Answers to the quiz held on January 11, 2011

2. Rules
• Teams of max 2 members
• Audio-Visual questions. Write down all
answers on the sheets given to you
• Exchange sheets at the end
• All bouquets and brickbats may be directed to
Meg and KR
• Best of luck!

3. • X first came to notice in 1963, when he restored
the Pamban Bridge connecting Rameswaram to
mainland Tamil Nadu, demolished by a cyclone.
• In later years, X headed the team that built and
started running the Calcutta Metro.
• In the late 1980s, he built a series of railway lines
through the uneven and heavily forested terrain
of coastal Maharashtra, considered one of the
country’s greatest engineering marvels.
• In recent times, he has come to be known to the
people of Delhi for a similar reason. Name X

4. E Sreedharan

5. This fictional character was introduced to the
world in 1941. Initially, the makers marketed
him as ‘America’s Newest Boyfriend’. Who?

6. Archie

7. ESPN is a well-known sports broadcaster.
What does ESPN stand for?

8. Entertainment & Sports Programming Network

9. Funda?

10. Tyson Gay’s surname being changed to
Homosexual by word filters on the
American Family Association website

11. • In 2006, an 11-year old boy sued Naukri.com
for ‘inflicting mental trauma and causing
severe social embarrassment’. What was his
name?

12. Hari Sadu

13. When Mahatma Gandhi visited London to
participate in the 2nd Round Table
Conference, this famous person wanted to meet
him. Gandhi initially refused, as he had never
heard of the man or seen his work. However, on
learning that the person originally came from a
poor family in London’s East End, Gandhi
changed his mind and agreed to meet him. His
first question to Gandhi was about his attitude
to machinery. Journalist Louis Fischer later
described it as an encounter ‘between toothless
and toothsome smiling’. Which person?

14. Charlie Chaplin

15. Parody
of?

16. The parody The original

17. Different users and critics have varying
opinions about her, labelling her replies as
witty, philosophical and even weird. Her end-
user licensing agreement does not cover
marriage. She tries to be of every assistance
possible, including helping you hide a body!
Doesn’t reveal her age and when asked what
she wants out of life, says-‘I have everything I
need already.

18. Siri of iPhone 4S

19. Identify this actor, who plays a lead
role in an upcoming flick.

20. The still image on the previous slide is from Empire Of
The Sun, where Bale plays a prison camp inmate.

21. The MGM Studios motto is ‘Ars Gratia Artis’.
What does it mean (in English  ) ?

22. Art For Art’s Sake

23. "Ich liebe es" in German.
"C'est tout ce que j'aime" in French
"Me encanta" in Argentinian Spanish
“Amo muito tudo isso” in Portuguese
“Işte bunu seviyorum” in Turkish
How do we know this better?

25. The next one minute of this song has been
censored. Where is this commonly heard?
(Audio question)

26. The opening track of How I Met Your
Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqypUFDN
Db0

27. X & Y is a Fortune 500 American multinational
corporation headquartered in Ohio which manufactures a
wide range of consumer goods.
It was founded by William X, a candlemaker, and James Y, a
soapmaker, who immigrated from England and Ireland
respectively. They settled in Cincinnati initially and met
when they married sisters, Olivia and Elizabeth
Norris. Alexander Norris, their father-in-law, called a
meeting in which he persuaded his new sons-in-law to
become business partners. On October 31, 1837, as a result
of the suggestion, X & Y was born.
Identify X and Y

28. Procter & Gamble

29. The couple depicted below, both CIA
agents, were killed in a plane crash. Why
are they significant in pop culture?

30. Spiderman’s parents, Mary and Richard Parker

31. What?

32. The Ten Commandments of the Mafia

33. Short Visual Connect
• Rules :
Identify/deduce each slide AND explain the overall connect
and how each fits into the connect. You will have to write
the complete answers for all 4, even if you crack the
connect midway.
CALL US OVER OR COME TO US AND WHISPER THE
ANSWER. DO NOT SHOUT IT OUT. CONNECT REMAINS
OPEN TILL THE LAST SLIDE.
• +20/-10 for first slide
• +15/-8 for second slide
• +10/-5 for third slide
• +5/-0 for fourth slide

34. #1
French President Charles de
Gaulle once said, ‘My only
international rival is __________’

35. #2

36. #3
They were connected by a certain event. What
did it lead to?

37. #4
Parody of?

38. Answers
• Tintin
• Schindler’s List
• The 11 Israeli athletes killed at the 1972
Munich Olympics, and Mossad’s ensuing
reprisals.
• Parody of ET
And the connect is…….

39. Movies by Steven Spielberg