Connection To A Theme

The individual questions connect to a theme (not exhaustive). Also, Which Indian also qualifies to this inexhaustive list?



1. She is the first (having some personal quality or traits you may say) of her kind to do something. You need to tell me about another person who on the saimilar lines, became the first in California, USA.

Ans.: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the world's first openly LGBT head of government of the modern era. On this line in California, Harvey Bernard Milk became the first openly gay man to be electedto public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.



2. This photograph was essentially tampered with and a big change was made in it and published in the Skeptic Magazine which created a furore among the followers of Sathya Sai Baba. Put Fundaez.

Ans.: In the Nov 2007 Volume 20; No.07 (dated 15-11-2007) issue of his Indian Skeptic Magazine, Premanand tries to pass off a fraudulent black and white photo of Sathya Sai Baba with Idi Amin, who was born in 1925 and died in 2003. This tampered photo is eerily similar to one copyrighted and published in the online RadioSai Newsletter in February 2006 with the caption...Dr G Venkataraman (right) and Sri K. Chakravarthi with Swami after the ceremony. It is obvious that Chakravarthi's image was replaced with Idi Amin who would actually be a year older than then 81 year old Sai Baba if Amin were still alive

3. Identify the singer and the movie.





Ans.: Audrey Hepburn singing ‘Moon Rover’ in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s.



4. Identify the gentleman




Ans.: Ray Charles
This statue is situated at Geenville, Florida.



5. Identify the pianist who came into limelight once again in 1995.

Ans.: David Helfgott


Theme: Real life characters potrayed in movies which won the Academy Awards.

Text Quiz I

1. It is alternatively called 'Patience'. There is an old tradition in the German or Scandinavian countries to use "patience" as a guide to what the near future has to offer, a kind of "luck" meter. This belief assumes that a person’s "luck" will vary from time to time and important matters should not be initiated or conducted when the cards are not favourable. If there are no winnings in the game for a number of tries it spells caution in what you do. If a win at the first try times are good and “luck” smiles at you, thus the immediate future can be used for important decisions. Timing the game is a further indicator of the strength of the outcome. What am I talking about?

Ans.: Solitaire (Card Game)

2. It has been the most decorated molecule in modern science. Atleast 13 people have received Nobel Prizes for their research on this molecule. Which one?

Ans.: Cholesterol

3. In India, Where would you be posting a letter if the PIN Code started with a 9?

Ans.: Army Post office(APO) and Field Post office(FPO)

4. Who holds the world record for the longest serving Defence Minister of a Country.

Ans.: Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother.

5. The Kármán line, named after Theodore von Kármán, is the internationally designated boundary of what?

Ans.: The Kármán line lies at an altitude of 100 km (just over 60 miles) above the Earth's sea level, and is commonly used to define the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space. This definition is accepted by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which is an international standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics.

6. Ram Gopal Varma made Company. Who made Company Limited?

Ans.: Satyajit Ray. (Its the English title of his movie Seemabaddha)

7. In 1988, to commemorate the 100th year of the birth Jawaharlal Nehru, what was introduced with the name being a hindi translation of "100th year"?

Ans.: Shatabdi Express

8.Who was the first Indian to receive royalty from the sale of records?

Ans.: Rabindranath Tagore

9. Pre independence, which brand used to run ads with the following lines: “Makes white clothes stay white. Pure swadeshi and free from animal fat”?

Ans.: Tata 501 soap

10. Which Nobel Prize winner spent all his prize money to buy diamonds and study Spectroscopy?

Ans.: C.V.Raman

Quiz 2010 - 4

1. Who is the deity?

(Hint: Like the Brahma Temple at Pushkar, I think this too is the only temple of this deity)

Ans.: Ravana, this temple is at Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

One sect of Brahmins believe that they are descendants of Ravana, and therefore have constructed a temple there and worship him.

2. Identify this band of brothers.
(Hint: They have scored music for some popular Hindi movie songs)

Ans.: RDB (Rythm, Dhol, Bass), Kuly, Manj and Surj, the guys behind some peppy numbers like the song Singh is Kingg and Rafta Rafta from Namaste London

3. Identify the advertiser.

(Hint: Indian Bank :P)

Ans.: Indian Overseas Bank.

