Quizlings April 1 to April 15, 2015

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April 1 to 15, 2015
Transcribed by Ramesh Athreya

If Mentalplex was the first, which is the latest?

When he returned to his home country in 1767, his
personal fortune was valued at GBP (Pounds) 234,000
(a billionaire by today's terms), which made him the
richest self-made man in Europe. Yet, he committed
suicide barely 7 years later in 1774, either by slitting
his own throat with a paperknife or by an overdose of
opium (details were suppressed).
who?

Events of the past two days have failed to live
up to his first name.
Who is the person on the left? (April 2015)

ans: Goodluck Jonathan..who
just lost to Muhammad
Buhari (on right) in Nigeria..

According to the latest Marvel comic book series,
what is the secret identity of Ms. Marvel?

Which famous painting does this panel in 'Asterix in
Belgium' reference?..and name the painter

ans: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter
Bruegel the Elder

From a French word meaning 'pricked', this move in
Ballet shares its name with the surname of a famous
footballer and member of a World Cup winning team.
name the move and the person in question.

Edelweiss Open 2015
This city became the permanent capital of the country from
1866 onwards and by the 1920s it was called the Pearl of
Asia due to its beautiful buildings and location by the
confluence of a lake and river.
By 1975 the population of the city was 2.5 million. And then,
disaster struck. Between April 17, 1975 and January 7, 1979,
the population of the city was reduced to near zero.
Since then, the city has gradually recovered, and today the
population is 2.2 million.
Which city? What befell it during those three years, eight
months and twenty days?

Amaravati (or is it Amaravathi?) will be the third capital of
the modern state of Andhra Pradesh. Which was the first?

Kurnool is correct. This was before the state reorganisation of
1956 took place. There was some hope that madras would
be given to Andhra, so the temporary choice of kurnool.
Once madras allotted to TN, Hyderabad was quickly made
the capital

Tris Prior (played by Shailene Woodley on screen)
didn't fit into any of these - Dauntless, Erudite,
Amity, Abnegation and Candor. She was
___________
FITB

ans: Divergent ..in the
series by Veronica Roth

He is often called the highest selling
artist alive. Who is this?

Commentary about a photograph by Jack Cardiff,
1956. “She had a perfect face and her ballet
training made her walk with sleek grace. She
radiated elegance. It was a joy to work with her
on War and Peace.” Whose iconic photograph?

kirk douglas lust for life
Playing Vincent van Gogh

Id the 2 and on the sets of which film?

Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel on the set of
Reservoir Dogs

Here is qn 9: Id on the sets of which film and
give us the source of the screenplay, written by
Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. It is a
modified film adaptation of which 1968 novel?

Blade Runner is a 1982 American neo-noir
dystopian science fiction film directed by
Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger
Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.
The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher
and David Peoples, is a modified film
adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Here is qn 6 - Identify the relatively old man (
not the man with the cigar)

Charles Addams meeting the Addams Family: he was an American
cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters.
Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The
Addams Family, have been the basis for spin-offs in several other
forms of media.The Addams Family television series began after
David Levy,a television producer, approached Addams with an
offer to create it with a little help from the humorist. All Addams
had to do was give his characters names and more characteristics
for the actors to use in portrayals. The series ran on ABC for two
seasons, from 1964 to 1966.

Here is qn 8 - Film about whose live?

In the 1950s, Wood made a number of low-budget science fiction,
horror and cowboy genre films, intercutting stock footage. In the
1960s and 1970s, he made sexploitation movies and wrote over 80
pulp crime, horror and sex novels. In 1980, he was posthumously
awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time,
renewing public interest in his work. Wood's career and camp
approach has earned him and his films a cult following.
Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's 1992 oral biography
Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.,
Wood's life and work have undergone a public rehabilitation of
sorts, leading up to director Tim Burton's biopic of Wood's life, Ed
Wood (1994), a critically acclaimed film starring Johnny Depp as
Wood and earned two Academy Awards.

The series of the next 10 questions is called "
On the sets of which flick - you have to identify
the flick...
Here is qn 1 - movie?

