Quiz 23

This quiz was contributed by Chandrakant Nair. Please post your answers as comments on this page or mail to captain dot chandrakant at gmail dot com

1. An AIYYAR (male) or AIYARRA (female) is a spy, in the service of a king, who specializes in making disguises.A TILISM is a kind of maze containing many secret locations, passages and prisons.Words like these were contributed to the Hindi language by a popular novel by Devaki Nandan Khatri , first author of mystery novels in Hindi. This novel, incidentally was the first work of prose in modern Hindi language .Just name the novel .

2. The first one , a Nurberg 460 Pullman limousine, was made way back in 1930 by Mercedes Benz, which has been traditional suppliers of such vehicles. Two traditional hallmarks of the vehicle’s design are at odds : maximum security and maximum visibility. The vehicle registration plate of the vehicle always reads "SCV 1". Some other famous models include the 1964 Lehmann-Peterson and the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman-Landaulet.Which vehicle ?

3 What specific ‘inability’ connects Rudy Guiliani , Bono , Ronald Reagan , Steven Spielberg , Bill Gates , Bob Geldof etc

4. Connect

5. Two reporters of the New York Tribune were the first ones to actually popularise the 1857 war of Indian Independence by supporting the case of sepoys involved in the mutiny. What were the names of these 2 reporters ?

6. This aircraft first flew in 1949 and was considered a landmark British aeronautical design. The pilot was John Cunningham, a famous wartime night-fighter pilot, who later commented : "I assumed that it would change aviation, and so it has proved. It was a bit like Concorde”. After a successful introduction into commercial service, early models suffered from catastrophic metal fatigue, causing a string of well-publicised accidents . Just name this aircraft which was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production.

7. It was conceptualised in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford ,a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London. Mockford was asked to think of something that would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed a word which was a corruption of a French word. It is also the name of a character in the James Bond film A View to a Kill . What did he propose?

8. Her maiden name means "thankful” in Arabic. Her second name, Isabel, is also that of her paternal grandmother, meaning "my god is my oath”. Her family name Ripoll is Spanish. She is widely noted for her keen intellect and is reported to have an IQ of 140. She has worked for the movie Love in the Time of Cholera, based in the acclaimed novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez himself asked her to collaborate with the movie.Just name this person.

9. They were started in early 1940s, during British rule. In the mid 1950s, most of them were closed down due to a policy change. The thrown-out workers then took over the branches, under the leadership of the communist leader A. K. Gopalan . The first one run by the workers was opened in New Delhi on October 27, 1957. Today, Kerala has the largest number of these. What am i talking about? .

10. Identify the gentleman and name his most famous creation.

11. Which event organised by Lobsang Wangyal productions was held at Dharamsala , Himachal Pradesh from 15-25 May 2008 and featured a total of 23 participants?

12. In April 2003, they offered free burgers to the city of Hamburg in the New York State, in exchange for changing its name. In October 2003, they urged the town of Rodeo, California, to change its name. As a replacement name, they suggested Unity, an acknowledgment of Union Oil's role in saving the area economically in the late 19th century. Again , they offered to donate $20,000 worth of burgers to local schools if the name was changed. Who am i talking about ?

13. Paisa Fund , the 1st unofficial mutual fund of India , was started by Antaji Damodar Kale in 1908. The idea was to establish what might be otherwise called a poor man’s fund . For he meant literally to collect paisas – quarter Annas for the promotion of industries and thus help the poor. Its visible monument is the Paisa Fund Glass Works ,the first modern glass factory in India, in Talegaon , near Pune, which have been a means of providing decent livelihood to hundreds of young men. However , this fund wouldnt have taken off if a well known personality had not gone from village to village, asking farmers to contribute a paisa to the Fund .Just name this personality.

14. David Ferrer had the maximum number of “bagels” in 2007 and Rafael Nadal has the maximum number of “breadsticks” in 2008 uptil now . So, what exactly are “Bagels” and “Breadsticks” other than the fact that they are popular bread products ?

15. Flapping tremor of the wrist is the common name for one of the signs seen in the medical condition Hepatic Encephalopathy (inability of Liver to convert Ammonia to Urea leading to brain damage) . This is due to a periodic loss in muscle tone . The technical term for this is derived from the name of a very famous cartoon character because this condition is the opposite of what happens to the character after consuming something .Name the cartoon character .

