Quiz 35

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1. Who wrote the cover article?




















2. What urban legend is being portrayed on this batman cover?





















3. What made them famous, and keeps them unique till date, in 1932?

4. This 1966 film is simply called No. 4, but often referred to as "Bottoms” and consists of a series of close-ups of human buttocks as the subject walks on a treadmill. The screen is divided into four almost equal sections by the elements of the gluteal cleft and the horizontal gluteal crease. The soundtrack consists of interviews with those who are being filmed as well as those considering joining the project. In 1996, the watch manufacturing company Swatch produced a limited edition watch that commemorates this film. Who was the director?

5. The most famous version is by Simonides, and runs thus:

“Go, stranger, and in Lacedaemon tell,

That here, obeying her behests, we fell”

William Golding’s version was thus:

“Stranger, tell the ______ that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here”

However, the version we know the best is:

“Go tell the ________, passerby, That here, by_____ law, we lie”

What do all these commemorate?

6. The original _____ Mansion was built in 1899 for George Swift Isham in Chicago at 1340 N. State Parkway, and boasted a brass plate on the door with the Latin inscription, Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare ("If you don't swing, don't ring").It changed owners in 1959 and the new owner then built a lavish mansion named ______ Mansion West at 10236 Charing Cross Road in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. Arguably one of the most famous residences in California, it attracted much media attention during the 1970s because of the owner’s lavish parties and is said to be the only private residence in the city of Los Angeles with a permit for fireworks displays. The owner moved full time to California in 1974, and removed the “West” from the name of the house.

7. Whose known family members include the following?

Poppie Fresh (aka Mrs. Poppin' Fresh) (wife), Popper (son), Bun Bun (baby daughter), GrandPopper and GranMommer (grandparents), Biscuit (cat), Flapjack (dog) Rollie (uncle)

8. He had a scandalous personal life, which included affairs with many of his students and also living under the same roof with both his wife and his mistress. In 1944, he wrote What is Life, which contains a discussion of Negentropy and the concept of a complex molecule with the genetic code for living organisms. Francis Crick, in his autobiographical book What Mad Pursuit, described how he was influenced by X's speculations about how genetic information might be stored in molecules. He also had a life-long interest in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, which influenced his speculations at the close of “What is Life?” about the possibility that individual consciousness, is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe. Who?

9. Michael Jordan participated in and made an impact on the 1990 Three-Point Shootout, although it was for the wrong reasons; he only scored 5 points, which is the worst score ever posted in Three-Point shootout history, a record which still stands. The notoriety of this "accomplishment" was overshadowed in most sports media outlets for a famous reason. What?


10. The Copyright Term Extension Act, 1998, extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. Before the Act (under the Copyright Act of 1976), copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship; the Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shortest. This effectively 'froze' the advancement date of the public domain in the United States for works covered by the older fixed term copyright rules. Under this Act, additional works made in 1923 or afterwards that were still copyrighted in 1998 will not enter the public domain until 2023, unless the owner of the copyright releases them into the public domain prior to that or if the copyright gets extended again. The act was named after the late Congressman Sonny Bono, who, as a songwriter and filmmaker had his own interests in advancing copyright terms. However, this Act is more famously known as the X Act, due to the active lobbying of the company that owned the rights to the character X, to ensure the passing of the Act in Congress, and who stood to lose billions if the character went public. Identify character.


11. In his autobiography, he describes his prankster side: playing with a device that allowed a person to make free telephone calls, he once called the Vatican introducing himself as Henry Kissinger calling on behalf of President Nixon. He said "Ve are at de summit meeting in Moscow, and we need to talk to de pope". The Vatican asked him to call back after an hour since the pope was sleeping. An hour later, he was transferred to a bishop who said "Listen, I just spoke to Mr. Kissinger an hour ago". The Vatican had checked his story and had called the real Kissinger in Moscow. Another version of the story said that the Pope had insisted on speaking to Kissinger in Polish, which he did not know. This resulted in a short conversation. Who?

12. Hubert, along with his two brothers, placed firecrackers under their father’s armchair as a practical joke. As expected, it met with disastrous results for both. The father spent a long time convalescing at the hospital, while the furious mother, Della Thelma (nicknamed Dumbella), decided to pack them off for one month to her brother’s house to teach them manners. What resulted?


13. This phrase was in common use on 1950s and 1960s police television shows such as Adam-12 and (the original) Dragnet. It has appeared, among other places, in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the 1987 movie Matewan, where it was used by Baldwin-Felts agents just before a violent attack on striking coal miners. The term was also in widespread use in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and early 1990s, featuring in many low-budget TV productions and plays throughout the country. However, it’s most famous use was by Todd Beamer, an account manager for Oracle, to Lisa Jefferson, a supervisor at a GTE Customer Care Centre. Whatitis?


14. These Games had many firsts to its credit. It saw, probably for the first time, opening ceremonies as a separate event, flags hoisted for the victors, and a closing ceremony. The athletes, for the first time, entered the stadium as national teams, marching behind their flags. Six thousand schoolchildren took part in possibly the first ever Olympic closing ceremony. Long jumper A. Priftis and triple jumper Stavros Lelokos set the worst Olympic results ever in their disciplines (5.235 m and 11.455 m, respectively).Peter O'Connor of Ireland, who won Gold in the triple jump and Silver in the long jump, protested at being put on the British team by scaling the flagpole and hoisting the Irish flag, while the pole was guarded by Irish and American athletes and supporters. France topped the medals tally with 40 medals, including 15 golds. Both the Javelin throw and the pentathlon were introduced at these games. Where and when did they take place?

15. ________ was a British inventor/farmer in the 1800's who invented the precursor to the modern plow. Influenced by the early Age of Enlightenment, he is considered to be one of the early proponents of a scientific (and especially empirical) approach to agriculture. He helped transform agricultural practices by inventing or improving numerous implements, the most notable being the seed drill, which he invented in 1701 while living in Crowmarsh Gifford. ________’s inventions were sometimes considered controversial and were not widely adopted for many years.

Answers:

1. Pete Townshend

2. "Paul is Dead"

3. Only tie for Academy Award for Best Actor (Wallace Beery and Frederic March)

4. Yoko Ono

5. The Battle of Thermopylae

6. Playboy

7. The Pillsbury Doughboy

8. Erwin Schrodinger

9. On that same night, James Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson

10. Mickey Mouse and hence, the Mickey Mouse Act

11. Steve Wozniak of Apple

12. Huey, Dewey and Louie were sent to Unca Donald

13. "Let's Roll", which became a famous catch phrase after 9/11

14. Intercalated Games, 1906, Athens

15. Jethro Tull

Scores:

Appu: 7

Viswas:2

thebanalsprite: 4+1 = 5 (with apologies to Ravi :))

Arun Sarswatula: 11