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SF Bay Quiz

May 19, 2012

By Arun Simha

1 Ans. Shoaib Akhtar claimed in his autobio that Sachin Tendulkar was
fearful of his bowling in a particular match.

2. Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff (a.k.a. Basil Zaharoff), was an arms dealer and financier
who has been immortalized in a work of fiction as a cynical businessman who sells weapons to
both sides of a conflict. The conflict is loosely based on a real conflict called the ‘Gran Chao war’
that took place between 1932-35 between Bolivia and Paraguay. In the English translation,
he works for 'Korrupt Arms', a pun on 'corrupt', but also on Krupp, the German arms
manufacturers. Which work of fiction?

2. Ans – Basil Bazarov is featured in Tintin and the Broken Ear

3. Herb Thomas was a NASCAR driver who won a lot of races in the
1950s, making him one of the most successful drivers of all time. He
started the 1951 season with moderate success in his Plymouth
(plus one win in an Oldsmobile) before switching over to another
car. With this car, he won many races in four successive years. He
drove with other makes of cars until 1956 when as Wikipedia puts
it, "Thomas eventually returned to being an owner/driver at
season's end, and had clinched second behind Petty in the
championship when he was severely injured at a race in Shelby,
North Carolina. The wreck effectively ended his NASCAR career,
though he had two starts in 1957 and one in 1962 without success."
How has Herb Thomas and his championship winning car been
immortalized?

3. Ans. Doc Hudson in Cars. His prize winning car ‘The Fabulous Hudson Hornet’ is
pictured above beside an image of the Cars character.

4. On a request from Brad Lewis, renowned chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry
fame designed a fancy, layered version of a dish which he called "confit byaldi" in
honor of the original Turkish name. The dish is a variation of a traditional dish
created by chef Michel Guérard. Which traditional dish?

4 Ans. Ratatouille. He allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his kitchen and created
this dish specifically for the film.

5. Supremo was a comic book character in the series The Adventures
of X published in the 1980s. In the comics, Supremo was an alter
ego of X. As described in a contemporary article in The India
Magazine, Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large glasses
which resemble welding glasses, a skin-tight costume with a wrap
which resembles those worn by fishermen on India's western coast,
and a chakra pendant. He loves peanuts and "music is his passion",
which is why he carries a Walkman . Supremo has two helpers, boys
named Vijay and Anthony. He also has a dolphin named Sonali, and
a falcon scout Shaheen.

ID X.

6. X was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant
Reformation. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against
Protestants in France, he fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published
the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion
in 1536. (pic on the left)
Y was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political
philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most
of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract
theory.
ID X and Y

7. On Black Monday, Sept 29, 2008, all except
one stock on the S&P 500 fell. i.e. 499 stocks
fell in value, while 1 rose. Identify the
company whose stock rose.

7. Ans – Campbell Soup Company – fear of a great depression leading
to an increase in soup kitchens.

8. In what context would you see a derivation of
the latin phrase taken from Cicero's book 'On
the Ends of Goods and Evils'.

The English translation of the phrase is
'Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself
since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it'

8 Ans. The standard templates in Microsoft.

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eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut
enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in
reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in
culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

9. He was born on April 24, 1853 in Strood, in the county of Kent, in
the South East of England.At the age of 16 he boarded a ship to
Argentina with some friends of his father. He acquired a property
and in 1884 he founded the famous college with a distinctive red
and black colour scheme and emblem. The colours were a mixture
of colours from the flags of England and the flag of the German
Empire (his wife's nationality). It was in 1884 that the first football
and set of rules arrived in Argentina. He decided to alternate study
at the college with sporting activity. Over the years the sport gained
in popularity at the college and led to the formation of a pro club in
1903. The club has had several distinguished alumni in both its
youth and senior versions, including Maradona, Messi, Valdano and
Batistuta. Identify the club.

10. Technically this is a trademark although it is widely used as a
colloquial name, similar to the usage of Kleenex or Xerox.