16. He has appeared in a total of 28 movies to date , all of them produced by Toho film studios . In his first film , which came out in 1954 , he is depicted as a victim of an atom bomb test and the movie tells of his actions after the same . His last screen appearance was in 2004 . He is the primary hero and anti-hero in all of his films . He has appeared in the Japanese TV series Zone Fighter in a guest role and also in an action cartoon series on Fox kids . Who is this movie icon ?

17. She was nicknamed THE GROCER’S DAUGHTER because she actually was the daughter of a grocer . But , this nickname was apt because of another reason . This was that her predecessor Edward Heath was nicknamed GROCER . Who am i talking about ?

18. Version 1.0 = Paradise , where the Angels are from --Failed.

Version2.0 = Nightmare,where Vampires/ Werewolves/ Ghosts/ Monsters are from --Failed.

Version 3.0 = The new proposed version . Success.

Version 3.1 = Success, with 23 survivors.

Version 3.2 = The cycle continues.

Version 3.3 = The cycle continues.

Version 3.4 = Commandos are from here. They attempt to fight against their replacements before they can finish their test trials, and fail . The cycle continues.

Version 3.5 = The current version . All main protagonists are fromhere.

All versions of what ?

19. Who created controversy with the following advertisement ?

20 . Connect. (This is not an exhaustive list)

Answers:
1. Chandrakanta

2.Popemobile

3. All of them are knighted but unable to use the prefix 'sir' cos their countries are not part of the commonwealth

4. Maps are of Lisbon , Buenos Aires , Manitoba n Ann Arbor in Michigan..All r variants of Haemoglobin

5. Karl Marx n Friedrich Engels

6. deHavilland Comet

7. May Day

8. Shakira

9. Indian Coffee House

10.Minoru Yamasaki , the architect who designed the WTC towers

11.The rebel Tibetan Olympics

12.PETA

13. Bal gangadhar tilak

14. A bagel looks like a zero and a bread-stick looks like the number one...so a bagel is a 6-0 set & a breadstick is a 6-1 set

15. The character is Asterix & medical term is Asterixis...The food item in question is the magic potion

16.Godzilla

17. Margaret Thatcher

18. All versions of the Matrix in the Matrix series of movies

19. Jethro Tull...They received the grammy for the best hard rock/metal category in 1989 , the only time it was awarded...they were heavily criticised cos they were not considered a hard rock band..Metallica were expected to get d grammy...So , in response , jethro tull took out this ad from the billboard magazine especially cos d flute was part of their trademark sound...And this erupted into a huge controversy

20. The connect is nomenclature of NBA teams

Pic 1 - declaration of independence in 1776 signed at Philadelphia..The Philadelphia 76ers named themselves after this incident in 1776

Pic 2 - shows a mannequin wearin 'knicerbockers' ..the New York Knicks got their name as a shortening of knickerbockers

Pic 3 - Jurassic Park...the Toronto raptors decided on dis name following the popularity of the movie

Pic 4- the American war chief black hawk who fought against d americans in the Black Hawk war..Inspiration for the Atlanta Hawks

Pic 5 - Minnesota , known as 'The land of 10,000 lakes'..LA lakers were initiallly based in Minneapolis in Minnesota and took their name from the fact that minnesota had so many lakes

Pic 6 - Shows Emerson Fittipaldi in the Indy 500 pace car..the Indiana pacers take their name from the pace car

Scores:

Manjith (fastest response) - 7

Rajesh Mohan - 4

Sreeram Iyer - 8.5

Dileep Premachandran - 8

Jyothi - 6.5

Rubina - 4

Praveen VR - 8

Riyaz Rehman - 7.5

Anand N - 5

Hrishi - 11

Akshay Pushkar - 2

Chandrima - 4

Lt Col Omveer Singh - 9

Ranjit C - 5

Anurag Talukdar - 13

Snehaj - 6

Wasi Manazir - 5

Viswas Viswam - 4

Visesh "The Wiz" Jain - 10(Only person who got the WTC question right)

Albert John - 8

Chithananda - 14

Shafeek - 12(Only person who cracked the NBA connect .. Bravo !! )

Nipun - Good effort