His parents sold the rights to his grandfather's
invention and had no share in the corporation.
Shortly before the 1929 stock market crash, they
sold their stock for $200,000 (equivalent to
approximately $2,746,899 in today's funds) He
subsequently made appearances in a number of
other films and videos, such as David Blair's Wax
or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, an
elliptic story about the first Gulf War in which he
plays a beekeeper, and Decoder by Klaus
Maeck. He played an aging junkie priest in Gus
Van Sant's 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. He also
appears briefly at the beginning of Van Sant's Even
Cowgirls Get the Blues (based on the Tom Robbins
novel), in which he is seen crossing a city street;
as the noise of the city rises around him he pauses
in the middle of the intersection and speaks the
single word "ominous". Van Sant's short film
"Thanksgiving Prayer" features him reading the
poem "Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986", from
Tornado Alley, intercut with a collage of black and
white images.Name him and his grandpa's
invention.

William Burroughs and Arithmetic machine
Burroughs' parents sold the rights to his grandfather's
invention and had no share in the Burroughs Corporation.
Shortly before the 1929 stock market crash, they sold their
stock for $200,000 (equivalent to approximately $2,746,899
in today's funds

Brothers in arms - name the bearded one and
on location of which flick

Martin Scorcese – Taxi Driver

The film won the Academy Award for Best
Original Song for "Windmills of Your Mind" and
had another version in 1999 - Identify film and
the 3 actors in the pic

Thomas crown affair
steve Mcqueen, faye dunaway

Which sport made its Olympic debut at the 1996 Games
in Atlanta as an Olympic event for women only? (no
longer in the Olympics line-up)

What word means both of these
a) official permission or an approval to do something
b) a series of punitive measures usually against an
offending nation

Its roots may go back to the 6th century BC but
which important and large city in Italy means 'new
city' in Greek?

Here is qn 2 - movie?
Movie and the pair in action.

Grace Jones and Conan The Destroyer is correct. During her
acting career, Jones hasn’t always got on with her lead-man -
Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly complained Grace was
‘too tough’ during filming of Conan The Destroyer, and Roger
Moore commented he had a genuine dislike of Jones during
filming of the Bond film A View To A Kill.

Here is qn 3 - movie and director?

fear and loathing in las vegas, terry gilliam

Identify both these stalwarts making their
appearances on The Muppet Show

harry belafonte, vincent price

Here is qn 5 : Movie and man in the black tee

Guillermo del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth

S Dhillon, Additional Chief Secretary, Tourism and
Archaeology and Museums Departments has been
posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Transport and Civil
Aviation Department in place of Avtar Singh who has
been posted as Principal Secretary, Women and Child
Development Department in Haryana,
Ram Niwas, Additional Chief Secretary, Health
Department has been given the additional charge of
Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education and
Research Department.
So, who has been given given the dual charge of
Secretary and Director General, Archaeology and
Museums department relieving R.S. Kharb of the charge?

Some more : Location of which film and name
the 3 doyens

Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas and Francis
Coppola. The film is Kagemusha!

Which actor who got his second acting nomination
for an Oscar this year has two additional
nominations for screenwriting? (he hasnt won any
Oscars though)

Identify this leather jacketed hot rod and
connect it to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycva18lb6
FE

What is the capital city of Greenland ?

Here is qn 4 : Who is the man in the pink shirt?

If this is the side-view of a famous scene, Fill in
the dialogue.

Here's Johnny" scene from "The Shining"

Who was famously given the death sentence for these
(paraphrased and seemingly harmless) charges?
1. undermining authority
2. tax evasion and
3. self-proclamation of monarchy

A music album where all the tracks are linked to an
overall theme or story is called a _______ _____ (X)
The 1966 album ___ ______ ( Y ) by 'The Beach Boys' was
probably the album that popularised this type of music
publishing, though it was not the first one (there are
examples going back to 1940)
___ ______ ( Y ) heavily influenced the making of the
1967 Beatles classic album ___ _______ ______ ______
____ ____ (Z)
give me X, Y and Z

ans: X - concept album : Y - Pet Sounds ; Z- Sgt
Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

What do you call this kind of feature purposely added to
a racing track to slow down cars and to create
opportunities for trailing cars to catch up and pass?