The name is a portmanteau of two words - the first half refers to
the use of a material in road construction to stabilize the road and
the second half to the name given to a type of road construction
called ”Macadamized roads" after its Scottish inventor John Loudon
Macadam who lived in the 18th century. The trademark material
was patented in 1901 by Edgar Purnell Hooley. What is the material
whose name people mistakenly use today but is widely accepted as
a generic term?

11. Lucy Vodden a friend of Julian Lennon from his childhood days who
inspired his painting ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds

12. US Supreme Court Case FCC v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION (1978). Explain

12 Ans. George Carlin – Seven Words you cannot say on television .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

13. Frau Eva von _____________, a direct descendent of a famous
Count was upset by a band that had the Count’s name as part of
their band-name. She asked the band through repeated press
interviews to change the name of their band while performing in
Denmark. The band invited her to meet them to show that they
meant no ill will, and she did. But later, she saw the artwork of
their album cover and freaked out. Eager to avoid confrontation,
the band changed its name for one gig in Copenhagen to "The
Nobs', a dig at the upper class snobbery that prevented the
Countess from being flexible.

Name the band.

14. The first French satellite, was launched on November 26, 1965 by a rocket
of type Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria. It was originally
designated A-1, as the French Army's first satellite, but later renamed to
this.

15. In a popular film of recent vintage, the actor based his character on
the Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards. His get-up was unusual, in
that he had;
– strands of beads on his hair
– a Spanish dollar ("piece of eight") on his bandanna
– a silver chain-link charm
– a reindeer shin bone needle
– puffy white shirt, with a long vest & dark brown breeches
– an unusual leather belt ('baldric") & silver buckle
– scabbard and black sabre
– four rings on his hands

15. Ans – Captain Jack Sparrow by Johnny Depp (Pirates of the
Caribbean)

16. This legendary temple is not located in South India. However,
traditionally, it is administered by priests from South India.
Ostensibly, Adi Sankaracharya began this tradition in the 6th
century and it continued until very recently. The priests are called
Bhattas and the chief priest is called Moola Bhatta or Raval.
Recently, a priest from Udupi who had a long inning at this temple
retired and moved back to spend his remaining days in his home
town. His name was Raval Padmanabha Shastri Adiga (priest from
1927-2005). Which temple?

16. Pashupatinath temple, Kathmandu

17. A famous person X wrote this letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson on his
poem 'The Vision of Sin’ : "In your otherwise beautiful poem," he said,
"one verse reads,
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
" ... If this were true," he went on, "the population of the world would
be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that
of death. I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should
read]:”
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment 1 1/16 is born.
"Strictly speaking," X added, "the actual figure is so long I cannot get it
into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate
for poetry. Who was X?

18. Sherlock Holmes's trademark phrase ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’
is a key example of phrases that were never written/said by the
persons to whom these are attributed . The nearest the fictional
detective got to "elementary" was a single use of the word in one
short story, The Crooked Man, published in 1894. The full phrase
was coined 21 years later by _______, whose hero tacks on the
remainder of the phrase.

18. P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith Journalist. You can
read the book here
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/wodehouse/ps
mth10.html

19. What is the significance of this poem - an epigraph to Vikram
Seth's book 'An Equal Music'?

Perhaps this could have stayed unstated.
Had our words turned to other things
In the grey park, the rain abated,
Life would have quickened other strings.
I list your gifts in this creation:
Pen, paper, ink and inspiration,
Peace to the heart with touch or word,
Ease to the soul with note and chord.

How did that walk, those winter hours,
Occasion this? No lightning came;
Nor did I sense, when touched by flame,
Our story lit with borrowed powers -
Rather, by what our spirits burned,
Embered in words, to us returned

19. Acrostic for his then-partner Phillipe Honore’
(Check out the first alphabet of every line)

20. The lyrics of Bad Sign, Good Sign, written by Julian More and
Monty Norman, are as follows:
I was born with this unlucky sneeze
And what is worse I came into the world the wrong way round
Pundits all agree I am the reason why
My father fell into the village pond and drowned.

