1. AND PRESENT
THE LAST BALL
THE SPENT QUIZ – Sports and Entertainment
QM: ‘C’est la vie’ Arif
2. What is the claim to fame of this graphic novel series ?
4. Ans
• It is the only comic book series ever to have
won a Pulitzer Prize
5. • How are the pictures collectively known as ?
(Not an exhaustive list)
8. Ans
• Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards
(On the vanity card for Chuck Lorre Productions
at the end of every episode of Dharma & Greg,
Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and
Mike & Molly, Lorre includes a message that
usually reads like an editorial, essay, or
observation on life)
13. Ans
• Rashomon Effect
• effect of the perception on recollection
• when observers of an event are able to
produce substantially different but equally
plausible accounts of it.
14. A woman director with Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS .What was her
most famous creation?
16. Ans
• Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director
• Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens
(Triumph of the Will), a propaganda film made
at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi
Party
17. When?
"You can see the end of the world but it's just a
shame you don't know what you're looking at."
- Former New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam
Parore
19. Ans
When he became the first cricketer to scale
Mount Everest but was too disoriented to enjoy
the view!
20. What ranking?
1. Michael Schumacher 116
2. Sebastien Buemi 114
3. Kamui Kobayashi 99
4. Jaime Alguersuari 94
5. Pastor Maldonado 91
6. Paul di Resta 90
7. Sergio Perez 87
8. Rubens Barrichello 86
9. Jenson Button 85
10. Felipe Massa 82
(Source: Mercedes GP data, 2011)
39. The film X has a scene in which several stars
make guest appearances while appearing for the
premiere of the movie Y . They include Dilip
Kumar, Geeta Dutt, Guru Dutt, Kishore Kumar,
Raj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar,
Sohrab Modi, Mohammed Rafi, Nargis, Nadira
and Nimmi. In the movie X, the lead actor is
shown selling tickets of Y in black
42. • Yubi Lakpi is a Manipuri style of rugby. Yubi
means a ____ and Lakpi means snatching in
the Manipuri language. To score a goal, a
player has to approach the goal from the front
with his oiled ___ and pass the goal line. The
__ serves the purpose of a ball and is offered
to the king or the judges who sit just beyond
the goal line.
46. What was inspired after him?
• Perhaps most well know under the name ‘The French
Angel’, Maurice Tillet was born in France in 1903 .He aspired
to become an actor and was highly intelligent, allegedly
speaking 14 languages and being quite gifted in prose.
• However, in his twenties, Maurice developed acromegaly - a
rather rare hormonal disorder that occurs when the pituitary
gland produces excess growth hormone.
• Tillet moved to the United States where he made a living on
his appearance by becoming a professional wrestler, and was
dubbed as the "freak ___ of the ring
50. What?
Leader:
Ringa pakia! (Slap the hands against the thighs!)
Uma tiraha! ( Puff out the chest)
Turi whatia! (Bend the knees!)
Hope whai ake! (Let the hip follow!)
Waewae takahia kia kino! (Stamp the feet as hard as you can!)
Leader:
Ka mate, ka mate (I die, I die)
Others:
Ka ora' Ka ora' (I live, I live)
Leader:
Ka mate, ka mate (I die, I die)
Others:
Ka ora' Ka ora' (I live, I live)
All:
Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru (This is the fierce, powerful man)
Nāna i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā (Who caused the sun to shine again for me)
A Upane! Ka Upane! (Up the ladder, Up the ladder)
Upane Kaupane" (Up to the top)
Whiti te rā,! (The sun shines!)
53. The origins of the name X is debatable.
One theory goes like this:
It was part of the founder’s favourite parable:
“We are all born into this world with a big
boulder on our shoulder. Every day we chip at it
until, at the end of our lives, all that is left is a
small ___that makes up you!”
56. See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over!
Go Ape Crazy. by pop rock group Bow Wow Wow
58. Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass") – originally titled
Le Bain (The Bath) –oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet
59. Graffiti famous during which event?
“ Only an imbecile worries - nobody beats
Honduras
Pick up your guns and let's go guys
Cut those Salvadorans down to size”
61. Ans : The football War
Dates : July 14 - July 18, 1969.
Also known as the 100 Hours War
It was fought over Honduran land reform and El Salvador's
immigration problem, as well as a border dispute.
These existing tensions between the two countries coincided
with the inflamed rioting during the second North American
qualifying round of the 1970 FIFA World Cup
Noted for being the last war where both sides fought in the
skies using piston-engined fighters, namely ex-American
World War II and Korean War fighters.