A General Quiz conducted by me

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Why So Qurious?
Researched and conducted
By
Sanakendu sutradhar

3. 2 Marks For Each Right Answer And Extra
5 For Full House

4. A’s sancestry can be traced back for at least ten
generations. A's grandfather, B was a writer, illustrator,
philosopher, publisher, amateur astronomer and a leader
of the C. A decided to use D the classic of Bengali
literature, as the basis for his first film. In 1987, A made a
documentary on his father E. A directed two F movies G
(1974) and H (1978). By his own admission, A had based I
on J, by K, and a character created by A's
father E named L. A awarded an Honorary M in 1992 for
Lifetime Achievement. It was one of his favourite
actresses N

6.  A- SATYAJIT RAY
 B-UPENDRA KISHORE
 C- BRAHMO SAMAJ
 D-PATHER PACHALI
 E-SUKUMAR ROY
 F-FELUDA
 G-SONAR KELLA
 H-JOY BABA FELUNATH
 I- PROF.SHANKU
 J-PROF.CHALLENGER
 K-ARTHUR CONAN DOYAL
 L-HESORAM HUSHIAR
• M-OSCAR
• N-AUDREY HEPBURN

7. 1
The Roseate New Delhi is a one of
its kind urban resort with 8
acres of verdant green and
unperturbed water bodies which
fuse seamlessly with award
winning architecture. It is the
epitome of luxury and hospitality
that offers an indefectible
escape from tedious city life.
Why this is very much in news
for pop culture quiz lover?

9. Roseate House Used In Sacred
Games 2 As Guruji's Ashram

10. The novel began as a 1956 screenplay for the producer Henry
Morgenthau III for a proposed television show
entitled Commander Jamaica. When those plans foundered, X
adapted the ideas as the basis for a novel, provisionally
titled The Wound Man. The book's eponymous villain was
influenced by Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories. Y was the first of
X's novels to face widespread negative criticism in Britain.Paul
Johnson of the New Statesman dismissed the book as one of
"Sex, Snobbery and Sadism“. Y is the sixth novel of Z series by
the English author X. Id XYZ?
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14. The Passing of Shah Jahan is a Miniature painting, painted by the
Indian artist X in 1902. The painting depicts a scene in which the
fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan stares upon the Taj Mahal in
his deathbed, with his daughter at his feet. Initially involved with
the dominant style of European Naturalism, X's mentor Ernest
Binfield Havell had introduced him to various types of Indian art.
Of these varieties. Incorporating this style with the traditional
Indian artistic concept of Bhava', or emotion, X had painted a
scene based upon the growing re-interest in Indian history
during the British Raj. Id the painter?
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17. Abanindranath Tagore

18. Talking about the company's decision, Rajeev Kapur, MD, X
Helmets said "We think it will kick start with the companies
tying up with established local players to build the
ecosystem. This is how most cities and states grow and we
see it as a great opportunity for localities first. We plan to
come up with the manufacturing facility in accordance to the
upcoming investor summit in the month of October. We hope
the decisions will allow the businesses to operate freely
under the same rules in the X. Why this decision made
headlines recently and the company also?
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20.  Steelbird Offers To Set Up Manufacturing
Plant In Jammu & Kashmir after article
370 demolitions

21. According to the legends it is believed that this is the only way
one can go to heaven with the human body itself. But the
legends further gets complicated as many claim that the
Pandavas had taken a route from the present town of
Badrinath in the eastern part of Garhwal, Uttarakhand, which
is very far apart from the X in Sankari range of western
Garhwal. AHead of Badrinath, Mana and onwards to
Satopanth Lake, one can see the X Glacier and Yudhishthira
and the dog had climbed the X glacier to the top and not the
X peak. Just id X?
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23. Swargarohini

