It is a F.L.A.M.E.S. quiz conducted by Me and Pratyush Pran Sarma at Cotton College, Guwahati, as a part of the Crowd Funding Independence day quiz fest.
8. Rules :
1. 30 questions in the ELIMINATORS.
2. 1 point for each correct answer/s of a question, no negative points.
So, go for guesses !!
3. Starred questions decide tie, 1,5,10,15,20,25,30 are starred.
4. The quiz masters (us, -_-) have researched all the questions, and
have tried to cross-check almost every info. Any resemblance to
questions in other blogs/pages/quizzes are purely coincidental. But
there may be arguments, and we would like to handle that after the
quiz. We are not Gods, neither the Bosses, we are mere humans. So
have pity on us
5. Switch off mobile phones, and silence is what we love the most !!
11. What did it inspire ?
2
KOOL is a well known brand of menthol cigarettes.
They started advertising with the character, Willie.
Willie was seen portraying different jobs, like that of
doctor, chef, soldier, etc., but the most famous being
the one where dressed as a gentleman in tuxedos
and a top hat.
12.
13. What is X ?
3
These threatened harvest mouse,
mostly found in Surrey National
Park, are known for making
spherical home for their survival.
For improving their health, recently,
150 numbers of ‘X’ have been used
as their alternative home.
(remember, it is a FLAMES quiz!)
14. What are these bags called ?
4
These are two videos from The Hangover and Guardians of
the Galaxy. Here we can see the actors wearing a bag, that
has been quite famous among the school and college children.
We can also see Indiana Jones wearing one.
15. Id the author !
5
‘X’, the famous author picked up his pseudonym from a
musical group.
The idea behind taking a pseudonym was to test whether he
could replicate his success again and to allay his fears that his
popularity was an accident and an another reason was that,
during that time, the publishing houses didn’t want to publish
more than one book by the same author in a single year,
because they thought that more than one book by the same
author would not be cherished by the readers.
16. Wiki – description of which Indian short
film ??
Here one royal face of Rajasthani man, there one goat
roaming in front of a tiger model, standing and looking into the
infinite skies centuries together of a ruin, a hawk flying into the
blue seas, dispersing of the school children with cries listening to
the school – bell, woman bathing at the river bank, lines in the
desert, an anklet lying over there among the lines, a window
with a beautiful sculpture, a dirty canal in front of a house….like
this, from one thing to another, like a child`s heart, like a
sparrow, the camera moves…in between, a lantern, an
umbrella, a sandal appear…
6
17. Cover of which famous album ?
7
At first, they selected this cover photo of
Time magazine in 1986 as the cover of their
album, but Geffen refused it by saying it
was “in bad taste”.
After rejecting a painting by Robert
Williams, finally they selected a tattoo,
designed by Billy White Jr. They loved the
tattoo, because they could represent their
band with this tattoo in an unique way!
18. The nickname/ X ?
8
Villareal Club de Futbol, S.A.D.,
usually called Villareal CF, or just
Villareal, is a Spanish football
club. It was founded in 1923, and
plays in La Liga.
It is nicknamed as “X” due to its
kit and being a low-profiled team
comparing to its opponents.
19. Who is the dialogist(writer of the dialogues)
and the subject of the movie?
9
20. Whom(X) is it named after ?
10
This is a summer sweet dessert
originating in New Zealand and
eaten both in New Zealand and
Australia throughout the year. It is
most popular during the Christmas
and is made of egg whites, caster
sugar, fruit, etc. The dessert is
believed to have been created in
honour of “X” either during or after
one of “X”`s tours to Australia and
New Zealand in the 1920s.
21. Which painting ?
11
This is one of the most iconic painting , which captured a
historical event of 1960.
The model for the painting was a little girl Lynda Gunn. Gunn
posed for five days, her feet propped at angles with blocks of
wood in order to emulate walking. On the final day, Gunn was
joined by the Stockbridge Chief of Police and three US Marshals
from Boston. Interestingly the artist also shot a number of
photographs of his own legs taking steps, in order to have more
references of folds and creases in walking men’s pant legs.
22. Which movie to be released in
September ??
12
‘X’ is an upcoming American biographical thriller-
drama film. The director is Robert Zemeckis. The film is
based on a French high-wire artist who is known for
his famous walk between the roofs of the Twin Towers
of the World Trade Centre on a high wire. Also there is
a children`s picture book, “The Man Who Walked
Between the Towers”, and a 2008 British documentary,
“Man on Wire” based on him.
