All that jazz prelims copy
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- 2. Ze Prelims..
- 3. Ze Rules: 1. 25 questions written round. No negatives. 2. Some questions are starred which shall help us sort out ties. 3. Maximum four members per team. Google should not be one of them under any circumstances or you are disqualified. 4. The quizmaster is the God of the arena, only there are four of us this time – so an extra bit of caution wouldn’t harm.
- 4. Good Luck one and all….
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- 8. 2. Professor Auguste Piccard worked on ballooning experiments. And they are being used to create different forms of internet connectivity by using balloons. He has been immortalised in the world today in a different form. What?
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- 11. 3. Paul Blackthorne played the role of Stephen Saunders in the television series “24”. However, he is more prominent to all here for a role he played in 2001. What role?
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- 13. Answer: Capt. Russell of Lagaan.
- 14. 4. This Gujarati play was remade into a 2012 Hindi film (X) Recently, another film Y, dealing with a similar issue as X, generated huge controversy and also inviting comparisons to X. Identify both X and Y.
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- 17. 5. Put funda
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- 20. 6. Quim Barreiros is a Portuguese musician, whose 1973 band poster became quite a rage in India recently, because of a similarity. What am I talking about?
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- 23. 7. “Meghe Dhaka Tara” is an award- winning 2013 Bengali film, starring X in the lead. X, in his Bollywood debut in 2012, played ___Y____, who became quite a rage. Id both X and Y.
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- 29. 9.“San Ge Sha Gua” is a 2011 Chinese film, which became quite popular among the youth there. How do we better know this film?
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- 34. Answer: Yeh Duniya Pital di, baby doll mein sone di.
- 35. ______________ ,on winning the Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, said in his acceptance speech: "Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he's gonna get gloriously drunk tonight.” Who and which movie? 11.
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- 37. Answer: Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects.
- 38. Tader Sauce’s owner Tabatha Bundesen, says that her ______ face is due to an underbite and feline dwarfism. Tarder Sauce became a worldwide sensation when Bundesen's brother Bryan posted a picture of Tader on the social news website Reddit on September 22, 2012. As of now, it has 7 million followers on Facebook. Even, a Hindi version of Tader Sauce is quite popular. How do we better know Tader Sauce? 12.
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- 40. Answer: Grumpy Cat/ Bak**d Billi.
- 41. 13. A tribute to what?
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- 44. 14.
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- 46. Answer: House of Cards.
- 47. 15. Who?
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- 50. 16. Simple one. Just identify the band.
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- 53. 17. Apart from his better known pursuits, X holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and is also the co-author of "Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe" with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. Identify X.
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- 55. Brian May Guitarist of British Rock Band Queen.
- 56. 18. A haiku is a Japanese style poem consisting of 17 syllables written in 3 lines. Identify the fictional character who wrote this haiku: “You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"
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- 58. The name is bond, james bond.
- 59. 19. Formed in 1988 and named after the king of pop, this band released their eponymous debut album in 19991. They were the first international act to have performed in Cambodia when they played a show in front of 700 fans in CTN's Studio One in Phnom Penh in October 2005. Identify the band, that has toured India several times.
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- 62. 20. This European poem originally had just a one-word title, given by the poet because it began in sadness and ended in supreme happiness. Contemporaries used a complimentary term while referring the poem which over the years has become part of the title. Which poem?
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- 65. 21. It is a term coined by psychologist James C. Kaufman to refer to the phenomenon that creative writers are more susceptible to mental illness. Kaufman's work demonstrated that female poets were more likely to suffer from mental illness than any other class of writers. This effect is named after an American poet who committed suicide when she was thirty years old, by putting her head in a gas oven, with all the gas taps on full. Name the poet please.
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- 67. Sylvia Plath
- 68. 22. Which art form, tracing its origins to wandering minstrels and storytellers, has three major schools: Benares, Jaipur and Lucknow? A less prominent school, Raigarh, combines techniques from the major schools. Originally, these performers entertained audiences in village squares and temple courtyards, by recounting mythological and moral tales from the scriptures, and embellishing their recitals with hand gestures and facial expressions.
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- 70. Kathak
- 71. *23. It is used to describe a contrived or artificial solution, usually to a literary plot. It refers to the practice in Greek drama of lowering, by crane, an actor playing a god or goddess onto the stage to resolve an insuperable conflict in the plot. Identify
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- 73. Deus ex Machina
- 74. *24. In his 2009 memoir, saxophonist Clarence Clemons said X explained the line's origins when Clemons coached X to play the saxophone for the 1977 film New York, New York. Clemons said X had seen Bruce Springsteen say the line onstage at a concert as fans were screaming his name, and decided to make the line his own. Identify X and give the famous movie quote.
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- 76. X – Robert De Niro The dialogue is “ You talking to me!” from Taxi Driver
- 77. 25. Paul Bettany, Robin Williams, Adrien Brody and Steve Carrell had all expressed interest in the role of X publicly, but the director chose Y because had wanted to work with Y on a number of projects in the past. To prepare for the role, Y lived alone in a hotel room for a month, formulating X's posture, voice, and personality, and kept a diary, in which he recorded X's thoughts and feelings. Y later stated A Clockwork Orange and Sid Vicious as early inspirations in formulating X. Y won an Oscar for all his troubles. Id X and Y.