24. Rusty is a popular fictional character created by X. Rusty is an
orphaned sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun. He is
orphaned and has no real family. He starts living with his guardian
Mr. John Harrison, who is stern and harsh in his manners. Rusty is
obliged to follow the orders and rules of his guardian and dares not
disobey him. Rusty was created by X to write stories about his own
past. His first book, The Room on the Roof, which he wrote at the age
of 17, was a semi-autobiographical story with Rusty being the
protagonist. It was based on his friends and the time he spent in a
rented room, when he was in Dehradun. Id the X?
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27. Ruskin Bond

28.  It started the last Wednesday of August in 1945 when some
young people spent the time in the town square to attend the
Giants and Big-Heads figures parade. The young boys decided
to take part in a parade with musicians, Giants and Big-Heads
figures. The energy of jovialities caused one participant's big
head to fall off. The participant flew into a fit of rage, began
hitting everything in his path. There was a market stall of
vegetable that fell victim to the fury of the crowd. People
started to pelt each other with this until the local forces ended
that fruit battle. Which very popular things starting with this?
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31.  X is a 1959 Hindi film produced and directed by Y who also
played the lead role in the film. The film is regarded as the first
Indian film in Cinema Scope.
 The film was a box office bomb in its time, but was later
considered as a world cinema's cult classic in the 1980s. Many
consider this film to be much ahead of its time. The film is said
to have been inspired by Y association with Z, and to be a
homage to Z. Z was a famous 1940s director
whose Kismet(1943) made him a household name. The life and
subsequent failures of Z, whom Y had joined in 1950. id XYZ?
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33. The film is said to have been
inspired by Guru Dutt's association
with Gyan Mukherjee

34. This is one of 2 bronze art works found at Y that show more
flexible features when compared to other more formal poses. X
is naked, wears a number of bangles and a necklace and is
shown in a natural standing position with one hand on her hip. X
wears 24 to 25 bangles on her left arm and 4 bangles on her
right arm, and some object was held in her left hand, which is
resting on her thigh; both arms are unusually long. X necklace
has three big pendants. X has her long hair styled in a big bun
that is resting on her shoulder. Description of what?
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36. Dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro

37.  In 19th century the British colonial authorities brought the
community under the purview of Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 which
forced them to give up their traditional occupations. This led to
some of them settling down as farmers near mountains and hilly
regions, while others were driven into the forests. From history
gender equality is almost achieved in X community, women and men
enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of
society, including economic participation and decision-making, and
when the different behaviours, aspirations and needs of women and
men are equally valued and favoured. Id the community?
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39. Banjara

40. The Legend of Bagger Vance is a
2000 sports drama film directed
by Robert Redford, and stars Will
Smith, Matt Damon, and Charlize
Theron. The screenplay by Jeremy
Leven is based on the 1995 book The
Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of
Golf and the Game of Life by Steven
Pressfield. It takes place in the U.S.
state of Georgia in 1931. the story of
this movie loosely based on which
famous Indian text?
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42. Bhagbat Gita

43. X was a American mathematician who
made fundamental contributions
to game theory, differential
geometry, and the study of partial
differential equations. Y movie
based on X’s life which won four
academy awards in 2001. It was
well received by critics, but has
been criticized for its inaccurate
portrayal of some aspects of X's
life, especially his other family. Id X
and Y?
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45. John Nash and

46. As early as 1896, the British bacteriologist Ernest Hankin studied
the bactericidal properties in X. He found that colonies of
cholera bacteria that thrived in tap water quickly died in X. He
pursued his experiment by using boiled X and filtered X. To his
surprise, while the filtered X continued to show an
antibacterial effect, the boiled X did not. This clearly indicated
that the factor responsible for the X’s bactericidal properties
was heat labile (altered by heat) but not filterable, at least not
with the porcelain Pasteur filters Hankin used in his
experiment. Id X?
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49.  The Girl in the Picture written by Denise
Chong is a 1999 biographical and historical
work tracing the life story of Kim Phúc.
 The Girl in the Picture deals primarily with
examining themes of war, racism,
immigration, political turmoil, repression,
poverty, and international relationships
through the lens of family and particularly
through the eyes and everyday lives of
women. Kim Phúc and her mother, Nu. By
which name kim phuc better known to us?
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51. Napalm girl

