Qonnoisseur 13 finals

Qonnoisseur 2013

FinalsBy – Rujul Godse

Special thanks..

• Rohan Danait• Ranjeet Soman• Omkar Yarguddi• Payas Awadhutkar

Qonnoisseur 2013

• Ir 1-15 questions• Lvc• Ir2-15 questions

Ir 1

• 4 pounces per team• +10/0 for direct• +10/-10 for pouncing

1.

Gates of Fire is a 2005 album by heavy metal band Manilla Road. It is divided into a trilogy: "The Frost's Giant Daughter", inspired by the story of the same name written by Robert E. Howard; "Out of the Ashes", based on Virgil's Aeneid; and "Gates of Fire". From what event does "Gates of Fire" take inspiration?

The Battle of Thermopylae(aka Hot Gates)

2.

Connect:

1. My Dog: The Paradox Book2. How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You3. 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth4. Why Grizzly Bears should wear underpants

Books by The Oatmeal

3.

‘Glow of Hope’ alternatively titled ‘Woman with the lamp’ is the famous painting displayed at the Sri Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery at the Jaganmohan Palace in Mysore, India.

Identify the painter

S.L.Haldankar

4.

'X' was a film starring Amitabh Bacchan.The film won the national award of India as the best feature film in English in 2007.It was written and directed by late Rituparno Ghosh.Other actors in the film were Preity Zinta,Arjun Rampal,Divya Dutta,Shefali Shah

Id X

The Last Lear

5.

The opening line of this much awaited book releasing in 2015 that will complete the trilogy was revealed recently by the author to be ""Once the Queen has been five minutes dead he walks away." where the 'he' in question is the protagonist whose biography the series chronicles.

Name the book.

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

6.

How X learnt about the film Y's triumph at the Oscars: "I was playing clarinet at Michael's Pub. I finished early, went home, went to bed, got up, had a shower, got dressed and went downstairs to make my breakfast. Then I picked up the New York Times and saw that Y had won four Oscars. I thought, "Oh, that's nice." And it was nice. But it didn't change anything."Identify X and Y.

Woody Allen and Annie Hall

7.

Image shows Penelope Cruz who won the national film award of Spain for Best Actress.

Who are these awards named after?

Pic follows

Francisco Goya

8.

1. "You know, it just occurred to me, if there are an infinite number of Xs, in one of them, there’s probably a Sheldon who doesn’t believe Xs exist. It’s just one of the things that makes one of the mes chuckle."2. " The math would suggest that in a few I'm a clown made of candy. But I assure you that in none of them am I dancing."-- Dr. Sheldon Cooper talking about X

What is X?

Parallel universes

9.Trench : Good lord, you're right. It's Kandinsky. Wassily Kandinsky, and who's this here with him? It's Braque. Georges Braque, the Cubist, painting a bird in flight over a cornfield and going very fast down the hill towards Kingston and... (cylists pass in front of him) Piet Mondrian - just behind, Piet Mondrian the Neo-Plasticist, and then a gap, then the main bunch, here they come, Chagall, Max Ernst, Miro, Dufy, Ben Nicholson, Jackson Pollock and Bernard Buffet making a break on the outside here, Brancusi's going with him, so is Gericault, Ferdinand Leger, Delaunay, De Kooning, Kokoschka's dropping back here by the look of it, and so is Gericault, Ferdinand Leger, Delaunay, De Kooning, Kokoschka's dropping back here by the look of it, and so's Paul Klee dropping back a bit and, right at the back of this group, our very own Kurt Schwitters.. Trench: But as yet absolutely no sign of ______ ________, and so from Tolworth roundabout back to the studio. FITB and put funda.

Pablo Picasso, Monty Python's 'Picasso on a bicycle' sketch

10.

This April, Guilermo del Toro and Steve Thompson announced a HBO series based on this manga. Its anime adaptation is already one of a kind hit with it being labelled as legendary. Del Toro while expressing his views on the title said - ' It seems kinda misleading on first look. But then you start questioning humanity of the antagonist. Whether he really is a human or a _____?’

What are we talking about?

Monster

11.

In the history of the Academy Awards, what is common to these 6 awards?1932 Best Actor Award1949 Best Documentary Short Award1968 Best Actress Award1986 Best Documentary Feature Award1994 Best Live Action Short Award

Tie vote resulting in 2 awards being presented

12.

"...and Four Stolen Hooves, ...and Two Hundred Smoking Kalashnikovs, ...and a Fistful of Jack and Jills, ...and Spaghetti Sauce, ...and Two Sips, ...and One Big Bullock, ...and a Good Slopping Out" are the names of 7 episodes of a television series which was shown on Channel 4 in 2000. The series prominently featured the rhyming slang of London's East End, making it harder for viewers to comprehend. The series shared it's name with the first two words of a British film, of which it was an off-shoot.

Which film?

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

13.

FIB the 2nd last name in this exhaustive list:Admiral Sir Miles MesservyAdmiral Hargreaves_______Lieutenant Colonel Gareth Mallory(Blanks not indicative of length)

M (Head of MI6 in James Bond films)

14.

Who doing What?

Roger Waters writing 'No Thought Control' on the West

Bank Separation Wall in Israel

15.

Enough Said' is a movie released on 18th september 2013. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) pursuing a guy she likes who turns out to be her friend's ex-husband. Not exactly the most enthralling premise. This was the last role of 'the guy being pursued' which brought this movie in the news. Which actor who we know for an iconic role on TV and who died an untimely death played the role?

James Gandolfini who played Tony Soprano in The

Sopranos.

Scores

LVC

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The connect is-

Maiher-Senia Gharana

IR 2

• 4 pounces per team• +10/0 for direct• +10/-10 for pounce

1.