23. Who is the painter(X)?
13
Only one time in his life, he organized an art exhibition. The
exhibition titled “Paintings by ‘X’” was organized at Nalbari’s
‘Shri Bharati Sangrohaloy’s Pakobi’06 Art Gallery, on 15th
November, in the year 2009.
One of his paintings depicts a small boy from the rear, standing
in the tentative transitory path between childhood and youth
while the another painting depicted a girl with a red bindi on
her forehead.
The exhibition was inaugurated by the assamese author
Anuradha Sarma Pujari and said “ ‘X’ represented Love in
green colours!!”
24. The author and the Novel (X and Y) ??
Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander
Pushkin. It is a classic Russian literature, and its
eponymous protagonist has been the inspiration of many
other Russian literary heroes. It was translated by Charles
Johnston.
The translation by Johnston has inspired X, an Indian
author, to write his first novel, Y. The work is a novel in
verse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas with the same
rhyme scheme as that of Eugene Onegin.
14
25. Give me the film!
15
This is the cover page of the
script of a film sketched by the
director himself and features
the central character of the
film.
On December 5, 2014
the Orion spacecraft took this
sketch on the first test flight of
the unmanned Exploration
Flight Test 1 (EFT-1).
26.
27. What is this album based on ?
16
Leviathan is the second album by
American heavy metal band Mastodon. It
was released in 2004 by Relapse Networks.
The album contains songs like, Blood and
Thunder, Seabeast, Iron Tusk, Island, Aqua
Dementia, Hearts Alive, etc.
28. What is his unique claim to fame?
17
He is an Indian cricketer born in 1905, Benares. His nickname
was coined by Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, at Hotel
Victoria.
His most influential time in his career comes when he was
named the captain for Indian Cricket team after lobbying and
manipulation, for the 1936 tour of England. Due to his poor
captaincy, the whole team splitted between those who
supported and those who criticised the captain. In the 1st test
match, he offered Mushtaq Ali a gold watch to run out Vijay
Merchant. Now while India lost the series easily, something
happened and he got a unique distinction!
29. Who is the famous personality „X‟
Fashion Blason is a 2008
jewellery line of Louis Vuitton,
Designed by Camille Miceli
and ‘X’. The designs are in
yellow and white and show
aristocracy. The success of the
design lies in the fact that ‘X’ is
not a designer, but is a quit
different field.
18
32. Who is „X‟?
Living Kitchen is a line of kitchen
items, which is joint design effort
with Sebastian Conran and ‘X’, and
has been around since 2003.
Includes a series of classic
stonewere everyday essentials
featuring cappuccino cups, teapots
and mixing bowls. Also features
melamine utensils including
colanders, measuring cups and
citrus juicers, as well as a range of
heat-proof flameware.
20
33. 21
ID the painter and his famous art work
series ‘X’!
He is one of the famous artist of his country. He was
awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956 and thus
he made history. His wife is also a famous French artist,
Janine Mongillat.
His most famous artwork series is called ‘X’. The
inspiration behind this artwork series have been his
elementary school teacher, who drew a ‘X’ on the
blackboard and asked the artist to concentrate on it!
34. 22
Which event inspired Omar Syed to
create this game?
Arimaa is a board game ,invented by an Indian American
computer Engineer Omar Syed in 2003. “Arimaa” is “Amir”
spelled backwards plus an initial “a”. This invention won
various award in recent times.
Arimaa is played on an 8*8 board with four trap squares.
The two players, Gold and Silver, each controlled sixteen
pieces. These are: One elephant, one camel, two cats and
eight rabbits.
36. 24
Just name her sister „X‟
She (picture on next slide) was born in 1879, and was 11
years older than her sister ‘X’. She attempted a career as a
writer, and couldn’t be successful. She wrote a play, The
Claimant, based on a real case, called the Tichborne case. The
play enjoyed a short run in the year 1924.
She, once, challenged her sister ’X’ to write a story. Their
mother had suggested them to write stories to alleviate the
boredom. Then the challenge was completed after eight years
and her sister ‘X’ wrote the first story of her career.
37.
38. 25
In where we can see these two
paintings?
These are two paintings
by Ruth Elisiv Ekeland.
She is a Oslo, Norway
based artist, most
famous for poster and
cover art design.
