GP Series Volume 1 Answers and Winners

1. Wild Mushrooms
Present
GP Series - Volume 1

2. • Following slides contain 10 sitters!
• Mail your replies to tripathi.v@gmail.com with
subject line as GP Series Volume 1.
• The quiz is open till 30st December, 2010.
• The winner will get a handshake by “Girl with
yellow boots”

3. 1. Name the man and the movie for which he
was the inspiration.

4. Jeff Dowd. The man who inspired the most
inspiring movie - 'The Big Lebowski'

5. 2. Perhaps an urban legend.
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi asked X to go and
meet Nehru as he could persuade Gandhi to
reach an agreement to help out his friends in
forth-coming talks with Lord Irwin. Nehru was
not convinced and asked X to get out from his
place. X died on the same day.
Identify X.

6. Chandrasekhar Azad

7. 3. Sorry for the pathetic image quality. Connect
the two pictures

8. Suresh Ram – Jagjivan Ram’s son. The pictures of
Suresh engaged in a sexual act with a DU
student were published by Maneka Gandhi’s
magazine named ‘Surya’

9. 4. On February, 1998, X (a test cricketer) was
fielding at short leg against Mohammedan
Sporting in at the Bangabandhu Stadium. Y (test
cricketer) was caught by Z (test cricketer). What
incident took place on this day?

10. X= Raman Lamba
Y = Mehrab Hossain
Z = Khaled Mashud
Mehrab Hossain had pulled a ball which struck
Raman Lamba on his forehad. Khaled Mashud
took the re-bound catch.

11. 5. Identify the lucky bastard (the only male in
the poster)

12. Sylvester Stallone. He debuted as an actor in the
soft porn movie ‘The Party at Kitty and
Stud's’, better known under the title Italian
Stallion.

13. 6. Connect

14. Connection is The Emergency.
Jaganmohal Sinha, judge in the famous case of
State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain on the
election of then Indian Prime Minister, Indira
Gandhi, in which he declared the election
invalid.
Graph of oil prices from 1861–2007, showing a
sharp increase in 1973. Government had cited
1973 oil crisis as one of the reasons for declaring
emergency.

15. 7. “There is no ballot paper. Instead, they have
separate boxes for each candidate. The voters
are required to put the vote (a piece of paper) in
the desired candidate’s box.”
Which country’s voting process is being
described here?

16. India.
This was the process followed in India’s First
General Elections. Described in detail in L.K.
Advani’s biography.

17. 8. This is extracted from mountains in
Caucasus, Altai, India, Tibet etc. Was mentioned
in the works of Aristotle. Identify

18. Shilajit

19. 9. The logo was changed in 2010 and to have an
orange colored letter and different style of
shading. Which logo?

20. Google

21. 10. This movies was first of its kind. Name the
cinematic movement it represents.

22. The Celebration.
First Dogme 95 certified movie.

23. Ritwik Ghosh 10
Manimugdha Sharma 8
Kapinjal Chowdhury 8
Kaustav Lyon 6
Jitaditya Narzary 6
Arindam Phukan 5
Anubhav Agarwal 5
Abhilash Patowary 4
Saintly Pinak 3
Daktar Vinay 2