Rainbow Quiz Club Session - 16.09.12

2. * 20 questions.
* Infinite (Bounce + Pounce).
* Marks - Direct : 10
- Bonus : 10

3. 1
 Identify this young musical group, who
are carrying their family legacy forward.

5.  Von Trapp Family Singers

6. 2
 Founded in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi, a
former government health worker, this
group (vis) works to stop widespread
domestic abuse and other violence
against women. The group, is reported to
have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well
as a chapter in Paris, France.
 Which forthcoming Indian movie will
tell their story? (Vis – next slide))

7. 2

9.  Gulab Gang. The real life group is
named Gulabi Gang.

10. 3
 There is a peculiarity in the naming of
the following lakes -----
* Dal Lake (India)
* Lake Chad (Chad)
* Lake Nyassa (Mozambique)
* Lake Tahoe (USA)
* Lake Hyaq
(Ethiopia) * Gaube
Lake (French Pyrenees)
 What is that?

12.  Lake Lake. Tautological names - all of
them essentially mean “lake”.

13. 4
 This is the theme song for the popular
tv medical-drama, Grey’s Anatomy.
 Identify the composer-singer.

15.  Anushka Manchanda

16. 5
 The gentleman (vis) wrote in a letter –
“If only fifty men, good and true, can be
found to join as founders, the thing can
be established and the further
development will be comparatively easy.
…..”.
 What resulted?

18.  Indian National Congress was founded.

19. 6
 Rick Macintosh, the GM of Microsoft
Canada was summoned to the Canadian
Department of Agriculture, in 1985, since
they had proposed to quarantine certain
product. The Dept. of Agriculture
officials thought that the product posed a
health risk to Canada.
 What was the issue?

21.  Microsoft Mouse
was launched.

22. 7
 Whose directorial ventures include the
following movies?
* Nanak Dukhiya Sub Sansar (1970)
* Mera Desh Mera Dharam (1973)
* Bhagat Dhanna Jatt (1974)
* Sawa Lakh Se Ek Ladaun (1976)
* Dhyanu Bhagat (1978)
* Bhakti Mein Shakti (1978) &
* Rustom (1982)

24.  Dara Singh

25. 8
 “Swastika flag-
draped coffins,
beneath Nazi
flags, …… rest on a
pier in New York, May
19th, 1937, awaiting
return to Germany.”
– Life
Magazine
 Who were the
unfortunate men ?

27.  Victims of the Hindenburg disaster
of 1937

28. 9
 Merck, the global pharmaceutical and
chemical giant, recently floated the
Merck-X Award to recognise special
contributions for promoting cultural
exchange between India and Germany.
Dr. Martin Kampchen, the first winner,
received the prize in March 2012.
 After whom is this award named?

30.  Rabindranath Tagore

31. 10
 This is a 1795 painting of the remains of a
structure which was established in the
1350s to house a walled city. It’s name,
derived from the successor of Muhammad
bin Tughlaq, is famous for other reasons.
 How do we know this area today?
(Bigger vis – next slide)

32. 10

34.  Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium

35. 11
 Identify this popular movie based on a
story by Shankar.

37.  Ek Je Chilo Desh

38. 11
 The lady, featured in this Lipton ad, is
again back in news owing to one of her
popular number being recreated for an
upcoming rom-com hindi movie.
 Identify her.

40.  Nazia Hassan

41. 12
 X is a major character in Ken Follet's thriller
"The Key to Rebecca“. X, at the time a young
officer in the Army, is presented quite
sympathetically; his willingness to cooperate
with German spies is clearly shown to derive
from his wish to find allies against British
colonial domination of his country. Some of the
scenes in the book, such as X's arrest by the
British, closely follow the information provided
in X's own autobiography.
 Who was X?

43.  Anwar Sadat

44. 13
 Bhanumati Shirodkar, regarded as the
Thumri Queen, has sung this song.
 How do we know her better?

46.  Shobha Gurtu

47. 14
 Horace Vernet, the famous French painter was
a master in battle scenes, portraits and
Oriental Arab subjects. He accompanied the
French Army during the Crimean War.
 According to published records,
who said, “My ancestors were
country squires... my grandmother...
was the sister of Vernet, the French
artist”?

49.  Sherlock Holmes

50. 15
 To prepare this dish, beef tenderloin is
coated with pate, wrapped in puff pastry,
and baked. It was a preferred dinner party
dish in the 1960s, as it seemed expensive,
and time-consuming to prepare.
 After whom this dish has been, said to
be, named?

52.  Duke of Wellinton, Arthur Wellesley.
The dish is Beef Wellington.

53. 17
 A popular no. sung by Kishore Kumar
from an early 90s film. Who acted opposite
Mithun Chakraborty in the movie?

55.  Yogeeta Bali

56. 18
 Originally from Virgil’s Aeneid, the
phrase was allegedly the last words of
Pliny the Elder before he left the docks at
Pompeii to rescue people from the eruption
of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. In case of Pliny, the
proverb did not prove to be true and he
died in the attempt.
 Which well known phrase?

58.  Fortune Favours the Brave

60. 19
 Which investment firm, originally
founded in New York in 1947, is listed on
the NYSE under the ticker BEN?

62.  Franklin Templeton Investments

63. 20
 English
translation
of a poem,
very much
in news.
 Identify
the original
poem.

65.  Jab Tak Hai Jaan