2. A simple one to start the night:
If the English cricket fans are called by the
epithet ‘The Barmy Army’, the fans of which test
cricket team are called by ‘The Appu Army’, the
name being taken from a local ancient word
called ‘Appuharmy’?
4. In the world of comics, who is a 10th degree black
belt in Judo and Karate, also a secret chief of an
international organization called ‘Inter-Intel’
which fights crime, is fluent in 12 languages and
can read 8 more, apart from being a master chef?
6. Which is the only Pink Floyd album, where all the
five members of the band appeared – it was a last
for Syd Barret and first for David Gilmour? (cover
photo of the album given below)
8. After the birth of the state of Israel and after their
first president ‘Chaim Weizmann’, who was offered
the President ship of Israel in 1952 by Israel’s
founding father and first Prime Minister ‘David
Ben-Gurion’?
10. Which metal/ rock band was supposedly named
after a masturbation game where everybody has to
stand in a circle in front of a biscuit where they
will all masturbate on the biscuit and the last man
has to eat that biscuit which has already become
very wet and wobbly?
12. This is a dystopian science fiction comic book series
by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Launched in
2002, it's about a man named Yorick Brown, who is
the last surviving man after a mysterious plague
wipes out the world’s male population. Along with
his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick embarks upon
a journey to find out the origins of the plague and
why he's still alive. This series received
many Eisner Awards (comic book equivalent of
Oscars). What is this series called?
14. During the October revolution of 1917 in former
Soviet Union, which famous business family had
to flee Moscow as they were considered to be close
to the Czars and went to Istanbul where they set
up their factory and hence their product gradually
became a household name in Europe and then the
entire world over?
16. Jafar Panahi, the world famous Iranian new wave
director, made a movie in 2006 inspired by the
trauma of his own daughter of not being able to
go to a football match which was against the law
of Iran of not allowing women in football
matches. The daughter watched the match
anyway and the movie was also about a girl who
entered the stadium disguised as a boy. The
movie was shot in a real football stadium
involving a real match and became a cult movie
with many accolades and awards. What if the
name of this movie?
17.
18. Marc André Laguerre was an editor of a famous
American magazine. During 1964, to fill the winter
months, a typically slow point in the sporting
calendar of America then, he asked his fashion
reporter Jule Campbell to go on a shoot to fill
spaces including the cover of the magazine with
beautiful models. What resulted out of that?
20. This is a series of comic books by Tim Vigill and
David Quinn, published by the Avatar Press and
Rebel Studios. The series are highly popular and
are known for their strong graphic violence. The
initial story of this series goes like this:
An artist, John Jaspers sells his soul to the
mysterious M in order to avenge the death of his
girlfriend. However, the deal has an unexpected
price, and he is periodically transformed into a
horned demon with a passion for killing.
Inspired by a classic piece of literature, what is the
name of this comic series?
21.
22. Jim Dine is a popular American pop artist who
has created many series of arts and drawings.
Once while working on one of his series which is
based on fiction, he commented "the idea of a
talking stick becoming a boy is like a metaphor
for art, and it’s the ultimate alchemical
transformation.― What was he referring to?
24. Jayceon Terrell Taylor is an American rapper, hip
hop artist, entrepreneur and actor. His stage name
was coined by his grandmother when she said that
‘Jayceon is…………….for anything’. How do we
know him better?
25.
26. Traditionally accepted as one of the supplementary
arms of the Vedas, this piece of Indian literature is
one of the standard books in the Hindu canon, and
a basic text for all gurus to base their teachings on.
This 'revealed scripture' comprises 2684 verses,
divided into twelve chapters presenting the norms
of domestic, social, and religious life in ancient
India under the Brahmin influence, and is
fundamental to the understanding of ancient
Indian society. But Since it forms the basis of the
traditional Hindu caste system, it has been subject
to much criticism and controversy, having been
attacked by colonial scholars, modern
liberals, Hindu reformists, Dalit advocates,
feminists etc. Which literature am I talking about?
28. Recently, this blood stained glasses which belonged
to somebody is being used by his wife as a message to
everybody as a plea for gun control. Name both of
them?
30. A certain famous Indian
personality during his teens
in the 1930s wrote to 3
Hollywood icons as he was a
fan of them. Two were Ginger
Rogers and Billy Wilder who
never answered him back.
The 3rd was this lady who
acknowledged and answered
and thus overwhelmed him to
the point where he never
forgot that gesture. So, who
was the Indian personality
and the Hollywood star who
answered him back (picture
given)?
32. In Chile, he is called Huaso, in Cuba he is
called Guajiro, in Venezuela or Colombia, he is
called llanero, in Mexico Charro and in
Argentina, he is called Gaucho. What is he called
in USA?
34. He was William Hogarth, an English man
and the forefather of William Kennedy
Laurie Dickson, who invented movie
images and cinema together with Edison.
In 1727, he was hired by Joshua Morris, a
tapestry worker, to prepare a design for
the Element of Earth. Morris heard that he
was "an engraver", and consequently
declined the work when completed.
Hogarth accordingly sued him for the
money in the Westminster Court, where
the case was decided in his favour on 28
May 1728. In 1757, because of all his above
work he was appointed something to the
King, which subsequently helped him to
supposedly pioneer something which was
the precursor to a huge industry today.
What?
36. He was the first bowler to get the great Don
Bradman out for a duck in test cricket.
He shares his surname with another great
West Indian fast bowler.
CLR James, the great writer was his big fan.
He was also a great fielder and more than an
useful batsman.
Who was he?
