General Quiz hosted by Aakash Roy at IAMS Lobelia 2014.

2. X, Y ??
 X wrote: "You can't be mates with
everyone and if there was any way I
could knock him down to number 101 for
the purposes of this book, I'd be
delighted to do so. But having taken on
the task, I want to do it seriously, and
the fact is that Y helped to put Z on the
cricket map. And you know what? Deep
down, I'll quietly admit that I rated him
as a cricketer."

4.  X – Shane Warne
 Y- Arjuna Ranatunga
 Quote from Warne’s book ―Centuries‖ !!

5.  The 1st floor of this hospital houses the
―Dai Llewyn‖ ward which addresses
―bites,stings burns,embedded
spines…..‖. What is peculiar to these
injuries??

7.  Caused by magical creatures

8. Identify the coat of arms

10.  Transylvania

11. Which team?? What is their most
significant addition to our lives??
 Bjorn : Test
 Hilmar: Code
 Jokull : Product
 Berglind: Code
 Svenni: Looks
 Joi: Code
 Thor: CEO
 Addi: Code
 Bjossi: Code
 Ymir : Money
 Hemigervill: Sound
 Vala: Stuff

13.  Team of Plain Vanilla Games
 Quizup !!

14.  ―Pardonnez moi,monsieur..'' These were
the last words of X, to the person who
had killed X, because X had accidentally
stepped on his foot.ID X ??

16. Mary Antonniete

17.  ―You know Dasher and Dancer and
Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and
Blitzen,
But do you recall
The most famous X of all ?"
ID Y who arguably is the most famous
member of this group of ―X‖ !!

19.  Rudolph- the reindeer

20. Put funda and ID X!
 So what did you look for in the actress
(Priyanka Bose)?
 X : I looked for someone primarily who was
a great performer, someone who could be
sensitive to the role. I also looked for
someone who had a physicality that was
more mature. I didn't want a teeny bopper. I
wanted someone who carried a quiet
serenity, who carried herself with a sense
of confidence that comes with age. A silent
confidence.

22. X – Gauri Shinde
 Tanishq commercial themed on
―remarriage‖

23.  This epic love story was supposedly
based on the antics of two of his
roomies at Harvard, who subsequently
went on to become famous as the Al
Gore and the Tommy Lee Jones. Who is
the author being spoken of ??

25.  Eric Segal

26.  Apart from ―matka phod‖, ―longest
moustache‖, ―bridal compettition‖ and
buying and selling of livestock, it has
become an important annual tourist
attraction because of something unique
which can only be witnessed in the
middle east except for this place. What
and where??

28.  Camel race at the Pushkar fair

29. ID X!
 This research is based on analysis of almost
350,000 works of fiction from Britain and the
U.S.The scientists studied the various works to
see how often, and in what manner, writers
referred to X.They then repeated the
experiment with ancient Indian epics
Mahabharata and Ramayana between the 1st
and 3rd century and Chinese dynastic Palace
poetry between the 4th and 6th century.
Results showed that X is not merely a present
day fashion statement but has an ―universal‖
appeal across generations.

31.  Hourglass figure

32. ID the singer

35.  The English translation of X literally
means ―place of good bread‖. ID X
which has set up quite an empire
worldwide in recent times.

37.  Au bon pain

38. X,Y,Z ??
 The name X was chosen over Amizubi
and Zuzeco and is a portmanteau of Y
and Z.

40.  X- Fuleco
 Y- Football
 Z- Ecology

41.  The first X was put in place for play
testing purposes. Play-testers had to
rigorously test the mechanics of a game
and introduced X to make this process
easier.

43.  Cheat-codes

44.  The 1965 film ―Mere Sanam‖ starring
Asha Parekh featured an immortal Majru
Sultanpuri number ―pookarta chala hu
main‖. Why has this song been in the
news recently ??

46. Biswajit Chatterjee singing it in Ramleela
Maidan!!

47. .Put funda on this cartoon.

52. Kundan Lal Saigal

53. The following is the official diet list of X that
could not save humiliation…What??
• Moroccan spiced griddled chicken fillets with lime and coriander mayo
• Lamb and pea kofta kebabs with mint yoghurt
• Roasted vegetable and halloumi kebabs with red pepper dip
• Ginger and garlic king prawn kebabs with garlic mayo
• Selection of wholewheat French bread pizzas (parma ham and tomato/feta and
red onion)
• Selection of sandwiches (grilled aubergine, red pepper, red onionand basil puree;
Cajun salmon, yoghurt and cucumber; Thai citrus chicken and rocket; avocado,
raw slaw and butterbean; turkey breast, basil and pine nut)
•Almond and cinnamon flapjacks
•Banana and peanut bars (protein-based Maximuscle)
•Chocolate and coconut truffles.

55.  England cricket team at Ashes-2014

56.  In 1972, Jogesh Dutta founded an
institution named ―Padaboli‖ in Calcutta
with a handful of pupil. What is the
objective of this institution which has
certainly become a pioneer in India over
the years?

