- The documentary "Fire in Babylon" profiles the dominant West Indies cricket team of the 1970s-80s featuring interviews with players like Viv Richards and Andy Roberts. - Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh was a brand ambassador for the Xbox 360 launch in India, appearing in ads with actor Akshay Kumar, who is from the same state as Yuvraj. - The 2016 Netflix film "Brahman Naman" was one of Netflix's first original films from India, focusing on a group of quizzing friends in 1980s Bangalore.

1. Lights, Camera
and….
Wickets!!

2. RULES:
 Each Question carries 10 points.
 If a team answers a question correctly, the next question will go to the
next team
 When a team fails to answer the question, that question will pass to the
next team and so on.
 +10 points for each correct answer. No negative marking and no pounce.
 QM is a Chelsea fan hence he has a short fuse.

3. Safety Slide

4. Q1
X is word that has many (some considered to be impolite)
meanings. Originally used to refer to a seasonal fruit, this word
also can mean an unplayable delivery, a type of a confectionery,
and even an infertile male (I warned you). The last meaning is
humorously related to the type of fruit it traditionally refers to.
Tell me what X is.

5. Safety Slide

6. Ans: Jaffa

7. Safety Slide

8. Q2
X, Filmfare award winner in Best Actor category, worked in around 65 films
including 4 cameo/guest appearances and 2 unreleased films. He
participated extensively in the struggles of the marginalized among the
Muslim community. The thespian spent a substantial time of his late working
life participating with activists of the All India Muslim OBC Organization
(AIMOBCO) for the rights of Pasmandas in Maharashtra. But the irony is that
he portrayed a Muslim role only once in his whole acting career.
Identify X and the film in which he played a Muslim role.

9. Safety Slide

10. Ans: X - Dilip Kumar(Mohammad Yusuf Khan)
Movie - Mughal-e-Azam

11. Safety Slide

12. Q4
This is a screenshot from the
LinkedIn profile of a certain
Muhammad Sarim Akhtar.
What is his claim to fame?

13. Safety Slide

14. Ans: Angry/disappointed Pakistani fan(meme)

15. Safety Slide

16. Q3
In 1953, a charity cricket match was played between a team of the Lok Sabha
and the Rajya Sabha MPs. An archival footage of the match resurfaced in
2019, where we can hear the commentator saying "...X, captain of the Lower
House team, though he last played cricket at Harrow in 1913...".
Identify X, the captain of the Lok Sabha team.

17. Safety Slides

18. Ans: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

19. Safety Slide

20. Q5
The 'X' is a unique Bollywood visual formation. "The 'X' performs such an
important function in the melodrama it consolidates the moral order that
the action will fulfill.", argues Sangita Gopal. It does not conform to
normative film standards because the arrangement is not done in a
believable way and the illusion of there being no camera is dispensed with.
But most often, the 'X' registers the underlying tensions of the plot spatially.
What is 'X', a name which is presently popular in a very different field?

21. Safety Slide

22. Ans: Tableau

23. Safety Slide

24. Q6
Alistair Cook – 294 Runs, Edgbaston 2011
Michael Clarke – 329 Runs, Sydney 2012
Brendon McCullum – 302 Runs, Wellington 2014
Connect.

25. Safety Slide

26. Ans: All were dropped by Ishant Sharma early on in their innings.

27. Safety Slide

28. Q7
This pre-independence film based on the Bengal Famine was one of the
first Indian films to receive widespread distribution in the USSR. This
started a trend of Indian cinema having the strongest presence among
the limited foreign films that were released in that country for decades.
The director of this film is strongly associated with some of the most
iconic Raj Kapoor films.
Identify this film and its director.

29. Safety Slide

30. Ans: Film - Dharti Ke Laal(or Lal),
Director - Khwaja Ahmed Abbas (or KA Abbas)

31. Safety Slide

32. Q8
X is a score which is called a "Nelson". The origin of this term is unclear, but
rumours suggest that a team from NZ called "Nelson" made this exact score
in both their first and last innings in first-class cricket. A legendary umpire
used to lift his leg(s) on Nelsons, which invited cheers from the crowd.
What was the score?

