes completely erect.”
Can you guess the movie being talked about.

21. Director Alfonso Cuarón describing the last scene of
Gravity

22. Yes that’s Camp Nou, home
of FC Barcelona . But I’m
interested in the two men.
One on the (L) won a medal
in 2010 Asian Games and the
one on the (R) won it this
time in Incheon, in a
discipline in which India least
expects a medal. Name the
two.

23. L- Veerdhawal Khade (2010)
R- Sandeep Sejwal (2014)
Both have won a Bronze in swimming at the Asian
Games

24. India traded twelve villages in 1961 along the
Ferozpur border to get back this place. The
retreating Pakistani forces after the 1971 war
damaged this place hurting the sentiments of
Indians. Now this spot has become a place of an
annual fair in the memory of the martyrs called
the Shaheedi Mela.
Name the place.

25. Hussainiwala is the place where the last rites
of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and later of BK Dutt
and Bhagat Singh’s mother were performed.

26. The area where this battle was fought is said to
have acquired the name due to the colour of the
soil present there. The king, mightier in strength,
sent his envoy for a peace treaty. The insult of
the envoy became one of the cause of the battle.
But the most interesting fact about the battle is
that it ended in about half an hour. Which battle
can you think of?

28. The name of this Marvel Comic
character means –
“literal or metaphorical force regarded as
mercilessly destructive and unstoppable”.
Connect the name to the state
of Odisha, India

29. The character is named Jaggarnaut which in turn
is derived from the Sanskrit word Jagannath and
therefore connects to Jagannath Puri.

30. SCORE BOARD
Jibin- 2.5
Rajarshi Chanda- 2.5
Souvik- 2
Akash Anurag Jha- 1.5
Sivakumar- 1
Depak Soni-1
Tyagi-1
Peeyush Kumar-1
Nayan- 1
Akash Lionel Seal- 0.5