4. Again, Identify the advertiser.





Ans.: History Channel.

5. A served as an inspiration for X and B for Z. Idnetify all

(Hint: Very popular characters)

Ans.: Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (A) served as inspiration for James Bond (X) and Sidney Cotton (B) was inspiration to Q (Z)

6. Identify these dudes

(Hint: They created something, which beacme very famous & is used by all of us, well almost)



Ans.: Rajat Agarwalla & Jayant Agarwalla, creators of the popular online word game Lexulous (formerly Scrabulous)

7. He was the last man to be given a certain kind of treatment. Put fundaez.

Ans.: Hamida Djandoubi, last person to be guillotined

8. Identify the building from its architecture.

(Hint: Though its famous for other reasons.)

Ans.: Babri Masjid

9. Very simple, who fills up the blank




Ans.: US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize:

Theodore Roosevelt (1905)

Woodrow Wilson (1919)

Jimmy Carter, Jr. (2002)

Barack Obama (2009)

10. Hardcore Hollywood question - Complete the series.

(This might turn out to be bad question :P)

Ans.: "Rambo. Terminator. Indiana Jones. Vinny Gambini". This is the tagline of the Joe Pesci movie, My Cousin Vinny

Quiz 2010 -3

1. Astonished? Put fundaez

Ans.: CNN was caught a bit red-faced on 16 April 2003 when they discovered that a technical glitch had made some obituary templates they had prepared for several famous but not-yet-dead persons like Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Fidel Castro , Nelson Mendela etc. accessible to the general public via one of their development web sites, because of a tech glitch.

2. What do these markings signify?





Ans.: These are 'Remaindered Books'.

Remaindered books are books that are no longer selling well and whose remaining unsold copies are being liquidated by the publisher at greatly reduced prices. While the publisher takes a loss on the sales of these books, they're able to make some money off the sale and clear out space in the warehouses.

Copies of remaindered books are marked by the publisher, distributor or bookseller, to prevent them from being returned. "Remainder marks" have varied over the years, but today most remainders are marked with a stroke with a felt-tipped marker across the top or bottom of the book's pages, near the spine. This practice is rare in the UK (where the Sale of Goods Act 1979 protects the purchaser's right to return goods that are not "of merchantable quality", "as described" or "fit for intended purpose") compared with the United States.

3. Sitter!! Identify the place from the satellite pic.

Ans.: The English Channel

4. Connect these books.

Ans.: Books which are set within one day or say a 24 hours timeline

5. Connect the Rugby Club with the Tennis star

Ans.: The London New Zealand Rugby Club

Tim Henman

Aorangi Terrace, colloquially known as "Henman Hill", is an area in the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club where, during the annual Wimbledon tennis championship, crowds of people without showcourt tickets can watch the tennis matches live on a giant television screen at the side of No. 1 Court.The terrace is named after Aorangi Park, the London New Zealand Rugby Club's grounds which were situated on the site until 1981. Since the late 1990s however, the area has been referred to as "Henman Hill", named after the former British player, Tim Henman.

6. This WWII photograph popularized something. What?

Ans.: Ray Ban Aviator sunglasses

The Aviator style was first noticed world-wide during World War ll when worn by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.The Aviator became a well-known style of sunglasses when General Douglas MacArthur landed on the beach in the Philippines in World War II. Photographers snapped several pictures of him wearing them for newspapers, and Americans instantly fell in love with them.

7. What's the mess all about?

Ans.: The photo is 3 September 1967, on which traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.

All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads from 01:00 to 06:00. Any vehicles on the roads during that time had to follow special rules. All vehicles had to come to a complete stop at 04:50, then carefully change to the right-hand side of the road and stop again before being allowed to proceed at 05:00.

8. What is unique about this product?







Ans.: Haathi Chaap is a brand of paper manufactured in Rajasthan, India, out of elephant dung.The water of the dung is used as fertilizers in the field, and the dung is dried up and used to manufacture paper.