33. Safety Slide

34. Ans: 111

37. The “INTERESTING SAFETY
SLIDES” ROUND

39. RULES:
-There are a total of 8 questions, which are direct questions moving
from Team 1 to Team 8. +15 points for correct answer and -5 for
incorrect answers.
- There is NO Pounce
- If a question has 2 parts, both must be answered for 15 marks,
answering a single part correctly will not fetch ANY mark.
- Quizmaster is an Übermensch, he creates his own rules, don’t
argue

40. Q1.
• This iconic 80s Hindi movie X, named one of the parks in their movie
(where a murder takes place)as a tribute to an iconic Italian director's
famous movie Y. Also the protagonists of the movie was named after
two directors who assisted the director of the movie ( one of them
also made cameos). In last scene of the movie after which the camera
cuts, the protagonists make a gesture towards the audience which
has arguably become the image most associated the movie. The
movie X also features a famous climax where many historical and
mythological characters feature.
• IDENTIFY THE MOVIES X and Y.

42. ANS- X-Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Y- Blow-Up (Dir- Michelangelo Antonioni)

43. Q2.
• The ban on __ was enforced in 1955 by a Bollywood union with the
justification that it was a move to protect men's livelihood. A lot of
women actresses complained that this made them extremely
uncomfortable. For decades, even top directors and actors couldn't
break this rule due to the fear of hefty fines and ostracism. This
continued until 2014, when this ban was deemed illegal by the
Supreme Court Of India. The judges said that it was "2014, not 1935"
and this regressive rule should not have continued even for a day,
let alone almost six decades.
• A ban on what is being talked about here?

45. ANS- Female Makeup Artists

46. Q3.
• One of the celebrity semifinalists (a cricketer) on the 2009 iteration of
MasterChef Australia had a medical condition you wouldn't expect a
adept chef to have. "The only problem I have is I don't know when
something is burning", he said about this in an interview. X later
became the assistant coach of an IPL team.
• Identify this celebrity and his medical condition

48. ANS- Simon Katich
The inability to smell (Anosmia)

49. Q4.
• Cricketers A and B have similar sounding first names and last names
respectively. A was supposed to travel to the US to play basketball,
but he ended up becoming one of the most feared fast bowlers of
the 90s. He paired up with a another fast bowler of similar stature
and lethal guile to form a destructive pace duo. On the other hand, B
is best known for an outstanding outfield catch he took at the
Lord’sin 2002 to dismiss Sourav Ganguly. This catch is rated among
the best catches in cricketing history, in an otherwise ordinary
cricketing career.
• Identify the cricketers A and B.

51. ANS-
A-Curtly Ambrose
B-James Kirtley

52. Q5.
• This Indian cricketer started out his career as a right arm medium
pacer, who trained in the MRF Pace Foundation in his school days as a
teenager. But later in his career he changed his bowling style into a
mix of offspin and legspin. This player happens to be among the
highest wicket takers of all time in ODIs for the Indian cricket team
(within top 20 to be exact).
• Identify this player

54. ANS-Sachin Tendulkar

55. Q6.
• X was a super-hit film hit of 90s Bollywood,which also had a
sequel, bringing it's actors and a certain playback singer
(along with the music label) instant stardom. While the
actors' could not replicate their box office success later, one of
them went on to star in an Indo-German production, Y a few
years later, based on Sanskrit tales and a Sufi epic.Largely
ignored in India, it gained rave review worldwide- and was the
actress' last movie before she retired (she was incidentally a
gold medallist from one of India's most prestigious universities).
• Identify X and the Actress for 10 Points.

