General Quiz

Preface
My first brush with quizzing was thanks to Siddhartha Basus Quiz Time that came on Doordarshan,
during the 80s. Every Sunday, sitting in front of the TV sets, at 9 PM became a ritual. And ever since
then have been hooked on to quizzes, the search for the trivial, the mundane. Of actors real names,
of heroes, of villains, of the story behind the names of places.
I soon took to quizzing actively while studying Engineering, and represented my college actively in
many inter college events. Post college like many others, feel into the rat race, searching for a job,
but my interest in quizzing did not diminish. Used to keep collecting information from wherever I
could. The Net was a big boon, in that it helped me to gather information faster and also much
more in depth.
That was when I started to publish my quizzes online, first in quizzing groups and then on my own
quizzing blog here https://maximusindicusquiz.wordpress.com/
And thus the idea began, of converting my blog into a book, which was basically a compilation of all
my quizzes. And this is also my first ever book.
Thanking all those who regularly followed my blog, encouraged it, and the book is for them.
And above all thanks to Siddhartha Basu, who ignited the interest in Quizzing for me.
Ratnakar Sadasyula
Contents
Cult Movies ............................................................................................................................................. 6
Hollywood Biopics ................................................................................................................................... 9
Real to Reel-1 ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Real to Reel-2 ........................................................................................................................................ 15
Lights, Action, Cut-1 .............................................................................................................................. 18
Lights, Action, Cut-2 .............................................................................................................................. 21
Just Another Movie Quiz ....................................................................................................................... 24
Just Another Movie Quiz-1 ................................................................................................................... 26
The Western Movie Quiz ...................................................................................................................... 30
Paul Newman Tribute Quiz ................................................................................................................... 33
Movie Quiz ............................................................................................................................................ 36
Aviation Movies Quiz ............................................................................................................................ 40
Once Upon a Time In Bollywood Quiz .................................................................................................. 44
And the Oscar goes to..... ...................................................................................................................... 47
50 years of 007-I ................................................................................................................................... 51
50 years of 007-II .................................................................................................................................. 55
Republic Day Special Quiz-2009 ............................................................................................................ 60
Republic Day Quiz-2014 ........................................................................................................................ 77
Republic Day Quiz-2015 ........................................................................................................................ 81
Jai Jawan ............................................................................................................................................... 86
The Hills Come Alive.............................................................................................................................. 89
Dussehra Special- Brave Women of India ............................................................................................. 92
Om Namah Shivaya ............................................................................................................................... 95
QUIZZING IS FUN-INDIA ........................................................................................................................ 98
Bibliomania ......................................................................................................................................... 102
Cold War Novels.................................................................................................................................. 105
On the Edge......................................................................................................................................... 108
Achtung, Achtung................................................................................................................................ 112
Cold War Quiz ..................................................................................................................................... 115
IT PIONEERS ........................................................................................................................................ 121
QUIZZING IS FUN-TEACHERS DAY QUIZ ............................................................................................. 124
Mixed Bag-1 ........................................................................................................................................ 129
Mixed Bag-2 ........................................................................................................................................ 132
Mixed Bag-3 ........................................................................................................................................ 135
Mixed Bag-4 ........................................................................................................................................ 139
MIXED BAG-5 ...................................................................................................................................... 143
MIXED BAG-6 ...................................................................................................................................... 148
MIXED BAG-7 ...................................................................................................................................... 153
MIXED BAG-8 ...................................................................................................................................... 157
MIXED BAG-9 ...................................................................................................................................... 160
MIXED BAG-10 .................................................................................................................................... 164
MIXED BAG-11 .................................................................................................................................... 168
MIXED BAG-12 .................................................................................................................................... 171
MIXED BAG-14 .................................................................................................................................... 179
MIXED BAG-15 .................................................................................................................................... 183
MIXED BAG-16 .................................................................................................................................... 186
MIXED BAG-16 .................................................................................................................................... 188
QUIZZING IS FUN-MIXED BAG ............................................................................................................. 189
AND THE MOVING PICTURE SPEAKS...
THERE AINT ANY BIZ LIKE SHOW BIZ. THIS SECTION COVERS THE WONDERFUL
WORLD OF MOVIES FROM HOLLYWOOD TO BOLLYWOOD , FROM THOSE BEHIND
THE CAMERAS TO THOSE IN FRONT OF IT, FROM SCI FI TO THRILLER.
Cult Movies
There are movies and there are cult movies. This Quiz is dedicated to movies
which have achieved a cult status of their own. Like them or hate em, you
cant ignore em. So for all fans of Burton, Tarantino, Kubrick here it comes.
1. In the by now famous cult sci fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the movie starts off with Richard
Strausss Thus Spake Zarathustra. Which equally famous composition of Johan Strausss was used
for the spectacular space station rendezvous and lunar landing sequences?
2. The setting used for the 1986 movie Aliens depicting the Alien nest was
not dismantled after the movie was shot. It lay unused for some time and was
again reused as a major set piece in this 1989 movie. Name the movie.
3. The Diner (Part 1), Vince & Jules, Jackrabbit Slims, The Gold Watch, The
Bonnie Situation, The Diner (Part II) - Connect all these events to come up
with the name of a cult classic movie.
4.In which cult comedy classic would you find Hawkeye, Trapper John,
Duke, Hot Lips and Dago Red?
5. Based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, this 1999 movie revolves around an

anonymous narrator, who works as an accident investigator for an automobile
firm. The narrator later meets Tyler Durden at a bar and discusses with him
about materialism and the modern male. Name this cult movie.
6. This 1969 road movie is about two youngsters Wyatt and Billy who go on a
road trip to look for America but couldnt find it anyway. Directed by
Dennis Hopper who played one of the lead roles in the movie, its considered
a cult movie of its genre.
7. Travis Bickle an alienated, sexually frustrated young man of 26 from the

Midwest has recently been discharged from the Marines. He suffers from
insomnia and consequently takes a job as a X in New York City, and
volunteers to work the overnight shift "anytime, anywhere". Bickle spends
his spare time watching pornography in seedy theatres. X gives the name of
the movie.
8.This 1990 sci fi movie is based on a short story by Philip k Dick We Can
Remember It for You Wholesale. Its the story of Douglas Quaid a
construction worker who purchases a virtual vacation to Mars. Name the
movie.
9. This 1995 cult sci fi movie was directed by former Monty Python member
Terry Gilliam and based on French short movie La Jetee. The movie takes its
title from the name of a bio terrorism group called The Army of the
----------. Name the movie.
10.Two ghosts Adam Maitland and his wife Barbara seek the help of a bio
exorcist named X to remove the Deetz family-city yuppies who occupy their
old home. X was directed by one of the masters of the cult movie Tim Burton.
Name the movie.
CULT MOVIES
1. THE BLUE DANUBE
2. TIM BURTONS BATMAN
3. PULP FICTION
4. M.A.S.H
5. FIGHT CLUB
6. EASY RIDER
7. TAXI DRIVER
8. TOTAL RECALL
9. 12 MONKEYS
10.BEETLEJUICE
Hollywood Biopics
Were you thrilled watching George C Scott as Patton give that rousing speech? Were you moved by
Liam Neesons final speech as Oskar Schindler. This quiz is on biopics of famous personalities.
1. The 1992 biopic Hoffa about the controversial Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa starred
Jack Nicholson in the title role. Which actor directed the movie and also played the role of Hoffas
associate Bobby Ciaro?
2. Jerry Bruckheimer and Joel Schumacher are usually remembered for all those typical Hollywood
action blockbusters. This 2003 movie starring Cate Blanchet was however a serious biopic about a
real life Irish journalist who takes on the Dublin drug mafia and ultimately was gunned down by
them. Name the movie.
3. The 1996 movie Michael Collins about the Irish revolutionary leader who was later assassinated
had Liam Neeson playing the title role. The movie however was criticized for showing Collins rival
Eamon DeValera in a negative light. Which actor, usually seen as the bad guy in Hollywood movies,
played the role of Valera?
4. 1917: Theda Bara, 1934: Claudette Colbert, 1963?
5. In the 1965 movie The Agony and The Ecstasy ,Charlton Heston played the role of Michelangelo,
and even put a rod in his nose, to make it look broken. This British actor who played the role of Pope
JuliusII however refused to grow a beard for the role. Which actor?
6. The 1939 movie Jesse James starring Henry Fonda as the outlaw became notorious after the death
of a horse on its sets. What started as a result of it?
7. This 1992 movie Malcolm X about the controversial American Black leader, who later converted to
Islam, had Denzel Washington in the lead role. Which real-life political leader played a cameo in the
movie as teacher?
8. The 1999 movie Man on the Moon starring Jim Carey was about real life American comedian Andy
Kauffman. The movie gets its title from a song by a well-known rock band which in turn is taken from
the album Automatic for the People. Name the band.
9. Who travelled along with Alberto Granado on the La Poderosa which means the Mighty One and
what resulted because of it?
10. Halle Berry and Whitney Houston were considered for playing the role of Tina Turner in the 1993
biopic Whats Love Got to Do with It, before Angela Basset finally played the role. Which black actor
turned down the role of her abusive husband Ike Turner and finally accepted when he learnt that
Basset was playing the role?
HOLLYWOOD BIOPICS
1. DANNY DE VITO
2. VERONICA GUERNIN
3. ALAN RICKMAN
4. ELIZABETH TAYLOR AS CLEOPATRA
5. REX HARRISON
6. DISCLAIMER ABOUT ANIMALS NOT BEING HARMED
7. NELSON MANDELA
8. R.E.M
9. CHE GUEVERA, THE MOTORCYLE DIARIES
10.LAWRENCE FISHBURNE
Real to Reel-1
This quiz is based on real life events and characters that have been adapted to the screen.
1)
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my .
The above is a quote from poem New Jerusalem by William Blake. Complete it to get the name of
the Academy award winning movie based on a real life event.
2)The 1989 movie Born on the 4th of July starring Tom Cruise and directed by Oliver Stone was
based on the life of this real like Vietnam war veteran who was paralyzed in the war and later
became an anti-war activist. The title of the movie derives its name from the autobiography of this
person. Whom am I referring to?
3) This 1975 Al Pacino movie was based on the real life story of John Wojtowicz who held 7 Chase
Manhattan bank employees in New York hostage in 1972 to finance his boyfriends sex change
operation. Apart from the Elton John song Amoreena in the credits of the movie, it does not have
any background score at all. Which movie?
4)The 1990 gangster movie Godfellas was based on the novel Wiseguy by Nicholas Pelligi starring
Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway and Ray Liotta as Henry Hill. Which talented but often under rated
actor won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance as Tommy De Vito which was based
on the real life gangster Tommy De Simone?
5) The 1991 movie JFK about Kennedys assassination details the investigation done by New Orleans
attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner). Often criticized as Dances with facts for its wild
conspiracy theories, it ironically had the real life Jim Garrison playing the role of a person to
whom he was bitterly opposed. Which real life person did he play?
6) One of Robert Redfords best movies as a director, this 1994 movie starring Ralph Fiennes was
about a _________ scandal of the 1950s. It chronicles the rise and fall of Charles Van Doren one of
the most popular contestants on this TV program. Name this movie.
7) The 1980 WW2 movie starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven is based on the novel
Boarding Party. The novel itself is based on a real life incident during the war when a group of British
expatriates track down a German U Boat in Goa then under Portuguese rule and find a secret
Transmitter on it. Name the movie.
8) Henri Charriere was also nicknamed as ., the French word for Butterfly. The 1973 movie
starring Steve Mc Queen and Dustin Hoffman was based on his memoirs of his detention at Devils
Island in French Guiana. Name the movie.
9)This was a really good if somewhat under rated movie starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris who
along with the Anglin brothers has the distinction of being the only persons to
10) Schindlers List is about the efforts of Oskar Schindler to save the Jews from the Nazi camps. The
movie is also about this notorious Nazi camp commandant of Plaszow who was played by Ralph
Fiennes. This man was one of the cruellest of the Nazis it was said about him When you saw ...
you saw death. Who?
REAL TO REEL-1
1. CHARIOTS OF FIRE
2. RON KOVIC
3. DOG DAY AFTERNOON
4. JOE PESCI
5. CHIEF JUSTICE OF US, EARL WARREN
6. THE QUIZ SHOW
7. SEA WOLVES
8. PAPILLION
9. ESCAPE TO ALCATRAZ
10.AMON GOETH
Real to Reel-2
This quiz is based on real life events and characters that have been adapted to the screen.
1. This 1990 movie starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro is based on the real life story of Dr.
Oliver Sacks who in 1969 discovered the benefits of a drug called L-Dopa. He applies it on catatonic
patients who survived the 1928 epidemic of encephalitis. The movie was adapted from a book of the
same name and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor( De Niro).Name the movie.
2. Denzel Washington made his debut as a director with this movie, based on the autobiographical
book of X called as Finding Fish. Washington played a psychiatrist in the movie, while newcomer
Derek Luke plays X, after whom the movie is named. Todd Black was inspired to produce this movie
after meeting the real life X, who worked as a security guard at Sony. Who is X?
3. Apollo 13 was a true story of the disastrous Apollo 13 Lunar Mission, starring Tom Hanks, Kevin
Bacon and Bill Paxton. This real life character made a cameo appearance in the climax of the movie
as the captain of the recovery ship USS Iwo Jima. Ron Howard wanted this character to appear as an
admiral, but he said that he retired as captain and intended to play one in the movie. Who is this
character?
4. Mustapha Akkad produced and directed, The Messenger of God (released as The Message in US),
a 1977 movie about the origin of Islam. In 1978 his low budget flick Halloween was a smash hit, and
he was executive producer for most of the series. His 1980 project starring Antony Quinn as an Arab
resistance tribal leader, Rod Steiger as Mussolini and Oliver Reed as Italian General Graziani, was
partly funded by the Libyan dictator Mohd Qadaffi. Though the movie was a failure in US, it was a
major success in most of the Arab world and even in India. Name the movie.
5. Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek starred in this 1982 Costa Gavras movie, based on the real life
story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared during the 1973 Pinochet coup in
Chile. The movie was based on the book, The Execution of Charles Homan: An American Sacrifice in
1978 and later took its title from the new name of the book. Name this movie.
6. Based on real life events that shook the small town of Woburn, MA in the 1980s, this 1998 movie
starred John Travolta as an ambulance chasing lawyer. Robert Duvall plays the defence lawyer for a
huge food company, which is accused of poisoning the kids in that town and afflicting them with
cancer. Name the movie.
7. Denzel Washington played the role of a real life boxer Rubin Carter who was accused of murder
and imprisoned for 20 years. Though nominated for Best Actor, he lost it because of the controversy
over the movies accuracy and the protest against it. Name the movie
8. Louis Calhern-Marlon Brando in 1953,
Sir John Gielgud-Charlton Heston in 1970,
Rex Harrison-Richard Burton in 1963.
What connects?
9. During WW2, Lt Gen Frederick Browning, Dy Commander of First Allied Airborne Army, told Field
Marshal Bernard Montgomery, I think we might be going __________.
10. Anthony Hopkins to date has received two Oscar Nominations for playing a real life US President.
One was for Nixon. The other was for this 1997 movie, Name the President he played and
the movie.
REEL TO REAL
1. AWAKENINGS
2. ANTWONE FISHER
3. JIM LOVELL
4. OMAR MUKHTAR-LION OF THE DESERT
5. MISSING
6. A CIVIL ACTION
7. HURRICANE
8. PLAYED THE ROLES OF JULIUS CAESAR AND MARK ANTONY .
9. A BRIDGE TOO FAR
10.JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, AMISTAD.
Lights, Action, Cut-1
This is a Quiz on famous English movie directors and the movies which made them famous(or even
infamous).
1. A leading light of the naturalistic movement in Hollywood, this director was born to a Catholic
family in Missouri. He started his career as an extra in Danny Kayes The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty. In 1950 he joined the Calvin Company, the largest industrial film production company and
during this time directed a series of industrial short movies to promote their products. In 1955 he
came up with his first feature The Delinquents a low budget flick on teenage crime. He directed
some of the episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Due to his constant fights with Jack Warner, he
developed a dislike for the Hollywood system which was to be seen in one of his later movies The
Player in 1992. He however had his major breakthrough in 1969, when he was offered this movie
script rejected by 15 other directors and it went on to become a critical and commercial success
also. Name the director and the movie.
2. Born to a working class Jewish family in Chicago, he joined the American Left in 1930. He started
his career as a screen writer in Hollywood. During the Mc Carthy years in the 1950s, he was
blacklisted due to his early years in the Communist Party and his refusal to testify. He received an
Academy nomination for High Noon, which itself is taken to be a satire on Mc McCarthyism.
However due to Hollywoods boycott, he migrated to England where along with another blacklisted
writer Michael Wilson, he wrote the script for The Bridge on the River Kwai. He directed the 1963
anti-war movie The Victors. Ironically we in India would remember him for giving the screenplay for
a movie regarded as a classic in the war genre and which is quintessentially Hollywood. Name this
script writer and the movie I am referring to.
3. Born in France, he was the nephew of Carl Leammle, the founder of Universal Pictures. He started
his career with Universal and later relocated MGM for which he directed classics like Jezebel and
Wuthering Heights. During the War, he served in US Army Air Corps as a major and won an Academy
for his documentary The Fighting Lady. He won Academy Awards in 1942 and 1946 for his movies
Mrs.Miniver and The Best Years of Our Lives. He also directed Roman Holiday which made Audrey
Hepburn a major star, however he would always be remembered for this 1954 classic for which he
won his 3rd Oscar. Known for his perfectionism and total control over story, location and crew, who
is this all-time great director and which movie remains his landmark?
4. He often said that his experience of growing up as a minority, Jewish and gay, influenced his
development of this series of sci fi movies. One of his favourite movies is Jaws and he adopted a line
from that movie to name his production company as Bad Hat Harry productions. During the 1993
Sundance movie festival, he discussed this story idea with his friend Christopher Mc Quarrie. And the
outcome was this 1995 movie regarded as one of the best movies in the thriller genre. It however
won only two Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. Name the director and
the movie.
5. Born to Hungarian parents in New York, he started his Hollywood career in 1929 with Paramount
Pictures as a co-director before he made his debut with Tarnished Lady in 1931. He left Paramount
and joined RKO where he directed a series of hits like David Copperfield and Little Women. He was
originally supposed to direct Gone With the Wind, but due to his gay habits he was removed. In 1939
he directed The Woman with an all-female star cast and the 1940 classic The Philadelphia Story
starring his favourite Katherine Hepburn. He also directed Greta Garbo in her last screen appearance
2 Faced Woman. In 1954 he made his first colour movie A Star is Born starring Judy Garland. And in
1964 he won his first Academy Award for Best Director, for his screen adaptation of a well-known
play. His last movie in 1981 Rich and Famous saw the debut of Meg Ryan into Hollywood. Name the
director and the 1964 movie I am referring to.
6. Born in France, his parents fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution there. His first movie as a
director was Buried Alive a TV movie. He however shot to fame when he adapted two well know
Stephen King novella into two great movies of the 90s and he received Academy nominations for
both. He is also known to have written the scripts for Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report. His
current project is Fahrenheit 451 based on Ray Bradburys novel of same name. Name the director
and any one of those landmark movies.
7. Martin Brest was well known as a director due to Beverly Hills Cop and the often underrated
Midnight Run. His 1992 movie however bought him acclaim as well as helping the hero of this movie
to win a Best Actor award after 20 years. His next movie Meet Joe Black was nothing great, but he
found himself on the other extreme in 2003, when this movie directed by him was a critical
and financial disaster and it won a record 6 Razzies. Name both those movies.
8. After the twin debacles of The Last Boy Scout and Hudson Hawk, Tony Scott, brother of Ridley
Scott, wanted to get out from the image of a Hollywood Big Bang director and turned to a much
smaller budget movie which was technically polished. Scott was introduced to a bright
enthusiastic video store clerk called X. X offered him samples of his scripts to read. Though Scott
liked both, X refused to part with one of his scripts as he wanted to direct that movie himself. Scott
ended up directing the other one True Romance which established himself as an auteur himself.
Name X and the movie.
LIGHTS, ACTION, CUT-1
1. ROBERT ALTMAN, MASH