The name of which flower, also used as a first name
for girls worldwide, derives from Old Persian and
means "Gift from God?"

Identify both A and B - both major cities of their
respective countries.

Kinshasa (A), the capital of DR Congo, and
Brazzaville (B), the capital of Congo Republic, face
each other across the Congo River at the point
where it runs into the Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool).

He founded the city of Thebes and legend says that he
adapted the Phoenician alphabet to make the Greek
alphabet.
How has Chemistry chosen to honor him?

ans: Cadium (through an ore
,,not directly),,,from Cadmus

Here is qn 7 - On the sets of which cult flick?

What abbreviated term is
blanked off at the top of this
official document?

UB40 - a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978
in Birmingham. The name "UB40" was selected in
reference to the signing-on document issued to
people claiming unemployment benefit from the
UK government's Department of Health and Social
Security (DHSS) at the time of the band's
formation.

In the 1985 European Cup Final, Juventus beat
Liverpool 1–0 . Many felt that this match should never
have taken place. Why?

ans: This was the Heysel stadium disaster

This poetic travelogue, which dates back to 1694 is
considered to be one of the greatest works of classical
Japanese literature.
How would you otherwise know its title?

ans: the title of "The Narrow Road to the
Deep North" by Richard Flanagan is
derived from here

Though we mainly use it to mean a partner in marriage
(especially royal couples), which word has many meanings
including "a vessel or ship accompanying another?"

What two-word term in astronomy, named after the
19th-century scientist shown here, is illustrated by the
schematic diagram?

The Roche limit, sometimes referred to as the Roche radius, is the
distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its
own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal
forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction.
Inside the Roche limit, orbiting material disperses and forms rings
whereas outside the limit material tends to coalesce. The term is
named after Édouard Roche, who is the French astronomer who
first calculated this theoretical limit in 1848.

A linkage quiz (sort of....)
If Picture (1) is 39, Picture (2) is 33, Picture (3)
is 2 and 6, what is Picture (4)?

The link is indeed US Presidents. And the answer is 7.
(1) John Carter (played by Noah Wyle) from 'ER'. Jimmy
Carter was the 39th US President.
(2) 'The Truman Show'. Harry S. Truman was 33rd US
President.
(3) Bryan Adams sang 'Everything I Do I Do It For You'
from 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'. John Adams and his
son John Quincy Adams were the 2nd and 6th US
presidents respectively.
(4) Hence the Jackson Five points to Andrew Jackson, the
7th US President.

Why classic play was this film loosely adapted from?

Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin
America and Southern Hemisphere, this is the
largest city in the Southern Hemisphere. This is also
the most populous city of a nation that has hosted
the Fifa World cup (and its predecessor) two times
till now. Identify the city and the country

What expression, previously coined in the 18th century
at the London Stock Exchange to describe stockbrokers
who couldn't pay off their debts, is now primarily
applied to equally forlorn individuals in a different
pursuit?
The first known mention of the term in writing was
made by Horace Walpole, in a letter of 1761: "Do you
know what a Bull and a Bear and __________ are?"

The figure shown here is an important
character in which novel of the 19th century?

Miss Havisham from Dickens' 'Great Expectations'.
Defrauded by a man named Compeyson on her
wedding day, she never changed out of her wedding
dress and lived alone with Estella (her adopted
daughter) in Satis House, her decaying mansion.

Which constellation is this ?
(though in the sky the constellation
trace a sort of W)

Can you name the artist whose painting is reproduced here
in humorous fashion?

'The Marriage of the Virgin' by Raphael created
around 1504.

What comes next on this list -
Jordan, Midland, Spyker?

