Quiz 12

1 •Born Killead, County Antrim, 6th January 1819.Died Banagher, County Offaly, 3rd December 1906.
•after being ordained, he came to Howarth to serve as curate: he held that position until 1861.
•Married the vicar’s daughter in 1854, but she fell ill soon later, and died in 1855.
•Returned to Ireland when the vicar died, and married his cousin, Mary Anna.His name has a particular significance in the world of literature. Whatitis?

2. The creators of this character have deliberately tried to make him a bit like sherlock holmes: it is to this that we owe the ideas of drug usage and musical virtuosity. This character lives in flat b, in number 221, and various characters names moriarty, adler and doyle making appearances. Who’s the character?

3. When making Venetian glass, the glassblower would turn flawed articles into flasks. What word comes from this practice?

4.
It became a bus line in 1948. There are proposals to revive it, running along the North Rampart and St. Claude, as far downriver as Poland Avenue, near the industrial Canal. in 2004, the rail transit authority released a Draft Environmental impact Statement for comment, which details the project. Id.




5. The director refers to the novel this movie was based on as "pretty terrible" and possibly "racist", and says that he relied on the screenplay (by the oscar-winning Ring Lardner jr., only as a framework. The filming process was difficult due to tensions between the director and his cast. During principal photography, the actors playing the two lead characters spent a third of their time trying to get the director fired. in fact, one actor worked with this particular director again, only after submitting a letter of apology. Which movie?




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7. Identify

8. He was born in Khurd in Jhelum District (Now in Pakistan). His father died when he was just five and he, his sister and brother were brought up by his uncle. in 1947, during Partition, his family fled to india and lived in Ambala district, now in Haryana. in the early 1950s, he moved to Mumbai to continue his education and joined the Jai Hind College. His involvement in dramatics got him his first job with Keymers, a British advertising agency that hired him for radio programmes. Lipton ki Mehfil, broadcast on Radio Ceylon, at that time the only commercial radio station in the region, became extremely popular.

9. In Medieval times, the Church used to reward people by giving them honorary ranks such as Bishop, Abbot, etc. People with such honorary ranks would enjoy all the privileges of their rank (revenue from certain villages etc) without any of the duties associated with the rank. What english word (meaning without flock in Latin - - has originated from such people ?

10. Paul McCartney supposedly composed the entire melody of this song in a dream one night at the London flat in Wimpole Street belonging to his then girlfriend, Jane Asher. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano, turned on a tape recorder, and played the tune. Throughout the shooting of Help!, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted. McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to perform this song accompanied by the piano. McCartney's original lyrics were, “_______________, Oh, baby how i love your legs", and that was all he had until he decided to finish the lyrics. When the song was released as a single in 1965, John Lennon said:"The song was around for months and months before we finally completed it. Every time we got together to write songs for a recording session, this one would come up. We almost had it finished. Paul wrote nearly all of it, but we just couldn't find the right title. We called it _____________' and it became a joke between us. We made up our minds that only a one-word title would suit, we just couldn't find the right one. Then one morning Paul woke up and the song and the title were both there, completed. i was sorry in a way, we'd had so many laughs about it."


11. In addition to his documented service as a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars, he claimed to have worked many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and even a hotel manager, but it's unclear which claims were factual and which were fabricated for purposes of publicity. He won his nickname from a man named Bill Comstock, after a contest.

12. “in the five years since a stinging Wimbledon defeat sent her into retirement, physical therapist Jordan Myles has learned to turn a colder eye on the pro tennis tour. So she's not unduly impressed when a call from the family of 16-year-old superstar Audrey Armat sends her home to the Desert Springs Sports Science Center to start a high-pressure rehab program with Audrey. But when star-crossed Audrey and her twin brother, E.J., take off from Desert Springs after only one day, Jordan realizes she's dealing with something a lot worse than a pair of stage-mother parents--and that's even before
(1)a younger rival of Audrey's is fatally wounded on the courts at Wimbledon;
(2)Audrey apparently leaps to her death from the family balcony; and
(3)Emilio and Corinne Armat hit Jordan and Desert Springs with a $40 million lawsuit.
Audrey's anxieties mask some ugly secrets on the women's tour--and Jordan, joining forces with a shamus called the Fish, is ready to make every sacrifice to expose them”plot of whose first novel?

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14 Connect
•Act i, Scene iii in William Shakespeare's Richard iii: The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey _____________________.
•‘One weekend major smith, Lieutenant Schaffer, and a beautiful blonde named Mary decide to win World War ii’



15. Who on what occasion?

















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•Prince Edmund Plantagenet, Duke of Edinburgh (1461-1498), son of king Henry IV of england
•a lord in queen Elizabeth I's court, rival to sir Walter Raliegh for the queen’s love.
•the prince Regent's (later King George V) butler a soldier who joined the 19th east african rifles in 1888, killed in action when he leads a charge from the treenches during the battle of PAschendale.

17. Connect (movies)
































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•The creator and his mother devised the name with an anagram set. According to him, there were three principal concepts he used in creating the name:
–it must be short,
–you can not mispronounce it, and t could not resemble anything or be associated with anything but the drug being offered.




19. Identify this person who was also the subject of an award winning book adapted into a movie.

























20.
Green: The riches of the soil
Black: The African continent
Yellow: The mineral riches
White: The peace
Red: The country’s struggle for independence

The Emblem:
Yellow star: The solidarity of the people and the socialistic beliefs of the country
Book: Education
Hoe: Peasants and agriculture
_____: The nation’s determination to protect its freedom
In 2002, a nation-wide contest was held to find a replacement for the _______, but this change has not yet been implemented. What?



Answers:

1. This is Alexander Bell Nichols. His wife was Charlotte Bronte. This is where they got the surname 'bell' for when they published

2. Gregory House M.D. from the "House' series. This guy is a doc with a Sherlockian tinge.

3. Fiasco

4. This is the route of the streetcar in "A Streetcar named desire".

5. M.A.S.H

6. Eric Lidell and Harold Abrahams. Their story became the basis of the movie "Chariots of Fire".

7. Map of Treasure Island.

8. Sunil Dutt

9. Sinecure

10. Yesterday/scrambled eggs.

11. Buffalo Bill Cody.

12. Martina Navratilova

13. The two people are wearing a Cardigan and a Balaclava mask respectively . Both derive their names from the Battle of Balaclava (charge of the light brigade fame)

14. Where Eagles Dare. (the movie of the same name was based on Alistair Mclean's famous book set during WWII)

15. Billy Jean King after the battle of the sexes.

16. Blackadder

17. Shyam Benegal movies. (Bose , Gandhi, Noor Inayat Khan, Hansa Wadkar)

18. Kodak. This is how Eastman came with the name.

19. Ladislaus De Almasy, also known as "The English Patient".

20. A K 47. This is the flag of Mozambique.

I leave you guys to calculate ur scores for now :)