38. With the third-highest career batting average in Major League
Baseball history (.356), Joseph would certainly be a shoo-in
for the Hall of Fame—if it weren’t for the Black Sox Scandal.
He and seven teammates on the Chicago White Sox were
accused of conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World
Series to the Cincinnati Reds. They were acquitted following
a jury trial in 1921, but newly appointed baseball
commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred them
for life from professional baseball.
This guy, according to him, got his nickname during a mill
game played in South Carolina. He suffered from blisters on
his foot from a new pair of cleats, and they hurt so much that
he had to take his shoes off before going to bat. As play
continued, a heckling fan noticed him running to third base
in his socks, and shouted "You …………son of a gun, you!"
and the resulting nickname. By what nickname is he
popularly known to us?
40. Legend has it that Lalmohan Seth was behind the
naming of Lalbazar Street. Lalmohan Seth had a
farm house in Lalbazar area in the erstwhile
Kolkata, where he used to grow many things
including rice, vegetables etc. One of the produces
was offered to his family deity, before being made
and consumed by the family members. This practice
is believed to be behind the naming of a popular
food item amongst Bengalis. What?
41. Gobindobhog Rice (they used to give bhog/
offerings to Lord Krishna (who is also
known as Govinda/ Gobindo)
42. It is one of the most prestigious and oldest events
in Olympic games. In Old English, it was called
‘Glossing Palestra’. In India, apart from many
names, it is also called ‘Dangal’ . The origins of it
go back 15,000 years through cave drawings
in France. ‘Shuai jiao’ is a Chinese style of this
which has a reported history of around 4000 yrs.
What am I talking about?
44. It is one of the most popular Himalayan peaks in
India. The source of the river Yamuna originates
from one of its flanks. The first team to reach its
summit also included Tenzing Norgay. Its name
literally means ‘Tail of Lord Hanuman’ in Hindi.
Situated in the Garhwal Himalayas, which peak
am I talking about?
46. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, the Pakistan president wanted
to turn the Pakistan army into a pure Islamic force. He
was the person who was responsible for mushrooming
of terrorist Jihadi groups and the army patronizing it,
as they feel it is serving Islam values. Hence, during the
time of his rule, Zia turned the Army Headquarters into
an identification code/ number of ‘786’. He emblazoned
this number into the walls, pamphlets, desks,
hoardings, directional signages etc. of every corner of
the army establishments. But why this number ‘786’ or
what is its significance?
47. 786 is the numerical representation of the first
lines of ‘Quran’ –
Bismi allaahi arrahmaani arrahiim
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful.
48. Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, was a Belgian
polymath of the 19th century, who founded and
directed the Brussels Observatory and was
influential in introducing statistical methods to
the social sciences. What did he devise while
during the course of developing "social physics―,
which was initially known by his name but later
gained the present name to a paper published in
the July edition of 1972 in the ’Journal of Chronic
Diseases’ by Ancel Keys?
50. If anybody hears his surname, he would think that
this gentleman has got something to do with lands
and real estate as his surname is the name of an unit
in measuring land. He, together with Robert William
Paul supposedly pioneered cinema in Britain. He
invented the first British 35 mm moving
picture camera, the first daylight loading home
movie camera and projector and the first European
film maker who had his films shown in the United
States in public performances. What’s his name?
52. Born as ‘Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes, he was
Latin America's most celebrated and loved comic actor and
the man Charlie Chaplin once called "the world's greatest
comedian."
Although generations of Latinos were charmed by his
garrulity in a variety of parts, he was best known to
American audiences for a single role: In the 1956 film
"Around the World in 80 Days," he portrayed
Passepartout, the bumbling valet of Phileas Fogg. He had
such an impact in the Spanish speaking world through his
performances that his nickname by which the entire world
knows him is now defined in the authoritative Larousse
Spanish dictionary – noun, as a long-winded meaningless
speech, while the verb means to talk too much but say too
little. According to legends, he got his nickname when
somebody screamed at one of his bad stage performances
in his early days saying ‘You are annoying’, the Spanish/
Latin corruption of which he has made into his nickname.
How do we know him better?
54. What word connects:
1. An Andrew Collins book explaining the following
phenomena:
The veneration of …………..as a bird associated with cosmic life
and death goes back 17,000 years to when the constellation
occupied pole position in the Northern night sky.
………..is at the root of all the world's religions.
Cosmic rays from a binary star known as ………..X-3 helped
accelerate human evolution during the last Ice Age.
2. A famous jewellery brand in India.
3. A famous portfolio management company from North
Carolina (US)?
56. His theories, now discredited, were the product of
years of historical, anthropological, and ethnological
studies and were part of a general European interest
in biological and sociological determinism.
His works had a marked effect on the thinking of
such men as Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche,
and, in time, a movement called Gobinism
developed. He was a French aristocrat of the 19th
century, also novelist and man of letters who became
famous for developing a certain theory in one of his
famous books which was taken in a negative
connotation later on and for which he is credited as
being the father of modern racial demography. What
theory did he develop?
57. Aryan Master Race (Joseph Arthur de Gobineau).
This theory was later taken by Hitler.
58. In the world of Bengali movies, how are Bibhuti Laha
(cameraman), Jatin Datta (sound), Sailen Ghosal (Lab
work), Nitai Bhattacharya (Scenarist) and Bimal
Ghosh (production) – better known to us?
60. This music album according to the magazine Rolling
Stones is at No. 4 in the 500 Greatest Albums of all
time. The musician named this album after the
American highway which connects his home-town to
those Southern cities which are famed for their
musical heritage. Which album?'