2. CARL FOREMAN, GUNS OF NAVARONNE
3. WILLIAM WYLE, BENHUR
4. BRYAN SINGER, THE USUAL SUSPECTS
5. GEORGE CUKOR, MY FAIR LADY
6. JAMES DARAPONT, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
7. SCENT OF A WOMAN, GIGLI
8. QUENTIN TARANTINO, RESERVOIR DOGS.
Lights, Action, Cut-2
The Quiz is on famous Indian directors, from the 50s to the present day era. From the Golden Era of
Indian Cinema to the Parallel Movement to the Present day, it is on those men with the megaphone.
1. Ashutosh Gowariker who made a name for himself withLagaan and Swades started off with a
couple of movies which were rip offs of Hollywood flicks. Baazi had shades of Die Hard, but his first
movie Pehla Nasha was a total lift of which Brian De Palma thriller.
.2. He did his Masters in Chemical Tech from Atlanta and worked as an environmental consultant till
his return to India in 1997. He had done an acting course at Warehouse Actors Theatre in Atlanta
and in 1995 co-produced and directed a short movie One Culture at a time. He produced and
directed his first movie with the money he made from his career in US on a shoestring budget of
40,000 $.
3. Born in Panipat, he graduated from AMU in 1933.From 1935-47 he worked as film critic for
Bombay Chronicle. From 1941-86, he is famous for The Last Page the longest running political
column in India. He made his directorial debut with Dharti Ke Lal in1946.
4. Born in Ajmer, he started his career as a cartoonist with Blitz magazine. He was the asst director
for Teesri Kasam and Saraswati Chandra. His first movie as a director Sara Akash (1970) was a serious
off beat movie. But his later movies were mostly frothy, light comedies. He is also famous for his TV
serials Kakaji Kahin and Byomkesh Bakshi.
5. His first directorial venture was a short movie in Gujarati Gher Betha Ganga (1962). His first two
movies were a damning criticism of Indias feudal village society. He is also related to Guru Dutt.
Initially from advertising industry, he produced over 900 ads and is the founder of the Hyderabad
Film Society.
6. He graduated in Physics from Delhi University in1970 and his first movie as a director was a short
documentary Rhythms of the Land and its People. His first two movies were diametrically opposite,
one was a feel good movie about a football coach, and the other one was an expose of the brutal
feudalism in Bihar. He also made a TV series which was based on The Life of Walter Mitty.
7. Born in Lahore, he did his MA in English Lit from Lahore University. He started his movie career
writing reviews for Cine Herald. He migrated to Mumbai after partition and his first movie as a
producer Karwat in1949 was a flop. He hit success with his 1951 movie Afsana starring Ashok Kumar,
and in 1955 he started his own production firm with release of Ek Hi Raasta.
8. Ketan Mehta started out as a director with this landmark movie in 1980, which he dedicated to
Bertolt Brecht, Goscinny and Underzog, and Asait Thakore. The movie is in form of a group of
Harijans who migrate to a city for a night. Name the movie.
9. He is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and he runs his own production house called Bhairav Productions.
He prefers to work from his Banjara Hills Studio. He started off as a director for Telugu serials on
Doordarshan. His first Hindi movie was a thriller set against Indo Pak backdrop and did moderately
well. His second movie a supernatural thriller, was however a major turkey at the Box office.
10. Born on Dec 29.1917 at Asal Guru Ke near Lahore, he was adopted by his maternal grandmother
who changed his real name Chandramauli. .In 1933 he published Pritam Pariksha a piece of prose
poetry when he was just 16. He won the title of Munshi Fazal in Persian from Lahore University. In
the 1940s he wrote Diary of a TB patient based on his experiences as a TB patient in a Srinagar
sanatorium. And he finally made his screen debut writing the story and screenplay for Raj Kapoors
Barsaat in 1951.
LIGHTS,ACTION, CUT-2
1. BODY DOUBLE
2. NAGESH KUKUNOOR
3. K.A.ABBAS
4. BASU CHATTERJEE
5. SHYAM BENEGAL
6. PRAKASH JHA
7. B.R.CHOPRA
8. BHAVNI BHAVAI
9. MANI SHANKAR
10.RAMANAND SAGAR
Just Another Movie Quiz
As the name suggests, a movie quiz dealing with world of movies, with no specific genre in mind.
1. "In feudal Japan, the warrior class of samurai were sworn to protect their liege lords with their
lives. Those samurai whose liege was killed suffered great shame, and... were no longer referred to
as samurai...Such men were called X. Opening lines of which movie.
2. In the 1982 comedy movie Tootsie, X played the role of Dustin Hoffmans casting agent George
Fields, who is exasperated with Hoffmans perfectionism. X had many an argument off screen with
Hoffman over Tootsie, and it was Hoffman in fact who suggested that X play the role.
3. Complete the series Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley and ________.
4. Connect the movie A Fish Called Wanda with Cary Grant.
5. Founder member of the experimental theatre group The Wooster, he was noted for his harsh
facial features due to which he ended up playing negative roles. When he played Jesus Christ, Sergio
Leone remarked, This is the face of a murderer, not of our Lord. He himself remarked To this day,
I cant think I was so brazen to think I could pull off the Jesus role. Who?
6. Apart from Alien, in which other 1992 Ridley Scott movie did Sigourney Weaver play a major role.
Starring Gerard Depardieu in the lead role, the movie was however a disappointment at box office.
Name the movie and the role also.
7. By what name are Dr.Egon Splender, Dr. Ray Stantz and Dr.Peter Venkman collectively known as?
8. How Happy is the blameless Vestals lot,
The world forgetting, by the world forgot,
________________________________,
Each prayr accepted and each wish resignd
9. Fill in the blanks : __________ Highlands and_______ Farms.
10. This 1974 movie has Dustin Hoffman as Babe and Sir Laurence Olivier as Nazi doctor Dr.Szell.
Famous for a graphic torture scene where Szell drills into his teeth without using anaesthesia asking
all the while Is it safe?
JUST ANOTHER MOVIE QUIZ-1
1. RONIN
2. SIDNEY POLLACK
3. DR.STRANGELOVE- THE 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY PETER SELLERS IN
STANLEY KUBRICKS ANTI WAR CLASSIC.
4. ARCHIBALD LEACH WAS THE NAME OF JOHN CLEESE CHARACTER IN THE
MOVIE, WHICH WAS THE REAL NAME OF CARY GRANT.
5. WILELM DAFOE
6. 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE
7. GHOSTBUSTERS
8. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF SPOTLESS MIND
9. GLENGARY, GLENROSS
10.THE MARATHON MAN
Just Another Movie Quiz-1
As the name suggests, a movie quiz dealing with world of movies, with no specific genre in mind.
1."Gordon - killed with a Chef's knife sharpening steel by Dog

Smithy Robinson - bludgeoned to death with "a 15-inch black rubber cock" by Harry
Mickey - shot by Gloria
Paul - killed in the shootout at Eddie and Bacon's place
John - killed in the shootout at Eddie and Bacon's place
Plank - shot several times, until finally killed by Rory Breaker
Rory Breaker - shot by Plank"-
Chronological sequence of the deaths in which 1998 cult classic British heist movie.
2. Mario Girotti born in Venice, Italy and a survivor of the Dresden bombing. His first major role was
in the 1963 Italian movie Il Gatopardo. Also acted in many German movies.
Carlo Pedersoli was born in Naples, Italy and represented his country in swimming in the 1952 and
1956 Olympic Games. His first role was that of an extra in Quo Vadis.
Together both of them came in a 1967 movie called God Forgives I Dont for the first time. And later
formed a successful combo in the 70's. Who?
3. Sargent was the first in 1958, and Columbus was the most recent one in 1992. What am i referring
to here?
4. The original Italian name was Giu La Testa, translated into English as Duck You Sucker. Another
title of this movie starring James Coburn and Rod Steiger was Once Upon A Time... The Revolution.
The more popular title of this movie is a throwback to one of the director's more successful
Westerns. Cantered around the Mexican revolution, it is believed to be the director's more
underrated movie. Name the director and the more popular title of this movie.
5. This song was written by Phil Philips and George Khoury and it was in the No1 on Billboard R&B
chart in 1959. The Honeydrippers version of this song hit the No 3 spot in 1984. The song was the
title as well as the backdrop for a 1989 Al Pacino thriller. Name the song.
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much was a 1996 Vanity Fair article written by journalist Marie Brenner
about a real life person. In 1999 X and Eric Roth adapted this article into a movie. X also directed the
movie, while Y played the lead role of the protagonist. Name X & Y.
7.
What was the popular phrase used by the man in the picture, title of a George Clooney movie.
8. Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
A in the wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, twenty one, checkers, and chess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
See you in heaven if you make the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a B.
Just identify A and B.

9. Formerly, during the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the
Faith (Promotor Fidei), was a canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the
canonization of the candidate. It was his job to take a sceptical view of the candidate's character, to
look for holes in the evidence, to argue that any miracles attributed to the candidate were
fraudulent, etc. What was the popular name given to him?
10. The movie gets its title from a song by the rock band B-52 in their 1980 album Wild Planet.
Loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, this 1991 movie is about 2 street hustlers Mike and
Scott. Name this indie movie directed by Gus Van Sant.
JUST ANOTHER MOVIE QUIZ-2
1. LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS
2. TERENCE HILL AND BUD SPENCER
3. CARRY ON SERIES
4. SERGIO LEONE, A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE
5. SEA OF LOVE
6. MICHAEL MANN, RUSSEL CROWE, THE INSIDER
7. GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK- THE MAN HERE IS ED MURROW, THE
CBS BROADCASTER
8. ANDY KAUFMANN, MAN ON THE MOON
9. THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
10.MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
The Western Movie Quiz
From John Ford to Clint Eastwood, from the Cavalry Trilogy to the Sphagetti Westerns. From the
classic era Westerns to the neo-revisionist ones. If you love your John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Henry
Ford, this quiz is the one for you.
1. This 1958 Western directed by William Wyler, starred Gregory Peck as a retired sea captain James
Mc Kay who heads out to the West and finds himself in the middle of a battle between two ranchers,
Charlton Heston also stars as a ranch foreman in this movie.
2. The picture below is that of the climax of an iconic western. The climax scene itself is hailed as a
classic. Name the movie.
3. The Indians called him as Shu-mani-tu-tonka O' Wa-chi. He also married an Indian girl Stands with
a Fist, and he is in charge of Fort Sedgwick. By what name do we know this Western movie character
better?
4. The 1960 Western starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, and Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie, was
based on the real life 1836 battle during the Texas Independence struggle. The movie however did
not do too well financially, and the 2004 version was also a disaster at the box office. Which one?
5. Complete the trilogy She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache and .
6. The 1957 movie Gun Fight at OK Corral is one of the best on the famous incident. Directed by John
Sturges, the screenplay for this movie was written by a famous bestselling novelist. Name him.
7. This still is from one of Clint Eastwoods more underrated westerns. This 1968 movie, stars him as
a rancher Jed Cooper who survives a lynching by nine men and then comes back as a US Marshal to
take revenge. Name this movie.
8. Howard Hawks directed this movie, as a right wing response to High Noon, which Wayne labelled
the most un American thing I have seen in my life. Wayne stars as Sheriff John .T.Chance, who has
to single handedly fight off a group of ranchers after he arrests the brother of a powerful rancher.
Also starring Dean Martin, this movie was the inspiration for Assault on Precinct 13.
9. Apart from the Dollars trilogy Clint Eastwood again played a Stranger with no name in this 1973
revisionist Western, which was directed by Eastwood himself. The movie is famous for its cryptic
ending where the Sheriff says I dont know your name, and to which he replies Yes you do and
rides away into the horizon. Name this movie.
10. The movie had 3 directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall directing the 5
segments Rivers, Plains, Outlaws, Civil War and Railroad. Populated with a star cast of Henry Fonda,
Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Eli Wallach, James Stewart, this 1962 movie traces 4 generations of a
family as they move from New York to the Pacific. Name this epic Western.
THE WESTERN MOVIE QUIZ
1. THE BIG COUNTRY
2. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
3. DANCES WITH WOLVES
4. THE ALAMO
5. RIO GRANDE(CAVALRY TRILOGY)
6. LEON URIS
7. HANG EM HIGH
8. RIO BRAVO
9. HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
10.HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Paul Newman Tribute Quiz
A tribute to a great actor, race car driver, a humanist and a philanthropist. A man famous for his blue
eyes, and looks. And yet who enthralled us with his intense performances in movie after movie. Not
just a great actor, but also a great human being. Paul Newman is no longer with us, but his movies
and roles will be forever with us.
1) The 1956 movie Somebody Up there Likes Me, which was Paul Newman's first major role, was
based on the life of which famous boxer. This boxer was famous for his knockouts.
2)
Identify this Paul Newman- Elizabeth Taylor starrer based on a famous play by Tennessee Williams.
3) Paul Newman was famous for his role of Fast Eddie in the 1961 movie The Hustler. In which 1986
movie, co starring Tom Cruise, did he play the same role, and won his only Oscar for acting to date?
4) This 1966 movie where Paul Newman appears along with Julie Andrews, to date remains the only
movie where he worked with Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the defection of British spies to the West,
however the movie became famous for the tiffs between Hitchcock and Newman during the filming.
5) "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."

This quote is taken from which iconic Paul Newman movie of the 60's.
6) X- "Wait a minute - you didn't see Lefors out there did you?" Y: "Lefors? No, why?" X: "Thank God
for that. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble."
Just identify X and Y.
7) Complete the series The Setup, The Hook, The Tale and __________.
8) Which famous star of early Hollywood musicals, acted in the 1974 disaster flick The Towering
Inferno starring Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, and was also nominated for Best Supporting
Actor award for his role?
9) "You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us
what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of
hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as
victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt
our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the
law"
Again another famous quote, name the movie for which Paul Newman received a nomination too.
10)
This was the last movie in which Paul Newman appeared on screen, where he played an Irish mob
boss.
PAUL NEWMAN TRIBUTE QUIZ
1. ROCKY GRAZIANO
2. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
3. THE COLOR OF MONEY
4. TORN CURTAIN
5. COOL HAND LUKE
6. BUTCH CASSIDY AND SUNDANCE KID
7. THE STING
8. FRED ASTAIRE
9. THE VERDICT
10.ROAD TO PERDITION
Movie Quiz
General movie quiz, covering just about all genres.
1) "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
stands: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty ________." Complete the quote.
2) Identify this person in the picture along with Al Pacino.
3) As a movie student, George Lucas was chosen by Columbia pictures to shoot short behind the
scene documentaries on the making of this Western in 1967. Lucas was actually on location in Utah
for the shooting of this movie. He released a documentary version called 6-18-67, which was the day
the shooting of this movie finished. This movie would later be an influence on another
famous epic adventure. Name the movie.
4) Under the name of Rus le Roq, he recorded a tune called "I want to be Like Marlon Brando". He
and his friend formed a band called Roman Antix, which later became an Aussie pub rock band called
30 Odd Foot of Grunts, in 1992. He also collaborated with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big
Sea in 2005. He changed the name of his band to The Ordinary Fear of God, though the
acronym TOFOG remains the same. Which actor am i referring to?
5) What is the claim to fame of this building?

6) Real name Joseph Pistone. Special Agent FBI . How do we know him better?
7) X appeared for the first time in a 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was first made into a 1960
French movie Plein Soel( Purple Noon in English), starring Alain Delon as X. In 1999, Antony
Minghella made another movie adaptation, Z, of the same novel starring Y
as X . Identify X, Y and Z.
8) She is the only person to learn The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, a method by which
an assailant can be killed by quickly striking the 5 pressure points around the heart. She faked her
own death, lived in rural Texas under name of Arlene Machiavelli and was engaged to Tommy
Plimpton. Name the character and movie.
9) Born in Minnesota, he was class president, senior prom king and voted "Most Likely to Succeed".
He started his career as an animator for Help! magazine. His first two movies as a director were
animated shorts Storytime and The Miracle of Flight. A member of the Monty Python group, his first
movie as a solo director was a comedy which took its title from a nonsense poem by Lewis Caroll.
Name the director.
10) During the early 1900's, Dr. Duncan MacDougall, sought to measure the weight purportedly lost
by a human body when the soul departed the body on death. He weighed dying patients to prove
that the soul could be measured and had a tangible mass. Though his experiments were rejected
scientifically, the figure of ___ became synonymous with the mass of a soul.
MOVIE QUIZ
1. AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
2. LEE STRASBERG
3. MACKENNAS GOLD
4. RUSSEL CROWE
5. THIS IS THE HOTEL FEATURED IN HOTEL RWANDA
6. THE REAL LIFE HOTEL RWANDA, ON WHICH MOVIE WAS BASED.
7. X- MR.RIPLEY, Z- THE TALENTED MR.RIPLEY, Y-MATT DAMON
8. BEATRTIX KIDDO AKA THE BRIDE, KILL BILL
9. TERRY GILLIAM
10.21 GRAMS
Aviation Movies Quiz
The quiz is on movies related to aviation, or with an aviation background.
1) Based on a novel by Frederick Smith, 633 Squadron deals with a fictional British fighter-bomber
squadron, which has to carry out a daring military operation in Norway. It gained fame in recent
times, when the climax of the movie showing aircraft flying through a Norwegian fjord, and being
fired on by anti-aircraft guns, inspired a similar kind of sequence in a movie that was one of the
biggest hits in its genre. Which one?
2) What connects A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Jimmy Shergill and Squadron No 426 in the Royal Canadian Air
Force?
3) This 1990 Mel Gibson- Robert Downey Jr movie, takes its title from the name of a clandestine,
airline, run by the CIA, during the Cold War. It gained fame during the Vietnam War, when it
organized many covert operations in S.E.Asia.
4) Name this cult comedy movie of the 80's starring Leslie Nielsen, which spoofed the disaster movie
genre, the story was based on Arthur Hailey's Flight into Danger. The movie was released in Australia
and New Zealand as Flying High.
5) Which real life aviation pioneer was being portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the Aviator, he was the
founder of PANAM and a fierce rival to Howard Hughes?
6) This 70's thriller directed by John Frankenheimer, revolves around a deranged former Vietnam
vet, Michael Lander, who hatches a plot with a Palestinian terror group to conduct a massive
bombing attack. It was noted for its climax, of a huge airborne blimp, carrying a bomb, landing into a
packed stadium hosting a Super Bowl match.
7) Quite an engaging 80's thriller, starring Roy Schneider, a LAPD cop and former Vietnam vet, who is
assigned to pilot the world's most advanced helicopter. The movie gets its title from the nickname
given to the chopper, and it introduced a new term JAFO (Just another fucking Observer) to the
lexicon.
8) The 2005 Hindi movie Garam Masala was a remake of Priyadarshan's Malayalam movie, which
itself was a straight lift from this 1965 movie starring Cary Grant and Jerry Lewis. Interestingly both
the original movie and Priyan's Mallu movie had the same title too. Name it.
9) It was the nickname to a group of English racing cars built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski in
the 1920's that inspired Ian Fleming to write this novel, centring around an eccentric inventor
Caractacus Potts and a heroine named Truly Scrumptious. Later made into a 1968 musical by Albert
Brocolli, with a script co-written by Roald Dahl. Which one?
10) Connect Cyrus the Virus, Diamond Dog, Baby O Dell, Billy Bedlam, Marietta Mangler, Johnny 23,
Pinball, Sally Can't Dance.
11) Name this 90's actioner starring Kurt Russel, a typical aircraft hijacked by terrorist, and hero
saving the day sort, enjoyable nevertheless. Also had Steven Seagal in an important role.
12) Name this child actor in Spileberg's Empire of the Sun.
13) Based on a 1977 novel by Craig Thomas and directed by Clint Eastwood, it deals with an
audacious Anglo-American plot, to hijack a highly sophisticated Russian MIG 31, which is invisible to
radar. The book gets its title from the NATO reporting name given to MIG 31. Which one?
14) Quite a well-made Bollywood war movie, this 1973 movie directed by Chetan Anand, and
starring Raj Kumar and Priya Rajvansh, had a backdrop of IAF with an espionage story thrown in, and
some good songs by Madan Mohan too.
15) This 1965 comedy produced by Daryl Zanuck, was also subtitled Or How I Flew from London to
Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes, and is set around a race from London to Paris. Name it.
AVIATION MOVIES QUIZ
1. THE FINAL SCENE OF STAR WARS.
2. WINGS OF FIRE- Kalam's autobiography, Shergill starred in movie Agni
Pankh( literal trans Wings of Fire) and Motto of
Squadron 426 is Wings of Fire.
3. AIR AMERICA.
4. AIRPLANE - FLYING HIGH was the title of the movie in Aus, NZ.
5. JUAN TRIPPE
6. BLACK SUNDAY
7. BLUE THUNDER
8. BOEING BOEING
9. CHITTY, CHITTY, BANG, BANG
10.CON AIR
11.EXECUTIVE DECISION
12.CHRISTIAN BALE
13.FIREFOX
14.HINDUSTAN KI KASAM
15.THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES.
Once Upon a Time In Bollywood Quiz
With Milan Luthria's Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, paying a homage to 70's era Bollywood and
India, putting up this Quiz dedicated to that era. Having grown up on a diet of 70's movies, masala,
middle of road, art house, i have a special love for movies of that era. So this Quiz is on the movies,
the personalities, the stars, and the directors who made the 70 what it was.
1) This 1973 movie starring Vinod Khanna was inspired by the real life story of the person in the
above picture. His murder trial is a landmark in Indian legal history, as it was the last trial by jury in
India. Following the outcry over the judgement, the Government abolished jury trials. Name the
person and the movie that is based on the story.
2) Rajinder Singh Bedi, who earlier was the dialog writer for movies like Madhumati, Anupama,
Anuradha, made his directorial debut with this 1970 movie that starred Sanjeev Kumar. Based on his
own radio play Naql-E-Makkani, it is considered a landmark movie in Indian parallel cinema. Sanjeev
got his first National Award for this movie, while Madan Mohan won his only national award for the
music, which also includes a song sung by him. Hrishikesh Mukherjee edited this B&W movie and
won a Filmfare Award for it too. Name the movie.
3) Sreeram Raghavan's Johnny Gaddar, a tribute to the 70's Hindi movie thrillers, takes its title from
a reference to Vijay Anand's Johnny Mera Naam. However the basic plot of the movie, as also some
of the key scenes, is heavily influenced by this 1971 thriller that had Amitabh Bachan in a key role.
Which movie i am referring to?
4) The 1971 movie Tere Mere Sapne, directed by Vijay Anand, and starring him in a supporting role
along with brother Dev, was based on which A.J.Cronin novel, about a doctor in a Welsh mining
town?
5) This movie took 14 years to make, Ashok Kumar was supposed to be playing the original role, but
backed out later, and the character had to be modified keeping in view the new actor's image. The
stormy personal relationship between the actress and the director of the movie, also affected its
making. In the meantime, the original music director Ghulam Mohd, passed away, and Naushad had
to step in. The movie was finally released in 1972, and went on to become a huge commercial
success. Name the movie.
6) Born in Bijnaur, UP, he made his debut as a director in 1968 with the Shashi Kapoor movie
Haseena Maan Jaayegi. After a series of movies like Aakhri Daku and Mela, he is remembered for
this landmark 70's movie that launched a new trend in Indian movies, and was based on the
spaghetti Western Death Rides a Horse. Name the director and the movie in question
7) This 1973 Bollywood movie directed by Yash Chopra, was a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy's
Mayor of Casterbridge, and had Rakhee winning her first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The movie was in news for the cold war between Rakhee and Sharmila Tagore on the sets. Name the
movie.
8) She started her life as a singer for child stars, her most famous song being Haina Bolo Bolo from
the movie Andaaz. She was nominated for the Filmfare Award, for the songs Tera Mujhse Hai Pehla
from Aa Gale Lag Jaa as well as Kya Hua Tera Waada from Hum Kisise Kum Nahin. She later re
appeared in the 90's with a series of raunchy songs, mostly in David Dhawan movies, under a
different name. Name the singer.
9) His father was a well-known Sikh philosopher, and his mother Freda later converted into a Tibetan
Buddhist monk. Starting as a stage actor, he later on moved to Bollywood, where he acted in a host
of 70's masala movies, notably Daku aur Mahatma, Nagin. He however hit fame with a 1976 Italian
movie The Black Corsair, but it was his role as Sandokan in a TV series that made him a global star.
He later on made an impact in Bollywood with this 1988 movie that was a rehash of East of Eden.
Name him.
10) The 2007 Yash Raj movie Jhoom Bharabar Jhoom takes its title from a popular qawali song in the
movie 5 Rifles which was directed by I.S.Johar. What was unique about the 2 lead actors in the
movie, i am not sure if it was the first of its kind, but it has been attempted later on in some other
movies?
ONCE UPON A TIME IN BOLLYWOOD
1. The person was K.M.NANAVATI, and the movie was Achanak.
2. DASTAK
3. PARWANA
4. CITADEL by A.J.Cronin
5. PAKEEZAH.
6. PRAKASH MEHRA, ZANZEER.
7. DAAG
8. SUSHMA SHRESTHA/POORNIMA
9. KABIR BEDI
10.THE LEAD ACTORS WERE DUPLICATES OF EXISTING STARS, RAKESH
KHANNA( RAJESH KHANNA) AND SAHI KAPOOR(SHASHI KAPOOR).
And the Oscar goes to.....
With Oscars around the corner, this quiz as you would have guessed it, is dedicated to the Oscars. So
here are a set of 10 questions on the Academy.
1) Complete and connect the images below.
2) This 1960 Swedish movie was adapted from a 13th century ballad called Tores daughters in
Vange. Controversial for its rape scene, it was an examination of the concepts of justice and
morality. The movie would be the basis of a highly controversial 1972 grindhouse flick, directed by
Wes Craven that shocked audiences due to its graphic depiction of sex and violence. This movie also
won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1960. Identify.
3) Nisi Masa is a non-profit organization that promotes young professionals in European movie
making industry. It is supported by EU, Council of Europe, and Foundation De France among others.
The title of this organization is derived from a phrase in a 1963 Italian movie, that went on to win the
Oscar for Best Foreign movie and whose title is a reference to the director's previous body of work.
The phrase was chosen as the title, since it was not associated with any language per se, and
reflected a cross border spirit. Identify the movie.
4) A Man and a Woman (French) won the 1966 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Movie, and deals
with the growing relationship between a widow and a widower, who have to deal with memories of
their deceased spouses. Which 1971 Hindi movie was based on this movie?
5) The closing credits feature a list of items banned by the military junta, that includes Sophocles,
Leo Tolstoy, Sartre, Mark Twain, free press, new math and ___________, which was symbolic of the
resistance to it. This was one of the few movies nominated for both Best Picture as well as Best
Foreign Language at the Oscars, ended up winning the latter.
6) In 1952 Gary Cooper won the Best Actor Oscar for High Noon, which has often been cited as an
allegory or Hollywood blacklisting. He could not make it to the ceremony, and the award was
accepted on his behalf by X. Ironically X was one of the strongest critics of High Noon, calling it one
of the most "un American" movies ever. Identify X.
7) "Its a strange marriage we have at ________________, I am an Indian Muslim, _____________ is

