High School Musical

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1) No need to give me the identification of all these great people, just give me the musical connection.

Ans.: All mentioned/referred to in Madonna's song Vogue.

(Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Joe DiMaggio, MarlonBrando, James Dean, Grace Kelly, Jean Harlow, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire,Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, LanaTurner, and Bette Davis)

2) Put Fundaez.

Ans.: "God Save the Queen" was the second single released by the punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and reached number two in the British charts. Its lyrics, as well as the cover, were controversial at the time, and the BBC refused to play the song.

3) Whats is the unique Claim to Fame of this album?

Ans.: It is the only Billboard Top 10 hit where both the name of the groupand the song were palindromes.

4) Simple...Connect

Ans.: In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Three songs from old Hindi movies can be heard played in the back ground. "Mera Man Tera Pyaasa" from the movie "Gambler" performed by Mohammed Rafi, "Tera Sang Pyaar Mein" performed by Lata Mangeshkar, "Wada Na Tod" by Lata Mangeshkar from the movie "Dil Tujhko Diya" (when Clementine invites Joel to her apartment for a drink). All the three songs are listed in the original soundtrack credits.

5) Connect

Ans.: Inside Man and Sapna Awasthi. The song Chaiyya Chaiyya was used in the opening and end credits of the movie, which was sung by Sukhwinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi.

6) Fill in the blanks.

"Some live and die in debt
Others making millions on the internet
Contradictions, city of extremes
Everthing is possible in_____________"

Ans.: Bombay Dream!!

7) Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the famed classical singer is supposed to have sung for only
one film in his entire career. Which one?

Ans.: Mughal-E-Azam. He sang "Prem Jogan Ban Jaye" in Raga Sohoni and "Shubh Din Aayo".

The Sound of Music

1.The song tells the story of a pimp-like "afro-gipsy, rastafari" character named Diego who walks into a crowded nightclub at midnight, and the DJ, as he sees Diego walk in, plays the "twelve-o'clock anthem", "the song he desires most", which happens to be the 1979 rap hit "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang. Its first verse: "I say the hip hop, the hippie...", pronounced phonetically in Spanish, the way it would sound to someone who does not understand English, becomes the song's chorus. Although technically meaningless and sometimes referred to as gibberish, the chorus is a more-or-less phonetic pronunciation of the first verse almost in its entirety.Which Chartbuster?

Ans.: The Las Ketchup Song


2.They specialized in Andalusian folk music, especially "sevillanas", the most typical and light music of Andalusia. For a number of years, They were known for attending private "jet-set" parties at Marbella.Their name is Spanish for Those from the River, referring to the Guadalquivir or the Guadaira. Which duo am I talking about?

Ans.: Los Del Rio


3. Whose Logo



























Ans.: Dr.Alban
























4.This is the cover of a smash hit album. Identify and Put Fundaez.
































Ans.: Metallica's Load. The cover of the album is original artwork entitled "Semen and Blood III." It is one of three photographic studies by Andres Serrano created in 1990 by mingling the artist's own semen and bovine blood between two sheets of Plexiglas.






























5.Homage is played to the iconic dog (Nipper) and gramophone image in the 1999 feature film Wild Wild West where in the 43rd minute a dog resembling Nipper runs to the side of a recently departed character and looks into an ear horn. What is logically wrong with the scene?

Ans.: The film is set in 1869, 30 years before Francis Barraud created Nipper.

6. He earned a Ph.D. from the Columbia University, New York in 1954, submitting a dissertation titled 'Proposals for preparing India's basic education to use audio-visual techniques in adult education'.Who is he?

Ans.: Dr.Bhupen Hazarika


7.Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Kamal Hasan, Jeetendra, Waheeda Rehman, Hema Malini,Tanuja, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Om Puri, Dina Pathak, Mallika Sarabhai Mario Miranda, Mrinal Sen, Bhimsen Joshi, M Balamuralikrishna, Lata Mangeshkar, Narendra Hirwani, S Venkataraghavan, Prakash Padukone, Arun Lal, PK Banerjee, Syed Kirmani, Meenakshi Sheshadri appeared in it. What am I talking about?

Ans.: The video of the song Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, created by Lok Seva Sanchar Parishad and promoted by Doordarshan. It gained a near national-anthem status. (Everyone knows about this thing, why am i blabbering!! ;) )