This summary provides the key details from a quiz containing trivia questions from various topics: - The questions covered subjects like history, politics, music, films, literature and more. Answer options included symbols, events, songs, authors, and other people/things. - The final question ties all the previous answers together around the theme of the Chinese zodiac, with clues found in each answer relating to one of the 12 animal signs.

1. Ranajay Karlekar Memorial Quiz 2014

2. • Prelims answers

3. • What was the symbol of the Congress party
during elections held between 1952 and 1971
?

4. • Yoked oxen

5. • Which Jefferson Airplane song written by
Grace Slick was inspired from Alice’s
adventures in Wonderland ?

6. • White Rabbit

7. • The Latin name for this creature is Gallus
Gallus.
• This is cited as one of the reasons it is one of
the National symbols of a certain country.
• Give me the creature and country

8. • Rooster
• France (Gaul)

9. • In August 1961, during an economic
conference in Uruguay, President Kennedy
received a note from somebody which said
• "Thanks for Playa Girón. Before this, the
revolution was weak. Now it's stronger than
ever.”
• What step taken by the Kennedy
administration was being referred to in this
note ?

10. • Bay of Pigs invasion

12. • Sea Dragon
• Dragon’s blood tree
• Dragon fruit
• So Dragon is the connect

13. • In ancient Greece the god Pan was traditionally
depicted with this.
• When Christianity became the dominant
religion and began copying imagery from
pagan myth, Satan was given the likeness of
Pan leading to members of Satanic cults often
sporting this.
• It is also sometimes referred to as a Van Dyke.
• What ?

14. • Goatee

16. • Dark horse comics

17. • What name was coined in the 1950s to
describe a group containing the following
people:
• Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Sid
Luft, Humphrey Bogart, Swifty Lazar, Nathaniel
Benchley, David Niven, Katharine Hepburn,
Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex
Harrison and Jimmy Van Heusen

18. • Rat pack

19. • We can see
Jyoti Raju
performing
these
amazing
stunts at the
Chitradurga
fort in
Karnataka.
Just give me
his nickname

20. • Monkey man

21. • 1993: ???
• 1996: Tha Doggfather
• 1998: Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told
• 1999: No Limit Top Dogg
• 2000: Tha Last Meal
• 2002: Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss
• 2004: R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
• 2006: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
• 2008: Ego Trippin'
• 2009: Malice n Wonderland
• 2011: Doggumentary
• 2013: Reincarnated

22. • 1993: Doggystyle
• Snoop Dogg’s first album

23. • Which 2014 film, produced by Neeraj Pandey,
was heavily inspired from David Fincher’s
Fight club ?

24. • The Royal Bengal Tiger

26. • Rubik’s Snake

27. • Connect the answers to the previous 12
questions
• Think a bit laterally
• Be a little specific (If the answer is Spanish Flu
I wont accept only Flu)

28. Signs of the Chinese zodiac
• Ox: Yoked Oxen
• Rooster: Rooster
• Rabbit: White Rabbit
• Pigs: Bay of Pigs invasion
• Dragon: Dragon
• Goat: Goatee
• Horse: Dark Horse comics
• Rat: Rat pack
• Monkey: Monkey man
• Dog: Doggystyle
• Tiger: Royal Bengal Tiger
• Snake: Rubik’s Snake

29. • 6 players (5 Brazilians, 1 Argentine) of which
football club refused to return to the club’s
home city after playing a pre-season friendly
against Olympic Lyon on 19th July, 2014 ?

30. • Shakhtar Donetsk

31. • On November 19, 1863 Edward Everett an
ardent Unionist and former President of the
Harvard College spoke for 2 hours to dedicate
a national cemetery.
• Such speeches were common at cemeteries in
this era as they often linked cemeteries to the
mission of the Union.
• What happened next?

32. • Lincoln’s Gettysburg address

33. • In 1994, who sued Apple for trademark
infringement when Apple decided to use a
certain name for a product which stood for
“dynamic language” ?
• Ironically the suing personality had himself
borrowed the name from somebody else.

34. • Bob Dylan

35. • This man holds an unofficial World record.
• Give me his name or what post does he hold ?

36. • Jose Mujica. President of Uruguay
• World’s poorest head of state

37. • As of today Cuba and North Korea are the only
2 countries where this is officially banned.
• It was reintroduced to Myanmar in 2012 after
almost a 60 year ban.
• It was banned by the Arab League from 1968-
1991 because of having interests in Israel.
• Venezuela, Thailand and France are other
countries where this was perceived as a threat
to their society at different points of time in
history although there was no official ban.
• What ?

38. • Coca cola

39. • All prints of which 1977 film were burned by
Sanjay Gandhi and VC Shukla for which both
of them had to serve terms in prison ?

40. • Kissa kursi ka

41. • Which organization derives its name from the
following lines written by Lord Byron from the
Poem – Childe Harold’s Piligramage (3rd Canto)
Millions of tongues record thee, and anew
Their children's lips shall echo them, and say,
'Here, where the sword _______ ________ drew,
Our countrymen were warring on that day!'
And this is much, and all which will not pass away

42. • United Nations

43. Double trouble

45. • Mahabodhi temple
• Bodhi tree (The XLRI Band)

46. • It currently resides
in the Cathedral of
Saint John the
Baptist and radio
carbon dating
places its
creation between
1260 and 1390 AD.
• What ?

47. • Shroud of Turin
• Butcher of Turin (Claudio Gentile)

48. • This magazine
size approximately 5½
by 8¼ inches is smaller
than a conventional
magazine but larger
than a standard
paperback book.
• The name was derived
from which magazine …
the most popular one
of this size ?
• Which 1995 novel
by German law
professor and judge
Bernhard Schlink
deals with the
difficulties faced by
the post-war
German generations
?

49. • Readers Digest
• The Reader

50. All non fiction books
by whom ?
Hell – Belmarsh,
Purgatory – Wayland,
Heaven – North Sea
Camp

51. • Jeffrey Archer
• Archer fish

52. • In the mid 1800s French
theatre audiences who
bought cheaper tickets
had to sit in the lower
front rows which
enabled them to see the
female performers in
spectacular angles.
• The French slang for
what they saw became
associated with the
dresses worn by these
performers. Origin of
which word ?
• Who is credited with
coining the name
“Rainbow Nation” after
South Africa’s first fully
democratic election in
1994 ?

53. • Desmond Tutu
• Tutu