a German Jew, and _________ is a Protestant American. Someone once described us as a 3 headed
God, maybe they should have called us a three headed monster". Quote referring to a movie
production company that won a record 6 Academy Awards. Identify.
8) Apart from his wins as a Best Director for Platoon and Born on the 4th of July, Oliver Stone also
won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for this 1978 movie that was set in a Turkish prison, and
based on a book by Billy Hayes. The novel was on the real life experiences of the author, who was
sent to prison for attempting to smuggle hashish and his experiences there. Which one?
9) Identify the older man to the right, winning his hon. Oscar.
10) Just fill in blanks to get the name of an Award winning movie.
Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn,
Wire, briar, limber lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew East
One flew West,
_______________________________________
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO
1. These were the movies that were nominated with Mother India for Best
Foreign Language Movie. And it was Notti DiCabiria (Nights of Cabiria)
that won.
2. The movie was Virgin Spring, the 1972 movie based on it was Last House
to the Left.
3. Frederico Fellini's 81/2.
4. The Hindi movie based on this was Ramesh Sippy's ANDAZ, starring
Rajesh Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Hema Malini.
5. It was the letter Z itself, which also is the name of the movie.
6. JOHN WAYNE.
7. Ivory Merchant Productions, that was Ismail Merchant speaking,
German Jew was Ruth Praver, James Ivory was American.
8. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS.
9. CHARLIE CHAPLIN receiving his honorary Oscar.
10.ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST.
50 years of 007-I
It has been 50 years since the first James Bond movie, Dr.No was released. Since then over the last
50 years, the spy with the tuxedo, who loves his martini stirred but not shaken, has enthralled
viewers with a mixture of Guns, Gadgets and Girls. This quiz is a tribute to the James Bond movies.
1) In an interview by Maurice Binder in 1991 he states- "That was something I did in a hurry, because
I had to get to a meeting with the producers in twenty minutes. I just happened to have little white,
price tag stickers and I thought I'd use them as gun shots across the screen. ----.That was about a
twenty-minute storyboard I did, and they said, "This looks great! What is he referring to here?
2) The opening music for Dr. No is a calypso version of a popular English nursery rhyme, which was
believed to refer to Queen Mary I of England, executing Protestant bishops. In the movie, the
nursery rhyme title is used to refer to a group of assassins. Which one?
3) From Russia with Love, had the notorious organization SPECTRE, trying to take revenge on Bond,
for the death of Dr.No, using Tatiana Romanova as a cipher clerk. The original novel, by Ian Fleming,
however had an actual Soviet counter intelligence agency, founded in 1943, whose name meant
"Death to spies". The name of that organization founded in April 1943, was coined by Stalin,
and was set up to subvert attempts of German Army to penetrate the Red Army.
4) No 2, Willow Road, Hampstead was the house of Erno ___________, a Hungarian born architect,
who later shifted to US and was one of the members of the Modern movement. The architect's
home was part of a terrace of 3 houses, and he lived close to Ian Fleming's home. Fleming however
opposed the construction of his home, as a number of cottages in Hampstead were demolished for
it. Later on it was believed that the architect's surname was the inspiration for a Bond villain, after
whom the novel as well as the movie is named. Identify.
5) This car model was used for the first time in Goldfinger, it was the last in a series named after the
head of the company that produced it. While Caroreeza Touring was the original designer for his
luxury tourer, the car for the movie was designed by special effects expert John Stears who was
often called the Real Q. Identify this model.
6) Identify the Bond movie here.
7) For the movie You Only Live Twice, the screenwriter of the earlier Bond movies Richard Maibaum
was unavailable, so they choose X for the purpose. X was a renowned novelist, famous for his books
for children, one of which was made into a movie twice. X also happened to be a close friend of Ian
Fleming, said the latter's novel was the worst he had ever read, without any plot, and he had to
rewrite it completely for the movie version. Identify X.
8) Mr.Wint and Mr.Kidd is a pair of henchmen to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while they are members of the
Spangled Mob in the original novel, for the movie they were changed to American assassins. Both
the book and the movie, hints at a homosexual relationship between these 2 guys, who take a
sadistic pleasure in disposing of their victims. Their main job is to ensure that the __________ reach
Blofeld, while eliminating all the links in the supply chain. Identify the movie/book.
9) In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Blofeld, recruits 12 beautiful girls from different nations-
Germany, China, India, Israel, Hungary, promising to cure their allergy or phobia. In reality he
actually brainwashes them to spread the virus Omega that would contaminate the world's food
supply. What collective name was given to these girls?
10) Tee Hee- Thrown out of a train window,
Baron Samedi- Shot thrown into a coffin full of poisonous snakes, but is shown to have survived,
Whisper- Trapped in an air tight container.
Just identify the movie.
50 YEARS OF 007-1
1. The opening gun barrel shot in every Bond movie.
2. THREE BLIND MICE
3. The organization was SMERSH.
4. Erno Goldfinger was the inspiration for the book as well as movie.
5. ASTON MARTIN DB5
6. THUNDERBALL
7. ROALD DAHL, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
8. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
9. ANGELS OF DEATH.
10.LIVE AND LET DIE.
50 years of 007-II
It has been 50 years since the first James Bond movie, Dr.No was released. Since then over the last
50 years, the spy with the tuxedo, who loves his martini stirred but not shaken, has enthralled
viewers with a mixture of Guns, Gadgets and Girls. This quiz is the 2nd part of a tribute to Bond
Movies.
1) This Bond villain was born in a traveling circus, his father a ringmaster, and ex Cuban, while his
mother was a snake charmer. He became an assassin, when he was just 15, and is believed to have a
3rd nipple too. He lives on his own personal island, somewhere off the south east coast of China. The
character was played by an actor, who in real life was also Ian Fleming's step cousin. Name the
character as well as the actor.
2) This sports car was launched in 1975, and produced in 1976. They replaced the previous Europa
model, the original name intended for this series was Kiwi, but then in keeping with the tradition of
having all their model names, start with 'E' it was later revised. The car became famous when it
featured in a 70's Bond movie. Name the car model and movie.
3) Richard Kiel is best known for the role of Jaws in the Bond series, with his giant build and metal
tooth, the build being a result of a hormonal deficiency. Prior to his role in The Spy Who Loved Me,
Kiel also played a similar role of a hit man with metal teeth in a 70's action comedy movie, set
aboard a moving train. Name that movie.
4) This scene was rated by critics as one of the cheesiest ever in a Bond movie. Just name the movie.
5) Gioacchino Colombo is most famous for designing the initial engines for Ferrari, specifically the
Ferrari 125, which was a favourite of Ian Fleming. This character was named in tribute to him, and in
the movie he is shown to have a love for pistachios. He is an ex associate of the main villain in this
movie, and later becomes a steadfast ally of Bond. Name the movie.
6) Octopussy was one of the short stories in this collection by Ian Fleming, which was titled
Octopussy and ___________. The other short stories were ___________, Property of a Lady and 007
in New York. __________ was also called as Trigger Fingers, and later adapted into another 007
movie. Identify.
7) In the movie, this character is the product of Nazi medical experiments, where pregnant women
were injected with massive quantities of steroids to create "super children". He was one of the few
kids who survived, became extraordinarily intelligent and also psychotic. He also gets his horses
doped before races to make them win, and a Linux OS is named after this Bond villain. Who?
8) Identify this palace near Udaipur, where Octopussy was shot. Named after the ruler who built it, it
has a more popular name too, and equally famous for the wildlife sanctuary around it.
9) During WWII, the Allies came up with Operation __________ to monitor Spain for any possible
alliance between General Franco and the Axis powers. Ian Fleming was the Lt. Commander of the
Naval Intelligence Division, who formulated the plan. Identify.
10) The character of the drug lord Franz Sanchez in the 1989 Bond flick License To Kill, had a physical
resemblance to a notorious Latin American despot, whose regime, was marked by wide spread
allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering. Who?
50 YEARS OF 007-II
1. FRANCISCO SCARAMANGA, CHRISTOPHER LEE
2. LOTUS ESPIRIT, made famous in the movie THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
3. The organization was SMERSH.
4. That movie was SILVER STREAK.
5. MOONRAKER
6. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.
7. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.
8. MONSOON PALACE, UDAIPUR
9. OPERATION GOLDENEYE.
10.MANUEL NORIEGA of PANAMA
REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL QUIZ
JAN 26, 1950- INDIA BECOMES A REPUBLIC
JAN 26, 2009- THE REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL QUIZ STARTS AT

MY BLOG.
ON EVERY REPUBLIC DAY, STARTING FROM 2009, THERE

HAS BEEN A SPECIAL QUIZ AT MY BLOG. AND THE THEME
ANYTHING RELATED TO INDIA, FROM ITS HISTORY TO
CULTURE TO TRIVIA TO TRAVEL TO HERITAGE.
Republic Day Special Quiz-2009
1) Connect the following pictures, this is not an exhaustive list, but am looking for a very specific
connection.
2) Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5 E longitude, which is just west of the town
of X, near Allahabad. X is a small town also famous for its carpets and brassware.
3) According to the Surya Siddhanta, the earth was spherical in shape, and the prime meridian
passed through this historic city, also the site of one of the Jyotirlingas. As per ancient Indian
astronomers, day began with sunrise at this holy place. Which one?
4) His father was an Engineer in the East India Railway. After graduation he worked as a lecturer
from 1916 to 1921 in Calcutta University. In 1924, his paper on Planck's quantum radiation was
translated into German by Albert Einstein himself. He worked with Einstein, Curie, and De Broglie in
Europe too. His work led to discovery of X-Einstein condensates, and a group of particles with
integer spin were named after him.
5) Born in Goa, he graduated from Bombay University in Chemical Engineering. He served for over 11
years as Director of CSIR and also the 3rd Indian engineer to be elected as FRS in the 20th century. In
1997, Business India named him as one of the Top 50 path breakers in Post Independent India. In
1998, he became the first scientist to win the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award. He has been
credited for turning CSIR into a professionally run, user driven, accountable organization. He
successfully challenged US patents on Turmeric and Basmati Rice.
6) This instrument gets its name from a Persian word meaning "Beautiful sound". It is believed to be
derived from a Central Asian instrument, the rubab. Mohd. Hashmi Khan Bangash, popularized this
instrument in the court of the Maharaja of Rewa. The present form of this instrument dates back to
1820 A.D. The strings are made either from steel or phosphor bronze and plucked with a triangular
plectrum.
7) In the famous hit song Hai Apna dil to Aawara from the Dev Anand starrer Solva Saal, who played
the mouth organ in it. The song was composed by Hemant Kumar.
8) This Indian viceroy was the subject of this doggerel, due to his often arrogant attitude
My name is George Nathaniel ________,
I am a most superior person.
My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek,
I dine at Blenheim twice a week.
9) As per legend, Parashuram, purified the corpses of 14 people, who were washed ashore by the
sea at the foot of the Sahayadris,by burning them. On purification, they came to life, and settled in
the surrounding region. Which community gets its name from this?
10) Gyanam paramam balam or "Knowledge is Power Supreme", is the motto of which famous
educational institution in India?
REPUBLIC DAY QUIZ-2009
1. NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST, BUT THEY WERE ALL LEADERS INVITED TO

REPUBLIC DAY PARADE- SUKARNO, TITO, SHINZO ABE, KING ABDULLAH,
NELSON MANDELA.
2. MIRZAPUR
3. UJJAIN
4. S.N.BOSE
5. R.A.MASHELKAR
6. SAROD
7. R.D.BURMAN
8. LORD CURZON
9. CHITPAVAN BRAHMINS
10.BITS, PILANI
1) It was referred to as Nikam by Ptolemy in ancient times, and an ancient Buddhist centre. During
the Chola reign, it was the chief seaport of the empire, and the Cholas used this as a starting point
for the marine expeditions. In 1657, this town was occupied by the Dutch, and became one of their
chief settlements in India. In 1784, it was formally ceded to the British by the Dutch. Some of the
other names of this place are Shiva Rajdhani and Cholakula Vallipatinam. In 2004, the town featured
prominently in the news. W which place?
2) Born in Murud-Janjira to Dankar and his wife Sangana, he graduated from Sir J.J.Institute of
Applied Arts in Mumbai. Apart from being known for his acting skills, he also has a Hon. Capt's Rank
in the Indian Army, and for his only directorial venture, that had a military background, he
underwent the gruelling training needed for the role of Army officer. To date he remains the only
actor to have won the Filmfare Award in Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Villain
Categories. Name him.
3) "It was, accordingly, ordered that, in addition to the jewels in the imperial jewel house, rubies,
garnets, diamonds, rich pearls and emeralds in all weighing 230 kg should be brought for the
inspection of the Emperor and they should be handed over to Bebadal Khan, the superintendent of
the goldsmiths department. There was also to be given to him 1150 kg of pure gold. It was to be
three yards in length, two-and-a-half in breadth and five in height and was to be set with the above
mentioned jewels. The outside of the canopy was to be of enamel work with occasional gems, the
inside was to be thickly set with rubies, garnets and other jewels, and it was to be supported by 12
emerald columns. On the top of each pillar there were to be X, thickset with gems and between each
X a tree set with rubies and diamonds, emeralds and pearls. The ascent was to consist of three steps
set with jewels of fine water". Of the 11 jewelled recesses formed around it for cushions, the middle
one was intended for the seat it for Emperor. Among the historical diamonds decorating it were the
famous Akbar Shah , Shah and the second largest spinel ruby in the world the Timur ruby . A-20
Couplet poem by the Mughal poet-laureate Qudsi, praising the Emperor in emerald letters was
embedded in it."
What is being described here?
4) He was born in Tiruvarur, to Kakarla Ramabrahmam and Seetamma, his maternal grandfather
Giraraja Kavi, was a poet-composer in the Tanjore king's court. Named after the local deity, he was
trained under Sonti Venkataramanayya. In addition to his kritis, he also composed 2 musical plays,
Prahlada Bhakti Vijayamu and Nauka Charitam. Name this great musician.
5) Mahari, Nartaki and Gotipua are the 3 schools associated with which Indian classical dance form.
6) In 1889, he was appointed as the Indian viceroy. He is credited with creating the NW FP in present
day Pakistan, and controlled the tribal uprisings in those areas. He was also responsible for the
British expedition to Tibet, done to checkmate possible Russian influence in that area. He undertook
restoration of the Taj Mahal, introduced the Indian Standard Time. In spite of his achievements, he is
remembered for his controversial decision in 1905 that gave a huge impetus to the Indian freedom
struggle. Name him.
7) Born in 24 Parganas district, his father was a temple priest, and his real name was Narendranath
Bhattacharya. He believed that knowledge is freedom and the urge for freedom was inherent in
every man. Influenced by the writings of Swami Vivekananda, the Gita he took an active part in the
anti-Partition agitations that rocked Bengal. He fled to Batavia and later Palo Alto, where he changed
his name to evade the British intelligence. In New York, he began to take an interest in Marxism, and
in 1917, he fled to Mexico, along with Evelyn Trent, his future wife, to escape from the British spies.
He later founded the Communist Party of Mexico, and later came in touch with Lenin. And in 1920,
he founded the Communist Party of India. Disillusioned later with both bourgeois democracy and
radical communism, he formulated an alternative philosophy of Radical Humanism.
8) Born into a wealthy Parsi family in Mumbai, in 1909, he was distantly related to Mohd. Ali Jinnah
while his maternal great grandfather Sir Dinshaw Petit, was a noted textile industrialist. As a student
in Cambridge, he wanted to specialize in Physics, much against his father's wishes to join Tata Steel
as a mechanical engineer. He later did his research in Mathematics under Paul Dirac and in 1932, he
obtained a first class in his Mathematical Tripos. In 1933, he published his first scientific paper Zur
Absorption der Hhenstrahlung or The Absorption of Cosmic Radiation, and in 1935 he published
another paper where he did the first calculation to determine the cross section of electron-positron
scattering, which was later renamed in his honour. He established the TIFR (Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research) with help of JRD Tata. He died in an air crash, in 1966, when this flight
crashed on Mont Blanc.
9) The flag of which political party founded in 1939, as a faction of the Indian National Congress.
10) Who was satirized in Salman Rushdie's novel The Moor's Last Sigh as Raman Fielding?
1. NAGAPATTINAM, one of the towns devastated by the Tsunami in 2004.

2. NANA PATEKAR
3. THE PEACOCK THRONE
4. TYAGARAY A
5. ODISSI
6. LORD CURZON
7. M.N.ROY
8. HOMI JEHANGIR BABA
9. FORWARD BLOCK
10.BAL THACKERAY
1) Connect the images with fundaez.
2) Born to an American mother, who was a poet, and a father, who was a Sufi master, descendant of
Tipu Sultan. Growing up in France, after her father's death, she studied child psychology and music,
and in 1939 published her version of the Jataka tales. During World War II, she worked as a radio
operator, and was the first female one, sent into Occupied France to aid the French resistance.
Arrested by the Gestapo, she finally died in captivity at Dachau, where she was shot dead. Name her.
3) The son of a carpet seller in Jaipur, he initially worked as a voice artist at the All India Radio there.
On the advice of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, he joined the FTII in Pune, and passed out in 1967. Initially
appearing in a couple of Gujarati movies, his first Hindi movie was Umang. Along with Harish Patel,
Dinesh Hingoo he also formed a small Gujarati film production company and also sang his own songs
in movie Alaap. Name him.
4) Connect the images with fundaez.

5) A follower of the Sufi saint Hazrat Mian Mir, he always looked to find a common ground between
Hinduism and Islam. He translated the Upanishads from Sanskrit to Persian, and his most famous
work titled the "Confluence of 2 seas" explored similarities between the Vedanta and Sufi
philosophy. Also a well-known artist, he had an album, which was a collection of his calligraphy and
paintings. He was captured and executed by his brother, in 1659. Who?
6) The longest every serving Viceroy in the British Raj, he was a Colonel during WW1, and also an
OBE. He bought in the local self-government plans during his tenure, which was also the time, the
Congress captured power in around 5 provinces. The Quit India movement and the notorious 1943
Bengal famine marked his tenure. Who?
7) His father wanted him to become a lawyer, while he dreamt of a career in music. He also acted as
a leading hero in the movie Sakuntala opposite M.S.Subbalaxmi. The first concert musician, who
explored the concept of raga alapana in a step by step approach, he advocated the concept of Indian
music being a single entity instead of Hindustani or Carnatic. One of his innovations was the shruthi
bedam, an approach by which the last note of a raga would be the starting note for the next raga,
and achieving the shifting from one raga to another. Name him.
8) Musco Lighting is an Iowa based company that provides lighting to major sports events like the
Super Bowl and Olympics. It was the official light provider for the Los Angeles, Atlanta and Sydney
Olympics, as well as the illumination at Ground Zero after 2001. It also has a partnership with an
Indian firm that has provided lighting at cricket stadiums like Mohali, Barabati in Cuttack, Motera in
Ahmedabad. Who owns the Indian firm?
9) Identify the statue and place.

10) My appeal to you is this, that long after the controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this
turmoil, the agitation will My appeal to you is this, that long after the controversy will be hushed in
silence, long after this turmoil, the agitation will have ceased, long after he is dead and gone, he will
be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and the lover of humanity.
Long after he is dead and gone, his words will be echoed and re-echoed, not only in India but across
distant seas and lands. Therefore, I say that the man in his position is not only standing before the
bar of this Court, but before the bar of the High Court of History.
Who was speaking about whom here, and what was the context?
1. That is the Duke of Connaught, and that is the Royal Crescent in BATH,
which was the inspiration for Connaught Place.
2. NOOR INAYAT KHAN
3. ASRANI
4. That is the Crawford Market in Mumbai, now renamed as Jyotibha Phule
Market.
5. DARA SHIKOH
6. LORD LINLITHGOW
7. G.N.BALASUBRAMANIAM
8. KAPIL DEV
9. DUPLEIX in PONDICHERRY
10.C.R.DAS defending AUROBINDO GHOSH in the Alipore Bomb Case trial.
1) This princely state was believed to have been established in 1806 by an Afghan adventurer, Faiz
Talab Khan, and is located in present day Haryana. An Ahir king Charu Rao, had ruled over this area
in the 9th century earlier, which accounts for the large concentration of Ahirs here. Name this
princely state that has been in the news some months back.
2) Touch Play written by Dev Kumar is an authorized biography of this Indian sports player, only the
second time, a biography has been written about a player belonging to this sport. The player
released it in 2006, during the National Championships in Bangalore. Identify the player.
3) Born in the Sistan province of Afghanistan, his last name comes from the town he was born in.
Coming from a well to do family, he later renounced the world, after his encounter with a Sufi saint
from Kunduz. He later became the disciple of another Sufi saint, Usman Harooni. When Muhammad
Ghori invaded India, he travelled with him, and he settled down in Ajmer. He established the Sufi
order, founded by "The Syrian", named so after the place where it started, and later laid down the
guidelines for the order. Identify.
4) Complete the series and funda, Sanjay Manjrekar: Sir Richard Hadlee:: Mark Taylor:___________.
5) Connect the following images

6) This place in Tamil Nadu was mentioned in the works of Tirugnana Sambandar, and
Tirunavakarusu, and is famous for the ancient Shiva temple built by the Cholas. One of the famous
persons born here took his name from the presiding deity of the temple. The temple is famous for its
Panchamuga Vadyam, a unique musical instrument and also has a special significance in
Indian classical music. Name the place.
7) The 3rd daughter of a Hindu mother and Muslim father, she made her Hindi movie debut with a
1972 movie called Zaroorat. For a long time, appearing in B-Grade movies, she finally hit the big time
with this 70's blockbuster that would also prove to be a turning point for the careers of its director
and hero. She was nominated thrice for Filmfare, for the "Snake Woman" and "Hope", before
winning the Best Supporting Actress Award in a rather negative role, in this late 70's J.Om Prakash
family drama. Identify.
8) Born in a town in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, he left for Mumbai to be a cotton dealer.
Later he migrated to Kolkata, where against stiff resistance from the British and Scottish jute
merchants, he set up the first indigenous jute factory. Elected to the Central Legislative Assembly in
1926, he later diversified into Sugar, paper mills as well as automobile. A close associate of
Mahatma Gandhi, he set up a renowned educational institution in his hometown in Rajasthan. Name
him.
9) What is the claim to fame of this building in Chicago?
10) Listed among the 1001 Albums to listen before you die, this 1967 instrumental album by Shiv
Kumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia that follows a day in the life of a shepherd in Kashmir, played a
major role in introducing Indian classical music to the West. Name it.
1. PATAUDI of course, from where the Nawab of Pataudi hails.

