1. For the love of !
Alumni Quiz Series
PURE VIZ (Well, almost!)
General quiz on visuals
QM – ‘C’est la vie’ Arif
Teams of 2

2. 1. Comic/movie connection?

4. Ans
• Astérix at the Olympic Games (French: Astérix
aux Jeux Olympiques)
• "Tony" Parker is a French professional
basketball player.
• Amélie Mauresmo
• Alain Delon is a César Award-winning French
actor-plays Julius Caesar!
• Gérard Depardieu-plays Obelix
• Jean-Pierre Cassel- plays Getafix
• Clovis Cornillac-plays Asterix

6. 2.Why these two pics famous?(not exhaustive)

7. Ans
• A sample of Shortest and longest place names
• Å (population 150) is a tiny fishing hamlet in
the Lofoten Islands, a granite chain in north-
west Norway, in the Arctic circle
• WALES boasts a village called
Llanfair-pwllgwyn-gyllgo-gerychwyrn-drobwll
-llanty-silio-gogogoch (58 letters), which in E

8. 3. Connect

9. Ans : U2 songs
• The Hands That Built America
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Walk On
• Pride (In the name of Love)

10. 4. Why famous ?

11. Ans

12. 5. In which music
album would you
find this?

13. Ans
• Remastered CD versions of the Pink Floyd
album Atom Heart Mother contain a card of
"Breakfast Tips". On one side is a recipe for a
"Traditional Bedouin Wedding Feast", detailing
the stuffing of a chicken inside of a lamb,
which is stuffed inside a goat, which is then
stuffed inside a camel, and cooked over a
charcoal fire

14. 6. Connect

15. Ans
Norman Gilbert Pritchard
• First Indian athlete to participate in the Olympic
Games
• Won two silver medals in the 200 meter sprint
and 200 meter hurdles in the 1900 Paris Olympic
Games
• Secretary of the Indian Football Association
from 1900 to 1902
• Acted in 26 plays and 27 movies, having made his
big screen debut in silent movies with After Dark
in 1915 and ending with Tonight at Twelve
released in 1929

17. 7
• Frank Kelly
Freas’
illustration of
the cover of
Astounding
Science Fiction
(Oct 1953).
• What was
ripped off from
it?

18. Ans
• Two members
of the rock
group Queen
asked Mr. Freas
to reprise the
image with
band members
in the robot's
hand.

19. 8. Connect

20. Ans

21. • Bronze statue of Paparazzo in Bratislava
• In the 1960 film La Dolce Vita directed by
Federico Fellini, one of the characters in the
film is a news photographer named Paparazzo

22. 9.Identify the sport
Woman Playing ___ (Tang Dynasty 744 Published in 1951. No 7. in Observer Sport
c.), discovered at the Astana Graves Monthly’s 50 Best books on Sports

23. Ans
• Go (weiqi in Chinese, igo in Japanese, baduk in
Korean), is an ancient board game for two
players that originated in China more than
2,000 years ago.

24. 10
• How did George
Best’s memoir get
its name?

25. Ans
According to an interview :
• Sir Michael Parkinson (English broadcaster,
journalist and author ):
'What was the nearest amount of time, before
or after a game, that you ever had sex, George?
• George Best :
'Er...It was in half time, I think...'.

26. 11. The first strip of 4 pics have something in common to the
second strip of 2 pics

27. Ans
• Madhumati (1958) inspiring the Hollywood
film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975),
which in turn inspired the Bollywood film Karz
(1980), which in turn influenced another
Hollywood film Chances Are (1989).
• The 1975 film Chhoti Si Baat is believed to
have inspired Hitch (2005), which in turn
inspired the Bollywood film Partner (2007).

28. 12. They belong to a unique club. Why?

29. Ans

30. 13. ID the name removed

31. Ans
• Belinda Clarke (Aus Women)
• First international cricketer to score a double
hundred in ODI

32. 14. ID the guy in the pic-frame above

33. Ans
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

34. 15. Connect

35. Ans
• The celebrity Wil Wheaton is an avid Twitter
user, and when he obtained half a million
followers, this number was deemed to be 1
Wheaton.

36. 16. Film name?
Claim to fame?

37. Ans
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• first feature-length documentary

38. 17. Simple .ID the bridge or river

39. Ans
• The Bridge on the river Kwai

40. 18. Connect (not exhaustive list)

41. Ans
All having Geographical Indication (GI) status
from India
• Thanjavur Painting
• Assamese Muga Silk
• Basmati Rice
• Darjeeling Tea
• Bikaneri Bhujia

42. 19. a)ID the cartoonist b) Claim to fame of this
cartoon

43. Ans
• Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die", which
depicts a snake whose severed parts represent
the Colonies, is acknowledged as the first
political cartoon in America.

44. 20. Which common phrase in English originated from this event depicted?
• Rembrandt's 'Belshazzar's Feast' (1635)
Or- Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin (literally "numbered, weighed, divided.“)

45. Last Question was dedicated to The Wall. So long Dravid !

46. Ans : The phrase "the writing is on the wall" is now a
popular idiom for "something bad is about to happen".
• It originates from the Biblical book of Daniel chapter 5 in which the fingers
of a supernatural hand write a mysterious message in the presence of
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, who is meanwhile drinking at a major feast. It
is revealed by Daniel that the writing foretells the demise of the
Babylonian Empire and the story concludes with the Medes and the
Persians killing the king and capturing Babylon (wiki)