39. Which book ??
_____ ___ __ _ _______ is the sequel to famous book,
published in 1900, 11 years after the prequel was
published. The sequel has almost the same story
outline, but this time the protagonists go on a bicycle
tour through the Black Forest, Germany.
The last word in the book`s name had no translation in
English, although the writer wrote that the word meant
a journey where one had to reach home in a certain
time limit.
26
40. 27
The headquarters of the organisation is in New York City near the lower
East 40’s United Nations.
The official logo of the organisation is a black globe with some lines of
longitude and latitude. Black concentric rings surround the glob; to the
right of it is a black silhouette of a man in a black suit and a black band
beneath the globe and the man features the name of the organisation in
the “Decorated 035” font. The logo is superimposed on a map of the
world continents with no country borders ( which represents their
philosophy) and blue seas.
Which Organisation?
41. Which product am I talking about ??
28
It all began in 1938 when an umpire complained a third base
coach about the sorry condition of the balls used by the
league. Back then a ball was prepped simply with mud made
of water and dirt from the playing field. The coach took on the
challenge. Next time he returned to his home in Burlington
County, he checked out the mud along tributaries of the
Delaware River until he found some muck (the whereabouts of
the mud hole is still a dark secret) with a texture he felt would
do the job. He tested it and it worked like a charm! It had no
odor and didn't turn the balls black. The umpires were happy,
and he was soon in the business.
42. ID ‘X’ & ‘Y’?
29
This song originated as the French song called "As Usual", written by the
composers Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault. ‘X’ discovered this song
while visiting France and re-wrote the lyrics as “Y" .
This is a very popular Karaoke song, but one you should probably avoid in
The Philippines. As detailed in a February 6, 2010 article in the New York
Times, many violent incidents have taken place following Karaoke
performances of the song “Y”. So every violent Incidents related to it was
described as ‘Y Killing’.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder requested “Y" for his final
send-off. More than seven million television viewers watched tears well up
in his eyes as a military band saw him off with a version of this song.
43. What is the name of this sleeve ??
30
A long, tight sleeve with a puff at
the top is a kind of sleeve that was
inspired by fashions of the Italian
Renaissance and named after “X”.
“X” is popular from
the Empire period through
the 1820s in fashion, and again in
the late 1960s under the influence
of Franco Zeffirelli film based on
the same story.
47. What did it inspire ?
2
KOOL is a well known brand of menthol cigarettes.
They started advertising with the character, Willie.
Willie was seen portraying different jobs, like that of
doctor, chef, soldier, etc., but the most famous being
the one where dressed as a gentleman in tuxedos
and a top hat.
50. What is X ?
3
These threatened harvest mouse,
mostly found in Surrey National
Park, are known for making
spherical home for their survival.
For improving their health, recently,
150 numbers of ‘X’ have been used
as their alternative home.
(remember, it is a FLAMES quiz!)
52. What are these bags called ?
4
These are two videos from The Hangover and Guardians of
the Galaxy. Here we can see the actors wearing a bag, that
has been quite famous among the school and college children.
We can also see Indiana Jones wearing one.
55. Id the author !
5
‘X’, the famous author picked up his pseudonym from a
musical group.
The idea behind taking a pseudonym was to test whether he
could replicate his success again and to allay his fears that his
popularity was an accident and an another reason was that,
during that time, the publishing houses didn’t want to publish
more than one book by the same author in a single year,
because they thought that more than one book by the same
author would not be cherished by the readers.
57. Wiki – description of which Indian short
film ??
Here one royal face of Rajasthani man, there one goat
roaming in front of a tiger model, standing and looking into the
infinite skies centuries together of a ruin, a hawk flying into the
blue seas, dispersing of the school children with cries listening to
the school – bell, woman bathing at the river bank, lines in the
desert, an anklet lying over there among the lines, a window
with a beautiful sculpture, a dirty canal in front of a house….like
this, from one thing to another, like a child`s heart, like a
sparrow, the camera moves…in between, a lantern, an
umbrella, a sandal appear…
6
59. Cover of which famous album ?
7
At first, they selected this cover photo of
Time magazine in 1986 as the cover of their
album, but Geffen refused it by saying it
was “in bad taste”.
After rejecting a painting by Robert
Williams, finally they selected a tattoo,
designed by Billy White Jr. They loved the
tattoo, because they could represent their
band with this tattoo in an unique way!
60. Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses
Each skulls representing one member of the 5 members band!