52. X is a 1968 Bengali film directed by Tapan Sinha, in the late
1960s, it tells the story of an aged widow in a village who goes
to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation.
She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of
educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in
the prevalent violence. The film was a commercial success,
and also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in
Bengali, as well as several BFJA Awards. In 1971, it was
remade in Hindi as Y, directed by Gulzar. Just Id X and Y?
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55. The distillery was founded in 1786,and is the oldest working
distillery in the Highlands of Scotland, located in Speyside. The
Strathisla distillery is owned by X Brothers, and Strathisla
single malt is one of the malt whiskies used within the X blend.
Strathisla single malts have a natural sweetness and help to
define the taste of X. X is a blended Scotch whisky produced
by X, which is part of Pernod Ricard. X traces its roots back to
1801. X's home is Strathisla distillery at Keith,
Moray in Speyside, Scotland, the oldest operating Highland
distillery, which was founded in 1786. id the brand?
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58. X" is a song composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole
Bayer Sager. It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme
song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It
was the first Bond theme song to be titled differently from the
name of the film since.
A company was founded in June 2001 with a small staff under the
brand name SoCal Cash and changed its name to ------ in
March 2004. The date 1776 in its logo refers to the United
States Declaration of Independence in which Thomas Jefferson
declared the right of “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
also use X as companys catchline. Just id X?
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61. In Norse mythology, X is a series of events, including a great battle,
foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures natural
disasters and the submersion of the world in water. After these
events, the world will resurface a new and fertile, the surviving
and returning gods will meet and the world will be repopulated
by two human survivors. X is an important event in Norse
mythology and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and
theory in the history of Germanic studies. The north portal of the
12th-century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as
containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent X. id
X?
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63. Ragnarok

64. In the finals of 1973 in Y tournament, Pyongyang City were beaten 3-1 by
East Bengal. The trophy was presented to East Bengal team by famous
person X. Just id X and Y?
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66. Lev Yashin And IFA shield

67. X Game launched on 15th August, marking
the occasion of Independence day. In the
game, the player plays the protagonist
Y cruising around the city, taking down
enemies with his arsenal of weapons & a
Jetpack. Hyderabad based Pixalot Labs,
a leading game services company in
India is the developer of this exciting
game and has to be credited for the fun
packed extravaganza that the game has
to offer. Just name the game and the
protagonist based on which famous
actor?
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70. In March 1964, the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co.,
launched a new series called X. X commenced with a monthly schedule.
The cover artwork for the first 50 or so issues of X was done by
B.Govind, with the back cover featuring a pin-up poster. Govind's painted
covers are highly regarded amongst Indian Y fans. Because of The X's
close connection to India, the editors made several "politically correct"
changes to places and names—Bengali became Denkali there are no
pygmy people in Bengal, which would have puzzled Indian readers the
Singh Brotherhood were known as "Singa" pirates; and Rama became
Ramalu, even though Ramalu is also a common Indian name. id X and Y?
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73. X, was an American actor and comedian who
began his movie career as a in silent films.
He once sued his mother and stepfather over
his squandered film earnings and
provoked California to enact the first known
legal protection for the earnings of child
performers, the California Child Actors Bill,
widely known as the X Act. The legal battle
focused attention on child actors and
resulted in the 1939 enactment of the
California Child Actor's Bill, often referred to
as the “X Law" or the “X Act“. How we all
know X?
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76. In January 1937, the Spanish Republican government commissioned Y to
create a large mural for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's
Fair.
The painting was created in response to the bombing of X, a Basque
Country town in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy at
the request of the Spanish Nationalists. Upon completion, X was
exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International
Exposition and then at other venues around the world. The touring
exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting
became famous and widely acclaimed, and it helped bring worldwide
attention to the Spanish Civil War. Name the painting and the artist?
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78. Guernica by Pablo Picasso.

