T@6 Weekly Quiz - June 05, 2013

Presented by : Sumanth Patlolla

05-June-2013

Mixed Bag

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What does the purple line signify?

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Dingo Line

Connect

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Sobha Singh – Father of Khushwant Singh.

He was a witness in the assembly bomb explosion incident on April 08, 1929. He identified Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt after they threw bombs at the Delhi assembly in 1929. Subsequently Shaheed Bhagat Singh,Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death for their role in the assassination of Saunders.

He is also known as builder of modern Delhi. Of late , there is a movement against naming a road in Delhi after him cos of this incident.

Identify the Phrase for the above picture and the connect the lady with the images to the right.

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Phrase - Do a Melba! (slang to make repeated farewell appearances)

Images – Peach Melba and the Melba Toast .

Connect is of course the lady – Nellie Melba (a famous Australian operatic soprano)

Name the Island..

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Axe Island!!

Who and what occasion ?

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Pran Krishan SikandOn the occasion of being felicitated with Dada Saheb Phalke Award!

What is this type of construction known as ?

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Façadism (or Façadomy) is the practice of demolishing a building but leaving its facade intact for the purposes of building new structures in it or around it!

Identify

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Mr Arbab Goswami..

Who are they ?

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Mrs and Mr. Mallya

Played in club cricket – part of Hari Singh Cricket Academy in Ghaziabad, Kishengunj Club.

Played in Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)’s second division league.

Wholesaler of cricket shoes and T-shirts selling them at dirt cheap prices.

Also had the contract to supply gear to some of the big cricket academies in Delhi.

About whom am I talking about..?

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Ajit Chandila

Logo of ?? and story behind …

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Lady Godiva

Contd…put fundae and come up with the appropriate phrase .

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Born on 30 April 1964- Is a Malaysian Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd.,

Introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". He managed to turn AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies.

Who and how is he familiar to us?

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Tony Fernandez

X , a Jewish friend and mentor of Y, described as a gambler who fixed the World Series.

X appears only twice in the novel, the second time refusing to attend Y’s funeral.

He is a clear allusion to Arnold Rothstein, a New York crime kingpin who was notoriously blamed for the Black Sox Scandalwhich tainted the 1919 World Series.

Identify X and Y

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X - Meyer WolfsheimY – Gatsby

What?

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Kumbh mela !

The word ___ was voted the 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society.Definition - To demote or devalue someone or something.

What's the good word?

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Word - “Plutoed”

To pluto is to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet.

1. United States2. Lesotho3. Swaziland4. Papa New Guinea

What do these 4 countries have in common?

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The only nations not to have mandated paid maternity leave!!!

What ????

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Ad for Levis Low rise jeans!

What and who????

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Borussia Dortmund Tifo

Tifo, originally the Italian word for the phenomenon of supporting a sport team, is mostly used as a name for any choreography displayed by fans in the stands of an arena or stadium in connection with a sport event, mostly as part of an association football match.

Where is this taken?

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Netherlands – Belgium border

English-language idiom, a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the issue. It is also a literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction. It refers to a particularly strong kipper, a fish that has been strongly cured in brine and/or heavily smoked. This process makes the fish particularly pungent smelling and, with strong enough brine ,changes its colour. Used in supposed technique of training young scent hounds.. 

Identify the idiom.. 

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Red Herring 

Connect..

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Nelson Number (111)

Nelson is a piece of cricket slang terminology and superstition.The name, applied to team or individual scores of 111 or multiples thereof (known as double nelson, triple nelson, etc.) is thought to refer to Lord Nelson's lost eye.Nelson was blinded by cannon fire in Corsica

In the early days of aviation, it was not even clear to people if ground was necessarily the best place to build an airport. One of the most famous – and ultimately abandoned – scheme to build an airport in the sky gave the distinctive shape and profile to what?

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Empire State Building!

Who was the first Asian woman to be elected president of the Oxford Union, the prestigious debating society?

Who was her counterpart as president of the Cambridge Union during the same period?

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Benazir Bhutto & Karan Thapar

“Weixin” is a mobile phone text and voice messaging communication service developed by Tencent in China. It had more than 100 million users on March 2012.Renamed as ___ on April 2012 when it went international. ___ provides multimedia communication with text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, photo/video sharing, location sharing, and contact information exchange. _ supports social networking  via shared streaming content feeds and location-based social plug-ins ('Shake', 'Look Around', and 'Drift Bottle') to chat with and connect with local and international users

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We Chat…..

Who and why was he in news?

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Srikanth Srinivasan

Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan  scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America'ssecond highest court- United States Courtof Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit..

What is special about the couple?

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Their wedding in South Africa leading to the infamous GuptaGate scandal!!

FITB:

•Aishwarya Rai•Nargis•Sonia Gandhi•Akhilesh Yadav•__________

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Nirbhaya.