The Walking Dead is an American television series developed by Frank Darabont. AMC started a live talk show in 2011 as a spin-off to The Walking Dead with guests, including celebrity fans, cast members, and crew from the series. It features host Chris Hardwick discussing the latest episode with guests who are fans of the series. Segments of the show include an "In Memoriam" highlighting the deaths from the episode, an online poll, episode trivia, behind-the-scenes footage, and questions from fans via phone, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or from their official website. What is this show called?

The Talking Dead

2.

This band adopted a custom logo which has appeared on the vast majority of their promotional material and on the front cover of every studio album they've released. The logo is derived from Mary, Queen of Scots' mark, which was re-worked by their then vocalist, Charlie Dominici, for use on the debut album artwork. In September 2010, a fan discovered that all of the letters of "DOMINICI" fit together perfectly into the logo. When Charlie discovered this, he laughed and mentioned that "it only took them 25 years to figure out the 'Dominici Code!'". Which band?

Dream Theater

3.

Apart from being a guitarist, an occasional actor and a social activist, he also teaches a class on music titled "Islamic Music and Culture of South Asia", as a guest faculty at Queens College at the City University of New York. He has served as the UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS Programme towards spreading awareness about HIV in South Asia. He is more well known as the frontman of one of the biggest Asian bands. Who?

Salman Ahmed

4.

Id all 3

George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc and G K Chesterton

5.

The director had confessed to shoot the entire film in black and white, however that idea was rejected by the producers. In turn, the director ended up using the colour red predominantly in the movie, as a homage to the film Sin City.

Which Bollywood film?

Johnny Gaddaar

6.

In music, a ____A____ is a glide from one pitch to another more like filling in of discrete intermediate pitches on instruments such as piano, harp and fretted string instrumens. It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French word for glide. In some contexts it is distinguished from the continuous ____B_____.Musical instruments with continuously variable pitch can effect a ____B____ over a substantial range. These include unfretted stringed instruments (such as the violin, viola, cello and double bass, and fretless guitars) & stringed instruments with a way of stretching the strings such as the guitar, veena, or sitar.A & B?

A - glissandoB - portamento

7.

He debuted as a professional by assisting in recording his father's final album, Brainwashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynne after his father's death in November 2001. On 14 April 2009, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce posthumously awarded his more famous father a star on the Walk of Fame. After a short speech by his mother about her late husband, he uttered the "Hare Krishna" mantra. His first name is pronounced similarly to the name Danny but with an aspirated 'd'. He is named after the 6th and 7th notes of the Indian music scale. It is also a raga in north Indian classical music. Who is the father?

George Harrison

8. Identify the person in the painting as well as the artist

for part points

Pic follows

Friedrich Nietzsche and Edvard Munch

9.

Nritya Ganga is a classical dance style which evolved from synthesis of Bharatnatyam and Hindustani classical music.

It was conceived way back in 1982 by the legendary dance exponent of Bharatnatyam style of dance. Today Nritya Ganga has earned its rightful place as a sister style or a new Bani of Bharatnatyam, having its own repertoire - Margam.

Name the Legendary dancer.

Sucheta Bhide-Chapekar

10.

In 1968, a guy called Oberon Zell-Ravenheart started The Church of All Worlds" which was inspired by a fictional organization from a 1962 Hugo award winning book. It is a 'Neopagan' organization which is still active and uses the ideas and values from the book. The author of this book got the idea for it after reading Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book but he chose his protagonist to be raised among Martians rather than wolves. What book which also shares its name with a song by Iron Maiden, U2, Triumph among others?"

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

11.

J.G. Farrell's 1970 novel Troubles beat the likes of The Birds on the Trees, The Bay of Noon, Fire from Heaven, The Driver's Seat and The Vivisector to win which special edition prize which was awarded by a public vote in 2010?

The Lost Man Booker Prize

12.

This is a description of two poets who had a possible homosexual encounter when X visited Y in America in the late 19th century. "The contrast between the two poets could not have been more marked. X was young, tall, slender and clean shaven. Y was in his early sixties, but looked much older. He was shorter than X and wore a long, bushy white beard. X was highly educated, cultivated and still in his languid Aesthetic phase. Y was self-taught, and robustly masculine in manner." The reason X wanted to meet Y in the first place was described as "the ‘Calamus’ section of Y's great poetic cycle Leaves of Grass was so intensely homoerotic that it gave rise to the short-lived term ‘calamite’ to denote a man who loved men." ID both.

X- Oscar Wilde Y- Walt Whitman

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FITB. X? Funda?:1. X2. ________________________3. The Lauriston Garden Mystery4. What John Rance had to tell5. Our advertisement brings a visitor6. Tobias Gregson shows what he can do7. Light in the darkness

X- Mr. Sherlock HolmesBlank- The science of deductionFunda- chapters of the first part of "A study in scarlet", the first Sherlock Holmes book

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Apart from being an author and a literary critic, X was an accomplished musician and composed regularly throughout his life. The structure of one of his compositions, Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements was modelled on Y's Eroica symphony, while Mozart and the Wolf Gang mirrors the sound and rhythm of Mozartian composition, among other things attempting a fictional representation of Symphony No.40. The protagonist of his most famous literary work, was shown to be very fond of classical music, particularly Y. While listening to this music, the protagonist fantasizes about endless rampages of torture and slaughter. X and Y?

X: Anthony BurgessY: Beethoven

15.

The ‘C’ is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The ‘C’ could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.The round façade of the building was originally composed of white and pink limestone from Valpolicella, but after a major earthquake in 1117, which almost completely destroyed the structure's outer ring, except for the so-called "ala", the stone was quarried for re-use in other buildings.The 2011 Bollywood film Rockstar directed by Imtiaz Ali starring Ranbir Kapoor opens and closes with musical concerts shot here

Arena Di Verona

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