21. James Bond Theme. Listen to all three
versions here
http://www.montynorman.com/music/music01.
asp

21. Modern Library includes this novel it in its list of one hundred best
English language novels of the 20th century. A French soldier had a
copy of this novel in his breast pocket when it stopped a bullet
meant for him. In gratitude, the soldier gifted the novel (with
embedded bullet) & his Croix de Guerre to the author who
returned it to the soldier's son after the former's demise. The
father of the author was a curator of a museum and makes an
appearance in the novel. So does a weapon which is an exhibit in
that museum. Which novel?

Hint: A famous spy was heard speaking Punjabi to his friends when
he was a child in Ambala Cantt. One of his father's friends
commented, "We've got a proper little _____ here,” and the
nickname stuck.

22. Ans - Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’. The spy was
Harold Adrian Russell ‘Kim’ Philby.

22. Fauja Singh the 100 year old Indian born Brit who was featured in
Adidas’ “Impossible is Nothing” campaign. He’s the subject of
Khushwant Singh's biography “Turbaned Torpedo,” which he can’t
read because he’s illiterate. His Facebook page has over 16,000
members. And he received a congratulatory telegram from Queen
Elizabeth on his 100th birthday in April 2011. The vegetarian
claims the secret to his longevity is his diet of ginger curry and tea.
He is running as part of an all England running club comprising
members of his religion. What is the name of his running club that
is a pun on a famous sitcom/movie?

23. _____ of Savoy was the Queen
consort of the Kingdom of Italy
during the reign (1878–1900) of her
husband, Umberto I. In 1881, a
mining town in Assam, India, was
named after her. In 1889, during a
visit to Naples, she was served a
dish in the colors of the Italian flag
and named after her. Name her.

23. Ans - Margherita. The dish was Margherita
pizza.

24. Year 2006.

Person A: "If you want my shirt, I'll give it to you afterwards."

Person B: "preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella"". (I prefer the
whore that is your sister.)

What happened next?

24. Ans – Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the
WC final.

25. On Monday, Dec 02 1929, Time Magazine ran an article whose
headline was 'C-C-C-Cured'. What was it about?

25. Ans. The Duke of York’s stammering (made
famous by the King’s Speech). Read the article
here
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,
9171,738177,00.html

26. The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894–1969) often used an
expression when cabling his followers in the West. In the 1960s,
the truncated version of this expression by Baba was printed up
on inspiration cards and posters of the era. In 1988, a world
renowned Jazz/Classical/Opera/Beatbox singer noticed a similar
poster in the apartment of the jazz band Tuck & Patti in San
Francisco. Inspired by the expression's charm and simplicity, he
wrote the now famous song, which was included in the
soundtrack of the movie Cocktail, and became a hit single the
next year. Name the singer and the song.

27. Ans Bobbie McFerrin, “Don’t Worry, Be
Happy”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry_B
e_Happy

27. The famous song is from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein
musical Carousel.

In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the
female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings that song to comfort and
encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead,
kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery. It is reprised
in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise
(Billy and Julie's daughter) is a member. Billy watches this
ceremony during his return to earth. The version by Gerry and the
Pacemakers has become an official anthem of some sort.

Which song?

Ans. You’ll never walk alone – Liverpool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00x5sRbZr
c

27. What was unusual about this newspaper announcement?

27. Ans – The man who never was/Operation
Mincemeat. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mince
meat (Ian Fleming was one of those responsible)
and the film

28. Ans Amjadi Banu Begum See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Moveme
nt

29. Ans – Real life people who were played by
Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia (Abu Tayi),
Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar) and Zapata.
See imdb

30. Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Moor’s last sigh’
_ Boabdil, the last Moorish ruler of Spain
depicted in a famous painting (sighing)
_ The place ‘Suspiro del moro’ where he is
supposed to have sighed
- Raman Lamba fielding. The novel has a
character called Raman Fielding based on Bal
Thackeray.