First, elephant dung is dried, washed and disinfected, so that only clean fibre remains.

This fibre is sorted to remove all non-dung fibres (which might have stuck to the dung that is often collected from roadsides or reserved forests).

The sorted fibre is boiled for at least four hours in a vat to ensure the fibres are clean and soft.

The manufacturing process thereafter is similar to that of handmade paper. The boiled pulp is then put through pulp beaters. Colours or dyes are added when the pulp is beaten in the beater. Then the pulp is mixed with water, and lifted up on flat sieves, to dry into reams of paper. Once the paper has dried, it is either smoothened by stones or by passing it through a calendering machine to make it smooth and usable. http://www.elephantpoopaper.com/

9.These two paintings were painted together by two famous people (though famous not as painters). Identify the painters.







Ans.: Michael Jackson and Macauley Culkin. They poainted these together at the Neverland Ranch

10. Interesting advertisement for an interesting product. Whats the product?

Ans.: Sanitizes Tape Worms to keep you slim.

Quiz 2010 - 2

1. Identify the loving father and the great son

Ans.: Ramesh Tendulkar and son Sachin Tendulkar.

2. A question inspired by the Kumbh Mela :

Why do the Sadhus smoke Charas, Hashish etc.?

Ans.: Sadhu smoking charas, a common practice amongst Sadhus(mostly Shaivite) to suppress and eventually destroy their sexual desire and just concentrate on meditation.

3. Identify

Ans.: Goddess Saraswati (Thuyathadi in Burmese) represented in Bamar fashion, seated on a hamsa, and holding scriptures of the Tipitaka, by a river.


4. XKCD Parody of which famous story?






Ans.: The Gift of the Magi


5. Connect the ladies to a fictional character.

Ans.: Sir Harry Paget Flashman

Flashman's stories are dominated by his numerous amorous encounters. Several of them are with prominent historical personages. These women are sometimes window dressing, sometimes pivotal characters in the unpredictable twists and turns of the books. Among the real women Flashman bedded, some were:

Jind Kaur, Dowager Maharani of Punjab (Flashman and the Mountain of Light).

Lakshmibai, Dowager Rani of Jhansi (Flashman in the Great Game) (a dancing girl may have taken the rani's place)

Lillie Langtry, actress and mistress of Edward VII (Flashman and the Tiger)

Lola Montez (Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert James) (Royal Flash).

Yehonala, Imperial Chinese concubine, later the Dowager Empress Ci Xi (Flashman and the Dragon).

6. Connect






Ans.: An antimacassar is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric.The name is attributable to macassar oil, an unguent for the hair commonly used in the early 19th century. The fashion for oiled hair became so widespread in the Victorian and the Edwardian period that housewives began to cover the arms and backs of their chairs with washable cloths to preserve the fabric coverings from being soiled. Around 1850, these started to be known as antimacassars. They were also installed in theatres, from 1865.

The Macassar oil originated from Makassar, a town port in Indonesia.

7. Connect

Ans.: Rupee - the common name for the currencies used in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, and Seychelles, Indonesia and Maldives, which are cognate words of Hindi rupiya

8. This is an advertisement for an innovative service. Put Fundaez






Ans.: Fazilka, a small town in Punjab is the first place in India to implement a Call-A-Cab format for calling rickshaws. This was implemented as a part of IIT project and is highly successful.

9. A website displays pictures like this, as a promotion. Put fundaez.

Ans.: www.bhopalwater.com packs water in bottles, which is not suitable for consumption. The water is highly contaminated due to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The website write :

The unique qualities of our water come from 25 years of slow-leaching toxins at the site of the world's largest industrial accident.

To this day, Dow Chemical — who bought Union Carbide — has refused to clean up and whole new generations are being poisoned.

