DQF New Year's Party Pub Quiz.. 31st December 2010

1. QUIZZICS

2. RULES: 1. NO RULES, ONLY MY RULES!!! 2. m.i.b. TO BE FOLLOWED. 3. 10 POINTS FOR A BINGO. 4. AND, THE UNIVERSAL GOLDEN RULE: “MY DECISION IS FINAL”.

3. Q1. Where on Earth will you find this?

4. Answer: CERN, Switzerland.

5. Q2. In the mid-1970s, X worked at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy Of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest. Although it is widely reported that Y was built as a teaching tool to help his students understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. X did not realize that he had created his tool to fame (Y)until the first time he scrambled his new Y and then tried to restore it. Crack X and Y.

6. ANSWER: X : Erno Rubik Y :The Rubik’s Cube

7. Q3. King Sisyphus of Corinth was punished in hell for bad things he had done in life with the never ending task of rolling a heavy stone uphill. Each time he rolled it up, it would roll down and he had to start all over again. That’s the story from which an English literary word is derived. Literal Meaning : Uphill task, often unprofitable and laborious. What word am I talking about ?

8. Answer: Sisyphean Task.

9. Q4. Connect the two with the song.

10. Answer: WEB BROWSERS PIC 1: Mozilla Firefox. PIC 2: TATA Safari. THE SONG: Iron Maiden’s: Phantom Of The “Opera”.

11. Q5. 2000 2001 2001 2010 2005 2005

12. ANSWER: PIC 1(2000): HARSHVARDHAN NAWATHE PIC 2(2001): RAVI MOHAN SAINI PIC 3(2001): VIJAY AND ARUNDHATI RAUL PIC 4(2005): AJAY DEVGAN AND KAJOL PIC 5(2005): BRAJESH DUBEY PIC 6(2010): RAHAT TASLIM. THESE ARE THE ONLY RS. 1 CRORE WINNERS IN KBC.

13. Q6. Depiction of What?

14. ANSWER: Maradona’s “HAND OF GOD”

15. Q7. Who’s this and what is he doing ?

18. ANSWER: FC BAYERN MUNICH

19. Q9. Which yesteryears organization’s headquarter ?

20. ANSWER: Gestapo headquarters in Prinz-Albrecht-Street in Berlin (1933).

21. Q10. In an interview by an IANS reporter in 2004, he said, ”I have dedicated my entire life to this game, and there’s no looking back. Y has promised me that he would provide me with the tickets of all international matches played in the country, and he is living up to his words. I have been presenting him 1,000 litchis every year since 2004 in appreciation for the match tickets that Y gives me. I have also presented litchis to Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly. And I have promised Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh that I would also send them the litchis this year”. Crack X and Y.

22. ANSWER: X : Sudhir Kumar Chaudhaury Y : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

23. Q11. Last year, this news spread quickly online, causing websites to slow down and crash from user overload. Both TMZ and the Los Angeles Times suffered outages. Google initially believed that the input from millions of people meant that the search engine was under attack. Twitter reported a crash,as did Wikipedia at 3:15 p.m. AOL Instant Messenger collapsed for 40 minutes. AOL called it a "seminal moment in Internet history", adding, "We've never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.“ Well, what was the event ?

24. ANSWER: The Death Of “King Of Pop”, Michael Jackson(1958-2009).

25. Q12. This man got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. He chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. After completing basic training, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His commanding officers and fellow soldiers considered him to be a subpar soldier: he slept while on duty, had little regard for regulations, required constant supervision, and showed no skill as a marksman. For these reasons, his commanding officers submitted a request that he be discharged from the military after he had served only one year. Anyways, lets not overpower the negative aspect of him. Just tell me who?

26. ANSWER: Jimmy Hendrix(1942 - 1970).

27. Q13. The roots of this movement lie in the battlefield of Solferino, where in 1859 Franco – Sardinian forces were trying to drive out the Austrians from Italy. A Swiss businessman, Jean Henry Dunant, saw that thousands of wounded soldiers had been left to die. He organized help from a nearby and arranged care for the wounded, regardless of their nationality. Thus he expanded this movement and is now one of the most famous movements on this planet. Which movement ?