31. This changed with the coronation of Isabella as Queen of Spain.
"According to author Westerveld, the new rules coincide precisely
with her coronation (who had married King Ferdinand in 1469).
This coronation took place at 13 December 1474.. This event,
Westerveld claims, inspired the Valencian poets to change the rules
in accordance with her newly gained powers – powers that were,
even greater than those of her husband, the king.

What rules?

31. Ans. Chess
http://www.chessvibes.com/columns/valencia-
and-the-origin-of-modern-chess/

32. George "Speck" Crum (1822–1914), son of "a mulatto jockey and
an Indian maid", according to a menu used at Moon's Lake
House,[1][2] was the cook at Moon's Lake House, a resort at the
south end of the lake in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.
According to one story, on August 24, 1853, a customer
complained that the contents of Crum's dish were "too thick". The
angered cook was frustrated by this remark, so he decided to give
the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about: he
sliced the ingredients paper-thin, over fried them, and seasoned
them with an excess of salt. When they were prepared, he gave
them to the customer, expecting him to be dissatisfied. However,
the customer loved them. Soon, its popularity became
widespread.

Crum was soon able to open his own restaurant with the profits.
But it remained a local (Saratoga, NY) delicacy until the prohibition
era when an enterprising salesman named Herman X popularized it
across the US. Name the dish and X.

33. Connect
• Fade-In / Iron Cowboy (1968), directed by Jud Taylor
• Death of a Gunfighter (1969), directed separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegel
• City in Fear (1980), directed by Jud Taylor
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983),
• Stitches (1985), directed by Rod Holcomb
• Let's Get Harry (1986), directed by Stuart Rosenberg
• Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987), directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsor
• The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990), directed by Michael Gottlieb
• Solar Crisis (1990), directed by Richard C. Sarafian
• The Birds II: Land's End (1994), directed by Rick Rosenthal
• National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995), directed by Kelly Makin
• Raging Angels (1995)
• Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), directed by Kevin Yagher
• Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (1997), co-directed by Steve Langley
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998), directed by Arthur Hiller
• River Made to Drown In (1999), directed by James Merendino
• Woman Wanted (2000), directed by Kiefer Sutherland

33. Ans - Directors who disowned their movies
credited it to a fictitious ‘Alan Smithee’. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee

34. Vanity Fair article, 1996. Film based on it?

35. Fill in the blanks.
Fulano, Zutano y Mengano — in Spanish
Hinz und Kunz — in German
Jan en Alleman — in Dutch
Tizio, Caio, Sempronio, Mevio, Filano e Calpurnio — in Italian
Fulano, Beltrano e Sicrano — in Portuguese
Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov — in Russian
Are, Oore, Shamsi Kooreh — in Persian
_______, _____________ & _____________ in English.

36. We all know the famous Indian wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani.
However, can you name another very prominent retired
international cricketer whose first and last names are also Syed
Kirmani? He is better known by his middle two names.

37.” Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention, a
body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their
Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, managing
your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence, and not
altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated
with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an
egotistical imagination that can at all times command an
interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an
opponent and to glorify himself?”

Speech by Benjamin Disraeli during a banquet given to him in
Knightsbridge, attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus
Convention an "insane covenant" (27 July, 1878).

How is part of the quote familiar to us (Indians)?

37. Ans - "Wait, wait, wait. You see, the whole country of the system is
juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because
you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the
exuberance of your own verbosity"

The opening lines of ‘My name is Anthony Gonsalves’ from
Amar, Akbar, Anthony.

38. This term appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron’s Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage and was decided by Franklin Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill to refer to the Allies.

XXXV
The Psalmist number'd out the years of man:
They are enough: and if thy tale be true,
Thou, who didst grudge him even that fleeting span,
More than enough, thou fatal Waterloo !
Millions of tongues record thee, and anew
Their children's lips shall echo them, and say --
'Here, where the sword ______ ________ drew,
Our countrymen were warring on that day!'
And this is much, and all which will not pass away.