2. PRAKASH PADUKONE.
3. MOHIUDDIN CHISTI of AJMER.
4. KAPIL DEV, the 400th victims of the two bowlers.
5. Connect of course was BULLA SHAH. Chaiyya Chaiyya from Dil Se based
on his composition. Junoon's album contains his compositions again.
Rabbi Shergill's Bulla Ki Jaane Main Kaun Hoon. Bandeya Ho in Khuda Ke
Liye again based on his composition.
6. TIRUVAIYARU, where the music festival takes place, also the birthplace
of the Trinity of Carnatic music, Tyagaraya, Shyama
Shastri,Mutthuswamy Dikshitar.
7. REENA ROY
8. G.D.BIRLA
9. THE ART INSTITUTE where the Parliament of Religions was held in which
Swami Vivekananda gave his famous speech.
10.CALL OF THE VALLEY
1. Super Heavy is a super group seeking a "convergence of different musical styles with music
ranging from reggae to ballads to Indian music. A.R.Rehman is one of the members, along with Mick
Jagger (founder), .Dave Stewart, Damian Marley. On August 9, 2011, the band released its second
single, written and composed by A.R.Rehman and sung by Mick Jagger in Sanskrit. The
Songs title is taken after a very famous Sanskrit saying, which was also the name of a TV talk show
that came in 2012. Identify.
2. Born in Dhaka, his father was a district magistrate, and they later moved to Kolkata. Having
witnessed the tide of refugees to the city in 1943, fleeing the great Bengal famine, would later have
a profound impact on his work. As a member of the IPTA he translated the plays of Bertolt Brecht
and Gogol to Bengali. His first completed movie Nagarik was regarded as one of the first art
movies in Bengali cinema along with Pather Panchali. His 1958 movie Ajantrik was a comedy with sci
fi themes. He also wrote the script for Bimal Roy's Madhumati, while his 1960 movie, the first in a
trilogy dealing with Partition era refugees and whose title translates to Cloud Capped Star would be
one of his most famous. Name the director.
3. This battle during the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war was fought near the village of Khem Karan, in Taran
Taran district of Punjab. It is considered the largest tank battle post World War II, and resulted in a
decisive Indian victory with over 100 Pakistani tanks either being captured or destroyed. It was also a
turning point in the war that tilted the balance in favor of India. Identify.
4. In 1896, when Swami Vivekananda was traveling through the Alps, he expressed his desire to have
a similar place in the Himalayas, where people could retreat and study the Vedas. In 1898, Capt.
James Sevier and his wife Charlotte Sevier, both of them ardent followers of Swamiji, found a place
near Almora, which they deemed suitable to set up the Ashram. The Ashram was established here in
1899, and is dedicated solely to the study and practice of Vedanta. There are no idols here, not even
of Ramakrishna Paramahans, and this was as per desire of Swami Vivekananda himself. Identify the
ashram and the place it's located in.
5.The 1996 Hollywood movie Mrs.Winterbourne starring Ricki Lake was loosely based on Cornell
Woolrich's novel I Married a Dead Man, which had an earlier version in 1950 titled No Man of her
Own. Which 1970 Hindi movie was based on this novel?
6. As per legend, this place was one of the 5 cities founded by the Pandavas, and was named as
Panduprastha. Known as "Textile City" due to the large number of handloom, power loom units
here, it also has a refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation. The city is famous for events in 1526, 1556
and 1761 that proved to be turning points in the history of India. Which one?
7. Born in Varanasi, he had to drop out of school at 8 due to financial problems, and studied mostly
at home. His initial collection of poetry Chitraadhar was in Braj Bhasha, but later shifted to the
Sanskritized Hindi. He is considered one of the 4 pillars ( Char Stambh) of the Chayavadi movement
along with Suryakant Tripati Nirala,Sumitranandan Pant and Mahadevi Verma. His Hindi epic
poem Kamayani is considered one of the greatest works of Hindi literature. Who?
8. Born in Saharsa district of Bihar, he was an Economics post graduate from Patna University in
1948. He started his political career as parliamentary secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru and later held
the posts of Dy.Min for Home Affairs, Dy.Finance Minister. He was the Minister for Railways in Indira
Gandhi's cabinet. In 1975 on a visit to Samastipur railway station, he died in a bomb blast, becoming
the first Union minister to have been assassinated. His brother was also 3 times CM of Bihar, while
the University in Darbhanga is named after him. The reason behind his murder to date remains
unresolved with various conspiracy theories attached to it. Identify.
9. A graduate from St. Stephens, he later became associated with SFI, when at Delhi University. His
association with the Indian People's Theatre Association led him to co found JANAM (Jana Natya
Manch) in 1973, which used to perform street plays. In the 70's he produced a number of plays on
issues like peasant distress, unemployment, clerical fascism. He was attacked by hired political goons
on Jan 1, 1989 when he was performing a play whose title translated to Attack, and died the next
day in hospital. A 2008 Hindi movie has the same title as the play he was performing when he died,
and one of the characters in that movie was inspired by him. Identify.
10.Makar Sankranti is celebrated by Sikhs as _________, in honour of Chali Mukte, or the 40

Liberated, the Sikhs who were given Mukti by Guru Gobind Singh. On 29 Dec, 1705, these 40 men
laid down their lives, defending an attack by an Imperial Army at Khidrane Di Dhab. Identify.
1. SATYAMEVA JAYATE was the song.

2. RITWIK GHATAK
3. BATTLE OF ASAL UTTAR.
4. ADVAITA ASHRAM,MAYAVATI.
5. KATI PATANG
6. PANIPAT
7. JAI SHANKAR PRASAD
8. LALIT NARAYAN MISHRA.
9. SAFDAR HASHMI
10.MAGHI.
Republic Day Quiz-2014
1) This community was believed to have descended from Chitragupta, the assistant to Lord Yamaraj.
They were generally considered a community of scribes, good for administrative and official work.
During the ancient period, they formed the bulk of the public services in India, while during the
Mughal rule, they mastered Persian, and played a major role as revenue collectors and officials.
This trait enabled them to become the major part of the administrative services in India, under the
British Raj, though there have been a good number of luminaries from this community. Who?
2) Born in Bhera, Punjab( currently in Pakistan), and his passion for engineering was developed in his
maternal grandfather's home, where he also learnt poetry. An active member of the theatrical group
in his college, he also wrote an Urdu one act play called Karamati. After his studies in England, he
joined the Banaras Hindu University in 1921 as a Chemistry professor, where he also wrote
the university's song called Kulgeet. He made great contributions in the field of magneto chemistry
too. His book on magneto chemistry along with K.N.Mathur is regarded as a standard text on the
subject. Identify this great scientist, poet and visionary, after whom an award is named too.
3) This religious movement was founded in the 16th century, and originated in the Bengal region,
and was named after the older name for Bengal. Its main philosophical foundation is the Bhagavat
Gita and the Bhagavata Purana, as well as the other Upanishads like Isha, Gopala Tarani and Kali
Santarana. The worship of Radha and Krishna and considering the many forms of Vishnu, as
incarnations of one supreme God, adipurusha is their tradition. Who?
4) This temple built in 1092 by the Kachwaha Rajput ruler , Mahipala, was named after Lord Vishnu's
1000 armed form. Located near Gwalior, it is actually a complex of two temples, the larger one
dedicated to Lord Vishnu, and the smaller one, built by the King's daughter in law to Lord Shiva. The
name of this temple has over the years been corrupted to a more familiar word in Hindi too, which
in a way explains the history of the two temples side by side too. Identify.
5) The second largest wetland in India's ecosystem, this lake in Kerala, gets its name from a word
meaning 8 cones. So called because of the multiple branches emanating from the lake, it has also
been called the gateway to Kerala's famed backwaters. It was also in the news in 1988 for a rather
unsavoury incident too. Name this.
6) This landmark Hindi novel, was written by Devaki Nandan Khatri, and published in 1888.
Combining fantasy and a love story, the novel centres around two fictional kingdoms, Vijaygarh and
Naugarh. It also introduced the concept of Aiyar/Aiyara, a male or female spy, who is an expert in
many martial arts. Also made into a TV series on Doordarshan during the 90's.
7) Born in Srinagar in 1920, he later graduated from the University of Lahore, and did his
engineering from the University of Minneapolis. He later did his Masters in Aerospace Engineering
from Cal Tech, where his adviser was Hans Liepmann. Joining as a Faculty at IISc, Bangalore, he later
became its director in 1962. His work in the Boundary Theory has won international recognition,
and he also set up India's first supersonic wind tunnel at IISc. Also regarded as the father of
experimental fluid dynamics in India, he is more recognized for his work in India's space program.
8) This Indian actress was the daughter of Master Vinayak, a well-known actor and director, in
Marathi cinema. Born in Kolhapur, she began her career as a child actress to support the family,
after her father's death. Her first major break came in the 1956 movie Toofan aur Diya, through her
paternal uncle V.Shantaram. The title role in L.V.Prasad's Choti Bahen, put her on the track to
stardom, and she was one of the major star heroines during the 60's and early 70's.
9) This festival is celebrated in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and is the equivalent of Makar
Sankranti there. Sikhs observe this in honour of the Chali Mukthe, 40 soldiers, who gave up their
lives defending an attack by the Imperial Mughal Army. The Mela held at Muktsar during this festival
is well known.
10) This musical instrument gets its name from a Sanskrit word meaning 100 stringed veena. Used
primarily by Sufi musicians, and folk musicians in Kashmir. Shaped like a trapezoid, it is made either
from walnut or maple wood. It is played sitting in the ardha padmasana position, placed on one's
lap.
1. KAYASTHAS
2. SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR
3. GAUDIYA VAISHNAVAS
4. SAHASRA BAHU TEMPLE, later corrupted to SAAS BAHU temple.
5. ASHTAMUDI LAKE
6. CHANDRAKANTA
7. SATISH DHAWAN, AFTER WHOM THE SPACE CENTER IN SRIHARIKOTA IS
NAMED.
8. NANDA
9. MAGH MUKHTSAR MELA
10.SANTOOR
Republic Day Quiz-2015
1) He started his career as an actor, playing the lead role in movies like Umang, and smaller roles in
Aaradhana and Tarang. He acted in a whole lot of Punjabi movies too as hero, however most of
them were flops. He made his debut as a director for a 1976 crime thriller, which was rejected by
many producers, before being taken up by N.N.Sippy. The movie went on to become a blockbuster
hit, and it also made the leading hero a star in his own right, who till then was known more as a
villain and a supporting actor. It also made him one of Bollywood's leading directors and he later
launched the careers of many leading stars too. Who?
2) This was the first computer developed in India at TIFR, Mumbai, started in 1957 and finally
commissioned in 1960. It had 2700 vacuum tubes, 1700 germanium diodes, 12,500 resistors. And its
memory capacity was 2,048 40 word bits of memory. Name this.
3) Identify the singer, born in Gadag, Karnataka, his father authored a Kannada-English dictionary.
He would often be away from home for a long time, following processions by musical bands, in his
childhood days. He first received his training under Agasara Chanappa of Kurtakoti, where he learnt
Bhairav and Bhimpalasi. In 1933, he left for Bijpapur, and from there on travelled to Pune and
finally Gwalior, trying to find a suitable guru, before he was tracked down by his father and bought
home. He finally began to learn under noted musician Sawai Gandharva, and his debut album was
released in 1942. He also sang for the movies Basant Bahar, Tansen, Ankahee and the Kannada
movie Nodi Swaami Naavu Irodhu Hegge, where he rendered a famous Purandaradasa composition.
4) Moirang is a small town in the Bishnupur district of Manipur, located close to the Loktak lake and
the Keibul Lamjao National Park. On 14 April 1944, this place became associated with the freedom
struggle in India for an event that occurred here. It was a first of its kind, what happened here?
5) Col Hugh Toye, was a British intelligence officer, who led one of the largest man hunts ever, to
capture X, regarded by the British as a major threat. While Toye failed in capturing his quarry, he
later wrote a book The Springing Tiger about the manhunt and his quarry, where he expressed his
admiration for his enemy. Who?
6) His father was a midfielder in the Indian hockey team that won the bronze medal at the 1972
Munich Olympics, while his mother was a captain of the Indian basketball team at the 1980 Asian
basketball championships. He also happens to be a direct descendant of the famous Bengali poet,
Michael Madhusudhan Dutt, from his mother's side. He recently made his debut as an actor in the
2013 movie Rajdhani Express. Who?
7) It is shaped in the form of a Peepal leaf, about 59 mm long, 48 mm wide and 3.2 mm thick and
rimmed in platinum. The embossed sun burst design, also made of platinum, on the obverse side of
the medal has a diameter of 16 mm with rays spreading out from 21 mm to 13 mm from the centre
of the Sun. On the reverse side is Satyameva Jayate, A 2-inch-wide white ribbon is attached to the
medal so it can be worn around the neck. What is this?
8) Identify the flag of this princely kingdom that currently lies between the Aravali range to the
Northwest, Ajmer to the north, Vagad region to South and Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh to
South East. It was believed to have been founded by Bappa Rawal, and its ruling deity is Eklingji, a
form of Lord Shiva.
9) Identify the famous Bengali novelist, short story. Though born in Debnandapur, he did most of his
studies at Bhagalpur, where he grew up and many of his novels were based on his experiences there.
He also took up Sanyas for some time, and Mandir was his first published short story. Many of his
novels have been adapted into movies, though he is more famous for creating an iconic character,
whose name has become a not so complimentary synonym. Who?
10) This was supposed to be one of the 5 cities founded by the Pandavas in Mahabharat, others
being Indraprastha, Sonaprastha, Bahakprastha, Tilprastha, and was originally called Panduprastha.
It is also called "City of Weavers", and a major centre now for textiles and carpets. The city is more
famous for 3 events that occurred here on 1526, 1556 and 1761, that are considered a turning
point in Indian history. Name the place.
1. SUBASH GHAI-The movie of course was Kalicharan, which made

Shatrughan Sinha a top star.
2. TIFRAC
3. BHIMSEN JOSHI
4. FIRST TIME THE TRICOLOR WAS HOISTED ON INDIAN SOIL
5. NETAJI SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE
6. LEANDER PAES
7. BHARAT RATNA
8. MEWAR
9. SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAYA-Creator of Devadas
10.PANIPAT
MERA BHARAT MAHAAN
INDIA THE MORE YOU KNOW OF IT, THE LESSER YOU KNOW
ABOUT IT. A COUNTRY THAT IS VAST, DIVERSE, STUNNING,
BEAUTIFUL. A COUNTRY WHOSE COMPLEXITIES ARE
MINDBOGGLING. AND THESE QUIZZES DEDICATED TO THE
WONDER THAT IS INDIA.
Jai Jawan
"When you go home, tell them of us and say: for your tomorrow, we gave our
today"
Yes this Quiz is dedicated to the Indian military an institution which every Indian can be justifiably
proud of. An institution which really makes me proud to be born as an Indian. Rated as one of the
best armies in the world, every time they have come forward and laid their lives so that we can sleep
peacefully. Jai Jawan.
1. Following the 1962 Indo China War, this regiment was raised on June 1, 1963 with 8 companies
drawn from 7th and 14th battalions of J&K militia. Also known as Snow Warriors, this was one of the
first regiment to take part in Kargil and Major Sonam Wangchuk of this regiment received a MVC for
his role. Name the regiment.
2. Created on Aug 19, 1978, this military service has the Sanskrit motto Vaayam Rakshaamah
meaning We Protect on its coat of arms. Which one?
3. During the 1971 Indo Pakistan war, which military operation carried out by Indian Navy was
codenamed as Operation Trident?
4. Originally called USS Diablo, this Pakistani submarine was sunk off the coast of Vishakhapatnam
on Dec 3, 1971 by the destroyer INS Rajput and was a major loss for Pakistan. Name this.
5.In 1961 the Param Vir Chakra was awarded posthumously to Capt Gurbachan Singh Salaria of 1st
Gorkha Rifles. This was the first time the award went to a person who was involved in a military
operation outside India. In which country was the operation held?
6. This has often been called as the Indian Alamo. During the 1962 Indo China war, Company C, 13
Kumaon Regiment fought a last stand under the command of Major Shaitan Singh. Out of 118 men,
109 men died, 5 were captured and only 4 survived. Name this place which has gone down as one of
the 10 most heroic stands in history.
7. This Indian military regiment is the only one to produce 3 Army Chiefs- Gen S.M.Sriganesh, Gen
K.S.Thimayya and Gen T.N.Raina. Its motto is Parakramo Vijayate meaning Valor alone Triumphs
and their war cry is Kalika Mata ki Jai. Name the regiment noted for its fighting prowess.
8. This division was founded by a British army officer Charles Wingate and their official name was the
77th Indian infantry brigade. They played a major role in the jungle battles of S.E.Asia during WW2
and were nicknamed after a mythical Burmese beast. Name the division.
9. In 1973 he became independent Indias first and only officer in active service to be appointed as
Field Marshal, the highest honour, by Indira Gandhi in recognition of his leadership during the 1971
Indo Pak war. Name him.
10. This Multi Barrel Rocket System developed by DRDO for the Indian army was developed in 1983.
Named after Lord Shivas mythical bow, what is it?
JAI JAWAN
1. LADAKH SCOUTS
2. COAST GUARD
3. THE ATTACK on KARACHI HARBOR
4. GHAZI
5. CONGO
6. REAZANG LA
7. KUMAON REGIMENT
8. CHINDITS
9. SAM MANEKSHAW
10.PINAKA
The Hills Come Alive
Ever since Julie Andrews swept movie audiences off their feet crooning The Hills Come Alive in the
Sound of Music, have fallen in love with hills and mountains. This quiz though is on famous hill
stations of India, those lovely charming places, which you might have seen in umpteen Bollywood,
Tollywood, Kollywood movies, with the hero and heroine often running around trees, over valleys,
swearing undying love.
1. This hill station nested in the Shivaliks is widely believed to have taken its name from a Tibetan
word meaning Assembly of Kings ministers. After the Anglo Bhutan war came to an end with the
Treaty of Sinchula in 1840, this place was ceded to the British who developed it as a hill station.
Name the place.
2. Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh is located on this mountain range, which gets its name from the
meaning White Mountain. These ranges are inhabited by the Gaddi tribe.
3. This Indian hill station contains a large number of Playwin lottery centres, and in fact the Govt of
the state earns a lot of revenue through authorized gambling. Which place?
4. Legend has it that Lord Hanuman rested here on his way to fetching the Sanjeevani herb. It also
contains the Pasteur Institute established in 1900 by Sir David Semple is one of the oldest and
produces anti rabies vaccines. Which place?
5. In 1819 two civil servants of the Madras Govt Whish and Kindersley, on a trip to Nilgiris, came
back and reported the discovery of a table land with European climate. It was developed by John
Sullivan, and takes its name from the tribes living in the hills around it.
6. This hill station is called the Chiki capital of India, as its famous for the large number of outlets
manufacturing this sweet there. Which one?
7. Discovered by Hugh Malet in May 1850, it was developed by Lord Elphinstone. It derives its name
from a local word meaning Mother Forest. The place has the famous Lake Charlotte and also its
monkeys.
8. This lake located in Mt.Abu is believed to have been dug by the nails of the Gods, and gets its
name from that legend. Name it.
9. In 1827 Capt Young a British military officer explored and developed this place. The place is
believed to have got its name from the native shrub that grew in that vicinity.
10. Often called as the Scotland of India due to its similarity with the Scottish highlands. The town
gets its name from the name of the local deity, meaning Superpower of God, who is believed to be
dwelling on the mountain peak that overlooks this place.
THE HILLS COME ALIVE
1. KALIMPONG
2. DHAULADHAR
3. GANGTOK
4. KASAULI
5. KOTAGIRI
6. LONAVALA
7. MATHERAN
8. NAKKI LAKE
9. MUSSORIE
10.SHILLONG
Dussehra Special- Brave Women of India
Dussehra, a festival traditionally celebrating the female power or the Shakti. Mahishasur, the Demon
King was so confident that no women could ever kill him, until he met his Nemesis in the hands of a
woman. This Quiz is a tribute to the real life Durgas, the brave Indian women, who showed that
when it comes to battle, women are no less inferior to men. So here is celebrating the spirit of
Shakti.
1) She was the daughter of the Hussein Nizam Shah I of Ahmednagar, fluent in many languages
including Marathi and Kannada and was a sitar player also. Married to Adil Shah of Bijapur, she had a
step well constructed in her name. After her husband's death, she plotted against the regent Kamal
Khan with help of another general Kishavar Khan, and had him executed. In 1591 when Akbar
demanded the Bahmani sultanates to surrender, she resisted, and as a regent of the young king, she
successfully defended the fort against the Mughal Army in 1595. However her decision to negotiate
a truce with Daniyal, made her appear as a traitor, and egged on by treacherous nobles, she was
killed by her own troops, and Ahmednagar fell to the Mughal Army.
2) Born in a small village Kakati in 1778 AD, she was trained in horse riding, archery, sword fighting in
her youth. She married Raja Mallasarja of the Desai family, and later adopted Shivalingappa, as the
heir to the throne, after her son's death. The British evoked the Doctrine of Lapse against her action,
she however resisted it, making her one of the earliest rebels against the British rule, as also the
kappa tax. She was however defeated in battle, and imprisoned by the British at Bailhongal fort.
3) Born to King Ganapati Deva, she was formally designated as a son, owing to the lack of male heirs,
and succeeded her father at an age of 14. She later married Veerabhadra, an Eastern Chalukyan
prince, and as a ruler, she suppressed the revolts within the Kakatiya kingdom, as also defended her
kingdom from Chola, Yadava rulers. She also constructed the famous Warangal fort. Who?
4) During the freedom struggle, Indira Gandhi created an organization of young Indian boys and girls,
as the children's wing of the Indian National Congress. What was its name?
5) According to folklore, when the Rajput ruler hesitated to go into battle, as he was newly married,
asked his wife for a memento, that would remind him of her during battle. In reply, she severed her
head and asked it to be presented. Her husband, shattered by the sacrifice, fought bravely till his
death in the battle. The woman has become a folklore legend in Rajasthan. Name her.
6) This British general, served with distinction in Syria and later during the Crimean War. When the
Mutiny broke out in 1857, he was made in charge of the Poona Division. He recaptured Madanpur
and Chanderi, and later his small force of just 1500 was able to defeat Tantya Tope's much larger
army of 20,000 soldiers. He is famous for the battle in which Rani of Jhansi died fighting till the end
at Kalpi, and he later remarked that she was "the most dangerous of all rebel leaders". Name him.
7) Her real name was Muhammadi Khanum, and she was a courtesan by profession. She later
became one of the royal concubines of the King of Oudh, and got her more famous title from him.
When the British annexed Oudh, and expelled her husband Wajid Ali Shah to Kolkata, she took
charge of the state. During the Mutiny, she declared her son Birjis Qadra as the ruler of Awadh, and
even recaptured Lucknow. Refusing all offers of amnesty after her defeat, she later escaped to
Nepal, where she passed away.
8) Born in the village of Chondi near Ahmednagar in 1725, her father Mankoji Shinde was a village
Patil, and he taught her how to read and write. She later married Khande Rao, and after her husband
was killed in battle and later her father in law's death in 1766, she took over as the administration of
the Malwa province. She was responsible for the development of Indore from a sleepy village to
a prosperous trading centre and her own capital was Maheshwar, on the banks of the Narmada
river. She liberally gave grants to many Hindu temples, and dozens of rest houses, sarais, and also a
patron of arts and culture. She has often been compared with Catherine The Great and Elizabeth I.
Name her.
9) Born in the fort of Kalanjar, in 1542 she was married to Dalpat Shah, of the Gond Dynasty. When
her husband died in 1550, she took over the reins of the kingdom, as her son Vir Narayan was too
young. She later moved the capital to Chauragarh. She successfully repulsed an attack by Baz
Bahadur, and in 1562 Akbar sent his general Majid Asaf Khan, to conquer her kingdom. Refusing to
surrender she initially repelled the attack, however pending imminent defeat to the Mughal Army,
she stabbed herself to death in 1564. The University of Jabalpur has been renamed in her honour in
1983.
10) Born into a Parsi family in 1861, her father, a merchant by profession was an influential figure.
When Bombay presidency was hit by plague, she volunteered to provide assistance, and contracted
it herself, and in 1901, she left to London for medical treatment. In 1905, she along with Dadabhai
Nauroji and Singh Revabai Rana founded the Indian Home Rule league. In 1907 she attended the
International Socialist Conference in Stuttgart, and unfurled what she called "The flag of Indian
independence". She was an outspoken activist for women's equality, and though initially given
asylum by France, she later was arrested for sedition during WW1. Name her.
DUSSEHRA SPECIAL-BRAVE WOMEN OF INDIA
1. CHAND BIBI
2. KITTUR RANI CHENAMMA
3. RUDRAMA DEVI
4. VANARA SENA
5. RANI HADI
6. SIR HUGH ROSE
7. BEGUM HAZRAT MAHAL
8. AHILYABAI HOLKAR
9. RANI DURGAWATI
10.MADAME BHIKAJI CAMA
Om Namah Shivaya
With Mahashivaratri coming up this quiz is dedicated to Lord Shiva- the legends, myths, symbolism
associated with him. This is also the first time I am doing a full-fledged quiz on Indian mythology and
symbolism.
1) In the Nataraja form, Shiva is often seen trampling a dwarf named Apasmara. He is believed to
symbolize ignorance, and the act is believed to represent the victory over ignorance, as also the
passing of spirit from the divine to the material. Apasmara is also believed to symbolize a certain
neurological disorder, described in the Ayurveda. Which one?
2) This form of dance is performed by Parvati, and is in response to the male, cosmic energy of
Shiva's tandava, and its literal meaning is beauty, happiness and grace. It is often regarded as the
feminine version of the Tandava, and the name is often used in tandem to denote a musical term
too. Identify.
3) As per legend, in the battle between the demon Tarakasura and Karthikeya, the latter could not
subdue him initially. Whenever he killed him with his weapon, the pieces of his body would reunite
again miraculously. It was then Lord Vishnu suggested that Tarakasura's power lay in the Shiva linga
he was worshiping, and asked him to break that first. But on one condition, that the pieces of
the broken Linga must be fixed in their respective places, so that they could not re-join. Karthikeya
did so, and Surya fixed the parts of these Lingas, by building temples over them. These 5 places now
located in Andhra Pradesh, are called as _____________ Kshetras, and the Lingas there were
believed to have been installed by Indra, Surya, Chandra, Vishnu and Kumaraswamy himself.
Identify.
4) This place gets its name from the legend that a spider, snake and elephant all worshiped Lord
Shiva here, and on their death, they were granted Moksha. The spider was born as a king in that
area, and it's believed he built the temple. The 100 pillar mandap at this temple was built by Sri
Krishnadeva Raya in 1526. It is one of the Panchabhoota kshetras, where Lord Shiva is worshipped in
form of 5 elements, and here it Shiva in form of Vayu (Air). The temple is also famous for its Rahu
Ketu Puja. Which one?
5) "Then the mighty ___________, having heard the pleasure of his lord, bowed down his head to
the feet of Shiva ; and starting like a lion loosed from bonds, despoiled the sacrifice of Daksha,
knowing that this had been created by the displeasure of Devi . She too in her wrath, as the fearful
goddess ___________, accompanied him, with all her train, to witness his deeds." Identify.
6) This mantra was believed to have been composed by Rishi Markandeya first and he was the only
one who knew it. When the Moon God, Chandra, was cursed by Daksha, he was taught this mantra
to overcome the curse. Also known as the Rudra mantra, it is chanted in praise of Lord Shiva, for
warding off untimely death, and when smearing Vibhuti all over the body. It has begun to be
identified with healing and rejuvenation. Identify.
7) This temple is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas, and is located at the source of the Godavari river. The
current temple was built by Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao, aka Nanasaheb, and the Linga has three faces,
embodying Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara. It is covered by a crown consisting of precious stones,
and believed to date from the Pandava era. Identify.
8) This devotional hymn was composed by Adi Shankara while he was staying at Srisailam. It begins
with an ode to Mallikarjuna and Brahmaramba, the reigning deities, and consists of 100 stanzas of
Sanskrit poetry. The literal meaning of the hymn is Wave of Auspicious Bliss. What?
9) Panchaharas- 5 modes of conduct, Ashtavarna- 8 fold armour that protects the devotee from
distraction and worldly attachments, Shasthala- 6 levels of achievement a devotee can achieve. All of
them are features of which Shaivite tradition.
10) Sadyojata- Facing West, represents Earth.