61. The nickname/ X ?
8
Villareal Club de Futbol, S.A.D.,
usually called Villareal CF, or just
Villareal, is a Spanish football
club. It was founded in 1923, and
plays in La Liga.
It is nicknamed as “X” due to its
kit and being a low-profiled team
comparing to its opponents.
65. Whom(X) is it named after ?
10
This is a summer sweet dessert
originating in New Zealand and
eaten both in New Zealand and
Australia throughout the year. It is
most popular during the Christmas
and is made of egg whites, caster
sugar, fruit, etc. The dessert is
believed to have been created in
honour of “X” either during or after
one of “X”`s tours to Australia and
New Zealand in the 1920s.
67. Which painting ?
11
This is one of the most iconic painting , which captured a
historical event of 1960.
The model for the painting was a little girl Lynda Gunn. Gunn
posed for five days, her feet propped at angles with blocks of
wood in order to emulate walking. On the final day, Gunn was
joined by the Stockbridge Chief of Police and three US Marshals
from Boston. Interestingly the artist also shot a number of
photographs of his own legs taking steps, in order to have more
references of folds and creases in walking men’s pant legs.
68. The Problem We All Live With by
Norman Rockwell.
It depicts the historical walking of Ruby Bridges, An African-American girl, into an
all-white public school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.
69. Which movie to be released in
September ??
12
‘X’ is an upcoming American biographical thriller-
drama film. The director is Robert Zemeckis. The film is
based on a French high-wire artist who is known for
his famous walk between the roofs of the Twin Towers
of the World Trade Centre on a high wire. Also there is
a children`s picture book, “The Man Who Walked
Between the Towers”, and a 2008 British documentary,
“Man on Wire” based on him.
71. Who is the painter(X)?
13
Only one time in his life, He organized an art exhibition. The
exhibition titled “Paintings by ‘X’” was organized at Nalbari’s
‘Shri Bharati Sangrohaloy’s Pakobi’06 Art Gallery, on 15th
November, in the year 2009.
One of his paintings depicts a small boy from the rear, standing
in the tentative transitory path between childhood and youth
while the another painting depicted a girl with a red Bindi on
her forehead.
The exhibition was inaugurated by the assamese author
Anuradha Sarma Pujari and said “ ‘X’ represented Love in
green colours!!”
72.
73. The author and the Novel (X and Y) ??
Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander
Pushkin. It is a classic Russian literature, and its
eponymous protagonist has been the inspiration of many
other Russian literary heroes. It was translated by Charles
Johnston.
The translation by Johnston has inspired X, an Indian
author, to write his first novel, Y. The work is a novel in
verse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas with the same
rhyme scheme as that of Eugene Onegin.
14
75. Give me the film!
15
This is the cover page of the
script of a film sketched by the
director himself and features
the central character of the
film.
On December 5, 2014
the Orion spacecraft took this
sketch on the first test flight of
the unmanned Exploration
Flight Test 1 (EFT-1).
78. What is this album based on ?
16
Leviathan is the second album by
American heavy metal band Mastodon. It
was released in 2004 by Relapse Networks.
The album contains songs like, Blood and
Thunder, Seabeast, Iron Tusk, Island, Aqua
Dementia, Hearts Alive, etc.
80. What is his unique claim to fame?
17
He is an Indian cricketer born in 1905, Benares. His nickname
was coined by Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, at Hotel
Victoria.
His most influential time in his career comes when he was
named the captain for Indian Cricket team after lobbying and
manipulation, for the 1936 tour of England. Due to his poor
captaincy, the whole team splitted between those who
supported and those who criticised the captain. In the 1st test
match, he offered Mushtaq Ali a gold watch to run out Vijay
Merchant. Now while India lost the series easily, something
happened and he got a unique distinction!
81. He was the only cricketer to
have a knighthood bestowed
on him as an active test
cricketer.
he is Vijay Ananda Gajapathi
Raju or Maharajkumar of
Vizianagram.
82. Who is the famous personality „X‟
Fashion Blason is a 2008
jewellery line of Louis Vuitton,
Designed by Camille Miceli
and ‘X’. The designs are in
yellow and white and show
aristocracy. The success of the
design lies in the fact that ‘X’ is
not a designer, but is a quit
different field.
18
87. Who is „X‟?
Living Kitchen is a line of kitchen
items, which is joint design effort
with Sebastian Conran and ‘X’, and
has been around since 2003.