28. ANSWER: Red – Cross Movement.

29. Q14. TIMES Magazine’s Top 10 Sporting Moments for the year 2010 : Detroit Tigers Armando Perfect Game Robbery. LeBron James heads to Miami Heat. The final minute of the National Basketball Title Game. James Harrison’s hit on Massaquoi. Handball by Luis Suarez against Ghana in FIFA WC 2010. Graeme MacDowell’s Amazing Birdie in Ryder Cup Singles match vs. Hunter Mahan. The New Orleans Saints wins Superbowl XLIV 31-17. Isner vs. Mahut Match Point at Wimbledon 2010. Joannie Rochett – 2010 Winter Olympics Ladies Figure Skating. _____________________ ?

30. ANSWER: Sachin Tendulkar’s 200 run ODI feat against SA.

31. Q15. Whose letter to whom ?

32. ANSWER: A letter written by the 14-year-old Castro to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, expressing admiration and asking for a $10 bill. In the letter Castro claims to be "twelve years old" and writes, "If you like, give me a ten dollar bill green American, because never, I have not seen a ten dollar bill," signing the letter, "Thank you very much. Good bye. Your friend, Fidel Castro."

33. Q16. AMUL paying tribute to ?

34. ANSWER: JRD Tata. ‘aapro’ in the pic means ‘Our’ in Gujrati.

35. Q17.

36. ANSWER: Elie Wiesel, writer and Nobel Laureate and a survivor of the Holocaust. Author of Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchen-wald concentration camps.

37. Q18. What ?

38. ANSWER: Map of the LHC(Large Hedron Collider).

39. Q19. A Sitter : Just Connect.

42. Q21. Connect.

44. Winston Churchill – May 7, 1969.

45. Walt Disney – May 24, 1968.

46. Harry S Truman – May 8, 1984.

47. Aung San Suu Kyi – May 5, 2008.

50. Sporting Rivalries :

51. Cricket matches between Yorkshire and Lancashire.

52. Football matches between Manchester Utd. And Leeds Utd.

54. ANSWER: Nunchuks

55. Q24. X initially auditioned for a role that eventually went to someone else. However, the producer and director were so tickled by X’s funny accent, and how his words and his gestures and gesticulations had no co-ordination, that they decided to write an entirely new role for X, despite the fact that X could not even speak the language that the film was being made in, and even though he memorized his lines, X spoke them with a thick accent, and often confused the genders. Identify X, and the character he played in the film.

56. ANSWER: X : Omi Vaidya a.k.a. Chatur. Needless to mention, he played Chatur in the film 3 Idiots.

57. Q25. Connect.

59. Traffic Signal.

60. Fashion.

62. ANSWER: Lord Horatio Kitchener’s poster during WW II influencing the youth of Great Britain to join the British Army in their fight during the WW II

63. Q27. According to Anupama Chopra of NDTV this Bollywood film is a remake of the 1966 Italian film After The Fox. Which recent bollywood movie ?

64. ANSWER:

65. Q28. What memorial ?

66. ANSWER: Memorial to the victims of the Hamburg bombings. Inscription reads: "On the night of 30th July 1943, 370 persons perished in the air-raid shelter on the Hamburgerstrasse in a bombing raid. Remember these dead. Never again fascism. Never again war".

67. Q29. THE GAMBLE Part I

69. 2nd Slide : +5, -4.

70. 3rd Slide : +4, -3.

71. 4th Slide : +3, -2.

72. 5th Slide : +2, -1.

73. 6th Slide : +1, .Here we GO!!!!!

83. 4th Slide : Paris Hilton (just love her)– Paris, Trojan Prince. Penelope Cruz – Odysseus’s wife in Trojan War.

84. 5th Slide : Apollo 11 – Apollo, God of Sun. Hercules mountain cycle – Hercules, Greek Demigod.

86. The marking scheme : 1st Slide : +7, -6. 2nd Slide : +6, -5. 3rd Slide : +5, -4. 4th Slide : +4, -3. 5th Slide : +3, -2. 6th Slide : +2, -1. 7th Slide : +1, . Its SHOWTIME!!!!

96. 2nd Slide : “Bucks” Fizz, a cocktail made from orange juice and Champagne – Milwaukee Bucks. “H.E.A.T”, a Swedish Rock band – Miami Heat.

97. 3rd Slide : Shane Warne, also known as “Wizard” of Spin – Washington Wizards. The band in Rock On is “Magik” – Orlando Magic.

99. 6th Slide : Buck-eye “Hawk” – Atlanta Hawks. A “Piston” – Detroit Pistons.

101. The end. Nahi……………. 