Visuals - Quiz 4

October 02, 2008

Hi !

Time for the next set !
Visual quiz this time ...


1. What contribution to popular culture is acknowledged today as having resulted from this painting? (Very workable from the pic itself)

2. Connect the three images.



3. Identify the product and the company from the print ad.


4. Which fictional character's name was derived from these two men's names ?


5. Identify the company whose name has been whitened in the logo.

6. Connect the three birds shown below (no clues as of now)

7. Connect the two women shown below.

8. Which sitcom features this disclaimer (hilarious as ever :) ) at the beginning of every episode ?

9. Identify this instrument.



10. This one's from Wikimapia. Simple enough. Identify the landmark.



Have fun !

Zed

Answers to Quiz 2

Hi

Here are the answers for Quiz 2

1. Scientology. The logo seen below the YouTube insignia is that of the Church of Scientology. A basic tenet of the group is that a human being is actually an immortal spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is presently trapped on planet Earth in a "meat body." As a group they are deeply opposed to Psychiatry (hence the pic with the 'Psychiatry Kills'). There was an issue regarding an interview with Tom Cruise on YouTube (hence the YouTube logo). Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley and John Travolta are celebrities who are members of the Church of Scientology.

2. Large Hadron Collider. The three novels have accurate descriptions of either the LHC or a particle accelerator similar to the LHC. The man in the sepia photo is Satyendranath Bose after whom the 'Boson' was named. The other person is Peter Higgs who theorized the existence of the 'Higgs Boson' which is the mystery particle or 'GOD Particle' that the LHC will render visible and unwrap some of its mysteries.

3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

4. Abraham Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth. The play is 'Our American Cousin'.

5. The first ever Olympic medal for Afghanistan (turned out to be a Bronze). The person in question is Rohullah Nikpai for Taekwondo.

6. Paparazzi

7. Pink Floyd. They named themselves after two blues musicians (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). Their pics are shown.

8. At the entrance of Nazi Concentration Camps

9. Bugatti

10. X - Anthony Burgess
Y - A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess wrote the novella and in a later foreword, wrote the lines mentioned.
The clue mentioned was a line used by Alex de Large in the film version.

The next one will be up soon.

Zed

Quiz 3

Hi !

Time for the next set.

1. What connects the following films ?
Psycho, The Godfather Part III, , Mr. & Mrs. Iyer, A Walk With Love and Death, Prizzi's Honor, Strangers On A Train, 15 Park Avenue
(not an exhaustive list)


2. Before they were discovered in Brazil in 1730, which was the world's earliest and only known source for diamonds ?


3. In 1956, while a graduate student at MIT, this person purchased 'a system' and was disappointed when it failed to meet his expectations. He later began extensive research aimed at fixing what he saw as fundamental weaknesses plaguing such systems. Eight years later, he started this company named after him, charging it with a mission to achieve Better Sound Through Research. Sitter. Name the company.


4. What is common to the faunae shown below ? (Not an exhaustive list, by any means)
Am looking for a specific commonality.




5. Connect Enkidu (from the 'Epic of Gilgamesh'), Mowgli, Tarzan, the twins Remus and Romulus.


6. What song connects the pics below ?



7. What word connects the two men seen below ?



8. The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American Telegraph Line between Boston and Portland in 1859 and reported in the Boston Traveler:

Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."
Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."
Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with X. How do you receive my writing?"
Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. Current comes and goes gradually."
Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as X seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."
Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"
Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."

Name 'X' alluded to in the conversation. (Hint - The subject of a famous film released in 2000)


9. What word should (according to the makers Kraft Foods) one use when asking for a 'piece' of a Toblerone bar ?


10. In Indian Mythology, it is believed that after Sati immolated herself, an incensed Shiva performed the Thandava dance with her charred body on his shoulders. During this dance, Sati's body came apart and the pieces fell at different places on earth. These places (numbered 64 in some versions and 52 in others) are called Shakti Peethams. The spot where her eyes fell is now a well-known tourist destination in India that gets its name as a result of this event. Name the place.

Have fun !

Zed

Quiz 2

Hi !
Here's the next set of questions. It will be a general quiz again.


1. Connect (no clues for this one)




2. Connect the three novels with the two men shown below. (Hint - September 10)




3. Complete this verse by Alexander Pope. (Hint - 'My Darling, Clementine !')

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
_____________________________
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.”

4. "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap..."
During a 19th century rendering of this line by the actor Harry Hawks, playing Asa Trenchard, the audience broke into laughter. What ensued ?


5. One from the Olympics. What is special about the medal won by the person seen in the picture ?

6. Set in 1960s Rome, this film features a journalist called Marcello. Working with him is a photographer played by the actor Walter Santesso. The name of the photographer has now passed onto the worldwide lexicon. Scholars believe that the character was named after the Italian word for a 'large and bothersome mosquito'. Name the word.


7. Connect the two men.

8. Where would one find these words ?

9. What marquee brand name would complete this logo ?

10. X wrote that the title was a reference to an old Cockney expression, "as queer as Y". X also wrote in an introduction to Y that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "Y — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice, but is in fact only a toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state." Name X and Y.


Have fun !
Zed

Answers to Quiz 1

A fortnight's passed since the questions were put on board. Thanks for the responses, Prit and Vas.

Here are the answers.

1. PERL

2. K(C)andy - that's a hell of a connect, Prit. Didn't think of that, actually. Twix is manufactured by Mars which used to be M & M not a long time ago and they still make the M & M bars. Luckyland Biscuits is owned by Murali's dad. Now, the media've already begun to call Murali & Ajantha Mendis as M & M. So, M & M was my connect.

3. Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner features in these films. (What's Opera, Doc ? is a 1957 animated short featuring Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd at an Opera. So the pun on What's Up (or Op) Doc ?)

4. Mark Twain came up with this quote. Correct. This is another one that's rebounded on me. The answer I was looking for was Orkut Buyukkokten's home page.
http://www.stanford.edu/~orkut/

5. The Joker. Cesar Romero played The Joker in the 1960s comedy series. Nicholson played The Joker in Tim Burton's Batman (1989). Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) voiced him in the animated series of the 90s. Heath Ledger's just made any further renditions by other actors pointless.

6. William Tell

7. The Watchtower Group is right. A better answer would've been Jehovah's Witnesses.

8. Michael Phelps (MP)

9. Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) with his uncle Ferdinand von Richthofen who coined the term Silk Route shown in the map.

10. Vas. Chipko Movement - bull's eye. Let me expound on the individual pics though.
The 3rd pic (clockwise) shows Guru Jambheshwar (Jambhoji) who is revered / worshipped by the Bishnois cult. The Bishnois worship nature nature and were in the news when Salman Khan shot a Black Buck. The Black Buck (in particular) is a revered animal among the Bishnois cult.
The 2nd Pic (the monument) shows the cenotaph of Bishnois who laid down their lives at Khejarli in 1730 AD in order to protect trees from being chopped by the men sent by Raja Abhay Singh (ruler of Jodhpur). Nearly 365 Bishnois are believed to have died. This gave birth to the Chipko Movement.
The 4th pic shows the way the Bishnois would hug trees while becoming martyrs and this was adopted by the Chipko Movement as their unofficial motif.
The 1st pic shows Vandana Shiva, who was the voice of the non-violent Chipko Movement of the 70s. She is now one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalizaiton.
The connect - Chipko Movement

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