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- 79. The Joker and Heath Ledger
Editor's Notes
- Marquee with 3-D perspective rotation (Intermediate) To reproduce the effects on this slide, do the following: On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click Layout, and then click Blank. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shapes, and then under Rectangles click Rectangle (first option from the left). On the slide, drag to draw a rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following: In the Shape Height box, enter 3.12”. In the Shape Width box, enter 7.67”. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the arrow next to Shape Fill, and then click No Fill. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the arrow next to Shape Outline, and then click No Outline. Right-click the rectangle, and then click Edit Text. Enter text in the text box, and then select the text. On the Home tab, in the Font group, select Franklin Gothic Medium from the Font list, enter 50 in the Font Size box, and then click Bold. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Center to center the text in the text box. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click the arrow next to Text Fill, point to Gradient, and then click More Gradients. In the Format Text Effects dialog box, click Text Fill in the left pane, select Gradient fill in the Text Fill pane, and then do the following: In the Type list, select Linear. Click the button next to Direction, and then click Linear Down (first row, second option from the left). In the Angle box, enter 90°. Under Gradient stops, click Add gradient stop or Remove gradient stop until three stops appear in the drop-down list. Also under Gradient stops, customize the gradient stops that you added as follows: Select the first stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 0%. Click the button next to Color, click More Colors, and then in the Colors dialog box, on the Custom tab, enter values for Red: 80, Green: 80, Blue: 80. Select the next stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 49%. Click the button next to Color, click More Colors, and then in the Colors dialog box, on the Custom tab, enter values for Red: 89, Green: 89, Blue: 89. Select the last stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 50%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1 (first row, second option from the left). Also in the Format Text Effects dialog box, click Shadow in the left pane. In the Shadow pane, click the button next to Presets, and then under Outer click Offset Center (second row, second option from the left). On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shapes, and then under Rectangles click Rounded Rectangle (second option from the left). On the slide, drag to draw a rounded rectangle. Select the rounded rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following: In the Shape Height box, enter 3.12”. In the Shape Width box, enter 7.67”. Drag the yellow diamond adjustment handle at the top of the rounded rectangle to adjust the amount of rounding on the corners. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click the arrow next to Shape Fill, point to Gradient, and then click More Gradients. In the Format Shape dialog box, click Fill in the left pane, select Gradient fill in the Fill pane, and then do the following: In the Type list, select Linear. Click the button next to Direction, and then click Linear Right (first row, fourth option from the left). In the Angle box, enter 0°. Under Gradient stops, click Add gradient stop or Remove gradient stop until two stops appear in the slider. Also under Gradient stops, customize the gradient stops that you added as follows: Select the first stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 0%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click White, Background 1 (first row, first option from the left). Select the last stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 100%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click White, Background 1, Darker 25% (fourth row, first option from the left). Also in the Format Shape Effects dialog box, click Line Color in the left pane. In the Line Color pane, select No line. Select the rounded rectangle. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the arrow to the right of Copy, and then click Duplicate. Select the duplicate rounded rectangle. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the arrow next to Shape Fill, and then click No Fill. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the arrow next to Shape Outline, and then under Theme Colors click White, Background 1 (first row, first option from the left). On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the arrow next to Shape Outline, point to Weight, and then click More Lines. In the Format Shape dialog box, click Line Style in the left pane, and then do the following in the Line Style pane: In the Width box enter 10 pt. Click the button next to Dash type, and then click Round Dot (second option from the top). In the Cap type list, select Round. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shape Effects, point to Glow, and then do the following: Under Glow Variations, click Accent color 1, 11 pt glow (third row, first option from the left). Point to More Glow Colors, and then click More Colors. In the Colors dialog box, on the Custom tab, enter values for Red: 255, Green: 233, Blue: 33. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following: In the Shape Height box, enter 3.53”. In the Shape Width box, enter 8.05”. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shapes, and then under Lines click Line (first option from the left). Press and hold SHIFT to constrain to a straight, horizontal line, and then drag to draw a horizontal line on the slide. Select the line. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, in the Shape Width box, enter 7.67”. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the arrow next to Shape Outline, and then do the following: Under Theme Colors, click Black, Text 1, Lighter 50% (second row, second option from the left). Point to Weight, and then click 1 1/2 pt. Select the line. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the arrow to the right of Copy, and then click Duplicate. Repeat the process for a total of eight straight lines. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Select, and then click Selection Pane. In the Selection and Visibility pane, select the first rectangle that contains text. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Arrange, and then click Bring to Front. Also in the Selection and Visibility pane, press and hold CTRL and select all three rectangle objects. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Arrange, point to Align, and then do the following: Click Align to Slide. Click Align Center. Click Align Middle. Drag each of the straight lines onto the gradient-filled rectangle, spacing them vertically as evenly as possible. In the Selection and Visibility pane, press and hold CTRL and select all eight straight connector objects (the lines). On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Arrange, point to Align, and then do the following: Click Align Selected Objects. Click Distribute Vertically. Click Align Center. Press CTRL+A to select all of the objects on the slide. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Arrange, and then click Group. Select the group. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shape Effects, point to 3-D Rotation, and then under Perspective click Perspective Right (first row, third option from the left). Drag the group slightly to the right on the slide to position it in the center. To reproduce the background effects on this slide, do the following: Right-click the slide background area, and then click Format Background. In the Format Background dialog box, click Fill in the left pane, select Gradient fill in the Fill pane, and then do the following: In the Type list, select Linear. Click the button next to Direction, and then click Linear Down (first row, second option from the left). Under Gradient stops, click Add gradient stop or Remove gradient stop until four stops appear in the slider. Also under Gradient stops, customize the gradient stops that you added as follows: Select the first stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 0%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Dark Blue, Text 2 (first row, fourth option from the left). Select the next stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 15%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1, Lighter 5% (sixth row, second option from the left). Select the next stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 85%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1, Lighter 5% (sixth row, second option from the left). Select the last stop in the slider, and then do the following: In the Position box, enter 100%. Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Dark Blue, Text 2 (first row, fourth option from the left).