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Quizzistance Open General Quiz
By
Soumik Choudhury

• The set was run on Zoom app, by me.
• Hope you enjoy it.
• And it is in public domain, so feel free to use all the trivia that have
been used here in your own ventures.

1A.
• Ксения Рябинкина, a trapeze artist, now in
wheelchair comes back in 2009 after almost 40
years to meet the son. Hands him a photobook with
photos of his father and her.
• Then, she recollects what she had said the last time
she met the father, “To meet and to part and then
again to meet, that’s life”.
• The father, the son, and where did she meet them
both?

Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Mera Naam Joker, Chintu Ji

1B.
• Chintu Ji also happens to be Ranjit Kapoor’s directional debut. Hence, he had his share
of the tributes as well, to his heroes. (next slide)
• The author (the red box) was gravely accused by Hrishikesh Mukherjee for having done
a great deal of injustice to the protagonist only for being honest and also for not
culminating Rinku’s character.
• Right before, author’s trip to Japan, the film premiered. And the author thought of
giving it a watch. But, the halls being houseful, the author had to buy tickets from a
blacker. But, then he saw the poster, the only change Hrishikesh Mukherjee had made
where the protagonist gets to hug his wife (‘Rinku’). This made the author not to buy
the ticket and he left without watching the film.
• The Blue Blank, The Red Blank, and who is Rinku?

Narayan Sanyal Satyakam Sharmila Tagore

2A-2B-2C-2D
Part 1- The voodoo elements, the usage of terms like ‘Maharaja’ seemed offensive to the
Indian Government, hence a permission to the Amber fort was denied. Thus the set up had
to shift to our Southern neighbors. Moreover the depiction of Indian cuisine as snakes,
beetles, monkey brains has been highly criticized by Shashi Tharoor.
• Mandarin version of this song may help.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeQ3DmKU7A)
Part 2- In mid 19th century, though industrial revolution reached to many of Scotland. It was
yet to reach to the Outer Hebrides. The islanders retained their process of weaving by
traditional means. Thus under the administration of Catherine Herbert, the home grown
clothes started becoming famous and reached the inner circle of Queen Victoria. Thus the
HTA started.
• Now, an interesting fact about HTA is that it uses the oldest certification mark in the UK.

IJ and the Temple of the Dooms Harris Tweed

2A-2B-2C-2D
• John is a graphic designer from Philadelphia. A professor at
Drexel for 20 years, John teaches advanced typography and
logo design to students in the Antoinette Westphal College of
Media Arts & Design. Each year, John receives many letters
from different parts of the world about people encountering
different mysteries regarding symbols and graphic
representations, and they reach out to him for help.
• But a claustrophobic John replies, “I am neither ___________
nor I wear Harris Tweed”.
• Why do people reach out to John?

John Langdon is the inspiration behind Robert Langdon

2A-2B-2C-2D
• About many wrong facts mentioned in The Da Vinci Code, was one that a certain tomb
at Westminster Abbey (Y) and a certain eulogy (by X). However, the story is right. Yes,
a certain epitaph was written. But, it was never allowed to appear on the tomb.
• However, in 1920s, almost 200 years later JC Squire, satirized this,
“It couldn’t last, the devil shouting Ho!
Let Einstein be, restore the status quo”
• Sir Squire said it to be, the answer to X’s epitaph for Y.

Sir Issac Newton and Alexander Pope

2A-2B-2C-2D
• “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
_______ ________ of the ________ ____!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
- Eloisa of Abelard, A Pope

3. LHS=RHS
• An adaptation of a certain ‘Banbhatta’s
Ulka, where a foster father in his death bed
and his ‘lovely’ son have a conversation
about the sleepless agonizing nights, they
both have spent.
• Then the dawn breaks. And the father tells
the son that for an artist, his prayers and his
God both should be the art itself. What
happens next?
• The entire hymn is an urge to the mighty
destroyer to refrain from being the
destroyer and rather be the preserver.
• An ardent request to throw away the
drum of destruction and bugle and pick
up the flute of love.
• The ‘Husband of the Mountain-Born’ is
being prayed to become the ‘Holder of
the Mountain’.