58.  Pantomime

59.  Strobilantehs kunthiana is a shrub
whose flower blooms once in every 12
years in the grasslands of Western
Ghat. The magnificient blue colour of
this flower lends its name to the "Nilgiri"
hills. What is the local name for this
flower?

61.  Neelakurinji

62. What flower??

64.  Ladies Shoe

65. Which country??
 Adwaita, the grand old inmate of Alipore
zoo who died at the age of 256 years
belonged to the Aldabra giant tortoise
species which are exclusively found in
the islands of Aldabra Atoll of a small
island nation in the Inidan ocean.

67. Seychelles

68. ID X !
 The X cuisine derives its name from the
community Y which is very successful in trading
affairs.
 X is famous for its use of a variety of spices used
in preparing mainly non-vegetarian food. The
dishes are hot and pungent with fresh
ground masalas, and topped with a boiled egg that
is usually considered essential part of a meal.
They also use a variety of sun dried meats and
salted vegetables, reflecting the dry environment
of the region.

70.  Chettinad

71. A portrait of one ―impressionist‖ by
another….ID both!!

73.  Claude Monet by Auguste Renoir

74. X and Y ??
 ―Ruth’s Journey‖ is a fictional prequel to
X which will be published almost 75
years after the iconic novel by Y was
published.
 This prequel traces the early life of
Mammy- the colored servant who was
not identified by any individual name in
the original work.

76.  X- Gone with the wind
 Y- Margaret Mitchell

77. Put funda !!
 On 9th July,2011 after production of the
day’s issue was finally wrapped, Editor
Collin Myler led the staff to a press
conference and jovially remarked ―in the
best tradition we are going to the
pub‖.

79. Final issue of ―News of the World‖

80. ID X !
 X is a dim-witted, clamorous yet kind
hearted landlord whose father left him a
garage when he died. X loves his daily
dose of local booz and is almost always
spotted in his signature white vests.

82.  Baburao Ganpatrao Apte

83. Matrimony for??
 “Mondo noe shey patro bhalo,rang jodio bejae
kalo/
tar upore mukher gothon,onekta thik pyacha-r
moton/ Bidyebudhhi?
Bolchi moshai,dhonyi chheler adhyaboshay/
Unish ti baar matric e shey,ghayel hoe thamlo
sheshe.”

85. Gangaram

86.  Such things possibly did exist. The
'considering cap' is explained at great length,
in fiction at least, in The History of Little Goody
Two-Shoes, 1765, which usefully includes an
etching: ...a considering Cap, almost as large
as a Grenadier's, but of three equal Sides; on
the first of which was written, I MAY BE
WRONG; on the second, IT IS FIFTY TO ONE
BUT YOU ARE; and on the third, I'LL
CONSIDER OF IT. What is the modern literary
contribution of the considering cap ??

88. To put on one’s thinking cap

89. What??
 Swiss engineer George de Mestral was out for
a hunting trip with his pooch, and noticed the
annoying tendency of burrs to stick to its fur
(and his socks). Later, looking under a
microscope, Mestral observed the tiny "hooks"
that stuck burrs to fabrics and furs. Mestral
experimented for years with a variety of
textiles before arriving at a new invention in
the world of textiles — though it wasn't until
two decades later that NASA's fondness for
this invention ultimately popularized it.

91. Velcro

92. What missing from the list??
 Harbor Master
 Harbor Master HD
 Max Adventure
 Hippo High Dive
 GeoSpark
 Little Red Sled
 Word Squares

94. Temple run!!!

95. X , featured on this postage
stamp has been honored by the
introduction of the X Memorial
Medal for Humor given annualy
by the X foundation . ID X.

97. Stephen Leacock

98. What is being defined here??
 X happens ―when the number of
persons sleeping in a dwelling
and the number of rooms
available as sleeping
accommodation is such that two
persons of opposite sexes who
are not living together as
husband and wife must sleep in
the same room

100. Overcrowding!!

101. X ??
 ―There is no doubt that coerced sex and bidding
on a new X’s virginity occurred in the period before
WWII... After Y lost the war, X dispersed and the
profession was in shambles. When they regrouped
and began to flourish in the 1960s during Y’s
postwar economic boom, the X world changed. In
modern Japan, girls are not sold into indentured
service, nor are they coerced into sexual relations.
Nowadays, a X's sex life is her private affair‖ –
Liza Dalby in ― Do they or don’t they

103. Geisha

104. Illustrated by whom ??

106.  Upendrakishore Raychowdhury

107. Whose cover-girl??

109. Wall Street Journal

112.  5 points for each correct guess.
 If all have been guessed correctly, then
an additional 5 point.

119. ANSWERS:-
 1.1974
 2.1982
 3.1994
 4.1954
 5.1998

121. +70/-35

122. +60/-30

123. +50/-25

124. +40/-20

125. +30/-
15

126. +20/-10

127. +10/-5

129. Serendipity!!!
1.Brandy
2.Teflon
3.Potato chips
4.Microwave
5.LSD
6.Viagra
7.Penicillin