Includes a series of classic
stonewere everyday essentials
featuring cappuccino cups, teapots
and mixing bowls. Also features
melamine utensils including
colanders, measuring cups and
citrus juicers, as well as a range of
heat-proof flameware.
20
89. 21
ID the painter and his famous art work
series ‘X’!
He is one of the famous artist of his country. He was
awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956 and make
history. His wife is also a famous French artist, Janine
Mongillat.
His most famous artwork series is called ‘X’. The
inspiration behind this artwork series have been his
elementary school teacher, who drew a ‘X’ on the
blackboard and asked the artist to concentrate on it!
90. 21
He is the famous Indian painter S.H.
RAZA And the artwork series is ‘BINDU’.
He is the first non-French
painter to win Prix de la
critique award. He won the
Commandeur de la Ligion
d’honneur in 2015.
91. 22
Which event inspired Omar Syed to
create this game?
Arimaa is a board game ,invented by an Indian American
computer Engineer Omar Syed in 2003. “Arimaa” is “Amir”
spelled backwards plus an initial “a”. This invention won
various award in recent times.
Arimaa is played on an 8*8 board with four trap squares.
The two players, Gold and Silver, each controlled sixteen
pieces. These are: One elephant, one camel, two cats and
eight rabbits.
95. 24
Just name her sister „X‟
She (picture on next slide) was born in 1879, and was 11
years older than her sister ‘X’. She attempted a career as a
writer, and couldn’t be successful. She wrote a play, The
Claimant, based on a real case, called the Tichborne case. The
play enjoyed a short run in the year 1924.
She, once, challenged her sister ’X’ to write a story. Their
mother had suggested them to write stories to alleviate the
boredom. Then the challenge was completed after eight years
and her sister ‘X’ wrote the first story of her career.
98. 25
In where we can see these two
paintings?
These are two paintings
by Ruth Elisiv Ekeland.
She is a Oslo, Norway
based artist, most
famous for poster and
cover art design.
99. These are the cover art of Nobel Prize Diploma
of Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi
100. Which book ??
_____ ___ __ _ _______ is the sequel to famous book,
published in 1900, 11 years after the prequel was
published. The sequel has almost the same story
outline, but this time the protagonists go on a bicycle
tour through the Black Forest, Germany.
The last word in the book`s name had no translation in
English, although the writer wrote that the word meant
a journey where one had to reach home in a certain
time limit.
26
102. 27
The headquarters of the organisation is in New York City near the lower
East 40’s United Nations.
The official logo of the organisation is a black globe with some lines of
longitude and latitude. Black concentric rings surround the glob; to the
right of it is a black silhouette of a man in a black suit and a black band
beneath the globe and the man features the name of the organisation in
the “Decorated 035” font. The logo is superimposed on a map of the
world continents with no country borders ( which represents their
philosophy) and blue seas.
Which Organisation?
103. U.N.C.L.E.
The fictional United Network Command for Law and Enforcement,
a secrete international intelligence agency, will be featured in the
upcoming movie THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
104. Which product am I talking about ??
28
It all began in 1938 when an umpire complained a third base
coach about the sorry condition of the balls used by the
league. Back then a ball was prepped simply with mud made
of water and dirt from the playing field. The coach took on the
challenge. Next time he returned to his home in Burlington
County, he checked out the mud along tributaries of the
Delaware River until he found some muck (the whereabouts of
the mud hole is still a dark secret) with a texture he felt would
do the job. He tested it and it worked like a charm! It had no
odor and didn't turn the balls black. The umpires were happy,
and he was soon in the business.
106. ID ‘X’ & ‘Y’?
29
This song originated as the French song called "As Usual", written by the
composers Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault. ‘X’ discovered this song
while visiting France and re-wrote the lyrics as “Y" .
This is a very popular Karaoke song, but one you should probably avoid in
The Philippines. As detailed in a February 6, 2010 article in the New York
Times, many violent incidents have taken place following Karaoke
performances of the song “Y”. So every violent Incidents related to it was
described as ‘Y Killing’.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder requested “Y" for his final
send-off. More than seven million television viewers watched tears well up
in his eyes as a military band saw him off with a version of this song.
108. What is the name of this sleeve ??
30
A long, tight sleeve with a puff at
the top is a kind of sleeve that was
inspired by fashions of the Italian
Renaissance and named after “X”.
The sleeve is popular from
the Empire period through
the 1820s in fashion, and again in
the late 1960s under the influence
of Franco Zeffirelli film based on
the same story.