The movie was Paromitar Ek Din. Radhika Apte played the role of Brinda in Paromitar Ek Din, a popular Bengali film from 2009, which gained her popularity in Kolkata.

2. 1. What connects the Blake
Edwards movie ‘The Party’
staring Peter Sellers, the
American jazz
saxophonist John Coltrane
and Chilkur Balaji Temple
in Hyderabad in relation to
Kolkata?

3. Ravi Shankar (showed Peter
Sellers how to play the sitar
for that movie, Coltrane
named his son on Ravi
Shanker – Ravi
Coltrane, Shanker married
Anoushka’s mother in that
Temple)

4. 2. In the movie ‘How to Lose
Friends and Alienate
People’, the actor Megan Fox
appeared in a cameo in a
satirical film-within-a-film
portraying a famous
Kolkatan. Who?

5. Mother Teresa

6. 3. It is said that Satyajit Ray had 3
unrealized projects which he could
never made. One was ‘The
Alien’, which urban legend has
that Steven Spielberg copied it and
made into his movie ‘E.T.’ Second
was the ‘Mahabharata’ and third
was from a famous piece of
literature which now has been
made into a movie by David Lean.
Which was this third unmade
project?

7. E. M. Forster's 1924
novel ’A Passage to India’.

8. 4. It is one of the 51 Shakti Peeths of
India. Legend has it that a devotee
discovered a luminant ray of light
coming from the Bhāgirathi (Ganges)
river bed, and upon investigating its
source came upon a piece of stone
carved in the form of a human toe. He
also found a Svayambhu Lingam of
Nakuleshwar Bhairav nearby, and
started worshiping the Devi in the
midst of a thick jungle. Which Temple
am I talking about?

9. KALIGHAT Temple

10. 5. He was born in Kolkata on 18
December 1955. He attended La
Martiniere for Boys school in Kolkata,
where he was appointed House Captain
(the house was called Hastings house)
in his final year. He went up to St.
Xavier's College then in Kolkata from
which he graduated with a Bachelors of
Commerce degree. If you go to the DL
Khan Road in Kolkata, you can still see
his dilapidated ancestral house which
still has a certain grandeur about it.
Currently, a more or less controversial
public figure in India, who is he?

11. Vijay Mallya

12. 6. What connects:
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, the fashion designer
from Kolkata who has designed costumes
for Bollywood films such
as Guzaarish, Babul, Laaga Chunari Mein
Daag, Raavan etc.
A digestive enzyme discovered by Theodor
Schwann in 1836, the name of which was
also coined by him from the Greek word for
digestion.
And, A world famous beverage?

13. Pepsi
(Sabyasachi’s
nickname is
Pepsi)

14. 7. Kolkata is a city which is also
known for its nightclubs and
pubs. One of the most popular
pubs of this town is based at
the ‘Kenilworth Hotel’ in Little
Russel Street and is named
after a world famous English
structure. What is this pub at
the Kenilworth Hotel Kolkata
called?

15. The Big Ben

16. 8. When Sourav Ganguly first burst
into the scene, he was nicknamed
after another very stylish left
hander as ‘Sourav
…………..Ganguly (the middle word
being the name of that cricketer).
Ganguly himself even admitted
that he followed that particular
cricketer as his role model and
wanted to bat like him. Which
cricketer?

17. David Gower (Sourav Gower
Ganguly)

18. 9.

19. Ans: Mahasweta Devi
Pic 1: The Movie Gangor (2010) Directed by Italo Spinelli, based on her short
story, Choli Ke Peeche, from the Book, Breast Stories.
Pic 2: Ramon Magsaysay Award, which she got in 1997.
Pic 3: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak who has translated Devi's short stories into
English.
Pic 4: Her uncle Ritwik Ghatak.
Pic 5: At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006, when India was the first country to be
the Fair's second time guest nation, she made an impassioned inaugural speech
wherein she moved the audience to tears with her lines taken from the famous
film song "Mera Joota Hai Japani" by Raj Kapoor (the English equivalent is in
brackets):
This is truly the age where the Joota (shoe) is Japani (Japanese), Patloon
(pants) is Englistani (British), the Topi (hat) is Roosi (Russian), But the Dil... Dil
(heart) is always Hindustani (Indian)... My
country, Torn, Tattered, Proud, Beautiful, Hot, Humid, Cold, Sandy, Shining
India. My country.
Pic 6: She is the founding member of Budhan Theatre - the theatre group of
Chhara Denotified Tribals of Gujarat.

20. 10. What phrase connects Ganesh
Pyne, the famous international
painter from Kolkata who was
known for his emphasis on human
skeleton with John Donne - the
English metaphysical poet of
medieval ages, John Webster - a
contemporary dramatist of William
Shakespeare who was known for
his tragedies and the name of a
detective novel by PD James and a
hard metal number by Megadeth?

21. 'Skull beneath the skin‘ (Ganesh
Pyne, Donne and Webster were all
referred by this phrase that they
were people who could see the
skull beneath the skin. TS Eliot
made it popular by referring it for
Webster)

22. 11. In the slums of Kolkata,
the local populace make a local
alcholic drink which they think
is the best in the industry and
they have named it as
'Shottur' (Bengali for
Seventy). But why do they call
it 'Seventy'?

23. They think that their drink is
even better than 'Vat 69'

24. 12. During the Durga Pujas,
the artists who make the idols
of Ma Durga, collect the earth
from outside the brothels.
Why?

25. They believe that when people are
entering the brothels, they are
leaving all their virtues, all their
Godly qualities behind. So that
earth where they are leaving those
becomes pious. Hence……

26. 13. You have seen
her in a Coke ad
with Aamir Khan a
few yrs back. A
very famous
heroine of
Kolkata, who is
she?

27. Sreelekha Mitra

28. 14. In 1932, in an article in
the American Cinematographer in
US, what name was coined for the
first time by Wilford E. Deming, an
American engineer who was
involved in a lot of work in Kolkata
and India. This name now, though
is more synonymous with
something in South India?

29. Tollywood

30. 15. She is a Pune based actress who got immense
popularity in Kolkata because of her role by the name
of ‘Brinda’ in a certain 2009 Bengali movie. What is her
name?

31. Radhika Apte