Quiz done by Team Quizician

1. Prelims

2. Rules:
1. 30 questions, worth 1 pt. each.
2. Questions #3 and #9 require two answers –
here each answer is worth ½ pt.
3. Questions 11 to 20 are starred to break ties.
4. 8 teams in the finals.

3. 1) Duke Ellington's first composition
specifically for radio was in October 1930
and was called Dreamy Blue.
It was such an instant hit that lyrics were
added and the composition renamed as
what?

4.  Mood Indigo

5. 2) What’s the
masked word?
The book was
translated by Sir
Richard Burton in
1870.

7. 3) Identify both the singers in this duet.

8.  Kishore Kumar and Kishore Kumar (from
the movie Half Ticket)

9. 4) In classical education the four difficult
subjects were arithmetic, geometry, music
and astronomy.
The three relatively simpler subjects were
logic, grammar and rhetoric.
What were these three subjects together
called?

10.  Trivia (or trivium)

11. 5) The Great Gatsby is being made into a movie by
Baz Luhrmann (release in 2012). It stars Leonardo
DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick
Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan.
Meyer Wolfsheim, a Jewish associate of Gatsby, is
described as a gambler who fixed the World Series
(an allusion to Arnold Rothstein, who was blamed
for the Black Sox Scandal in 1919).
Who is making his Hollywood debut in a cameo
as Wolfsheim?

12.  Amitabh Bachchan

13. 6) Which graphical user interface element
derives its name from this old equipment?

14.  Radio Buttons

15. 7) The warring
Penn family of Pennsylvania
and Calvert family of Maryland appointed a
couple of British astronomers/surveyors to
settle their property dispute.
What resulted?

16.  The Mason-Dixon line

17. 8) Which restaurant chain gets its name from
the song you heard?

18.  Ruby Tuesday

19. 9)Identify the model
and her hairstyle, which is
named for a
fictional character.

20.  Kate Moss sporting the ‘Rachel.’

21. 10) This dish is made using a naan with an
egg coating, stuffed with mutton
/chicken, rolled up and sprinkled with a
special masala. The vegetarian option uses
paneer or potatoes as a stuffing.
The snack was inspired by the inventor’s
experience with Lebanese pita bread during
a 1967 stopover in Beirut and named for a
West Indian cricketer. Name this signature
‘amchi-Mumbai’ snack.

22.  Tibbs Frankie, created by Amarjit Tibb.

23. *11) Here is a work
of this person in
an exhibition in
New York.
Where would you
find his most
famous creations?

24.  Nek Chand’s Rock Garden in Chandigarh

25. *12) Why was Albert von Szent-Györgyi de
Nagyrápolt, a Hungarian physiologist who
won the Nobel Prize in 1937, honoured
with this Google Doodle?

26.  For discovering vitamin C.

27. *13) ID this gentleman.

28.  Lasith Malinga

29. *14) This is the title track from a 1968 movie
directed by KA Abbas.
Identify the actress making her debut.

30.  Persis Khambhatta

31. *15) This Vancouver-based not-forprofit magazine has been around
since 1989.
It is famous among other things
for its spoof ads, called
"subvertisements."
It is now best
known, however, for a blog post
on July 13, 2011 and the
subsequent registration of a
domain name the next day.
What are we talking about?

32.  The Occupy Wall Street movement, first
proposed on the magazine's blog.
 The domain name registered was
occupywallstreet.org

33. *16) Identify the actress playing the role of the
guide at the Rodin museum.

34.  Carla Bruni

35. *17) Which hit film was made as a response to
Lal Bahadur Shastri's slogan of “Jai
jawaan, jai kissan” during the Indo-Pak war
of 1965?

36.  Manoj Kumar’s Upkaar – the story revolved
around the farmer hero who joins the 1965 war.

37. *18) Identify the female model in this
advertisement for Westside.

38.  Giselli (or Giselle)
Monteiro – the
Brazilian model who
started her acting
career with Love Aaj
Kal as Harleen Kaur.

39. *19) Give an eight-letter sporting term to
connect the three visuals.

40.  Approach (the tennis shot is an approach
shot).

41. *20) Identify the MP /poet from the poems:
Weary with toil throughout the
day,
I await the dreams on the silver
screen I can hire. Following my
father’s advice,
I joined the school,
combed my hair,
avoided some friends,
clothed myself well,
cleaned my teeth, prayed,
married and am now waiting for
my turn.’
I am entering this fire
not to prove my truth,
but to cleanse myself
of the stains of your touch.

42.  Kanimozhi

43. 21) The Alam (flag) of Hussein ibn Ali, the Shia
martyr
beheaded in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD, was
obtained by Timur Lang.
These flags below take their design from the
legendary Alam and served as whose official flag?

44.  The Mughal empire.
The flags of the Muslim League and Pakistan
derive from this Mughal flag.

45. 22) Who was the only player/official common
between the two tied cricket Test matches
(1960 Brisbane and 1986 Chennai)?

46.  Bob Simpson - player
in 1960 and coach in
1986.

47. 23) Which protein and neurotoxin was first
used in 1980 on humans to treat strabismus
(squint-eyes) and blepharospasm
(uncontrollable blinking)?

48.  Botox

49. 24) Her name means ‘white chaste flower’ in
Italian and she was apparently the leading
opera singer of her time, though her
repertoire appears to be limited to one aria.
Her voice was powerful enough to part a
viewer’s hair, and to blow back curtains in
the opera box. Asteroid ‘1950 SL’ was named
in her honour. Name her.

50.  Bianca Castafiore

51. 25) Connect the two pictures through a HollyBollywood route.

52.  The first Academy awards were presented
at the Roosevelt hotel in 1929.
The first Filmfare awards were held at
Regal Cinema in 1954.

53. 26) What does this graphic depict?

54.  Variants on the
spelling of the name
of Muammar
Gaddafi.

55. 27) If "Maly" is the Russian for “small”, what
word in Russian is used to describe
something "large"?
This word is part of the name of a major
Moskow landmark which opened in October
2011 after extensive six years of renovations.

56.  Bolshoi

57. 28) What word or phrase comes from the
behaviour of the Amuco warriors of Java in
battle?

58.  Amok
or
 Running amok

59. 29) IAAF, the international governing body for
athletics, expands as the “International
Association of Athletics Federations.”
A small change was quietly made in 2001. Before
this, what did the first “A” in IAAF stand for?

60.  Amateur

61. 30) Victor Bergeron founded the Trader Vic
restaurants, whose food, drink and decor were
inspired by the South Pacific.
In 1944, he blended Jamaican rum, fresh
lime, Curaçao and rock candy syrup with ice
and served it to two visiting friends from
Tahiti. They remarked, “out of this world—the
best” in Tahitian.
The drink was thus named as what?

62.  Mai tai – the phrase was “Maita’i roe aé!”

63. See you at the Finals!