Vamadeva-Facing North, represents Water.
Aghora-Facing South, represents Fire.
Tatpurusha- Facing East, represents Air.
Isana- Facing Internall, represents Space.
What am I referring to here?
OM NAMAH SIVAYA
1. EPILEPSY
2. LAASYA the feminine counterpart to the TANDAVA.
3. PANCHARAMA KSHETRAS located at Amravati (Amararama),
Draksharamam (Bhimarama), Palakollu (Ksheerarama), Samalkot
(Kumararama) and Bhimavaram (Somarama).
4. SRI KALAHASTI from the spider SRI, snake KALA and elephant HASTI.
5. VEERABHADRA and BHADRAKALI
6. MRITYUNJAYA MANTRA
7. TRIAMBAKESHWAR near NASHIK
8. SIVANANDA LAHIRI.
9. LINGAYATISM or VEERA SAIVISM, founded by Basava.
10.PANCHAMUKHA SHIVA or PANCHANANA SHIVA.( Shiva with 5 faces).
QUIZZING IS FUN-INDIA
Well this was a slightly different type of quiz, where the clues are not direct, but somewhat indirect
or coded. The questions are slightly cryptic in nature.
1) The teams that win the "Great Leader" trophy and the "Jam Sahib of Nawanagar Trophy",
compete for this trophy that is named after this player considered as one of the fastest bowlers in
pre partition India. The Colonel claimed in his memoirs that he was faster than the Bodyline terror.
After partition he migrated to Lahore, and one of the few players to represent both the nations.
Name him.
2) The son of a musician, who grows up believing that Ramtanu Pandey the great court musician,
and one of the 9 Gems, was responsible for his father's death. And so he challenges him to a musical
duel. The heroine of this movie made her debut in the director's first movie Leatherface as a child
artiste under a screen name, which etymologically is derived from Fish. Just give me the name of the
movie.
3) Born close to a town famous for its Alphonso mangoes, he later on became a journalist, and was a
strong critic of the Western education system. He taught Mathematics at this college named after
the then British Governor of Bombay, of which he was one of the founders too. Edited a Marathi
newspaper whose name is synonymous with Lion. During his court trial, the lawyer who represented
him, would be known as the Great Leader of another nation. Name him.
4) Writing the Autobiography of An Unknown India, Nirad C Chaudhuri, dedicated it to "To the
memory of the British Empire in India, Which conferred subjecthood upon us, But withheld
citizenship. To which yet every one of us threw out the challenge: "CivisBritannicus sum"". In reality a
tongue in cheek reference to the British, which was taken in a negative manner. In a later
interview, Nirad Babu claimed that the "Civis Brittanicus" reference was taken from what this
famous Roman philosopher had said about the conduct of Verres, an oppressive Roman governor of
Sicily, whose rule prompted them to cry out "Civis romanus sum". Which philosopher was this?
5) Born in a town, located in the Rohillkand region of Uttar Pradesh, from where he takes his
surname too, he served as a supply officer in Delhi, taking part in mushairas. Made his debut in the
Hindi movie industry under Naushad for Dard, with whom he had a great combination. Won the
Filmfare Award thrice for
a ) A Muslim social that marked a comeback for the producer, whose previous movie about the
movie industry was a huge flop.
b) A family Social, whose name also indicates a school of music.
c) And a mystery movie, produced by a music director, loosely based on The Hound of Baskerville.
6) This form of OM symbol belongs to which organization that was founded by Balakrishna Menon in
1953. The director of this organization, Kshama Metre, was recently awarded the Padma Shree for
her social work.
7) The teacher of the nation, he was one of the first Indians to clear the Indian Civil services exam. In
1882, he founded and taught at this college, named after the then Viceroy of India, which was
subsequently renamed after him. Founded the Indian National Association, in protest against the
British rule. One of the moderates in the Congress, he later on published an important book A Nation
in the Making.
8) Born in the temple town of Kumbakonam, along with Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi
he was one of the 3 Indians among the "20 most influential Asian people of the 20th century", listed
by Time in 1999. Currently leading a mission to bridge the digital divide, but most famous as the
Father of the ___________ ,____________ in India. Name him and his famous achievement.
9) The House of the Thakurs, located at the place that gets its name from the wooden or bamboo
bridges placed across a stream. The locality is quite famous for its litho printing industry too. Just tell
me whose house was this?
10) The maidan here was built over a tank, where cattle owners would bathe their cows. The name
of the tank was also used for the Maidan. The nearest suburban station is named after a Governor of
Bombay between 1835 and 1839. Keeping in mind the great Indian tradition of renaming everything
and anything, it was renamed so, keeping in mind a historical event that occurred here. What took
place?
QUIZZING IS FUN-INDIA
1) The trophy was named after MD.NISSAR, as can be seen from the hints, the teams
winning the Quaid E Azam( Great Leader) and Ranji( Jam Sahib of Nawanagar)
trophy, compete for this. The Bodyline terror of course was Harold Larwood.
2) The movie was BAIJU BAWRA. The heroine of course was MEENA KUMARI. Ramtanu
Pandey is the real name of Tansen.
3) BAL GANGADHAR TILAK. The town famous for Alphonso Mangoes is Ratnagiri, where
he was born, and he was defended in court by M.A.Jinnah. He edited Kesari, and
taught at Ferguson College.
4) The philosopher was CICERO.
5) The lyricist was SHAKEEL BADAUNI, named after the town of Badaun. The 3 movies
referred to were Chaudvin Ka Chand, Gharana and Bees Saal Baad.
6) CHINMAYA MISSION
7) This is S.N.BANERJEE. He taught at Ripon College, Kolkata named after Lord Ripon,
now it has been renamed to Surendranath College.
8) M.S.SWAMINATHAN, GREEN REVOLUTION
9) RABINDRANATH TAGORE, JORASHANKO THAKURBARI.
10) QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT, at GOWALIA TANK MAIDAN, now renamed as AUGUST
KRANTI MAIDAN.
WORLD OF BOOKS
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one
tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be
miserable if I have not an excellent library.-Jane Austen
Bibliomania
The quiz dedicated to the wonderful world of books. Just about covers all genres, authors from
classic to novels, from bestsellers to serious stuff. And not just authors, even popular expressions
too.
1. In the Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemmingway placed this novel in historical context saying All
Modern American literature comes from one book called_______, but its the best book we had. All
American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since
. Which novel was he referring to?
2. Along with Truman Capote, he is considered a pioneer of Creative nonfiction genre. Born to a
Jewish family, he was bought up in Brooklyn, New York and studied Aeronautical Engg in Harvard in
1939.During WW2, he served in South Pacific. Based on his personal experiences during the War he
wrote a novel, which was hailed as one of the greatest American novels. He was awarded the
Pulitzer for his nonfiction work on anti-Vietnam war protests called Armies of the Night. He has also
written biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso and Lee Harvey Oswald. Name this author.
3. Derived from a German word meaning novel of education, it refers to a novel which traces the
spiritual, moral and psychological growth of a character from childhood to maturity. David
Copperfield, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter series are examples of this sort of novel. What genre
is this called?
4. Considered one of the greatest novels of all times, it deals with Philip Carey who suffers from a
clubfoot. It traces the heros journeys through London, Germany and Paris, and his destructive
relationship with a Cockney waitress Mildred. Which novel?
5. He lives at No 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, and London. He is a member of the Reform
Club. His main past time is reading newspapers and playing a game of whist. He fires his servant
James Forster, as he has bought the shaving water, four degrees below normal. Name this eccentric
fictional character.
6. Complete the quote: Some say that Signor Bonicini, Compared to Handels a mere ninny; Other
saver to him that Handel, is scarcely fit to hold a candle, Strange! That such high dispute should
beTwixt _____________
7. Apart from his famous novels, this author was also one of the early writers of travel books. Based
on his travels in France, he wrote Travels with a Donkey in Cevennes in 1879, and this was one of the
first books to promote hiking and camping.
8. This 1992 Merchant Ivory production starring Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson was
based on this E.M.Forster novel dealing with life in England at the beginning of the 20th century. It
deals with 3 families Wilcoxes- rich aristocrats, the middle class Schlegel sisters and the working
class of the Basts.
9. This novel gets its name from the following line in Julius Caesar: Cry havoc and let
slip____________. It is about the story of a group of mercenary soldiers who are hired by a British
industrialist to overthrow the government of a fictional African country called Zangaro.
10. He used to stay in a trailer with his wife Tabitha. He wrote short stories to make ends meet. One
of his first ideas was a girl with psychic powers, however he grew discouraged and threw the novel
into a trash can. His wife encouraged him to write it, and he later sent it to Doubleday. This novel
would prove to be a cult favourite and later become a bestseller and also a successful movie. Name
the author and the book.
BIBLIOMANIA
1. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

2. NORMAN MAILEY
3. BILDUNGSROMAN
4. OF HUMAN BONDAGE
5. PHILEAS FOGG
6. TWEDLEDUM AND TWEDLEDEE
7. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
8. HOWARD'S END
9. THE DOGS OF WAR
10.STEPHEN KING, CARRIE
Cold War Novels
This quiz is about novels from the good old days of Cold War.
1. This Forsyth novel deals with a KGB plot masterminded by Kim Philby to detonate a nuclear device
in London. Code named as Plan Aurora ,it is ultimately foiled by the British secret service. Also
made into a movie starring Michael Caine and Pierce Bond Brosnan.
2.Complete the series( 2 points): ., House Under Water,.., Billion Dollar Brain. One of the best
Cold War series of novels.
3.This 1978 spy thriller by Craig Thomas is about a Vietnam vet Maj Mitchell Grant who has to
infiltrate into the Soviet Union to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter plane known as . From
the fictional air base of Bilyarsk. Also made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood.
4. Percy Alleline, the current head of the Circus
Bill Haydon, chief of the London Branch
Roy Bland, Bill Haydons second in command
George Smiley the lead character.
What is the Circus referred to here, it gets its name from its location at Cambridge Circus in London?
And the codenames of the above characters make up the name of this Cold War novel?
5. The US Navy is eager to develop a nuclear defence system using a very rare mineral called
Byzanium. The only known source of this lies in X. Identify X to get the name of this novel by Clive
Cussler which is quite a popular thriller bestseller. The movie however was a major turkey at the
B.O.
6.This Jack Higgins novel gets its name from a French anti-ship missile which gets its name from the
French word for Flying Fish. These missiles were used for the first time extensively in the Falklands
war.
7. One of Alistair Macleans lesser known novels, it deals with a British agent Michael Reynolds
attempts to help a Hungarian scientist defect from Budapest. Its notable for its climax on the snow
swept roof of a train. Which novel?
8. John Tanner, Richard Tremayne and Maxwell Danforth meet for the weekend at Tanners country
home. Lawrence Fasset a CIA agent suspects the others in the party are KGB agents. Which novel am
I speaking about?
9. Leon Uris generally known for his historical themes covering Israel (Exodus), the Warsaw Ghetto
(Mila 18), came up with this novel, dealing with the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis. Name it.
10.Another well-known Cold War novel tells the story of Alec Lemas a British spy who defects to East
Germany, but who is in reality being manipulated by George Smiley to infiltrate the East German
secret service. Also made into a 1965 movie starring Richard Burton.
COLD WAR NOVELS
1. THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
2. THE IPCRESS FILE, FUNERAL IN BERLIN
3. FIREFOX
4. CIRCUS HERE IS MI6, AND NOVEL IS TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
5. RAISE THE TITANIC
6. EXOCET
7. THE LAST FRONTIER
8. THE OSTERMANN WEEKEND
9. TOPAZ
10.THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
On the Edge
Do you love the cloak and dagger stuff? Of secret agents, shady men, femme fatales? Of a world
where nothing is what it seems? Do you get a high reading a good old thriller novel, irrespective of
whether it is a bestseller or a layered mystery? If you love your Ludlums, McLeans, John Le Carres,
this is the quiz for you.
1. Eric Amblers 1962 novel The Light of The Day was made into this popular 1964 heist movie
starring Peter Ustinov and Maxmillian Schell. The plot deals with a small time crook Abdel Simpson
getting involved with a pair of jewel thieves in Turkey. Name the movie.
2. This 1997 movie starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackmann is based on a novel by David
Baldacci. It deals with the story of a small time crook Luther Whitney who is an eye witness to a
crime committed by US President, and the subsequent cover up operations. Name the movie.
3. This novel was written by the author when he was in bed suffering from illness. It was his first
thriller and introduced the character of Richard Hannay. dealing with conspiracy theory set in WW1
was a great hit with the soldiers then.
4. Born in Baltimore, he was son of a police detective. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutnant
in US Marine Corps. After being seriously injured in a helicopter accident, he left the Navy and
worked for Merill Lynch as a stockbroker. He married Caroline Muller, a medico student and did his
PhD in History from Georgetown University and later worked as a history teacher at US Naval
Academy. He is credited with inventing the Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak.
Name this character.
5. Justin Quayle finds his wife Tessa murdered in Nairobi. Investigation reveals a conspiracy involving
pharmacy companies and a corporate scandal. Also made into a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, name
the book.
6. Pride and Extreme Prejudice, The Price of the Bride, A Casualty of War and A Little Bit of
Sunshine are the 4 novellas in this 1991 book. These 4 stories are actually narrated by a former SIS
agent Sam Mc Ready during his trial. Name the book.
7. Typical John Grisham novel about a young law graduate Rudy Baylor, he joins as an associate to
Lyman Bruiser Stone a successful ambulance chasing lawyer. In his quest for picking up accident
victims, he meets Deck Shifflet an unethical ex insurance surveyor.
8. A Da Vinci Code sort of novel by Robert Ludlum, it centres on the Order of Xenope, a remote
Greek Monastic brotherhood, which has some ancient manuscripts related to the death of Jesus
Christ. And also a tale involving two brothers fighting over the document.
9. The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum is the story of an author, who uncovers a plot by
Invar to assassinate a real life figure who was quite controversial during his time. Which personality?
10. "But -" I paused. "Good God, Gregori, no sane man, not even the most monstrous criminal in
history, would ever dream of such, of such - In the name of heaven, man, you can't mean it!"
"It may be that I am not sane," he said. The above quote is taken from a very popular Alistair McLean
novel.
ON THE EDGE
1. TOPKAPI
2. ABSOLUTE POWER
3. THE 39 STEPS
4. JACK RYAN
5. THE CONSTANT GARDNER
6. THE SHEPHERD BY FREDERICK FORSYTH
7. THE RUNAWAY JURY
8. THE GEMINI CONTENDERS
9. J.EDGAR HOOVER
10.THE SATAN BUG
THE WORLD AROUND US.
Our own beautiful world, its history, its culture, its
geography.
Achtung, Achtung
The 2006 World Cup kicks off in another 24 hrs in Germany, and this Quiz is dedicated to all things
German. A general Quiz on Germany itself, its people, it cities, its history. But considering that
Germany is a treasure trove of information, 10 Q's is just a drop in the ocean. So all the best.
Achtung.
1. The first city which you would find in any encyclopedia or dictionary, it was the site of
Charlemagnes coronation, and also contains his tomb. Its cathedral contains Charlemagnes tomb
and during WW2, it became the first city to surrender to Allied Forces.
2. Felix Alfarth, Andreas Bauriedl, Theodor Casella,Martin Faust,Oskar Komer were some of the
people who were considered as martyrs after their death in this highly notorious incident. Which
one?
3. This region was originally located in Czechoslovakia, but had a large population of Germans
residing in it. Covering the provinces of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, after Hitler had annexed
Austria, he claimed the mistreatment of Germany minority by Czechs as a pretext for annexing it.
And after the infamous 1938 pact with Chamberlain, the Nazis took over this region.
4. This city in Germany broke away from Catholicism and became one of the early adherents to
Protestantism following Martin Luthers call in 1542 A.D. In 1631 it was totally destroyed in the 30
years war. It however gained a lot of fame in 1654 A.D when Otto Von Guericke conducted his
famous experiment of separating two hemispheres.
5. Frederich Kekule witnessed a snake seizing its own tail in a dream, which was primarily an ancient
symbol called Ourobros. He claimed that his helped him discover the shape of the molecule of an
organic chemical compound. Which one?
6. The Soviets called it as Friedrichstrase during Cold War, by what name do most of us know it
better.
7. Its motto was Shield and Sword of the Party. It had its HQ in East Berlin with a sprawling
complex at Lichtenberg. It made news in 2004, when its former HQ was sold for an amount of 1 Euro
or 1.2$. Name this notorious organization.
8. Born in Berlin she was named after Mary Magdalene. Her first role was in the Blue Angel directed
by Josef Von Stenberg in 1930. Her only Oscar nomination was for Morocco, but she made her mark
in many Hollywood movies like Witness for Prosecution and A Touch of Evil. During WW2, she raised
war bonds and entertained troops on the front lines. Hitler considered her the epitome of Aryan
grace and even offered her the citizenship of Germany which she promptly refused.
9. Complete series Adolf Dassler: Adidas:: RudolfDassler: ----
10. Born in Hanover, he dropped out of school, but joined the army to learn engineering. He
invented a telegraph that used a needle to point to the letter, instead of Morse code. Based on this
invention he started his own company in 1847. Also regarded as the father of electrical engineering
in Germany. He received patents for moving coil transducer, electric meter and trolley bus. He has
an electrical unit named after him.
ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG
1. AACHEN
2. MUNICH BEER HALL PUTSCH
3. SUDENTENLAND
4. MAGDEBURG
5. BENZENE
6. CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
7. STASI
8. MARLENE DIETRICH
9. PUMA
10.GEORGE OHM
Cold War Quiz
It was 20 years back, when yours truly as a 20 year old, watched the Berlin Wall coming down, the
Communist regimes in Eastern Europe toppling like dominoes and the great Soviet empire falling to
pieces. This quiz is on the Cold War, which raged between the US and the USSR for close to 4
decades, and the persona involved in it.
1) The Soviets called it as Friedrichstrae, the Germans called it as Grenzbergangsstelle, by what

name do we more popularly know it as.
2) Born as Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, out of wedlock, he grew up with his grandparents. He escaped
in 1933 to Norway, to avoid Nazi persecution, due to his left wing activities. He later adopted the
pseudonym used by him to avoid detection from Nazis, as his legal name. After the War was over,
He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1948. The Berlin Wall was constructed during
his reign as Mayor of Berlin from 1957 to 1966, and he was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union's
action in Hungary. Elected Chancellor of Germany, he was Time's Man of the Year in 197 0, and
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 197 1 for his Ostopolitik policy, which aimed at improving
relations with East Germany, Poland and Soviet Union.
3) He was sworn in as General by FDR on the very day Germany invaded Poland, triggering off WW2.
He is credited for modernizing the US army, and recruiting some of the best military officers in the
Army. Coordinating Allied operations in Europe and Pacific, he was one of the brains behind
Operation Overlord. Serving as Secretary of State under Harry Truman, he came up with a European
Recovery Program, to rebuild the economies devastated by the War, which was objected to by the
Soviet Union, which refused to allow its satellite nations to take part in it. The program was
named after him, and he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, for this work. Name him.
4) The Warsaw Treaty was established on May 1955 by 8 Communist nations, as an alternative to
NATO, during the Cold War. Which nation withheld support in 1961, in support of China after the
Sino-Soviet split, and in 1968 became the first to formally withdraw from the treaty?
5) Real name Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin, he adopted his more famous surname from a
Russian word meaning "Hammer". A member of the Bolsheviks, he was one of Stalin's close
confidants and also one of the few Older Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purges. He took active part
in Stalin's collectivation drive against the Kulaks, and was one of the signatories of the German-
Soviet Non-Aggression pact during WW2, which bore his name. He was removed by Khrushchev in
1957 as part of the De-Stalinization process. His surname has also given rise to a notorious weapon,
which was used for the first time in the Finnish war, and named in his honour. Name him, and also
the weapon.
6) In 1987, while speaking at the Brandenburg gate, on the 750th anniversary of Berlin, which world
leader challenged Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and he later took a few symbolic swings in
1990 after the Wall was demolished. Who?
7) The German name for this sea port city in Poland is Danzig, and it had a large population of
German speakers. The Nazis capitalized on the pro German sentiment and in 1939, invaded this port
city, which started off WW2. The Jews here were later deported to the Stutthof concentration camp
near the city, and killed. On Aug 31, 1980, the shipyard here saw the founding of Solidarity headed
by Lech Walesa, which would later spearhead the anti-communist movement. Name the city.
8) This word gets its name from a Russian term meaning "Self Published". It was coined by Russian
poet Nikolai Glazkov, to indicate the publishing of underground literature, by dissidents protesting
against the Soviet system. Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was one
of the first novels that were circulated through this media. It was defined by Bukovsky as follows I
myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it,distribute it, and get imprisoned for it".
9) Which Communist leader was captured at Targoviste while trying to flee, and shot dead by the
armed forces on Dec 25, 1989 in a mock trial?
10) Stasi: East Germany:: Securitate:: __________?