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen
of all time and Neville Cardus described him as "the
Midsummer night's dream of cricket". Unorthodox in
technique and with fast reactions, he brought a new
style to batting and revolutionised the game. Also, he
represented India at the League Of Nations.
Who?

Google Earth is a veritable treasure trove of quiz
questions. For this one, you need to identify the river
(brownish) which winds its way diagonally across this
photograph.

the Potomac is correct. You can see the
Pentagon

This little cutie is the mascot
of which company?

A cartoon about which individual in
the news recently?

Singapore's founding PM who
passed away on 23rd March.

Identify this always in the news man

What is this kind of fishing net called?

Which professional football club is no longer
playing its home matches home matches at
their home stadium Donbass Arena? and why

ans: Shakhtar Donetsk; its home stadium is in
Eastern Ukraine where a civil war is being
waged

What connects these creatures (not a full list) –
Lizards, salamanders, Flat worms, Sharks, Spiders,
Sponges, Starfish?

who wrote this poem..and what is the missing word?
The Lord in His wisdom made the ___,
And then forgot to tell us why.

What do the following
countries have in common?
(P.S. this is not an exhaustive
list).
Please refrain from posting
answers that, while technically
correct, are obviously not what
I am looking for (e.g. they all
have rivers/ airports, their
populations are all more than x
etc). You know what I mean.
And in the event that you have
a credible answer that is not
what I am after, I beg your
indulgence for insisting on
sticking to the answer on my
virtual card, so to speak.

name of capitals starts and ends with
the same letter
Accra, Abuja, Oslo, Ankara, Warsaw

Who is supposed to have founded the original Sankat
Mochan temple in Varanasi after having a vision of
Hanuman at that spot?

Why is a research paper titled "A specimen-level
phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of
Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) " in the news ?

Brontosaurus after many decades will be considered as
a separate species and doesn't have to share taxonomic
space with the Stupid Apatosaurus

Which talented rapper was killed at age 25 in a drive-by
shooting in 1996?

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Non-resident Indian
Day), is celebrated in India on 9 January each
year to mark the contribution of the overseas
Indian community to the development of India.
What is the significance of January 9th?

ans: Gandhiji returned from South Africa on
that date

Maria Irudayam, two-time world champion and nine-
time national champion, is the only Indian to win the
Arjuna Award for which sport?

Catapult and a ski-ramp are
alternative means to do what?

ans: Taking off from the Aircraft carrier

Their first film was “___ _________: This is us”
In October 2014 they released,
“___ _________: Where we are – The Concert Film”
who?

Once recognised as "Distinguished Alumnus of IIM
Calcutta," why was Malli Mastan Babu of Andhra
Pradesh in the news recently?

Died climbing a mountain in South America

This 4 feet 100 pound sculpture was surreptitiously
installed in a New York park only to be removed by the
authorities later. Whose bust?

The reptile labelled (1) has a name meaning ‘peaks on
the back’ in the native language. Although resembling
most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage. To which
country are they endemic?

the tuatara, endemic to New Zealand.

Who said
"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by
makeup a human being, and only a human being, without
any special attachment to any state or national entity
whatsoever."

The individual depicted by this statue is associated with
an historical event which gives its name to a work of
literature almost half a millennium later. Name both the
individual and the title of the literary work.

Girolamo Savonarola, the Florentine preacher and the 1497
bonfire of the vanities in which thousands of objects such as
cosmetics, art, and books were publicly burned. In 1987, Tom
Wolfe wrote 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', subsequently adapted
into a film starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith.

One of the key highlights of PM Modi's stop in
France this week would be a boat ride with
President Francois Hollande on River Siene.
“It's a sort of '....... .... ..........',” said foreign
Secretary Jaishankar, a nod to the PM's initiative
to connect with the voters during the 2014
elections.
FITB

Of which sovereign state are these two
individuals the co-rulers?