The new variety, its grower Padma Shri Kaleemullah Khan said, was his way of honoring the bravery and spirit of the young physiotherapist, whose eventual death galvanized the entire nation.

Inspiration for???

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Dante’s vision of Hell which plays a huge influence for Dan Brown’s Inferno

What are these posters of?

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Kolkata Traffic Police !

• He came to Bombay to become a cricketer but ended up in the movie industry instead.

• He had several filmi connections as he was Sunil Dutt’s classmate in Lucknow and Raveena Tandon’s maternal uncle. In fact, the actress was very fond of ‘___’mama’ and thought him to be a hero in real life.

• There was a controversy around the National Awards of 2001 when Raveena won the Best Actress prize for Daman while mamaji was a member of the jury (and later accused of nepotism).

A well known face in many movies , we all have heard him being called out to. Name him.

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MacMohan - Makijany Mohan

Identify and Connect

Clue 1:

Identify and Connect

Clue 2:

Anil Pal,  an Indian Bengali American who worked first with Yahoo and is now with DVD giant Netflix as the Director of Operations Engineering in Silicon Valley. Was also a classmate of director Mansoor Khan in IIT Bombay.

Imran Khan – Son of Nuzhat Khan and Anil Pal

I love to revel in philosophical matters--especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time.I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and I have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major."

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Contd.. Put Fundae

Samuel LongHorn Clemens( Mark Twain) in his biography:“I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835,”. “It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’ Oh, I am looking forward to that.”

Halleys Comet: Nov. 16, 1835 ; April 20, 1910

Mark Twain Born: Nov. 30, 1835 ; Died: Apr. 21, 1910

Who???

•President of AICF – All India Chess Federation from 2005 till 2011.•President of State Golf Federation. •President of the All India Organisation of Employers.•Also a member of the Prime Minister's Council of Trade and Industry (1996-2001)

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Who Else??? Srini Mama

Which two Pakistani towns carry the names of the sons of Rama?

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Lahore Kasur

* Lahore Fort has a vacant temple dedicated to Lava (also pronounced Loh, hence Loh-awar or "The Fort of Loh")

Identify and Connect

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PONZI SCHEMES - Charles Ponzi, was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U.S. and Canada

In Islamic law (or jurisprudence to be more correct) , what is the name for a property or endowment that is donated to a trust, the proceeds of which are intended for charitable purposes?

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Waqf

What is a brick made of a mixture of sun-dried earth and straw called?

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Adobe!

An area where a cricket ball can pitch during a delivery, a narrow line on & just outside a batsman's off stump. This is the area in which a batsman struggles most to determine whether to play forward or back, or whether to leave the delivery"

What term??? also connect with a book by a certain Rhodes Scholar who has studied extensively on the subject of sports.

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Term : Corridor Of Uncertainty

The Mahe river, a South Indian river flowing through Kerala, is supposedly the most polluted river there. During the period of British rule, it separated the British-ruled Talasery and Mahe (a part of Pondicherry).

What nickname did the river get during British Raj because of this?

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The English Channel

As it separated British-ruled Talasery from French-ruled Mahe

She’s the youngest person to have her wax figure installed at Madame Tussauds. This was in 2006, when she was just two months old - it marked the first time aninfant was recreated in wax by the museum. She has dual citizenship of Namibia and the US.

In 2008, she also made her on screen debut in a multiple Oscar-nominated movie.

Who is this kid?

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Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. The movie being ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ To honor Pitt and Jolie‘s commitment to charity, Madame Tussauds gave away $1 to UNICEF for every Pitt-Jolie family photo that visitors bought.

Apart from the US flag, which other flag was carried by John Glenn on the first US orbital space flight in 1962, and also taken to the moon by Neil Armstrong aboard the Apollo 11 in 1969?

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The flag of the National Geographic Society

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According to the Mahabharata, Arjuna secured “Pasupathastra” from Lord Siva at this location.

One of the names of this location is believed to have originated from the myth that Arjuna was requested by a River Goddess for a path to enter the sea. Arjuna created a ‘hole’, hence the alternate name of this place.

Name the location.

Bejawada (now called Vijayawada)

A tale behind its acquiring the name "Bezawada" is that Goddesses Krishnaveni (River Krishna) requested Arjuna to make a passage for her to merge into the Bay of Bengal. Hence Arjuna made a bejjam (hole) through the mountains and the place came to be known as Bejjamwada which later changed to Bezawada.

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Which cricketer was mockingly nicknamed the ‘Peshawar Rickshaw’ when he made his debut because he wasn't as fast as the ‘Rawalpindi Express’?

The Rickshaw, however, had the last laugh as he outlasted and arguably outdid the Express (atleast in Test matches)

Umar Gul

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Journalists researching and writing on China, while residing within the country, usually follow a rule of thumb that goes “Don’t write about the three Ts”

What are the three Ts?