Aruno Kanti Ke Go & Puchhona kaise maine Rain

4A. (5+5+5+5)
• October 15, 70 BC, X was born. And almost 20 years later, when Julius Caeser
extended the Roman citizenship to the northern part of Po, X was considered as a
Roman citizen.
• Now, X’s first major work, the Eclogues, using Homeric hexameter lines to explore
pastoral rather than epic themes. Now the 4th of the Eclogues is important, since it
involves a messianic prophecy from Cumaean Sibyl, a priestess about the beginning of
a golden age.
• The supposed prophecy was a ticket to both X and Sibyl, a gateway to fame. For Sibyl
she gets to appear in a 16th century masterpiece (pic next slide). And X, he later became
a decorated virtuous guide for someone in 14th century.
• X, The prophecy, the 16th century masterpiece and whom did X guide

Virgil, The birth of Christ, The Sistine Chapel ceiling, Dante Alighieri

4B.
• Why Virgil can not guide Dante in Paradiso, but can guide him in Purgatory and
Inferno?

Virgil being a virtuous Pagan, not allowed in Paradise. Born before Jesus will
do

4C.
Part 1- The literary masterpiece of 20th century starts with
these lines, that involves visceral feelings of weariness,
regret, embarrassment, longing, emasculation, sexual
frustration, a sense of decay, and an awareness of
mortality, and most of all the indecisiveness to take an
action.
Part 2- The feeling of hesitation is evidently similar to that of another psychologically
complex character who decides to do something in Act 1, Scene V. But actually does so in
Act V, Scene II. This is where both the characters are so similar; ìn spite of the fact that
the former one openly denies by saying, “No! I am not ___________, nor was meant to
be”.
• An IAS officer with questionable integrity may help.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Prince Hamlet

5.
• The clip is from Midnight in Paris, a classic itself.
• However who doesn’t know about it, the protagonist, Owen Wilson travels back in
1920’s Paris and met all the great people of 20th century there. Owen Wilson, here is
seen suggesting a young man (who happens to be a good friend of Dali) about a certain
plot.
• The masterpiece (1960’s) does supposedly symbolize the post civil-war ruling class of
the young man’s country. They defeats the working class opponents; but yet get trapped
into their own bourgeois cul-de-sac.
• Young man and the Masterpiece

Luis Bunuel, The Exterminating Angel

6.
• The act of balancing on a beam has a luring effect on majority of people. The reason for
this is that most of the people even if it’s not OCD, do have an urge to remain at center
and have a sense of symmetry in life, it brings a sense of mental and physical
equilibrium. Thus, whenever there is a beam, we do jump on it and try our best to walk
on it.
• But, not everywhere such acts are appreciated. Even, in some cases (example) the
picture of you balancing on a track may earn you a lot of backlash online. Though,
many would say that everybody does have different coping mechanisms and different
methods to mitigate horrors and pain.

You should not balance on these tracks

7A.
• Recipe- One jigger of absinthe in a champagne Add iced Champagne until it
attains the proper opalescent milkiness. And you should drink 3-5 slowly.
Created in 1935, the cocktail is eponymous to a book.
• In the book, __1___ in the ____2_____, the author describes, that the entire event is
artistic. You need the good ‘performer’ and a ‘prop’, which is as good as the ‘performer’.
Artistic performer and a poor ‘prop’ do not make a good show.
• The book does refer to one such ‘performer’, named Belmonte, whom he considered to be
‘truly brave’.
• Now, neither of them had __1___ in the ____2_____. The author and Belmonte did have
___1__ in the same manner, but the author somewhere around early morning and a year
later, Mr. Belmonte sometime around midnight.
• The book, the author, what did Mr. Belmonte use to perform and who coined the recipe?