Andorra is correct. Created under a charter in A.D. 988, the
present Principality was formed in A.D. 1278. It is known as a
principality as it is a monarchy headed by two Co-Princes – the
Spanish/Roman Catholic Bishop of Urgell and the President of
France

Under its official website, the White House has set up a page to
explain the Iran nuclear deal to the public at large
Included in the page is this graphic
What is the reason for the use of this specific graphic, other than
the fact that it is being for illustrative purposes

ans: White House trolling Benjamin Netanyahu

Who wrote the original story on which this film
was based?

ans: F Scott Fitzgerald (famous for The Great
Gatsby and other works)

The name of this TV character's club is Verdant
which means 'bright green colour' which is a
subtle nod to his own identity
Who?

ans: Oliver Queen aka Green arrow

A is an 18th-century writer and politician; B is a 19th-
century writer and journalist.
They both gave their names to words, which (separately or
combined) gained prominence due to a recent work of
fiction.
What are the two words, and which work of fiction?

A - Marquis de Sade. B - Leopold
von Sacher-Masoch.
Sadism and Masochism. 'Fifty
Shades of Grey'. All there is to add
is that the phrases were coined by
Richard von Krafft-Ebing.

On which island would you find this?

It is Borobudur, the 9th-century
Mahayana Buddhist Temple in
Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
'The monument consists of six square
platforms topped by three circular
platforms and is decorated with 2,672
relief panels and 504 Buddha statues.
A main dome, located at the center of
the top platform, is surrounded by 72
Buddha statues each of which is
seated inside a perforated stupa. It is
the world’s largest Buddhist temple,
as well as one of the greatest
Buddhist monuments in the world.' -
Wikipedia

19th-century English aristocrats
rivaled one another to become
the first to cultivate rare non-
native plant species. In 1849,
the individual shown here
became the first to bring to
flower this South American
aquatic plant, when he was
working as gardener to the
Duke of Devonshire.
The plant's ribbed undersurface
and leaves veining "like
transverse girders and supports'
subsequently inspired him to
design something else. What?

The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and destroyed by fire in
1936.
'Joseph Paxton... developed his techniques with the Chatsworth Lily House, which
featured a flat-roof version of the ridge-and-furrow glazing, and a curtain wall
system that allowed the hanging of vertical bays of glass from cantilevered beams.
The Lily House was built specifically to house the giant Victoria amazonica
waterlily which had only recently been discovered by European botanists; the first
specimen to reach England was originally kept at Kew Gardens, but it did not do
well. Paxton's reputation as a gardener was so high by that time that he was
invited to take the lily to Chatsworth; it thrived under his care and in 1849 he
caused a sensation in the horticultural world when he succeeded in producing the
first amazonica flowers to be grown in England (his daughter Alice was famously
drawn for the newspapers, standing on one of leaves). The lily and its house led
directly to Paxton's design for the Crystal Palace and he later cited the huge ribbed
floating leaves as a key inspiration.' - Wikipedia

There is a story that he loved the
Cornwall area in the UK so much (
from his stint as Nazi Ambassador
to Britain) that the Luftwaffe
seldom bombed this area during
the Second World war. He
apparently also planned to have his
retirement home there once the
Nazi had conquered Britain!
One of the key figures in the Nazi
establishment, he was eventually
hanged at Nuremberg.
Who?

ans: Joachim von Ribbentrop (Foreign
Minister)

Why is American Baseball
now expecting an influx of
talented players into the
MLB?

ans: Cuban sanctions are expected to be lifted
soon

Connect
a) a 19th century inventor best known for the invention
that bears his name and who disappeared mysteriously
from a ship enroute Britain
b) a denim fashion label that has since branched out
into other luxury goods
c) An actor whose first significant starring role was in in
the film "Saving Private Ryan"

ans: Diesel (Rudolf Diesel; Diesel; Vin Diesel)

This cartoon is a parody of a painting, which in
turn was inspired by a speech.
Who is the painter of the original painting, and
who gave that inspirational speech?

Norman Rockwell is the correct answer.
Inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
'Four Freedoms' State of the Union address in
1941, Rockwell painted his 'Four Freedom'
series of paintings in 1943. The Simpson's
parody is that of 'Freedom From Want'

Hormonal changes in both boys and girls at puberty is
atttributed to this anatomical part that prodigiously
changes bu 90 Degrees in boys and up to 120 Degrees in
girls. What?