57. ANS- X- Aashiqui
Y- Anu Aggarwal
Y- The Cloud Door

58. Q7.
• The term "spaghetti western" was coined by American critics to
denote a broad subgenre of the quintessential Western films
produced in Europe, named so because most of these films were
produced and directed by Italians.The legendary 1975 Indian film
Sholay is often said to have been inspired from the spaghetti
westerns of Sergio Leone as well as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
In popular media, Sholay is referred to as a dacoit western or a ___
western (after the stereotypical Indian dish), combining the
conventional Indian dacoit film with the Spaghetti Western.
• FITB

60. ANS-Curry Western

61. Q8.
• Identify both the players
• Also mention their record
they held for 52 years

63. ANS-Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad
Highest opening stand of 413 runs
which they held till 2008

65. RULES
1. This is a written round as you already know.
2. 8 questions will be shown one by one in a gap of 30 seconds.
3. Write down your answers in the google form provided.
4. Submit the form within 1 min of last question.
5. Scoring: +20/-0/0 for each question
6. Please do not give your answer out loud in the meet.
7. Arguing with the quizmaster: - 3000

67. Question 01
X is a 2010 British documentary film about the record-breaking West Indies
cricket team of the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring stock footage and interviews
with several former players and officials, including Colin Croft, Deryck
Murray, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Michael
Holding, Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Andy Roberts. The documentary
describes the ascension of West Indies cricket from being a team largely
composed of highly talented, entertaining, "Calypso Cricketers" to a
determined unit that dominated world cricket for nearly twenty years.
Identify the film X.

69. Question 02
X is a former Indian international cricketer who played in all formats of the
game. He was particularly known for his aggressive and elegant stroke play.
X was signed by Microsoft to be a brand ambassador for the Xbox 360
video game console when it was launched in India in 2006. He appeared in
advertisements for the console alongside Bollywood actor Y, who comes
from the same state as X. X is trending again recently.
Identify X and Y.

71. Question 03
This 2016 teen-comedy movie was Netflix's first original film from India. The
story revolves around a bunch of quizzing geeks from Bangalore in 80s,
with Shashank Arora playing the protagonist. The movie also featured
Biswa Kalyan Rath and Sidharth Maliya in cameos.
Name the movie.

73. Question 04
Sachin Tendulkar - Wankhede Stadium
MS Dhoni - JSCA Stadium
Virat Kohli - Arun Jaitley Stadium
Exclusive list of which unique sporting honour?

75. Question 05
X is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 45 One Day
Internationals between 1997 and 2001. Although the right-arm medium-fast
bowler didn't play much international cricket, he did reserve his name in
the history of cricketing trivia when something was inspired of him during
his playing years. On 24 December 2020, X was appointed as the national
selector of the Indian cricket team.
Identify X and what did he inspire?

77. Question 06
In 1977, during the emergency, the united opposition decided to hold a rally to
garner support for elections on February 6. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to
not let it happen, so she denied permission of gathering at Chandni Chowk and
pushed the gathering to Ramlila Maidan. But she wasn’t convinced and then she
summoned her minister for Information & Broadcasting, VC Shukla and asked him
to screen the movie X, the then cinematic obsession, the people would go crazy for.
But people refused to bow before the sizzling chemistry as one put it describing the
cinematic cohesion between hero and heroine and a large crowd gathered at
Ramlila Maidan to listen to likes of AB Vajpayee and others.
Identify the movie X.

79. Question 07
This is the batting scorecard of
Shrewsbury CC from when they
played Knowle and Dorridge CC in
the Birmingham and District
Premier League back in 2018.
Identify the batter whose name
has been blanked out. He turned
up to play cricket for his home
club because he was dropped
from his national team in a
different sport.

81. Question 08
Months after India’s run to the final of the 2003 World Cup, X was hoping to build
on his form while not playing “day-in, day-out”, before he was suggested to
Country Y as an overseas marquee player by John Wright, India’s head coach at
that point. Though the country Y wanted the player Z from the Indian national
team.
Newly married, X travelled with his wife for an “extended honeymoon”, with the
£45,000 contract reportedly been funded by NRIs by raising money through
dinners and other events. The contract saw him play 11 one-days (plus one tour
game against Pakistan) for the Y's national team, across three months in the second
division of the National Cricket League, where he scored 600 runs at an average of
66.
Identify X, Y and Z.

83. Answers
1. Fire in Babylon
2. X: Yuvraj Singh, Y: Akshay Kumar
3. Brahman Naman
4. Only players to have a pavilion or stand in their name in playing
years
5. X: Debasish Mohanty, 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup Logo
6. Bobby
7. Joe Hart (English Goalkeeper)
8. X: Rahul Dravid, Y: Scotland, Z: Sachin Tendulkar