Tiananmen, Taiwan & Tibet

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In 2004, Pierre Ballester a French sports journalist and David Walsh, sports correspondent of Sunday Times, published a book in French that had extensive reports of Lance Armstrong’s doping with circumstantial evidence.

The title of the book which was subtitled, ‘Les Secrets De Lance Armstrong’, was similar to a well-known 90’s neo noir movie, and is a take-off on his name itself.

Which one?

L.A. Confidential

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“Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution will bring us victory”

“Freedom is in Peril, defend it with all your might”

The third one in this series was never released officially. It was rediscovered in early 2000 and since then has been widely used in the World Wide Web.

Many footballers such as Berbatov have used this quote/slogan in celebrating their goals.

Motivational posters produced by the British government in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.

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In the Barclays Premier League, Manchester City are sponsored by Etihad Airways. When the Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited bought the club, there was a huge uproar when they renamed the ‘City of Manchester Stadium’ to the ‘Etihad Stadium’.

Why?

Because "Etihad" in Arabic means "United/Unity/Union", and Manchester United are their crosstown rivals

50

In 1995/96, what did Outlook magazine humorously describe as “India’s biggest sex change operation”?

Renaming of Victoria Terminus to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

51Connect and fill in the blanks:

2012 - ____________2011 - ____________2010 - Desmond Tutu2009 - Queen Rania of Jordan2008 - Women’s ________2007 - ________________2006 - Giacinto Facchetti2005 - Anders Frisk2004 - Haiti 2003 - Iraqi ______________2002 - Parminder Nagra2001 - Marvin Lee

Fifa Presidential Award Winners: The Presidential Award has been bestowed upon a person or institution that has made a superlative contribution to football without seeking to monopolise the limelight.

2012 - Franz Beckenbauer 2011 - Sir Alex Ferguson 2007 - Pele

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Among his several accomplishments, one of Spielberg’s biggest accomplishments was to get X & Y to share screen time in one of his movies in 1988.

It was done on a condition that both their characters would speak the same number of words in dialogue.

Who are X & Y and name the movie?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit marks the first (and so far, the only) time in animation history that Bugs Bunny (Warner Bros.'s famous character) and Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney's famous character) appeared on screen together.

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After World War II, in order to popularize and to regulate this event the governing body came up with a set of regulations or X. There are four different regulations that were adopted over a period of time.

Y is generally considered the pinnacle of this event while the other levels form a sort of career ladder and also act as a feeder for Y.

Id?

Formula and Formula One

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Id.

Supposedly, the first ever depiction of Bharat Mata, by Abanindranath Tagore

Tagore portrayed Bharat Mata as a four-armed Hindu goddess wearing saffron-colored robes, holding a book, sheaves of rice, a mala, and a white cloth.

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Connect…

Catamaran, a venture capital fund set up in 2010 by N R Narayana Murthy.

It has made investments in a few companies like Manipal Universal Learning, SKS Microfinance, etc,..

It is also an Indian sailboat with two parallel hulls known for its lightness and agility.

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The origins of X go back to 1904, when a Quaker lady created it through which she hoped to explain the single tax theory of a famous American political economist.

The MI-6 created a special edition of X for captured soldiers held at Nazi camps which in reality contained maps, compasses and other objects useful for escaping.

Identify X.

Monopoly (The Board Game)

Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips created the game to be able to explain the ‘single tax’ theory of Henry George (it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies).

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The line that follows is the origin of what popular saying? “When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail ----------------------------------------------------”

“Female of the species is more deadly than the male”

"The Female of the Species" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling originally published in 1911

It begins with illustrations of the (alleged) greater deadliness of the females of different species: the Himalayan bear, the cobra and the native American

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This celebrity’s stage name was formed by juxtaposing the names of two 1960s American cultural icons, as both criticism and praise of America and its peculiar culture.

Reportedly Johnny Depp’s inspiration for his performance as Willy Wonka in the film ’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Launched own brand of Swiss-made absinthe, whose odour critics compared to sewage water, but won a gold medal at the 2008 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Id.

Marilyn Manson (from Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson)

59Id the organization.

Clue : The name is derived from a Greek word which suggests ‘a circle or band of brothers.’

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinctpast and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated white supremacy, white nationalism and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism.

It is estimated to have between 5,000 and 8,000 members as of 2012.

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This exclusive list includes only 3 Indians. The last Indian to feature was Rashid Patel, with Maninder Singh and G.S.Ramchand being the other Indians.

The more famous of the list are Saeed Anwar, Graham Gooch, Allan Donald, James franklin, Lasith Malinga, Chamara Silva, Chris Tremlett and Marvan Attapattu.

What exclusive list?

Some of the players to have had a pair of ducks on their Test debut

So far, 38 batsmen in all have been dismissed for a pair on their debut.