Director One was visiting Director Two on the sets of the
latter’s film, before his own film came out. They ended
up arguing which movie would do better — each arguing
for each other's films. To settle the argument a deal was
made - each Director would give the other 2.5% of their
respective stakes in their own film, if it was the most
successful.
As a consequence of this deal, Director Two has ended
up making some USD 40 million so far, without having to
do anything with the production of Director One’s film
Name both Directors
Name both films

Director 1: George Lucas
Director 2: Steven Spielberg
Film 1: Close Encounters of the third kind
Film 2: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

What distinguishes these breeds of cat - Manx, Cymric,
American Bobtail, Japanese Bobtail, Kurilian Bobtail?

What is the common name for Proboscideans from
the genus Mammut?

Which is the only sea on earth
without a land border?

Thelma, a 6m long (20 ft) python that lives in
Louisville zoo, laid over 61 eggs, producing six
healthy babies. Each of her offspring contained
two copies of half her chromosomes. They were
half-clones of Thelma. What is special about
Thelma's babies?

ans: Thelma had become the first reticulated python in
the world known to have had a real-life virgin birth
(Parthenogenesis) . She’d made eggs that contained all
the genetic information required to make a daughter;
without the need for a father, his sperm or DNA. She’d
done it fusing her eggs with a by-product of her dividing
cells, called a polar body. This object played the same
role as sperm would normally, triggering the egg to
develop into an embryo

In her career she had four Grand Slam singles
titles and was ranked No 1 at times. Her
career earnings topped $60 million but it was
revealed in 2012 that she was actually in debt
to Spanish tax authorities as her parents had
'lost' most of her money
Which Tennis star is this?

starting at 01:56 in this trailer is a snippet of q
famous poem. Evidently the poet's father was
going blind when he wrote this poem and the
phrase "The dying of the light" is a reference to
darkness and being blind.
Who is the poet?

ans: Dylan Thomas ..Do not go Gentle into the
Night

The actor who played this DEA agent in a classic
1990-1991 TV series played a leading role in
another hit 1990's TV series, this time as a FBI
agent
Name the actor
Name both serials.

ans: David Duchovny ....Twin Peaks..
the other serial is 'The X Files"

What is remarkable about the outcome of this test?
considering that Test cricket has been played for over 100
years, it is perhaps surprising that this happened for the first
time in Tests only in 2013

ans: suffering an Innings defeat after declaring
the first innings

With which disease would you associate the man shown in
the picture, as well as the map next to it?

Cholera is the right answer
Dr John Snow (pictured) was a believer in the germ theory of cholera, as opposed to
the then-dominant miasma theory. He first publicised his theory in an essay On the
Mode of Communication of Cholera in 1849. In 1855 a second edition was published,
with a much more elaborate investigation of the effect of the water-supply in the
Soho, London epidemic of 1854.
By talking to local residents he identified the cause of the outbreak as the public
water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street), and it was disabled by
removing the pump handle. Snow later used a spot map to illustrate how cases of
cholera were centred around the pump. He also made a solid use of statistics to
illustrate the connection between the quality of the source of water and cholera
cases. He showed that companies taking water from sewage-polluted sections of the
Thames delivered water to homes with an increased incidents of cholera. Snow's
study was a major event in the history of public health, and can be regarded as the
founding event of the science of epidemiology.

Which founder of the Karnataka Quiz Association
(KQA) is now a Member of the Indian Parliament?

Featured in this trailer (starting 01:19 and
intermittently then on) is a song that was made
famous for its use in a 1986 film that made Tom
Cruise (also Val Kilmer) into a star.
Which film?
who is performing the song?

Actress Monica Belluci is playing Cleopatra here in a
2002 adaptation of which work of 'literature?'

ans: The film was ASTERIX: MISSION
CLEOPATRA. adapted from ASTERIX AND
CLEOPATRA

The cover of which novel is shown here, and
what is the phrase, part of which I have
obscured?

'Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-
Dance with Death' (1969) is a satirical novel by Kurt
Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys
through time of a soldier named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally
recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular
work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a
central event makes the novel semi-autobiographical, as
he was present during the bombing.
The story continually employs the refrain "So it goes"
when death, dying, and mortality occur, as a narrative
transition to another subject, as a memento mori, as
comic relief, and to explain the unexplained. It appears
106 times.' - Wikipedia

Between 1945-46, the British tried Indian National
Army (INA) for war crimes. The three most famous
ones, tried at the Red Fort, were colonels Prem
Sahgal and Gurbaksh Dhillion, and Major General
Shahnawaz Khan.
Bhulabhai Desai and Asaf Ali were two of the three
lawyers who defended them. Who was the third?

One of the first so-called 'Spaghetti Westerns,' this
1964 film was actually an unauthorised version of
which 1961 film?

ans: Yojimbo (from Akira Kurosawa)

Constructed near the end of the 12th century, it gives its name to an
event that happened almost eight centuries later. Today it is better
known by the name of a foreigner, rather than its original name in
the native language. Who is this foreigner?

'The Marco Polo Bridge or Lugouqiao is a
famous stone bridge located 15 km southwest
of the Beijing city center in the Fengtai District.
It bridges the Yongding River—a major
tributary of Hai River. The Marco Polo Bridge is
well-known because it was highly praised by
the Venetian traveler Marco Polo during his
visit to China in the 13th century (leading the
bridge to become known in Europe simply as
the Marco Polo Bridge), and for the 20th
century Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which
marked the beginning of the Second Sino-
Japanese War (1937–1945).' - Wikipedia

Freckleface Strawberry, Freckleface Strawberry
Best Friends Forever, Freckleface Strawberry
and the Dodge ball Bully are a series of
children's books written by a Oscar winning star.
Who?

Who is the first recipient of the Khel Ratna
Award?

Goblins are known to be greedy and like to hoard gold
and jewelry. How does J K Rowling make a nod to this in
her Harry Potter series?

ans: they are the bankers at Gringotts

Why was the role of Moroccan actor Mohamen Mehdi
Ouazanni (playing the role of Satan) in a History channel
series called "The Bible" cut from a shorter version of
the drama called 'Son of God?'

Who made a bizzare entry into heavyweight boxing in 2012 and after a
win over Richard Dawson (shown here) quit the sport, after just one
bout?

Shown in this illustration carrying bales of hay, these fictional beings are
portrayed by the author who created them as rather filthy and nasty creatures.
He'll be surprised that a few centuries on, we generally associate their name
with a rather more positive connotation.
What is their name?

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726)
by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits,
resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist
Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of
intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos
are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by
digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and
ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term
"yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse
person"
The Internet company Yahoo!, created in 1994 by David Filo and
Jerry Yang apparently stands for '"Yet Another Hierarchically
Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

The first apparently happened in 1854, when he was on-board a
horse-drawn London bus, whose rocking motion may have lulled
him into a state of reverie.
The second, more definitive episode, happened in the winter of
1861-62, as he dozed in front of a warm fireplace in Ghent, where
he held an academic post at its university.
In 1886, a humorous depiction appeared in the 'Berichte der
Durstigen Chemischen Gesellschaft' with illustrations involving
different creatures from the second episode, but seeking to explain
the same thing.
Who is the individual in question, and the discovery of what am I
describing?

Kekule's dream about the ouroboros and the inference of
the structure of benzene.
The magazine article illustrated the same cyclic structure
with monkeys holding each other's tails.

Which is the only Railway station to
be listed as an UNESCO World
Heritage site?

Chatrapati Sivaji Railway Terminus,Mumbai

The name of this company derives from a line from a
12th-century poem 'Green Jade Table in The Lantern
Festival': 'hundreds and thousands of times, for her I
searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where
the lights were waning, and there she stood.'
When asked about it, the company's founder said, 'The
poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid
chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while
confronted by life's many obstacles...., whose literal
meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent
search for the ideal.'
Which company?