79.  It is a dance-drama performance art with origins in the Krishna-
centered Vaishnavism monasteries of Assam, and attributed to the 15th
century Bhakti movement scholar and saint Mahapurush Srimant
Sankardev.
 X are also called Ankiya Nat, which combine the aesthetic and the
religious through a ballad, dance and drama. The plays are usually
performed in the dance community halls of monastery temples .The
themes played relate to Krishna and Radha, sometimes other
Vishnu avatars such as Rama and Sita.
 Recognized in 2000 as a classical dance by Sangeet Natak Akademi of
India, modern X explores many themes and plays, and its performances
staged worldwide. Id the Dance Form?
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81. Sattriya is a classical Indian
dance that originated in its
eastern state of Assam.

82. In February 2013, Central Board of Film Certification refused to pass
the film. The letter of denial cited excessive use of abusive language,
sexuality, frivolous approach in portraying of social movements and
negative portrayal of the character X. Suman Mukhopadhyay, the
director of the film, was angry that the film was blocked by the
censor board and he said in an interview: "It is frightening because
it is interference of an artist's work and it is happening again and
again in West Bengal. It is not the first time. There was Ambikesh
Mahapatra cartoon case. In the Bengali language, the name of the
film literally translates to "War cry of the Beggars“. Which bengali
movie and the character X?
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84. X-Joseph stalin

85. The official flag of X which was designed by Fredrik Meltzer is
composed of three colors. These colors include bright red,
dark blue and white. The colors were influenced by French
Tricolor which is known as a sign of liberty. The flags of the
United States and the United Kingdom are also among the
major influences of the design of the X flag. The dark blue
color of the X flag is designed as a cross and bordered in
white. The dark blue cross, which is known to be the cross of
Sweden. Just id the country?
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89. X is a 1933 Romanian novel written by the author and
philosopher Y. It is a fictionalized account of the love story
between Y, who was visiting India at the time, and the
young Z who became a famous writer herself. The novel
was translated into Italian in 1945. For many years, Z was
not aware that the story had been published. After reading
it, she wrote her own version of the relationship in 1974.
Entitled W it was originally published in Bengali. Later It
was published in English as It Does Not Die. Id the both
novel?
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91. La Nuit Bengali And Nao Hanyate

92. In US a Teenage couples before either participant has reached the
age of consent, or after one has but the other has not, may engage
in consensual sexual conduct as part of an intimate relationship. In
such cases, the older of the two participants is technically guilty of
rape as any consent between partners, even if freely given, does
not meet the standard of law as it is given by a minor. “X" laws,
serve to reduce or eliminate the penalty of the crime in cases
where the couple's age difference is minor and the sexual contact
is only considered rape because of the lack of legally-recognized
consent. The name of this law based on which very famous William
Shakespeare books?
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95. It was designed by Hiëronymus Duquesnoy the Elder and put in
place in 1618 or 1619.The current statue is a replica which dates
from 1965.The original is kept in the Museum of the City of
Brussels. X is the best-known symbol of the people of Brussels.
It also embodies their sense of humour and their independence
of mind. The earliest mention of the existence of X can be found
in an administrative text, dating from 1451–1452, about the
water lines supplying the fountains of Brussels. From the
beginning, the fountain played an essential role in the
distribution of drinking water. Which famous statue?
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97. Manneken Pis

98. This is a song from the movie Bride
and Prejudice. A duo of Lyricist
came together very first time and
this was the last time also. They
never work together as a lyricist.
Name the Duo, Bride and
Prejudice their only work
together as a lyricist?
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100. Farhan Akhtar And Zoya Akhtar

120. THANK YOU