Mosstermind
Fun n Fundas
Week 11

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The Rules
• 6 sets of 5 questions each
• Each set has four 1 pointers and a 3 pointer
• No negatives
• Teams of max 4 people
• More than 4 - play as separate tables
• All answers to be written down
• Include table # on your answer sheet
• Hand in answers at the end of each set

Set 1
Sporting Brands!

1
1975-1983 1987
?
1992 1996

It is perhaps one of the longest 2
associations of a brand with a
tournament – in this case, The
Wimbledon. The brand has been the
official one since 1902. The company
was founded in 1881 and also makes
cutting edge cricket, hockey and tennis
equipment.
Name.

It is a French word meaning "Without 3
Parallel”. Established 1931, the company
has been a one-stop-shop for all
international cricket brands to source their
cricketing needs from.
In 1982, they started selling in India with a
brand name that seemed to establish a
connection with a leading Indian
sportsman, who in fact used the brand.
Name the brand

Official Partners: Zee Sports, Airtel 4
National League Sponsor: ONGC
National Team Kit Sponsor: Nike
Tournament Cup Sponsor: Hero Cycles
Which sport / sporting body?

• Arcsaber (Arc): newest carbon technology 5
applied
• Armortec (AT): more power
• Nanospeed (NS): faster movement;
nanotechnology applied
• Titanium (Ti)
• Muscle Power (MP): rounded archways that
allows all strings to be equal throughout the
string bed
• Isometric (Iso)
Series of equipment by which brand?

Answers
1. Wills – sponsors of Cricket World
Cups
2. Slazenger
3. Sanspareils Greenlands or SG
4. All India Football Federation
5. Yonex

Set 2
Movie
Remakes

1
One day Sean
Connery told his wife
that he was done with
the role of Bond.
His wife’s reply later
became the title of
which Bond movie (a
remake of the one in
the poster)

2
If this was the
original,
name the
1957 copy.

3
Who plays
Danny Ocean
in this version?

4
The original is
highly ranked
on most
mystery genre
lists.
Which movie?

5
Which Chaplin
classic that
comments on
the troubled
times of the
Great
Depression, was
inspired by this
movie?

Answers
1. Never Say Never Again
2. Mother India
3. Frank Sinatra
4. Dial M for Murder
5. Modern Times

Set 3
Rivers

What is the superfast day express train 1
running between Chennai Egmore
Railway Station and Madurai Junction
Railway Station, which is one of the
most prestigious trains of Southern
Railway, called?

Formerly called Kauśiki, after sage 2
Viśhwāmitra, who was a descendant of
sage Kuśika, because he is said to have
attained the status of Rishi on its banks. It
flows in Nepal and Bihar in northern India
is a major tributary of the Ganges. It is also
the lifeline of the Mithila region, today
spread over more than half of India's state
of Bihar.
Give the current name.

The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by 3
Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners
of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need
for improved communications to support the
large Japanese army in Burma. An estimated
13,000 PoWs and 80,000 to 100,000 civilians died
in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour
brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies,
or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma
(Myanmar).
What is the most famous section of the Burma
Railway?

4
One-word
Connection
please!

Literally means “Moon River”. It is formed by 5
the confluence of the Chandra and Bhaga
rivers at Tandi located in the upper Himalayas
in Himachal Pradesh. It is the iconic river
around which Punjabi consciousness revolves,
and plays a prominent part in the tale of Heer
Ranjha. The waters of the river are allocated
to Pakistan under the terms of the Indus
Waters Treaty.
Name the river

Answers
1. Vaigai Express
2. Kosi
3. Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Mississippi
5. Chenab

Set 4
Indian
Authors

The Ibis trilogy is a series of books, of 1
which only the first has been released so
far. The book in question was short-listed
for the Man Booker prize in 2008. The
main characters of the story are Deeti, an
ordinary village woman, an American
sailor named Zachary, an Indian
zamindar called Neel and an evangelist
opium trader.
Name the book

2
Who is the
author?

He was born on July 31, 1880 in a village 3
near Varanasi to Ajaib Lal, a clerk in the
post office, and his wife Anandi. His
parents named him Dhanpat Rai while
his uncle, Mahabir, a rich landowner,
called him Nawab, the name he first
chose to write under. His early education
was at a local madarsa, where he studied
Urdu.
Name him

4
?
2003
1999 2008

5
Movies based on whose works?

Answers
1. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
2. Upamanyu Chatterjee
3. Munshi Premchand
4. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
5. Mahasweta Devi

Set 5
heard here

Set 6
siblings

1
Among the three kids born to
Maria Dhairyam and Robert, one
of them won the Padma Shri in
1983, and has acted in Star Trek IV:
The Voyage Home among other
movies. Another has produced
over 800 movies.
Which family?

2
With his wife
Vilma, at their
wedding in
1959... Which
lesser known
sibling?

3
Aside from what they are more
famous for, they have also worked
on a 33 volume German dictionary.

4
Part of a duo
with a squeaky
clean image
that many
critics usually
judged them
to "drink milk,
eat apple pie
and take
showers."

Their father Laszlo, a psychologist, married 5
their Klara, a Ukrainian foreign language
teacher after convincing her of an
experiment – he believed he could turn his
kids into prodigies. He home schooled his
kids and taught them German, English,
math and even Esperanto.
He also tutored them in something else that
made this family produce three of the most
successful champions ever. Who are we
talking about?

Answers
1. Amritraj Brothers
2. Raul Castro and Fidel Castro
3. Brothers Grimm
4. Carpenters
5. Polgar sisters