10. Where in India could you find this scene?

Ans.: Near the Bhikhiwind village in the Khemkaran area, a strip of land was called

Patton Nagar for a short while in 1965. It was here that more than 60 tanks of the Pakistani army were displayed at the end of the September India-Pakistan conflict. The Pakistan Army tanks were captured at the Battle of Asal Uttar by India's 4 Mountain Division and it became a memorial to the Pakistani tanks being bogged down in the marshes during the 1965 War. The tanks were displayed for some time after which they were shipped to various cantonments and army establishments for display as war trophies.

Quiz 2010-1

1. Id the Child (prodigy)

(Clue: he has a golden voice too)

Ans.: Bappi Lahiri, he started giving stage performances of his table playing skills at a very early age

2) This real prison camp inspired the creation of a fictional prison camp. Put fundaez.

(Clue: it was really bad there in the original camp, infact it was ugly)

Ans.: This is the Andersonville Prison which inspired Sergio Leone to create Betterville Camp for his movie The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

3) Connect

(Clue: I think - 'Rum Bhulaye Ghum' started from this)

Ans.: Old Monk (the third largest selling Rum in the world) is a product of Mohun Meakin Brewery (earlier Solan Breweries) which was founded by Edward Dyer, father of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer who commanded the soldiers to open fire at Jallianwala Bagh.

4) Identify

Ans.: Rubik's 360

5) Who? Going Where?

(Clue: The Princess is going to meet her Prince)

Ans.: Grace Kelly on the way to be married in Monaco trying out the captain’s sextant on board the liner SS Constitution.

6.) Bank note of?

(Clue: Seldom used)

Ans.: Antarctica

7) Whose tomb?

(Clue: You have the freedom to search for this on any medium)

Ans.: Martin Luther King's & Coretta Scott King's tomb, located on the grounds of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site

8.Who played the mouth organ in this evergreen song?

Ans.: Rahul Dev Burman

9.Kolkata Biryani is far spicier than its other cousins, and distinguishes itself by its use of potatoes which absorbs the stock and spices during the cooking process. However, robustness rather than delicacy defines this biryani. The arrival of Biryani in Calcutta is attributed to which Historical event?

Ans.: The biryani moved to Calcutta when last ruler of Awadh, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was deposed by the British to Calcutta.

Q10) The Bassist + The Fictional Character = ?

(Clue: The resultant character has become an icon and perhaps will be forever)

Ans.: Heath Ledger based his character of Joker for the Batman film The Dark Knight on the Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and A Clockwork Orange’s Alex as in the Kubrick film.

The Utterly Butterly Amul Ad Quiz

Q1)

Ans.: On compulsory sterilisation introduced during Indira Gandhi regime

Q2)

Ans.: Amul congratulates the success of the first test-tube baby

Q3)

Ans.: Kramer Vs Kramer

Q4)

Ans.: Margaret Thatcher elected as a first woman Prime Minister of England

Q5)

Ans.: A comment on famous movie `Godfather'.

Q6)

Ans.: CIA accuses Shri Morarji Desai of corruption

Q7)

Ans.: Cloud seeding experiment to get rains.

Q8)

Ans.: Issue on national unity.

Q9)

Ans.: The IPKF efforts to bring peace in Sri Lanka.

Q10)

Ans.: The approval of the Panchayat Raj bill by the government.

Q11)

Ans.: Jumma Chumma de de.... A chartbuster from the Hindi film "HUM"

Q12)

Ans.: Romance casts its spell, as the rich, spoilt brat girl falls for a poor reporter in the box-office hit comedy, DIL HAI KE MAANTA NAHI.

Q13)

Ans.: Tribute to director Satyajit Ray.

Q14)

Ans.: On the gaining popularity of the soap "The Bold and Beautiful" on Star TV.

Q15)

Ans.: During civil riots in Bombay.

Q16)

Ans.: Amitabh Bachchan on doing the Aby Baby song.

Q17)

Ans.: When Yanni played at the Taj

Q18)

Ans.: On Hong Kong becoming a part of China.

Q19)

Ans.: When Arundati Roy won the Booker Prize.

Q20)

Ans.: VDIS Scheme by the Income Tax Department.

Hope it was Utterly Butterly Delicous :)