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Ze Prelims..

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Ze Rules:

1. 25 questions written round. No negatives.

2. Some questions are starred which shall help us

sort out ties.

3. Maximum four members per team. Google should

not be one of them under any circumstances or

you are disqualified.

4. The quizmaster is the God of the arena, only there

are four of us this time – so an extra bit of caution

wouldn’t harm.

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Good Luck one and all….

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Answer: Kapil Sibal.

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2. Professor Auguste Piccard worked on ballooning

experiments. And they are being used to create different

forms of internet connectivity by using balloons.

He has been immortalised in the world today in a different

form. What?

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Answer:

Professor

Calculus

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3. Paul Blackthorne played the role of Stephen Saunders in

the television series “24”.

However, he is more prominent to all here for a role he

played in 2001.

What role?

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Answer: Capt. Russell of Lagaan.

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4. This Gujarati play was

remade into a 2012 Hindi film

(X)

Recently, another film Y,

dealing with a similar issue as

X, generated huge controversy

and

also inviting comparisons to X.

Identify both X and Y.

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5. Put funda

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6. Quim Barreiros is a Portuguese musician, whose 1973

band poster became quite a rage in India recently,

because of a similarity. What am I talking about?

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7. “Meghe Dhaka Tara” is an award-

winning 2013 Bengali film, starring X

in the lead.

X, in his Bollywood debut in 2012,

played ___Y____, who became quite

a

rage.

Id both X and Y.

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8.Minimalist

poster for?

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9.“San Ge Sha Gua” is a 2011 Chinese film, which became quite popular

among the youth there. How do we better know this film?

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10.

What am I

talking

about?

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Answer: Yeh Duniya Pital di, baby doll mein sone di.

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______________ ,on winning the Best Supporting

Actor at the Academy Awards, said in his

acceptance speech:

"Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he's

gonna get gloriously drunk tonight.”

Who and which movie?

11.

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Answer: Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects.

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Tader Sauce’s owner Tabatha Bundesen, says that her ______

face is due to an underbite and feline dwarfism.

Tarder Sauce became a worldwide sensation when Bundesen's

brother Bryan posted a picture of Tader on the social news

website Reddit on September 22, 2012.

As of now, it has 7 million followers on Facebook.

Even, a Hindi version of Tader Sauce is quite popular.

How do we better know Tader Sauce?

12.

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Answer: Grumpy Cat/ Bak**d Billi.

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13. A tribute to what?

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Answer: Charlie Hebdo.

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14.

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Answer: House of Cards.

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15. Who?

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Answer: Michelle Obama.

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16. Simple one. Just identify the band.

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17. Apart from his better known pursuits, X holds

a Ph.D. in astrophysics and is also the co-author

of "Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe"

with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott.

Identify X.

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Brian May

Guitarist of British Rock

Band Queen.

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18. A haiku is a Japanese style poem consisting of 17

syllables written

in 3 lines. Identify the fictional character who wrote this

haiku:

“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face"

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The name is bond, james bond.

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19. Formed in 1988 and named after the king of

pop, this band released their eponymous debut

album in 19991. They were the first international

act to have performed in Cambodia when they

played a show in front of 700 fans in CTN's

Studio One in Phnom Penh in October 2005.

Identify the band, that has toured India several

times.

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20. This European poem originally had just a one-word title,

given by the poet because it began in sadness and ended in

supreme happiness. Contemporaries used a complimentary

term while referring the poem which over the years has

become part of the title.

Which poem?

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Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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21. It is a term coined by psychologist James C. Kaufman to

refer to the phenomenon that creative writers are more

susceptible to mental illness. Kaufman's work demonstrated that

female poets were more likely to suffer from mental illness than

any other class of writers. This effect is named after an American

poet who committed suicide when she was thirty years old, by

putting her head in a gas oven, with all the gas taps on full.

Name the poet please.

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Sylvia Plath

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22. Which art form, tracing its origins to wandering minstrels and

storytellers, has three major schools: Benares, Jaipur and

Lucknow?

A less prominent school, Raigarh, combines techniques from the

major schools. Originally, these performers entertained

audiences in village squares and temple courtyards, by

recounting mythological and moral tales from the scriptures, and

embellishing their recitals with hand gestures and facial

expressions.

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Kathak

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*23. It is used to describe a contrived or artificial solution,

usually to a literary plot. It refers to the practice in Greek

drama of lowering, by crane, an actor playing a god or

goddess onto the stage to resolve an insuperable conflict in

the plot.

Identify

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Deus ex Machina

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*24. In his 2009 memoir, saxophonist Clarence

Clemons said X explained the line's origins when

Clemons coached X to play the saxophone for the 1977

film New York, New York. Clemons said X had seen

Bruce Springsteen say the line onstage at a concert as

fans were screaming his name, and decided to make

the line his own.

Identify X and give the famous movie quote.

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X – Robert De Niro

The dialogue is “ You talking to me!” from Taxi Driver

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25. Paul Bettany, Robin Williams, Adrien Brody and Steve Carrell had all

expressed interest in the role of X publicly, but the director chose Y

because had wanted to work with Y on a number of projects in the past.

To prepare for the role, Y lived alone in a hotel room for a month,

formulating X's posture, voice, and personality, and kept a diary, in which

he recorded X's thoughts and feelings. Y later stated A ClockworkOrange and Sid Vicious as early inspirations in formulating X.

Y won an Oscar for all his troubles.

Id X and Y.

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The Joker and Heath Ledger

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