3. 1. Lets start with the Vighnaharta himself. What connects Ganesha’s fight with Parashurama while the former followed his father’s instructions and did not let anyone disturb his parents, and, Ganesha writing the Mahabharata as Vyasa recited it?
4. 2. Connect the James Bond films superficially: Dr No, The Man with the Golden Gun and Goldfinger.
5. 3. X was once asked by the host in a party if he would like his tea with lemon or cream. “Both,” he replied. The host’s reaction became the title of one of the books written by X. Id X.
6. 4. X was originally a small poem, describing the victory of one clan of relatives over others in war. Back then, it was called the ‘Jaya’. How do we know it in its evolved form today?
7. 5. Connect Sunny Deol, Shilpa Shetty, George Orwell and Praveen Mishra (of Jaquizzi).
8. 6. The committee that gives out the Oscar awards has a clause that specifies something that the awardees must do before they can sell their Oscar statuettes to someone else, or even in the grey market. This clause helps prevent a second-hand market of such statuettes. What is the clause?
9. 7. Currently, Saurav Ganguly is conducting a quiz show called Dadagiri on a Bengali television channel. The last round of this show, the rapid fire round, is called ‘Baapi Bari Jaa’, which, loosely translated, means , ‘Go home, boy!’ What is the funda behind this nomenclature?
10. 8. “Leave the gun, take the Cannoli,” “…take to the mattresses,” and “Maunday Tuesday, Thursday Wednesday…” are all excerpts of dialogues from The Godfather. However, these were also used in a romantic comedy where one of the protagonists explained how The Godfather had the answer to all of life’s questions. What was the romantic comedy?
11. 9. We all know Safdar Hashmi and Emraan Hashmi. But how do we know Tabassum Hashmi better?
12. 10. Which song, sung by Kishore Kumar, was played on the first day of every month on the radio station Radio Ceylon?
13. 11. Sanjay Leela Bhansali had conceptualised the film Black while working on his first film ever, which featured a lot of the dialogues being spoken in sign language because two of the characters in the film were deaf and mute. Who played these two characters?
14. 12. X never called himself a detective, but someone who was looking for the truth. X met his wife while solving one of his own cases. X was also the subject of the film which got an Oscar winner the first National Award for Best Picture in his country, although the film in question is said to be the director’s weakest. Id X.
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