COLD WAR QUIZ
1. CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
2. WILY BRANDT
3. GEN GEORGE.C.MARSHALL, OF THE MARSHALL PLAN FAME
4. ALBANIA
5. MOLOTOV and the MOLOTOV COCKTAIL.
6. RONALD REAGAN
7. GDANSK
8. SAMIZDAT
9. NICOLAE CAESESCU
10.ROMANIA
Rakshabandhan special quiz
Rakshabandhan or Rakhi as you call it, the festival that celebrates brother-sister bonding. Where the
sister ties the Rakhi to the brother, in the hope that he protects her, and showers his blessings on
her. On the occasion of Rakshabandhan, a special Quiz on some well-known brother-sisters in
history and myth.
1. Krishna Hutheesingh was a freedom fighter herself married in to a prominent Ahmedabad Jain
family. Her husband later opposed her more famous brother, and was one of the founders of the
Swaraj Party along with Rajaji in 1959. She was a writer herself, and documented the life of her
brother as well as her niece in a series of books. Name her more famous brother and other sister.
2. Nalini Singh is well known as an anchor on several Doordarshan programs, also known for her
program Aankhon Dekhi. In 2003 she launched the Indo-Nepal channel Nepal One, and also holds
the post of Managing Editor, IBN7. Her brother is an equally distinguished journalist, thinker, and
writer and has also served as Cabinet Minister at the Central level. Who is he?
3. Some credit the origin of this festival observed after Diwali, to Yama visiting his sister Yami, reason
why it is also called as Yama Dwitiya. And some versions state that it is observed to Krishna visiting
his sister Subhadra, after slaying the demon Narakasur, and she welcomed him with sweets and
flowers. Generally observed after Diwali, and similar to Raksha Bandhan, it is called as Ningbol
Chabuka in Manipur. Just give me any of the popular names of this festival.\
4. Just identify this brother -sister duo, a famous pop group of the 80's.
5. A was named after a famous yesteryear's actress, made her debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The
Trouble With Harry, and is known for her beliefs in reincarnation, spirituality. Her brother B,
produced and acted in a 1967 movie, that is regarded as one of the harbingers of the new wave of
film making in Hollywood, and won an Oscar in 1981 for a movie based on the life of a journalist
covering the Russian Revolution. A had won an Oscar in 1983 for a comedy drama about a mother
and daughter, making them one of the few siblings to have won an Oscar. Identify A and B.
6. A is the son of a well-known director and screen writer, and shot to fame with a 2001 sci fi movie,
that has achieved cult status in recent times. The sci fi movie also starred his real life sister B, who
also played his elder sister in that movie. In 2005, he was also nominated for his role in a Western
about two gays. His sister shot into fame later with a 2002 black comedy Secretary, and was
nominated for a Best Supporting Actress in a 2009 drama about a country singer that won its lead
the Best Actor. Identify this brother-sister pair.
7. The original draft of this book was about 4 children whose names were Ann, Martin, Rose and
Peter, and it focused on the youngest Peter. The revised version however had Peter as the eldest of
the siblings, the others being Susan, Lucy and Edmund. Their family name is from a medieval castle
on the Southeast coast of England. The book was the first in a series, that to date remains a popular
children's series. Just name the series of books.
8. A and B are brothers whose more famous uncle happens to be Pandit Jasraj. A and B also formed
a successful music duo in Bollywood primarily during the 90's. A's elder sister C, was a well-known
actress during the 70's, and 80's, and also made her mark as a singer in that period. Their other sister
D, made her debut in an 80's romantic drama, that was primarily the Launchpad for a star son, and
she later went on to be a successful actress in her own right. Identify A, B, C, D.
9. Ross Emerson is best known in cricketing circles, as being the umpire who repeatedly called
Muthaiah Muralitharan for throwing, which made Arjuna Ranatunga walk off the field in protest. His
wife Denise Emerson also played Test cricket for Australia. Who was Denise's more famous brother,
who represented Australia in Test, and played a vital role in their 1989 Ashes victor, taking around
40 wickets?
10. Brother David ____________, appeared in a whole lot of 90's movies like Never Been Kissed,
Airheads, though his most famous appearances have been as Dy. Dewey Riley in the Scream series.
Sister Rosanna __________ co-starred with Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan, and later
starred in Silverado. Their more famous sister was noted for her role in a 1993 crime comedy cum
romantic drama, and later starred in movies like Ed Wood and Lost Highway.
Who?
RAKSHABANDHAN SPECIAL QUIZ.
1. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AND VIJAYALAKSHMI PANDIT

2. ARUN SHOURIE
3. BHAI DOOJ/ BHAI POTA IS WHAT THE FESTIVAL IS CALLED.
4. NAZIA AND ZOHEB HASSAN, THE FAMOUS POP DUO OF DISCO
DEEWANE FAME
5. A--SHIRLEY TEMPLE AND HER BROTHER B WAS WARREN BEATTY
6. JAKE AND MAGGIE GYLENNHAL
7. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
8. A-JATIN PANDIT, B-LALIT PANDIT, C-SULAKSHANA PANDIT D-VIJETA
PANDIT
9. TERRY ALDERMAN
10.PATRICIA ARQUETTE
IT PIONEERS
IT quiz, about those pioneers who created most of the early ground work and who made some of
the most path breaking discoveries.
1. Born on March 9, 1900 he obtained his PhD in Physics from Harvard in 1939. He invented an
electro mechanical computing device to solve differential equations. It was originally called as
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) and later renamed as Harvard Mark 1. He later
improvised on the Harvard Mark series of computers. In 1947 he remarked Only 6 electronic digital
computers would be needed to satisfy the computing needs of entire US.
2. Born Janos Lajos Margittai in Budapest to a Jewish family, he was nicknamed as Jancsi. After
doing his PhD in Maths from Budapest at the age of 23, in 1930 was invited to Princeton where he
worked as a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study till his death. One of the initiators of
Game Theory he along with Oskar Morgenstern published Theory of Games and Economic
Behaviour. Along with Hans Bethe and Victor Weisskopf he was in the Theory division of the
Manhattan project. The architecture used in non-parallel processing computers is named after him
and he also founded the field of cellular automata.
3. Born in England he was a pilot in the RAF during WW2. In 1948 he started his career with IBM as a
mathematical programmer. He later left for Canada as a protest against the Mc McCarthy witch
hunts and on his return to US in the 60s he began work at IBMs research center in San Jose. During
this period he worked on the paper A Relational model of Data for large shared data banks
published in 1970. He also coined the term OLAP and wrote the 12 laws of online analytical
processing.
4. Born in Buffalo, US to German parents he did his PhD from Columbia in 1890. He developed
Jacquards punched card idea to represent census data and then to read and collate data using
automatic machine. In 1889 he filed Patent 395,782 for this invention. In 1896 he started Tabulating
Machine Company and invented first automatic card feed mechanism which laid the foundation for
the modern IT industry. In 1924 his firm became part of IBM.
5. Along with Denis Ritchie he co-authored the book on C. He worked on the design of AWK and
AMPL languages. In fact the K in AWK stands for his name. He also did pioneering research work on
UNIX environment.
6. He invented the Ethernet in 1973 when he was working with Xerox PARC. In 1979 he founded 3
Com, a computer networking firm. After he quit 3Com he worked as a columnist for Info World.
Name this Harvard alumnus who gave his name to a law which says The utility of a network equals
approximately the square of number of users of the system.
7. He was inspired by his father and Tom Swift. At the age of 11 he built his own HAM radio set.
While working at HP he met Steve Jobs and in 1975 he dropped out from UCAL, Berkeley and made
his own computer. Along with Jobs he created the Apple 1 in 1975 and on April 1, 1976 he founded
Apple along with Steve Jobs. He made it to Fortune 500 at a very young age of 27.
8. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana he did his Masters from UCAL, Berkeley. In 1969 he was one of the
principal creators of UNIX along with Ritchie. He also wrote the UNIX Ed editor and the MULTICS
programming language.
IT PIONEERS
1. HOWARD AIKEN
2. JOHN VON NEUMANN
3. E.F.CODD
4. HERMAN HOLLERITH
5. BRIAN KERNIGHAN
6. VINTON CERF
7. STEVE WOZNIAK
8. KEN THOMSON
QUIZZING IS FUN-TEACHERS DAY QUIZ
On Teachers Day, a quiz on famous teachers and educators, questions here in a slightly cryptic
format.
1) What connects the following images?

2) His surname comes from the region his ancestors hailed from, and he was born in the city of the
Triveni Sangam. He wrote poems under a pen name, which is a synonym in Hindi for nectar. One of
the first Indians to introduce scouting in India, he also started a native scouts organization called
Seva Samithi. He was the one who popularized the Satyameva Jayate slogan, and also the Arati in
Haridwar to the Ganga. His biggest achievement however was in starting this educational institution
along with Annie Beasant in 1915. Name him and the institution he founded.
3) The only college in India, which boasts of two Prime Ministers among its alumni, it was started in
1885 by Tilak, Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar and others. Inaugurated by the grandson of the poet who
wrote Daffodils, and a principal of another equally famous college, it celebrated its Golden Jubilee
year in 1935. Union is Strength is the College's Motto, named after an erstwhile British Governor of
Bombay Presidency, who died in an earthquake in Jamaica.
4) After the Maratha war, he was the British resident at the Orange City. Appointed as the 1st British
envoy to Afghanistan, he wrote a book on the place, and later on was the Commissioner of the
Deccan. His biggest achievement was a Code named after him, and played a major role in
introducing a state supported system of education. And the first bungalow in Malabar Hills was built
during his tenure as Governor of Bombay. Name him and his biggest claim to fame.
5) Just name the lady in the picture.
6) Born in a small town, in the Thuringia province of Germany, he hailed from a family of pastors.
Starting his career as an educator in Frankfurt, he later became a live in teacher, for the 3 sons of a
noble family. He also took part in the military campaigns against Napoleon in 1813 and 1814 A.D. He
wrote a series of papers titled To Our German people, The Education of Man, Educating Families. In
1837 he coined a word X meaning Children's Garden for an institute he founded at Bad Blankenburg
for children. Name him and what does X stand for.
7) Just name the two women in the picture.
8) Prabodh Chandra Bagachi, Satyendranath Bose, Sudhi Ranjan Das, Amlan Dutta, Rajat Kanta Ray-
Again not an exhaustive list, but what is the connect.
9) It was started by Satish Ranjan Das, in 1935, and the 4 houses are named after Hyderabad,
Kashmir, Tata and Jaipur. Formally opened by the then Viceroy, Lord Willingdon. Jana Gana Mana
was chosen as the School Song. Knowledge is our Light is the motto. Name the school.
10) Where in India would you find Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Little John and Alan E Dale?
QUIZZING IS FUN-TEACHERS DAY QUIZ
1) Connect was Ivy League. All these men founded some of the Ivy League Universities
- Elihu Yale( Yale University), John Harvard( Harvard), Nicholas Brown Jr( Brown
University),Ezra Cornell( Cornell University).
2) The person was Madan Mohan Malaviya. The surname comes from the fact that he
hailed from Malwa, he wrote under the pseudonym of Makrand, and of course the
founder of Benares Hindu University.
3) This is the FERGUSSON COLLEGE in Pune. It was inaugurated by grandson of William
Wordsworth, author of Daffodils.
4) Sir James Elphinstone, after whom the Elphinstone College is so named. He spent
some time in Nagpur( Orange City).
5) MARIA MONTESSORI
6) This is Friedrich Froebel, who founded the Kindergarten system of education.
7) ANNE SULLIVAN AND HELEN KELLER
8) They served as the Vice Chancellor of Shantiniketan University.
9) Doon School in Dehradun.
10) Houses in Sherwood College, Nainital.
MIXED BAG QUIZ
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
Mixed Bag-1
1. The Battle of Mactan was fought on April 27,1751 by Lapu Lapu a local tribal chieftain of the island
of Mactan against Spanish colonizers. The battle was chronicled by Antonio Pigafetta. Who was
killed in this battle?
2. Set in Puritan New England in 17th Century, this novel narrates the story of Hester Prynne, who
gives birth due to an adulterous affair and the consequent fall out. It gets its title from the practice
of having an A on her clothing to identify her as an adulteress during those times.
3. Born in Worcester, he was highly impressed by H.G.Wells The War of the Worlds, and this fuelled
his interest in rocketry. In 1926 he launched the first liquid fuelled rocket at Auburn in Aunt Elfies
farm. Using a music rack as launcher he developed the basic idea of the bazooka. His theories on the
probability of inter space travel using rockets was ridiculed by the media. Ironically, while the US
Army rejected his designs, it was the Nazis through Werner Von Braun who developed the V2
rockets based on his designs and he is often called as one of the fathers of modern rocketry.
4. One of the volcano islands, north of Guam, it gets its name from a local world meaning Sulphur
Island due to the huge sulphur deposits located on it. It was the site of a major battle during WW2,
and ended with the Americans capturing Mt. Suribachi, the islands highest point. Name the island.
5. On March 17, 1970 14 officers of the US Army were suspended for their role in this event during
the Vietnam War. In 1971 Lt. William Calley was convicted for ordering this massacre, and the
photos of this incident in fact were a major catalyst in turning public opinion against the war. Name
the incident.
6. This place gets its name from a Greek Word meaning Holy Echo and is a very sacred city for the
Jews. Believed to be the oldest inhabited settlement in the world. It was the first city to be handed
over to Palestinian Authority in 1994 after the Gaza agreement. After Israel reoccupied it, it was
again handed over to Palestine in 2005. Name the place.
7. On March 16, 2005 Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were found not guilty on all
counts by a Canadian court. What crime were they accused of?
8. Born in Erlangen, Germany, he became Maths professor at Jesuits College, Cologne in 1817. And
later in 1852, professor of experimental physics at University of Munich. His first major publication
was his 1827 pamphlet titled Die galvanische Kettemathematisch bearbeitet and is one of the major
works dealing with electricity.
9. Nicknamed as Beppo, this Nazi officer was called as Todesengel or Angel of Death by
concentration camp inmates. One of his famous quotes was the more we do to you, the less you
believe we are doing it. Famous for his experiments on prisoners, he escaped to Brazil after the
war, and was drowned at a beach in Embu in1979 while swimming.
10. This song is set to the melody of the Bulgarian Sadi Moma and a metal version was written by
Jono Bacon. It belongs to the genre of filk and begins with the lines
Join us now and share the software;
You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. "

MIXED BAG-1
1. FERDINAND MAGELLAN
2. THE SCARLET LETTER
3. ROBERT GODDARD
4. IWO JIMA
5. MY LAI MASSACRE
6. JERICHO
7. AIR INDIA KANISHKA BOMBING
8. GEORG OHM
9. DR.JOSEF MENGELE
10.THEME SONG OF FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT
Mixed Bag-2
1. Growing up in Alaska, he earned reputation as a boxer. In 1918, he was assigned to Signal Corps
Aviation Section as a second lieutenant. As a pilot he made the first cross country flight from Florida
to California in 1922. He distinguished himself in aeronautics from MIT in 1924. During WW2, he
received approval from Gen Arnold to lead an attack from USS Hornet on Japan. The daring mission
he conducted bears his name. On screen he was portrayed by Spencer Tracy and Alec Baldwin.
Name this WW2 hero.
2. Connect Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dymtryk, Ring Lardner Jr, John
Lawson, Albert Matz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott and Dalton Trunbo.
3. During filming of Monte Carlo Baby, writer Colette noticed this actress and said Voila! Theres our
Gigi. The actress however was reluctant to act in the Broadway version as she felt that she was too
inexperienced. When Gigi made its Broadway debut in1951, the actress received top billing.
Elizabeth Taylor was originally considered for this role, however William Wyler the director said
about her She had everything I was looking for: charm, innocence and talent. She also was very
funny. She was absolutely enchanting, and we said, 'That's the girl!' . And she won an Award for her
role in that movie. Name the actress.
4. Born in Louisiana, he had a very erratic school record. He became attracted to Marxist ideology
when he was 15 years old, and at 17 years joined the US Marines in 1956. Due to his small build, he
was nicknamed as Ozzie Rabbit by fellow marines. In 1959 he defected to Soviet Union, after
renouncing his US citizenship. He later came back to US in 1962, and he was in the news for his
assassination attempt on Gen Edwin Walker. He later became a vocal supporter of Fidel Castro.
Name this person who achieved notoriety later in life.
5. Born as Farukh Bulsara in Zanzibar on Sep 5, 1946, his parents were Parsi migrants from India. He
attended the St.Peters Boarding school near Mumbai, where he learnt the piano. In 1964, his family
fled to England, and he had a Diploma in Art and Design. He was also a singer for bands like Ibex and
Sour Milk Sea. In 1970 he formed this band along with Brian May and Roger Taylor, and he also
designed the bands logo. Along with his work for the band, he also produced two solo albums Mr
Bad Guy and Barcelona. Name the singer and the band
6. The ship gets its name from a shirt worn by the fleet footed witch in Robert Burns poem Tam o
Shanter.She was designed by Hercules Linton and launched in1869. It was primarily meant for Tea
Trade with China. After the opening of the Suez Canal, she was used for trading wool with Australia.
Its nowadays preserved as the last clipper ship at the Greenwich Museum. Name the ship.
7. On 27 August, 1979 a boat explosion in Donegal, killed 4 people. Baroness Brabourne, Nicholas
Knatchbull, Paul Maxwell. Thomas Mc Mahon was sentenced to life in prison for this act. Who was
the 4th person killed?
8. John Wallis is credited with introducing this symbol in his 1655 book De Sectionibus conicis. While
one theory is that he was inspired by Roman numeral for 1000, another view states that he derived
it from Greek letter omega. What was the symbol?
9. This 1974 movie was the first of a planned trilogy around a fictional detective J.J.Gittes and
LosAngeles. However the second part The Two Jakes released in 1990 was a critical and commercial
failure. Actor X, who starred in the 1974 movie directed the second part. This scuttled all plans of
making a third instalment called Clover leaf. The detectives name was taken from Xs friend, Harry
Gites. Name X and the movie.
10. In 1905, a paper called "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" was
published in a German Journal Annalen der Physik. This led the author of the paper to derive
something. What was that?
MIXED BAG-2
1. JIMMY DOLITTLE
2. THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST-ARTISTES AND WRITERS BLACKLISTED
DURING THE McCARTHY YEARS FOR HAVING COMMUNIST SYMPATHIES.
3. AUDREY HEPBURN
4. LEE HARVEY OSWALD
5. FREDDY MERCURY, QUEEN
6. CUTTY SARK
7. SYMBOL FOR INFINITY
8. GEORG OHM
9. JACK NICHOLSON, CHINATOWN
10.EINSTEIN'S E=MC2
Mixed Bag-3
1) Titusville is a small town in Pennsylvania, with a population of just over 6000 residents. Mostly
known for lumbering and saw mills, it however created history in 1859, due to Edwin Drake and
William Smith. What happened?
2) It was mentioned for the first time in a World Map by Lucas Janszoon. One theory states that this
island got its name from the sounds made by the white parrots living there. Another theory indicates
that it comes from the Sanskrit word for crab. Another indicates it comes from a Malay word for
white winged ant. It shot into fame in 1883, due to an incident here. Name the island.
3) Born in London, he started one of Britains first car dealerships, when he started to import and sell
French made vehicles. He is a well-known aviator, and one of the founders of the Royal Aero Club,
and the second Britisher to have a license to fly. On June 2, 1910, he became the first man to make a
nonstop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. He died at Bornemouth in an air crash,
making him the first Britisher to die so. Name this person, who is also famous in another way.
4) This fictional character was born on July 4,1776 in Kent. He was tutored in mathematics, French
and well versed in Greek and Latin. Characterized by a self-doubting nature, he remains a loner
throughout. He suffers from sea sickness like Nelson, is a good whist player, tone deaf and finds
music an irritant. His best friend is William Bush, and among other famous sea battles, he also takes
part in Battle of Trafalgar. He first made his appearance in a book called The Happy Return (1937),
which was called as Beat to Quarters in the US. Who is he?
5) This song from the soul genre, has music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. With over 500
versions, it is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century. It was used as a theme song for
the first time in a 1955 prison movie, from which the song gets its name in fact. The vocals were
given by Todd Duncan. Harry Belafonte sang it at the 1956 Academy Awards. In 1990 it shot into the
Billboard, when the Righteous Brothers version of this song was used for the movie Ghost.
6) Whats happening in the picture here?
7) Self portrait of an artist whose real name is Tiziano Vecelli. He was also called as Da Cadore, after
his birthplace of Pievi Da Cadore.
8) Born in Canton, South Dakota, he received his doctorate from Yale, and worked as an asst.
professor there. One of the youngest professors at Berkeley in 1928, he was nicknamed as the
Atom Smasher. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939, for his work on the cyclotron.
He was responsible for introducing Robert Oppenheimer into the Manhattan Project. The Chemical
element 103 was named in his honour. Who?
9) This Rajput clan was originally called as Guhilot and owes its origin to Bappa Rawal. After Allaudin
Khilji, attacked and sacked the fort of Chittor in 1303, also famous for Rani Padminis Jauhar, some of
the Rajputs survived the massacre. One of them was Hamir, who later re occupied Chittor after 23
years of Muslim rule. The dynasty he founded takes its name from his native village. Name this clan.
10) Often called the Father of Modern Chemistry, he was a student of the sciences, and later
graduated from University of Paris in 1763 in Law. He was elected to French Academy of Sciences at
age of 25, for his essay on street lighting. Famous for his discovery of oxygen, his Elementary
Treatise of Chemistry, is considered to be the first modern chemical textbook. He worked as a tax
collector, and is responsible for introducing metric system of weights and measurements. He was
later convicted and beheaded during the French revolution.
MIXED BAG-3
1. FIRST TIME OIL WAS STRUCK HERE

2. KRAKATOA
3. CHARLES ROLLS
4. HORATIO HORNBLOWER
5. UNCHAINED MELODY
6. LYNDON JOHNSON TAKING THE OATH AFTER KENNEDY'S ASSASINATION
ON AIR FORCE ONE
7. TITIAN
8. ERNST LAWRENCE
9. SISODIAS
10.ANTOINE LAVOISIER
Mixed Bag-4
1) If Beijing means Northern Capital, and Tokyo means Eastern Capital, then which capital city's
name means simply "Capital".
2) This Pacific island was discovered in 1568 by Alvaro De Mendana, and his subordinate named it
after his hometown in Spain. This town in Seville, gets it's name from an Arabic word Wadi Al
Khanat, meaning Valley of the Stalls, and it's Spanish version was used. The island was the site of a
fierce battle in WW2, between American and Japanese forces.
3) Connect the 2 images.