39. The Greeks and the Romans used olive oil as food, soap, lotion,
fuel for lamps and furnaces, a base for perfumes, and a cure for
heart ailments, stomach aches, hair loss, and excessive
perspiration. They also considered it a sacred substance; cult
statues, like the effigy of Zeus at Olympia, were rubbed regularly
with oil. People who bathed or exercised in Greek gymnasiums
anointed their bodies as well, using oils that were scented with
pressed flowers and roots.

Belief in the sacred, health-giving properties of olive oil continued
in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. “___________” is from the
Greek ______, meaning “the anointed one”—anointed with olive
oil.

Fill in the blanks.

40. During the George W. Bush administration, what was termed as
‘the Goyal foil’ by Dana Millibank of the WaPo?

40. Ans – Raghubir Goyal who was used as a “deviating from the topic”
Foil by Ari Fleisher and Bush. See below

41. It is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in
Washington, D.C. Its riverside location made it susceptible to
atmospheric conditions. Much of this area is occupied by the main
campus of the George Washington University. Also in the
neighborhood are; the headquarters of the US Dept of State, the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Watergate Complex
and other federal buildings. How do we know this area better?

41. Ans – Foggy Bottom – often used as a
nickname for the Dept of State.

42. Located in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
What is this?

42. Jefferson Bible. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_bible

43. This patent application for a "scrotal support garment,” was first
filed in February of 2008 by Donald Quinn of Bristol, TN. Many
more patents for similar garments have been filed. The Atlantic
claimed that the patent office rejected them. For what reason?

43. Ans – PriorArt used in Borat. See
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-
best-patent-rejection-youll-ever-see-featuring-borat/255180/

44. Identify the desi speaker. Ans - The clips (Abida Parveen and Ravi
Shankar) were from here and the answer was Kalpana Chawla –
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-
107/html/ndxpage1.html

45. What is this? Ans. This was a clip of Peter Sellers doing a version of
The Beatles song ‘She Loves You’ in a cockney accent. In fact, he has
done an entire LP of Beatles recordings in different voices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwWjHG3xnU

More here
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peter+sellers+beatles
&oq=peter+sellers+beatles&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_l=youtube-
reduced.3..0.54017.54902.0.55073.7.3.0.4.4.0.144.332.1j2.3.0...0.0.o4
QVSNh7F1Q

45. Identify the performer and the composer.
Ans. This was Jeremy Irons performing ‘Don’t put your daughter on the
stage’ by Noel Coward http://jeremyirons.com/media/audio

46. Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22, 1909 – July 5, 1965) was a Dominican
diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo. He made his mark as an
international playboy, for his jet setting lifestyle, and his legendary
prowess with women. Among his spouses were two of the richest women
in the world. In this role, he was sent to embassies first at Berlin (during
the 1936 Olympic Games) and soon to Paris where he spent most of his
time; he also served at the embassies at Vichy, Buenos Aires, Rome,
Havana (witnessing the Cuban Revolution), and Brussels. He was a
frequent visitor to New York, Washington, Florida, and California. After
World War II, Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions, polo and
car racing, both expensive sports that would be supported in years to
come by his American wives. He is supposed to have inspired two
characters of fiction; James Bond and X. X is played by a 72-year old actor
Jonathan Goldsmith and the voice over for the ‘film’ is provided by Will
Lyman, the narrator of PBS Frontline . Who is X?

Disclaimer: Goldsmith claims, in a New Yorker article, that the inspiration
behind X is his friend Fernando Lamas, ‘the greatest swordsman who lived
in Hollywood’.

46. Ans – ‘The Most Interesting Man in the
World’, Dos Equis beer.

47. Ans – Highest and Lowest checkins. From space (highest) and
tweet from the Mariana Trench by James Cameroon (lowest).

See http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/22/foursquare-space-astronaut/
and
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/26/how_did_james_c
ameron_tweet_from_the_bottom_of_the_ocean_.html

48. Reunion in Nov 2011 of the original ___ ___ of ____. Iconic
lunatics, they are.

48. Ans –Usual Gang of Idiots of Mad Magazine–
Sergio Aragones, Jack Davis and Al Jaffee. This
was taken from a FB update by Roger Ebert.