Death in the afternoon, Earnest Hemingway, Bullfighter, Hemingway himself

7B.
• From one of Hemingway’s favorite to another. Let’s make it step by step.
• First- After a hard fought battle at the break of a new century with colonial Spain, the
island country attained its freedom for the first time in some hundreds of years. Now the
big neighbour of its, saw this as a huge opportunity to flood the island’s market with new
possibilities. Thus came the first ingredient with the first shipment arrived on its shore.
• Second- Through out the history, the country had been largely been dependent on cash
crops, so much so that, one certain cash crop covers 80% of its total area. Now, the
Spanish crown wanted it to be lighter and crisper (may misguide you). Hence, the best in
the world pre-existed.
• The first ingredient here did make the drink, an icon of its independence back in those
years, hence the name. But to me and many others, the year that justifies this name should
be 1959.
• Name and Ingredients

8.
• The picture of this bearded boatman appears in one of National Geographic’s 70’s editions.
This photograph was the basis of an artwork produced by a Mrs. Pileggi, who happens to be
the mother of a wise guy.
• However, somewhere else a certain Mrs. De Vitto showcases the painting at the dinner table
to her son and two of his close associates. And the conversation they had was later labelled
as ‘One of the best art dialogues ever’.
• Now, Mrs. De Vitto, actually is a mother to 2. But, one of his two offsprings, made her to
appear as mother in as many as 6 occasions.
• The Wise Guy, The three at the dinner table and the actual offspring of Mrs. De Vitto.

Nicholas Pileggi, Goodfellas- Pesci, De Niro, Liotta, Actual son- Martin S.

9A-9B.
• Right from the year 1977, on every Thursday in a certain square
(just in front of the Presidential palace) of a Latin American
Capital city, few people come around in public defiance and
mostly to seek few answers. All wearing these scarves
(pictures), with something written on it that contains a name or
few names with certain incomplete data.
• Day by day they grew in numbers and now, they are one of the
largest Human rights activist organization of entire Americas.
Most of the former members, founding members had been
abducted, tortured, raped, murdered. But the march didn’t stop.
• What happened during 1976-1980s, that can be considered as
one of the bloodiest act of state atrocity in recent times? And
what does the scarves symbolize?

Mothers of Plaza De Mayo are searching for their disappeared children during the Dirty War

9A-9B.
• We are here talking about a room, somewhere in Europe, where a certain transformation
takes place from Red to White. Now why the room is named so, is because of a certain Leo
from 1878. Since, he assumed the post at an age of 65, he thought his time would be short
lived. Hence, he spent more time than needed in the room grief-stricken. Thus the name.
• Now, here sometime in this decade, two men shared their confessions.
• One regarding his inability to shelter and save innocent people during Dirty War.
• And the other (who have also been questioned to have a history of Nazi-sympathiser) about
his inactivity even after huge allegations of molestations and physical tortures being
unearthed by a certain Maciel.
• The room and the two gentlemen

Room of Tears, Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI

10.
5-6 April, 1966 12th September, 1966 21st September, 1966
24th August, 1966 29-30 October, 1966

10.
• On August 10, 1950, newspapers across the globe reported the achievement of a 31 year
old lady, named Florence Chadwick. Initially that year she did break the record of her
fellow countrymen Gertrude Ederle. But what she did one year later, made her the first
in the list. What did she do (a reciprocation perhaps)?
• In the same year, a Dacota DC 3 pilot helped someone to board a ship to England with a
suitcase, 10 pounds and a one-way third class ticket to study bar.
• Give me the funda of the previous slide, give me the feat that made Florence to top the
chart

Mihir Sen covering Oceans in 5 Continents in 1 year / F. Chadwick made a reverse journey
from England to France, that makes her the first woman to swim the channel both ways.

11.
• Imperial couple those times (18th-19th century) was customarily to be greeted with 3.
• Hence, the night of 7th May of 1825, came to be outrageous to the Royals. And police
agents present had to intervene to stop people from committing 5 standing ovations,
accompanied by handkerchiefs and hats on air to a private deaf man, not even employed
by the imperial court. Name the piece
• Some 144 years later, the piece appears alongside display of disturbing violence, Nazi
atrocities etc. and creates a whole different outlook. And thus even the sophisticated
piece like this comes to appear differently to people. The message was loud and clear.
That aesthetics and sophistication doesn’t differentiate a human from sheer animalism.
• Thus the subject was terrified with the violence on screen, but rather asked to stop the
piece.

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Clockwork Orange

5.
• Camelot (King Arthur),
Ferguson Killing of Michael Brown

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