4) In Time Magazine's 1999 List of 20 Most Influential Asians of the 20th century, there are only 3
Indians. Two of them are Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Who is the 3rd?
5) This scientist was born in Vaversunda in Sweden and he later graduated in medicine from
Uppasala University. In 1807 he joined as professor of chemistry at Karolinska Institute.He is famous
for law of constant proportions and also the system of chemical notation. He is also the first person
to differentiate between organic and inorganic compounds. Name him.
6) The Sons of the Desert is the name of an group started by John McCabe in 1965. He was an
admirer and a biographer of this famous comic duo. The group now has chapters all over the world,
and each chapter is called as a tent. Each tent is named after one of the duo's famous movies. The
group itself takes its name from one of the duo's most well-known movie. Which comic duo is this?
7) This nobleman and astronomer was born in the Danish town of Scania. While studying law at
University of Copenhagen in 1559, he became interested in astronomy and started to create his own
instruments. He discovered a supernova star in 1572. Johannes Kepler was his assistant, and he used
his data to come up with the now famous laws of planetary motion. This person was also famous for
his artificial nose made of gold, as he had lost part of it in a duel.
8) Identify this famous Urdu poet in the picture. His original pen name was Asad, but he adopted a
later pen name which means all conquering, superior.
9) Identify the famous battle field where this memorial and cemetery is located.
10) In which nation did the "8888 uprising" take place? It is so called, because university students
started it on Aug, 8,1988(8-8-88) demanding more democracy?
MIXED BAG-4
1. SEOUL
2. IWO JIMA
3. THE RAFT IS KON TIKI, THE IMAGE IS THAT OF THE POLYNESIAN SUN
GOD, AFTER WHOM ITS NAMED.
4. M.S.SWAMINATHAN, FATHER OF AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION IN INDIA.
5. J.J.BERZELIUS
6. LAUREL AND HARDY
7. TYCO BRAHE
8. MIRZA GHALIB
9. GETTYSBURG
10.MYANMAR
MIXED BAG-5
1) If your wedding ceremony is Anand Karaj, and the laava phere are the hymns sung during your
marriage to which community, would you belong to?
2) In August 1836, two real estate promoters, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, were
seeking a location where they could found a " great city for commerce". They found the ideal
location near the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou, and named the city after the
man in the picture, whom they admired and idolized, especially after his exploits in the Battle of
Jacinto. Name the person in the pic, and the city.
3) Identify the woman in the picture, and which famous institution was founded by her.
4) Name the ship shown in the painting whose name means Friendship ironically. A famous
Hollywood movie has been made around it.
5) Born in New Zealand to a farmer, he graduated from Canterbury College and did his post-
graduation from Cambridge. While investigating radioactivity he coined the terms Alpha and Beta to
identify the type of radiation. From 1900 to 1903 he conducted research at McGill University in
Montreal along with Frederick Soddy, on the transmutation of elements. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1908, for his discovery of structure of atom. Element No 104 is named in his
honour. Identify.
6)
Connect the 2 images above.
7) This company was started in 1876 by John.M.________ and Isaac _________. In 1881 Moses
________ and his wife Endel begin to start sewing shirts and selling them to local coal miners in
Pennsylvania. It later becomes a successful business in NYC, and the first ever shirt ad is placed in
the Saturday Evening Post. Izod, Arrow, Speedo, Calvin Klein are some of the more famous brands
owned by it. In 2008 it will start to manufacture men's apparel under the name Timberland.
8) This comic character was created by Jean De Brunhoff in 1931, based on a story told by his wife
Cecile, which she made up for her kids. His associates are a monkey called Zephir, his old elephant
counsellors Cornelius and Pompadour and his children Pom, Flora and Alexander. Which one?
9) It is reported that this multi billionaire does not own a cell phone or computer, and drives his own
car. When he purchased a private jet, he jokingly called it "The Indefensible", as he was against any
kind of extravagant living. At the age of 13 he filed his first Income Tax return. Turned down at
Harvard, he joined Columbia and was mentored by Benjamin Graham. He remains an avid bridge
player and in 2006 he auctioned his 2001 model Lincoln Town Car on E-Bay.
10) Identify the organization to which the flag belongs. Its name in Arabic means "Party of God".
MIXED BAG-5
1. SIKH
2. SAM HOUSTON, after whom the city of HOUSTON is named.
3. RUKMINI DEVI ARUNDALE, KALAKSHETRA
4. AMISTAD
5. ERNST RUTHERFORD
6. THE TITLE ALL THE KINGS MEN IS TAKEN FROM A LINE IN HUMPTY
DUMPTY.
7. PHILIPS VAN HEUSEN.
8. BABAR THE ELEPHANT.
9. WARREN BUFFET
10. HEZBOLLAH
MIXED BAG-6
1) If you were convicted under the Lindbergh Law in US, what crime would you be committing?
2) Ed Grier is the current president of this place since 2006. Other former presidents have
been Jack Lundquist, Paul Pressler, Cynthia Hariss and Matt Quimmet. Which place am I
referring to?
3) Identify the man in the picture, his real name is Theodore John Kaczynski.
4) Born in California, he was adopted by a Greek-American couple. He took part for the first
time in the Olympics at Montreal, 1976, and came second in diving. He won golds in both
the springboard and tower diving events in the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles. His most
famous achievement came in the 1988 Seoul Olympics , where he came back with stitches
after a head injury sustained while diving and went on to win the Gold. He also took part in
the 1994 Gay Games, and his autobiography is titled Breaking the Surface.
5) The title of this 20th century novel is a literal translation of Beelzebub. Set on an isolated
island, it revolves around 2 English boys Ralph & Piggy, who are the sole survivors of a plane
crash, and stranded on the island. It is an allegory about the conflict between civilizations
and will to power.
6) Identify the man in the picture, whom Paul McCartney called as The 5th Beatle.
7) One of the greatest Olympians of all time, he won his first Gold at 1956 Games in
Melbourne, in the discus throw. He also won the gold at the 1960 Games in Rome. But his
greatest feat was at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, where in spite of tearing a cartilage in his ribs,
he took part, and won the gold again. He also won in 1968, making him the only other
athlete along with Carl Lewis and Paul Elvstrom, to win gold in the same event for 4
consecutive Olympics. After he retired, he dabbled in abstract painting and was famous for
his Impact series.
8) This British actor was born in Isle of Wight, and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School. He was the romantic lead opposite Judi Dench in the BBC TV version of
Langrishe, Go Down. He shot into fame playing the role of Charles Ryder in the 1981 TV
adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. He made his movie debut in 1980 with Nijinsky. He
gained fame for his role in the Mission and in 1990 won an Oscar for his role in Reversal of
Fortune. He also appeared opposite Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenants Woman. His
other famous roles include Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Man in the Iron Mask, and he
sang the song Be Prepared for movie The Lion King.
9) During the siege of Belgrade in 1456, John Hunyadi successfully defended the city against
the onslaught of the Ottoman Sultan. In order to celebrate a victory, which has been hailed
as deciding the fate of Christendom, Pope Callixtus III, ordered this act, which to date is
followed in most of the Catholic churches around the world. What act?
10) With which historical event would you associate the 1911 Graf & Stift Double Phaeton
car shown in the below picture.
MIXED BAG-6
1) KIDNAPPING
2) DISNEYLAND
3) THE UNABOMBER
4) GREG LOUGANIS
5) LORD OF THE FLIES.
6) BRIAN EPSTEIN, THE MANAGER OF THE BEATLES
7) Al OERTER
8) JEREMY IRONS
9) RINGING OF CHURCH BELLS AT NOON
10) CAR IN WHICH ARCHDUKE FERDINAND WAS ASSASINATED, LEADING TO WWI.
MIXED BAG-7
1) In his 1510 book The Exploits of Esplandian, Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodrguez de
Montalvo, wrote about a mythical island, west of the Indies:
Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called X very close to the side of the
Terrestrial Paradise; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in
the manner of Amazons.
Identify.
2) This song was a big-band/swing song which was featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade,
which starred amongst others Sonja Henie, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton
Berle and Joan Davis. It was performed in the film as an extended production number, featuring
vocals by Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly, and the Modernaires followed by a production number
showcasing Dorothy Dandridge and an acrobatic dance sequence by The Nicholas Brothers. This was
the #1 song across the United States on December 7, 1941. Which song am i referring to?
3) Identify this famous 20th century statesman and political leader, whose mausoleum is located at
Anitkabir.
4) Born to a police commander in Panjshir, he was of Tajik origin. Though his native tongue was
Persian, he was equally fluent in French, Pashto, Hindi and Urdu. He led the rebellion against the
Mohd Daoud Khan's government in 1975 from the Panjshir valley. He played an active part in the
revolt against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, inflicting heavy losses on the Russian
troops. He was famous for his effective guerrilla attacks. One of the important leaders in the
Northern Alliance, he was assassinated in a suicide bombing at Khwaja Bahauddin by Arab militants.
In 2001, after the fall of the Taliban, he was named as the "Hero of the Afghan Nation" and he is also
nicknamed as "Lion of Panjshir".
5) Born in 1737 in Bologna, he attended the famous medical school there and became a doctor. His
celebrated theory of animal electricity he enunciated in a treatise, De viribus electricitatis in motu
musculari commentarius published in the 7th volume of the memoirs of the Institute of Sciences at
Bologna in 1791, and separately at Modena in the following year and elsewhere subsequently. He is
noted for his famous experiments on a frog, when he saw it twitching its legs after charge was
applied to it. This phenomenon was later renamed after him. Identify.
6) In 1776 he was was selected by Captain James Cook for the position of Sailing Master on the
Resolution and accompanied Captain Cook in July 1776 on Cook's third and fatal voyage to the
Pacific. He reached England again at the end of 1780 and was able to give further details of Cook's
last voyage. He also went on to serve under Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April
1801, in command of HMS Glatton, a 56-gun ship of the line, which was experimentally fitted
exclusively with carronades. After the battle, he was personally praised by Nelson for his
contribution to the victory. He also served as the Governor of New South Wales. He would however
be remembered for a very controversial incident in history, which later became the subject of a book
and movies too. Name this person, and also the incident.
7) Identify the man in the picture, and what was founded by him.
8) This word comes from a Tibetan word meaning a Mountain Pass. It was mentioned by James
Hilton for the first time in his book The Lost Horizon in 1933. In the book, it is a mystical, harmonious
valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. The
people who live there are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan.
9) With which controversial decision, in the history of soccer, would you associate Swiss referee
Gottfried Diens and Azerbajani linesman Tofik Bakhramov with?
10) Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1968 movie Charly as a mentally
retarded baker. He is famous for a cameo in a recent superhero movie series, and one of his quotes
in the movie has become very famous. Name the movie and the character he played.
MIXED BAG-7
1) CALIFORNIA
2) CHATTANOGA CHOO CHOO
3) MUSTAFA KEMAL ATTATURK, 1ST PRESIDENT OF TURKEY
4) AHMED SHAH MASOOD
5) LUIGI GALVANI, GALVANISM
6) WILLIAM BLIGH, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY FAME.
7) COL HARLAND SANDERS, FOUNDED KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN(KFC).
8) SHANGRILA
9) The Controversial 3rd Goal in the 1966 FIFA cup final between England and Germany,
which the former won.
10) SPIDERMAN AND UNCLE BEN.
MIXED BAG-8
1) This place was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 AD, as the administrative seat for the
French Colony of New France. It gets its name from an Algonquin word meaning "it narrows",
referring to the fact that the St. Lawrence River narrows to a cliff here. It became a province in 1763
after France transferred this to Britain. This place also has one of the largest French speaking
community in the world.
2) On Oct. 23, 1911, what took place in the Italian-Turkish war, which would be the first of its kind?
3) What starts at Broadway in the East and ends at South Street on East River?
4) This picture is of a War Memorial at a famous battlefield of World War II. Name the place
5) Connect the following pictures
6) Basically of Lithuanian descent, his father was a professor of Jewish History. His elder brother
Yonatan was killed in the Entebbe operation and he served in Sayeret Matkal, an Israeli special task
force. He graduated from MIT in 1977, and worked for some time at BCG, before returning to Israel.
He was also the Israeli Ambassador to US from 1984-1988. In 1996, he became the first Israeli Prime
Minister to win a direct election, beating Shimon Peres. Nicknamed as Bibi, he negotiated with
Yasser Arafat for the Wye River accords.
7) Connect Classic, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, Touch
8) Though Douglas Jardine, started the Bodyline practice, in reality he never referred it as such.
What was the name he gave to this technique?
9) This novel written by Czech writer Milan Kundera in 1982, is set in the backdrop of the 1968
Prague Spring. The central character is Tomas, a successful surgeon who is removed from his job for
his anti-Communist stand. Also made into a 1988 movie starring Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette
Binoche.
10) He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969, and while in Med School, wrote novels
under the pseudonym of John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson. He also co-authored another novel Dealing
under the pen name of Michael Douglas. The first novel published under his real name was The
Great Train Robbery in 1975. He also wrote Electronic Life, a book on BASIC programming. He was
Also the director for Westworld, Coma and the 1979 screen version of The Great Train Robbery.
MIXED BAG-8
1) QUEBEC
2) FIRST TIME AIRPLANES WERE USED
3) WALL STREET
4) EL ALAMEIN
5) THE CONNECT WAS DEEP THROAT
MARK FELT WAS THE REAL DEEP THROAT
CHARACTER IN X FILES
LINDA LOVELACE ACTED IN PORN MOVIE DEEP THROAT
6) BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
7) IPOD MODELS
8) LEG THEORY
9) THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
10) MICHAEL CRICHTON
MIXED BAG-9
1) Identify the scientist in the picture. Born in Kiel in 1858, his father was a professor of Law and he
graduated in Physics. He was also a gifted music player. His professor Phillip Von Jolly warned him
against study of Physics saying that "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that
remains is to fill a few holes." In 1879 he defended his dissertation, On the second fundamental
theorem of the mechanical theory of Heat, and in 1885 he joined as associate professor in University
of Kiel and in 1892 he became a full professor at University of Berlin. His second son Erwin was
amongst those sentenced to death in 1945 for the assassination attempt on Hitler. In 1918 he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his path breaking theory. Who?
2) It was originally a shallow embayment called Wai Momi or Pu' uloa by Hawaiians. In local legend
this was regarded as home of shark goddess Kaahupahau. Initially it was not considered a good
place for ships because of its shallow waters. By what name is this place better known to us?
3) On Dec 7,1982 Charles Brooks Jr, a convicted murderer, was executed at the Huntsville Prison in
Texas. It was the first execution in Texas after 64 years. But it also had another first to it, what was
it?
4) Name is the person in the picture along with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat.
5) Richard Warren ________ in Minnesota he assisted his father in their wagon making business for
some time. He learnt telegraphy and became the station agent in the Redwood Falls station on
Minneapolis-St. Louis railroad line. In 1886, he made a profit of 5000$ selling watches to station
agents all along the line, and this made him start his first company R.W._________ Watch Company
and he also made use of mail order to reach out to clients in rural and small town areas. He later
moved his company to Chicago, and hired his first employee Alvah Curtis with whom he later co-
founded the firm officially in 1893. Today this is one of America's most popular departmental store
chains. Which one?
6) Born as Ghanshyam Pande in Chhapaiya near Ayodhya in 1781, in 1792 he adopted the name of
Nilkanth Vani and took a 7 year pilgrimage across India. In 1799, he settled in Gujarat where he
began to preach. Initiated into the Uddhav Sampraday by his guru Ramanand Swami, he was named
as Swami Sahajanand. After his Guru had passed away, he became the leader of the Uddav
Sampradhay, and his followers referred to him by another name, which became the name of the
sect also. By what name do we know him better.
7) Born to Jewish parents in Philadelphia, he often described his family as a sort of Jewish Ghetto
split into a Yiddish side and a Hebrew side. At age of 10 he wrote an article about spread of Fascism,
after the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War. He did his PhD in linguistics from University of
Pennsylvania.
8) Connect Gatun, Pedro Miguel, Miraflore.
9) William Smeile was the first editor in 1768 and Dale Hoiberg is the current editor since 1997.
What am i referring to here?
10) Designed by Robert Mills, a prominent architect, the construction of this monument started in
1848. However lack of funds and Civil War, caused delays and it was finally completed in 1884. On
Feb 21, 1885 it was dedicated to the nation, and until 1889, it was the worlds tallest structure. As of
now its one of the tallest stone structures in the world, and in 1982, an anti-nuclear protester
Norman Mayer held 8 tourists hostage, threatening to blow up the monument. Name it.
MIXED BAG-9
1) MAX PLANCK
2) PEARL HARBOR
3) FIRST PERSON TO BE EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION
4) YITZHAK RABIN
5) SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO
6) SWAMI NARAYAN
7) NOAM CHOMSKY
8) LOCKS ON PANAMA CANAL
9) ENCYLCOPEDIA BRITTANICA
10) WASHINGTON MEMORIAL
MIXED BAG-10
1) This city is located at confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and was founded by
French settlers in 1764. It was a major river port, on the route to New Orleans. From 1766 to 1768 it
was ruled by French Governor, Ange De Bellerive. In 1803, the city was acquired from France by
Thomas Jefferson as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The city came into news when it secured
funding for Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic. Also famous for the Wainwright Building,
and in 1893, Nikola Tesla demonstrated radio communication here.
2) The Great Ormond Street Hospital in London received the copyright to this particular literary work
in 1929 from the author himself. This entitled the institution to receive royalties from any
performance or publication of the play. When this expired in 1987, the UK Government gave it
perpetual copyright to collect royalties. Name the work and the author
3) Identify this Civil War General who later went on to become the 18th President of the US.
4) On Feb 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, attempted to assassinate X in Miami. He was however
unsuccessful and ended up shooting Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who died later in hospital. Name
X.
5) On Feb 15, 1942, Lt. Gen Arthur Percival surrendered to the Japanese Army, after this place fell
after 7 days of fighting. About 80,000 Indian, British, Australian soldiers become POW's making it
one of the largest surrender of British forces. Winston Churchill called it the "worst disaster" and
"largest capitulation" in British history. After the capture, the Japanese renamed the place as
Syonan-To meaning "Light of the South Island". What event i am referring to?
6) Identify these 3 men here