John Surratt,
Mary Surratt,
David Herold,
George Azterodt
Dr. Samuel Mudd,
Samuel Arnold,
Michael O'Laughlen,
Edmund Spangler,
Lewis Powell
Who is missing from this list?

ans: John Wilkes Booth.
These are the co - conspirators.
Mary Surratt became the first
woman executed by the United
States

How does the visual below connect to this
video?
http://www.nospoiler.com/y/-M2jSzLBzK4

ans: Thin Lizzy, a band named for the 'Tin Lizzy'
(the Ford Model T nickname)

Which Christian legend is this 5,137 m peak
associated with? (it has two cones, one of
which is visible here)

ans: Noah's Ark came to rest at Mt. Ararat..

Who is the person in the suit, associated with the
Snowden leaks and named amongst the top 100 Global
Thinkers of 2013?
nospoiler.com - youtube videos sans comments

He has a short stint in International
cricket, featuring as a fast bowler in
the 1980's in the Pakistan cricket
team but what was remarkable
about the cricketer shown here?
(post his playing days, he has had
much success as a coach)

ans: Azeem Hafeez..was missing two fingers on
his right hand (non-bowling hand though)

According to legend, who
guarded the entrance to the
Greek city of Thebes?

what is common (not an exhaustive list) to
these gentlemen
(extra points for naming them)

ans:1 - Andrew Carnegie 2 - Ezra
Cornell 3 - King Saud 4 - Leland
Stanford. All these folks founded
universities - CMU, Cornell, King
Saud and Stanford - and those
institutions still carry their names

What is a Chemoautotrophic
organism or a Chemotrop?
(please dont complicate)

ans: Organisms that live of chemicals and that
don't require light to survive

One of the reasons that this member of the the
minnow family (Danio rerio) interests researchers so
much is that its embryo grows outside the mother and
goes from one cell to almost a full fish in something like
72 hours. Which 'model' organism?

Zebra Fish, it's a model organism
well because its transparent, you
can see the internal organs and
what's happening inside
it was first discovered in a tributary of the
Ganga...

This 17th century statesman shares his real-name with which
South African cricketer, still active on the cricket circuit?

ans: Faf du Plessis - Cardinal Richelieu was
born Armand Jean du Plessis

Which capital city, one of the oldest continuously
inhabited cities in the world, is believed to have been
founded by Shem, one of the sons of Noah?

Researchers studying water from a deep mine near
Ontario determined that the sample was some 2.6
billion years.old based on the Helium in the water. How
does Helium provide a clue to the age of the water?

ans: naturally occurring
Uranium decays over time to
Helium..that can help
calculate the age of the
sample

A cropped section of a famous painting. Who is
the painter?

Raft of the Medusa' by Theodore Gericault. Completed in
1819, depicting a moment from the aftermath of the
wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran
aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5,
1816.

The Nazi SS had its own military force which fought
alongside the regular German army in World war II.
What was it called?
and what single word (not to be confused with a tragic
Punjabi lover of popular lore) was used for the regular
German army of that time?

In 1857, Cambridge Greek scholar Richard Shilleto
complained in the London Times - "the rightly
constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it,
but ... I protest against such a barbarism as
'________.'
What is the missing word?

ans: Telegram..apparently the correct
construction is telepgrapheme

What is the distinction of Ghum railway
station, which is located on the Darjeeling
Himalayan Railway?

ans: at 2,258 metres the highest Railway
station in India

ans: That is the famous crossing featured on the
'Abbey Road' album cover (The Beatles)...and that is
something designed to look like the Yellow
Submarine! (Yellow Submarine is a song and movie
by the Beatles)

In the case of an emergency like an earthquake or a
terrorist bombing which brings in an overwhelming
number of casualties into a hospital, doctors have
no choice but to allocate resources and decide who
to treat, often deciding to abandon those who have
little chance of survival. What is this process of
deciding who to treat in such an emergency called?

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