49. It probably originated in Brünnhilde's final aria from Die Walküre or
Götterdämmerung since it lasts 20 minutes. Its use in sports
journalism has been attributed to writer/broadcaster Dan Cook
who probably said it first in April 1978 during the first basketball
game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets.
What?

49. Ans – The phrase, “It ain’t over until the fat
lady sings.”

50. Many elements in the periodic table have been named after
countries. Which is the only country that was named after an
element?

51. The Eagles having achieved quick success were quite disquieted by
the bells and whistles that came with it in the form of drugs,
women and the like. They penned Hotel California as an allegory to
this addiction to fame. A line in that song was a return favor to this
group. The girlfriend of one of its members was an Eagles fan.
That group had included the line "turn up the Eagles, the
neighbors are listening" in ‘Everything you did’.

51. Ans – Steely Dan. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California_(song)

52. Ans – Salman Rushdie. He was a copywriter
for O&M and those were his taglines. He acts as
a gynaec in the film “Then she found me”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUtjrskSBAU
and the lightning bolt is from a Pakistani film
‘International Guerillas’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Guer
illas

53. Yasukuni Shrine in Japan (controversial war memorial).Monument
to whom, erected in 2005?

53. Ans. Justice Radhabinod Pal, the only man to submit that the
Japanese were not guilty in the war crimes trial after WWII – see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhabinod_Pal There’s a Japanese
blockbuster film called ‘Pride’ based on him (2000s). The role was
played by Suresh Oberoi. I haven’t been able to get a copy of the film.
Anyway, here’s a right-wing Japanese video with original footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hq9MoXzEf0 See NY Times
review of Pride here
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/168188/Pride/overview

54. The song is traditionally sung in funerals, specifically “jazz
funerals”. Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song
abound. Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune
into a nationally known pop-tune in the 1930s. A professional
sports team in the US takes its name from the song-title, since it
was most identified with that city. Which song?

55. Ans – ‘When the Saints go marching in’. See the marvelous version
by Armstrong and Danny Kaye here. Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6ktYq0Yxk with modified lyrics
featuring classical music composers.

55. Sir ____ ______ in a reply to an unwelcome letter. 'Dear Sir, I am in
the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me. Very
soon it will be behind me.'

56. Press Release in 2011, by the Indian pharma company Kayem.

“In view of the sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental
Sodium to various places in USA and as alleged to be used for the
purpose of X cherish the Ethos of Hinduism ( A believer even in
non-livings as the creation of God) refrain ourselves in selling this
drug….”

The Indian company, Kayem, has already sold thiopental to
Nebraska and South Dakota, and had been approached by 13 other
states to buy it, the company's managing director, Navneet Verma
said in a telephone interview from Mumbai, where the company is
located.

57. From a compilation of the greatest literary insults.

Vladimir Nabokov on X , “As to X, I read him for the first time in
the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and
loathed it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Y, “Y’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar
in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the
wretched conventions of English society, without genius,
wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched
and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer . . .
is marriageableness.”

57. Ans – X is Hemingway and Y is Jane Austen

58. Go is a game of strategy that was originally played in China and
Japan, but is now popular worldwide. It's aura was probably
enhanced by the fact that John Nash is shown playing it in 'A
Beautiful Mind'. A key element of the game is the verbal warning to
an opponent that his piece is about to be captured. The Japanese
term for this warning was used by the founder of a company to
name it. What was/is the name of this company which was not
founded in Japan?

59. The active ingredient in Oleoresin Capsicum is capsaicin, which is a
chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus.
Extraction of oleoresin capsicum requires capsicum to be finely
ground, from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic
solvent such as ethanol. The solvent is then evaporated, and the
remaining wax like resin is the oleoresin capsicum. An emulsifier
such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water, and
pressurized. What is the popular term for Oleoresin Capsicum?

60. Google Doodle in India on Mar 14th 2011 celebrating 80 years of
what?

60. Ans – The first Indian talkie ‘Alam Ara’

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