7) Born in Paris in 1877, Louis ____, loved engineering and mechanics, and in 1898, he built his first
car, which he called the Voiturette. On Feb 25, 1899, he founded the ____ Freres company, along
with his brothers Marcel and Fernand. He is credited with many inventions in automobile industry
like hydraulic shock absorber, the drum brake and turbocharger. He was decorated with Legion of
Honour after WW1, due to the effectiveness of the battle tank developed by him. After France was
liberated from Nazi rule his company was nationalized on charges of collaboration and Louis himself
was arrested by French Govt on this charges. He later died in prison. In 1996, the company was
privatized and it also has an alliance with Nissan. Name the company.
8) Born into a Jewish family, he was encouraged to participate in the Manhattan Project while he
was at Princeton, and was assigned to Hans Bethe's division. He developed the formula to calculate
the yield of a fission bomb, named after him partly. He also won the Nobel Prize For Physics in 1965
along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomanaga for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He
developed a pictorial representation for mathematical expressions governing behaviour of sub
atomic particles. He is famous for his semi-autobiographical books like What Do you Care what
Other People Think?. Free spirited in nature he loved to discuss on topics like lock picking, Maya
hieroglyphs, percussion, art and biology. Who?
9) What went into service for the first time on Feb 16, 1968 in the small town of Haleyville, in
Alabama?
10) Identify this Identify this notorious dictator who was overthrown by the 26th of July movement,
and finally resigned on January 1, 1959.
MIXED BAG-10
1) ST.LOUIS
2) PETER PAN, J.M.BARRIE
3) GEN. ULYSEES GRANT
4) F.D. ROOSEVELT
5) FALL OF SINGAPORE TO JAPAN
6) STEVE CHEN, CHAD HURLEY, JAVED KARIM, ALL EX EMPLOYESS OF PAY PAL, WHO
STARTED YOU TUBE.
7) RENAULT
8) DR.RICHARD FEYMANN
9) 911 WAS USED AS THE EMERGENCY NUMBER
10) FULGENCIO BATISTA, OVERTHROWN BY FIDEL CASTRO
MIXED BAG-11
1) The earliest inhabitants of this area were the Lenape tribes. In 1626 Peter Minuit acquired this
place from the native tribes in exchange for trade goods worth 60 guilders. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant
was the last Dutch director of this colony. This place gets its name from a local word meaning "island
of many hills".
2) Identify the artist of the above painting. He was a noted painter of historical scenes, but he is
more remembered for his achievements in another field.
3) This Nazi officer was notorious for the experiments he conducted on concentration camp inmates,
giving him the nickname of "Angel of Death". He conducted studies on heredity, twins and also
attempted to change the eye colours of children by injecting chemicals. After the War, he escaped to
South America, where he first spent some time in Argentina. However after the capture of Adolf
Eichmann, he migrated to Paraguay, where he lived in Hohenhau for some time. In 1979, he died of
drowning at a beach in Bertioga, Brazil, and was buried at Embu Das Artes under the name of
Wolfgang Gerhard.
4) Lys Assia won it the first time in 1956 for Refrain, Alexander Rybak won it in 2009 for Fairytale,
what am i referring to?
5) Daniel Gabriel _________ was born to a merchant family in 1686 in Danzig, and the eldest of 5
children. In 1717 he settled in The Hague, making barometers, altimeters. He also lectured in
Chemistry in Amsterdam in 1718, and visited England in 1724, where he became a member of Royal
Society. He is famous for his 1724 study of temperatures.
6) Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota and was raised later at
Hibbings, MN. He formed The Golden Chords band in High School, and in 1959 he joined the
University of Minnesota. He changed his name later in tribute to his favourite poet. His first album
produced by John Hammond, sold only 5000 copies in 1962, and it was nicknamed as "Hammond's
Folly". His latest album is Together through Life. Chronicles: Volume 1 is the first part of his 3 series
planned memoir.
7) This British rock band was formed by Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John Illsley, Pick Withers in
1997, was so named due to their poor financial situation. Their first 5 song demo tape contained
their biggest hit Sultans of Swing. After their success in the US tour, Bob Dylan invited Mark Knopfler
to play on his album Slow Train Coming. Their 1980 single Tunnel of Love was featured in the
soundtrack of the movie An Officer and a Gentleman. On Every Street was the last album they
produced before breaking up. Name the band.
8) This term was coined by US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, during the Cold War. It refers to
the act of pushing a dangerous situation close to the verge of disaster, in order to derive the best
advantage. It was used as a tactic during the Cuban missile crisis. In Dulles own word's this means
"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war". Name the term.
9) Identify the couple in the picture.
10) This nursery rhyme was written and published by Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. Lowell Mason
later set it to a musical form. Identify.
MIXED BAG-11
1) MANHATTAN
2) SAMUEL MORSE, who was a noted artist too.
3) DR. JOSEF MENGELE.
4) WINNERS OF EUROVISION CONTEST.
5) FAHRENHEIT
6) BOB DYLAN
7) DIRE STRAITS
8) BRINKMANSHIP
9) BONNIE AND CLYDE
10) MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB
MIXED BAG-12
1) On July 15, 1815, "he" surrendered on the HMS Bellerophone to Capt Frederick Maitland, and was
transported to Torbay. Maitland received strict orders from Adm Lord Keith "to prevent every
person whatever from coming on board the ship you command, except the officers and men who
compose her crew". In response to his orders, Maitland refused to allow the usual visits of boats
from supplier. However a sailor on one of the lower boats set adrift a small bottle containing a
message that "he" was on board the ship, and the news quickly spread everywhere. Who was this
inhabitant?
2) He was born to German immigrants in Detroit, his father made a fortune from being a mining
engineer. He looked after his father's lumber business, buying extensive timberlands around Gray's
Harbour. In 1916, he founded this firm along with George Conrad Westervelt, and in 1917, during
WW1, he named the company after his surname. In 1921 he married Bertha Marie Potter, and in
1934, accusing him of monopolistic practices, his company was broken into 3 divisions. He had a
thoroughbred farm near Seattle named Aldarra. Name him and the company.
3) This American city is named after a Chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Originally
nicknamed as the Queen City, its current nickname is the Emerald City, due to the evergreen forests
surrounding it. It is also the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix, and the home of Grunge music. It hosted the
Goodwill Games in 1990, as well as the APEC conference in 1993. The city is famous for the Space
Needle, as well as headquarters to Amazon, Starbucks.
4) On July 15, 1997 he was shot dead by Andrew Cunanan at his famous mansion on Miami Beach, as
he returned from his customary morning walk on Ocean Drive. His body was cremated and his ashes
were later returned to his family's estate at Cernobbio, Italy.
5) Self portrait of a famous artist. Identify.
6) Born in Long View, TX, his family later migrated to Los Angeles in 1965. His grandfather was a
novelist, while his mother was an educator. His first major movie role was in the 1982 Cameron
Crowe flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He also appeared in Martin Scorseses The Colour of
Money, and co-starred with Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam. Known as a method actor,
one of his more famous roles has been in Jim Jarmusch's 1999 movie Ghost Dog. He was also named
as a chief among the Igbo tribe in Nigeria. Name this well-known actor.
7) In 1964, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington formed a band "The Noble Five", which
then changed to My Backyard when Larry Junstorm and Bob Burns joined them in Florida. Billy
Powell a roadie joined them in 1970, and they tried a new name. Finally they choose a name that
was a parody of their high school physical education teacher's name, who was strict in acting against
boys with long hair. In 1972, Al Kooper discovered the band during one of their shows in Atlanta.
Their 1973 song Free Bird was a major hit, propelling them to stardom. In 1974, their second album
Second Helping, contained the hit single "Sweet Home Alabama" which was highly political in nature.
In 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Name this band.
8) Identify this iconic guitarist. He began to learn the guitar from age of 14 after death of Jimi
Hendrix. In 1978, he became a high profile guitarist with Frank Zappa, and he later taught in
California, where his students included Kirk Hammet(Metallica) among others. His 1987 album
Surfing with the Alien was a major success, and his 1992 album The Extremist, was one of the most
critically acclaimed ones. He has received 15 Grammy nominations, and he has been using his own
signature guitar Ibanez JS Series since 1988. Name him.
9) Le quatorze juillet is a public holiday in France. Which historical event is commemorated here?
10) This airlines was founded in 1934 as Varney Speed Lines, and operated out of El Paso, Texas. In
1936, Robert Six, bought over the airline, and was awarded an airmail contract. In 1937, it was
renamed to its current name, and the headquarters were relocated to Denver,CO. The routes
expanded further in 1946, and in 1953, Pioneer Airlines was merged with it. Initially operating in
South Western US, it later expanded all over US, thanks to Six's lower fares strategy. It made history
in 1963, when Marlon Greene, became the first Black pilot to work for any major airlines in US.
Currently operating out of Houston, Texas, its slogan is "Work Hard, Fly Right".
MIXED BAG-12
1) NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
2) WILLIAM BOEING, and the company was BOEING
3) SEATTLE
4) GIANNI VERSACE
5) REMBRANDT
6) FORREST WHITAKER
7) LYNRD SKINNRD
8) JOE SATRIANI
9) BASTILLE DAY Storming of Bastille
10) CONTINENTAL AIRLINES
MIXED BAG-13
1) One theory regarding its name states that it comes from an alternative Greek name for Hercules,
meaning "Son of Hues". The other theory states it comes from an Oscan word meaning "smoke".
What am i referring to here?
2) It is believed to have got its name from a local word meaning "palace fort". During the Sangam
Era, i t was part of the Chera kingdom, who ruled it until 1122 A.D. After the Chera Empire fell apart,
it came under the Polanadu area. The city came into existence during the 13th century, when
Udaivar conquered i t and built a fort a t Velapuram. Udaiyavar called himself a s Swami Nambiyathri
Tirumalapad, and the title was later shortened to Samuri. Hyder Ali captured this area in 1776 and in
1792 it fell into British hands. The Kappad Beach located close to this city, was witness to a famous
historical event. Name the city.
3 ) Capt Mathew Webb was the first to achieve this feat i n 1875. Antonio Abertendo, David
Walliams, Florence May Chadwick, Thomas William Burgess have been some of the others. Which
feat?
4) Connect these 2 images
5) Tahei and Matakishi, in Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress were an influence for which iconic
movie characters. Need both the names.
6 ) This rock band was formed in 1969, when Gerry Bron invited Ken Hensley to join Spice. It take's i t
name from a character in Charles Dicken's David Copperfield, who becomes one of the main
antagonists. The debut album of this band Very 'eavy.... Very 'umble was the catchphrase of this
character. Their second album Salisbury was more in the progressive rock genre. Quite often
referred to as the "Beach boys of Heavy metal" for their often melodious numbers. Name the band.
7) Identify this bestselling author.
8) What is being shown in the map here? Again the lines are self-explanatory.
9) Identify this US President, famous for his "Fair Deal".

10) He was one of the youngest pilots in the RA F where he served till 1958. He joined Reuters in
1961 and later was s BBC correspondent in 1965. He covered the Nigerian civil War between Nigeria
and Biafra from June to September 1967, and basing on his experiences he wrote his first book The
Biafra Story in 1969. He published his first full length novel in 1971 that went on to become
a best seller, and also made into a successful movie. He is the patron of Better off Out, an
organization that is against Britain being a member of the EU. Name this author.
MIXED BAG-13
1) MT.VESUVIUS
2) KOZHIKODE, CALICUT
3) SWIMMING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
4) J.D.SALINGER (on left) wrote Catcher in the Rye, that inspired MARK CHAPMAN (on
right) to assassinate John Lennon.
5) R2D2 and C3PO in Star Wars.
6) URIAH HEEP
7) THE 3 VOYAGES of CAPT.COOK.
8) JOE SATRIANI
9) HARRY TRUMAN
10) FREDERICK FORSYTH.
MIXED BAG-14
1) Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro coined the name for this disease, after a character
in Greek Mythology, who is believed to be the first man to contract it, as a punishment for defying
Apollo. Due to the disease often being spread by foreign sailors and soldiers, it was often nicknamed
as X disease, after the country from where they came. Other names for it have been Great Pox, Lues,
Cupid's disease. The first outbreak of this disease was noted in 1494 among the French troops
attacking Naples. Name this.
2) The basic form of this musical instrument was believed to have been invented by Christian
Buschmann in 1882 at Berlin. The first patent however was given to Cyrill Demian of Vienna in 1829.
The bass buttons on this instrument are classified as Stradella and Free Bass, while the playing range
is of Chromatic, Diotonic and Piano kind.
3) He died in the year 1227 A.D after defeating the Tangut tribes. Some say he fell from a horseback
and died of injuries, battle fatigue. As per the Galician-Volhniyan chronicles, he was killed in a battle
with the Tanguts. As per the custom of his tribe, he demanded to be buried without any markings.
After his death his body was returned to Khenti Aiimag, his birthplace, where he is assumed to be
buried close to the Onon River. The mausoleum in the above picture is dedicated to him and is
located at Xinjie town. Name this warrior-conqueror.
4) One of the founding fathers of the US, he was the author of the American Constitution, and is
considered its father. He was the 1st US President, to have served in Congress, and drafted the 1st
10 Amendments. He laid down the basic theory that an individual's rights should be protected from
the tyranny of the majority. As Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson, he oversaw the Louisiana
Purchase in 1803 A.D and also authored the Bill of Rights. After he left office, he retired to his
plantation in Montpelier, quite close to Jefferson's Monticello. Name him.
5) This word is derived from a Spanish word meaning pirate or buccaneer, and was generally used
for those raiding Spanish colonies and ships in the Caribbean. The word came into prominence when
American explorer William Walker, hired his own private army to take over Nicaragua, and declare
himself as its President. The word since then has come to mean an unauthorized military expedition
into a foreign country to support or create a revolution.
6) "We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have
no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last
.Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my
companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our
dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who
are dependent on us are properly provided for."
These are the last words found in the diary of which English explorer, just before his death.
7) Graduating from the Cornell Medical College in 1943, this doctor's wife Jane Murray, co-authored
a book on alternative medicine, What your doctor won't tell you. He has gained fame for a first aid
procedure that is named after him. According to accounts, the doctor first witnessed this at a party
in Hawaii, when it was done by Howard Goss, who claimed to have learnt it from a Hawaiian police
officer. He published his views about the technique in an informal article called "Pop Goes the Cafe
Coronary", and in 1974 a Seattle newspaper reported that a former restaurant owner Isaac Piha
used the same procedure. Also called as "abdominal thrusts" this was recommended by the
American Heart Association. Name the doctor or the procedure named after him.
8) This structure was designed by Augustus Pugin, and at the base is a Latin inscription that says
DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM. It is believed to have got its
nickname from a British civil engineer who oversaw it's construction, while another theory traces the
nickname to a 19th century bare knuckle heavyweight boxing champion. Which one?
9) When Adolf Eichmann was being hanged, his last words were
Long live Germany. Long live _________. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I
have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family, and my friends. I
am ready. We'll meet again soon, as is the fate of all men. I die believing in God.
10) The memorial of which famous leader at Santa Marta in Colombia?
MIXED BAG-14
1) SYPHILLIS
2) ACCORDION
3) GENGHIS KHAN
4) JAMES MADISON
5) FILLIBUSTERING
6) ROBERT F SCOTT
7) THE HEIMLICH MANOEUVRE named after the doctor.
8) BIG BEN
9) ARGENTINA
10) SIMON BOLIVAR
MIXED BAG-15
1. In 1951 as a medical student, he travelled along with his friend Alberto Granado on a 1939 500 cc
motorcycle nicknamed La Poderosa II meaning The Mighty One all over South America. Who is he
and what was the name of the book he wrote based on his travels?
2. This word is originally derived from a Greek word meaning A Burnt sacrifice ordered to Gods.
This is from the Greek and Roman pagan custom where burnt animals were offered to Gods of the
earth and nether world. Another origin is from the sacrifice Jews were required to make on Torah.
We are familiar with this word in a totally different context. Name it.
3. This German city gained notoriety for being the first city in the medieval ages to have Iron Maiden
torture device. It was a centre for Renaissance in 15th and 16th centuries. From 1933 to 1938 it was
a centre for holding Nazi congress. The city gained a lot of notoriety during the World War. Name
this place.
4. The 1957 movie 12 Angry Men directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda is one of the
finest Hollywood movies, about a lone juror played by Fonda who believes in the innocence of the
defendant. It was remade into an equally good Hindi movie by Basu Chatterjee and premiered as a
TV movie. Name the Hindi version.
5.Which Agatha Christie novel has a backdrop of the kidnap and murder of the baby of a prominent
American man, which was based on the real life kidnap and murder of Charles Lindberghs baby son
by Bruno Hauptmann?
6. This fictional characters address is 56B Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London W1. He
boasted to his friend and partner Arthur Hastings, that he could solve a case by using his little grey
cells. Who?
7. In the movie The Italian Job, Michael Caine plays the role of the thief Charlie Crocker who leads
the team. Which famous playwright plays the role of the mastermind Mr Bridger who runs his entire
Mafia empire from the jail?
8. This novel deals with career of a 15 year old teen Alex DeLarge. His main pleasures in life are
classical music, rape, and random acts of extreme violence. He tells his story in a teen slang called
Nadsat which combines 18th century Russian and English slang. Also made into a critically
acclaimed movie. Name the book.
9. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon the lead Pig is clearly modelled on Josef
Stalin, on which real life character is the other Pig Snowball modelled on?
10.If Surya Kiran is the fixed wing aerobatic display team of IAF, then what is the name given to the
helicopter formation display team of IAF. Hint: The word means Peacock and also the name of a
popular Indian college Youth Fest.
MIXED BAG-15
1. CHE GUEVERA, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
2. HOLOCAUST
3. NUREMBERG
4. EK RUKA HUA FAISLA
5. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
6. HERCULES POIROT
7. NOEL COWARD
8. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
9. LEON TROTSKY
10.SARANG
MIXED BAG-16
1. Born in a small town in Bavaria, Germany in 1864. In 1887 he received a medical degree from
University of Wurzburg. He began his career with the city mental asylum in Frankfurt. He worked
along with Franz Nisl, another neurologist. He also co-founded and co published the German journal
called Zeitschrift fr die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie. His surname became very famous in
the world of medicine. Name this famous psychiatrist.
2.Dalton Trumbo was a Hollywood screen writer who was blacklisted during the Mc McCarthy era
for his communist leanings. However this actor, producer of this Roman epic, insisted on taking
Trumbo as the screen writer, and even published his name in the credits, though Trumbo was on
Hollywoods black list during that time. Name the actor and the Roman epic movie
3. When Elia Kazan was shooting for On the Waterfront, he wanted to make the union goons appear
as communists. His close friend, a noted playwright, was not at all pleased, and withdrew from the
movie. His friend later fell out with him and penned another drama satirizing the HUAC. Name this
screen writer and dramatist.
4. This singer who basically hailed from a working class neighbourhood in New York was inspired by
his ex-wife and well known supermodel Christine Brinkley to pen and perform this solo. It is one of
the singers biggest hit songs. Name the singer and song.
5. In Greek mythology, this creature was mythical monster, which was half horse, half dolphin and
pulled Poseidons chariot. In medical terminology its the part of the brain located in temporal lobe
and plays a major role in memory and navigation. Which word?
6. In Spanish this place is called as Bahia De Los Cochinos and one of its more famous beaches is
Playa Giron. Name it.
7. This complex was developed by Italian firm SGI in the early 1960s. Italian architect Luigi Moretti
designed six buildings at this site which included a hotel and retail centre. It gets its name from the
nickname given to the last lock which diverted water from the Potomac River into the Tidal
Basin during flood tide. Which building is this?
8.
For women, earrings can be no larger than a quarter, and fingernails can be no longer than an
eraser. For men, beards are strictly forbidden, sideburns cant be longer than their earlobes, and
fingernails must always be short and clean.
You would have to be following this dress code, if you aspire to be an employee here. Which
company am I referring to?
9. Invented in 1987 by Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany. It began as the Digital
Audio Broadcast Project which was financed by EU as part of the Eureka research program. Suzanne
Vegas song Toms Diner was used as the model for the compression algorithm. The licencing patent
for this is controlled by Thomson Consumer Electronics. What am I referring to here?
10. Established in 1946 by Tadao Kashio, its first product was the yubiwa pipe a finger ring that
would hold a cigarette. The profits from this were used to build the companys own calculators. In
1957 it released the Model 14-A, first electronic compact calculator in the world. Name this firm.
MIXED BAG-16
1. ALOIS ALZHEIMER
2. KIRK DOUGLAS, SPARTACUS
3. ARTHUR MILLER
4. BILLY JOEL, UPTOWN GIRL
5. HIPPOCAMPUS
6. BAY OF PIGS
7. WATERGATE COMPLEX
8. WALT DISNEY
9. MPEG-1 AUDIO LAYER III or more commonly known as MP3
10.CASIO
QUIZZING IS FUN-MIXED BAG
1) Supposedly taken by a London gynaecologist, this photography was published in the Daily Mail on
April 21, 1934. Initially claimed to be the first photographic evidence of the subject in display, it was
later claimed to be a hoax in 1994. A 1999 book that was titled after the nickname of the subject
described how the photo was manipulated. What is the "subject" of the photograph in discussion?
2) One of the most famous paintings depicting an event. Occurred at a bay in Hawaii, whose name
means "The God's Pathway" in native language? Famous for the Hawaiian New Year festival, in
honour of the god Lono. What is happening here?
3) Much before Gary Sober's 365 n.o, he held the world record for the highest individual score in a
Test match. He also was the first professional cricketer to captain England in the Post war era, and
regained the Ashes in 1952. Also the author of the books, Cricket is my Life and 30 Years in Cricket.
He was the captain of the Test, where Fred Truman made his debut against India, and picked up the
first 4 wickets for nought.
4) The man whose name has been given to an incendiary weapon improvised by the Finnish Army
together signed this agreement with the Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, and remained in effect
until the time the Fuhrer launched an operation whose name means "Red Beard" in Italian. Just give
me the name of the agreement.
5) The City named after the river on which it lay, was renamed after the man whose name meant
Steel, before reverting to its original name. One of the fiercest battles during World War II saw
military operations named after Saturn and Uranus. Name the city.
6) The original name of the song meant "War Song for the Army of the Rhine". Written in Strasbourg
in 1792, it was dedicated to a French officer born in Bavaria. It got it's more famous name when the
federes first sung it in this city in the Provence-Alps-Cote-D-Azur region. What am i referring to?
7) Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was the major influence on his life, motivating him to be a director.
Some of the other directors he has cited as influences have been Ingmar Bergman and Roman
Polanski. His first movie was The Moon is... The Sun's Dream in 1992. His breakthrough feature
however was in 2000, named after the No Man's land between the two Koreas that brought him
fame. His most famous work however has been a trilogy whose other name means Revenge, and the
second part of the Trilogy has been the most famous of all, including a Bolly remake (err inspiration).
Name this director and also the Trilogy.
8) My Best Friend's Birthday, was written by Craig Harmann and X, when X was working at the Video
Archives (now defunct). The original short script later expanded to an 80 page script, and X directed
the movie along with Harmann. Only a 36 minute cut of the movie survived from the original 70
minutes, and while it has been shown at film festivals, never been officially released. X often
referred to this as his "film school" and some of the actors here, appeared in his more famous
movies. Name X.
9) Born in Thrissur, his surname is Kunnath, and is a student of Delhi's Mount St.Mary school. His
first stint as a singer was a jingle for Santogen Suitings Ad in 1994. His first major break as a playback
singer was for Maachis with Vishaal Bharadwaj. He shot into fame, with this song from Hum Dil De
Chuke Sanam which also got him his first Filmfare Nomination. Also released 2 albums, Pal and
Hamsafar. Who?
10) Identify this child actor who later on achieved fame.

QUIZZING IS FUN-MIXED BAG
1) That hoax picture was of the LOCH NESS MONSTER.
2) Death of Captain Cook at Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii.
3) SIR LEN HUTTON
4) MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT remained in force till Hitler launched Operation
Barbarossa against Soviet Union.
5) STALINGRAD or VOLGOGRAD. Stalin means steel in Russian and city lies on Volga
River.
6) This was the LA MARSEILLE, Marseilles is located in the region referred to.
7) PARK CHAN WOO, the VENGENANCE trilogy, his first movie was JOINT SECURITY
AREA.
8) QUENTIN TARANTINO
9) Singer Krishna Kumar Kunnath, or KK.
10) RIVER PHOENIX

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Preface

5. Based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, this 1999 movie revolves around an

7. Travis Bickle an alienated, sexually frustrated young man of 26 from the

4. 1917: Theda Bara, 1934: Claudette Colbert, 1963?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!

Bring me my arrows of desire!

Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!

8. Louis Calhern-Marlon Brando in 1953,

Sir John Gielgud-Charlton Heston in 1970,

Rex Harrison-Richard Burton in 1963.

1. ROBERT ALTMAN, MASH

4. Connect the movie A Fish Called Wanda with Cary Grant.

8. How Happy is the blameless Vestals lot,

The world forgetting, by the world forgot,

Each prayr accepted and each wish resignd

9. Fill in the blanks : __________ Highlands and_______ Farms.

1."Gordon - killed with a Chef's knife sharpening steel by Dog

A in the wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

If you believed they put a B.

Just identify A and B.

5) "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."

2) Identify this person in the picture along with Al Pacino.

5) What is the claim to fame of this building?

1) Complete and connect the images below.

7) "Its a strange marriage we have at ________________, I am an Indian Muslim, _____________ is

JAN 26, 1950- INDIA BECOMES A REPUBLIC

JAN 26, 2009- THE REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL QUIZ STARTS AT

ON EVERY REPUBLIC DAY, STARTING FROM 2009, THERE

1. NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST, BUT THEY WERE ALL LEADERS INVITED TO

1. NAGAPATTINAM, one of the towns devastated by the Tsunami in 2004.

4) Connect the images with fundaez.

9) Identify the statue and place.

5) Connect the following images

9) What is the claim to fame of this building in Chicago?

1. PATAUDI of course, from where the Nawab of Pataudi hails.

10.Makar Sankranti is celebrated by Sikhs as _________, in honour of Chali Mukte, or the 40

1. SATYAMEVA JAYATE was the song.

1. SUBASH GHAI-The movie of course was Kalicharan, which made

10) Sadyojata- Facing West, represents Earth.

1. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

4. Percy Alleline, the current head of the Circus

Bill Haydon, chief of the London Branch

Roy Bland, Bill Haydons second in command

George Smiley the lead character.

9. Complete series Adolf Dassler: Adidas:: RudolfDassler: ----

1) The Soviets called it as Friedrichstrae, the Germans called it as Grenzbergangsstelle, by what

10) Stasi: East Germany:: Securitate:: __________?

1. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AND VIJAYALAKSHMI PANDIT

1) What connects the following images?

5) Just name the lady in the picture.

Join us now and share the software;

You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. "

6) Whats happening in the picture here?

1. FIRST TIME OIL WAS STRUCK HERE

3) Connect the 2 images.

Connect the 2 images above.

7) Connect Classic, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, Touch

8) Connect Gatun, Pedro Miguel, Miraflore.

6) Identify these 3 men here

9) Identify the couple in the picture.

4) Connect these 2 images

7) Identify this bestselling author.

9) Identify this US President, famous for his "Fair Deal".

9. Fill in the blanks : ____ Highlands and_ Farms.

7) "Its a strange marriage we have at ____, I am an Indian Muslim, _ is