CDLC March 2012

Riyaz Usman 28-Mar-2012

Welcome to T@6
If youre here for the first time, we meet every Wednesday at 5.30 for trivia quizzing. For regular updates, send a mail to [email protected] As a general rule, allow QM to finish the question before answering. Raise your hands if you want to answer.

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His Wikipedia page states that He lives in North Hollywood with his wife and six-year-old daughter. He began his career, like many other actors, doing TV commercials, but then built up a fan following after notable roles in Mr. Fix-It and Water for Elephants. In the run-up to this years Oscars, his fans waged a relentless campaign on Facebook and elsewhere to convince Academy members to "Consider _____".

2. There is no try
As per 2001 census, with 390,000 believers, ____ ______ was the fourth largest religion in UK. But since they do not have any official recognition, all returns with ____ ______ were classified as no religion along with Atheist, Agnostic, Heather and those who did not write any religion. It is believed the majority of them claimed the religion for their own amusement, to poke fun at the government, or as a protest against the inclusion of the religion question on the census form. To date, no country has adopted or legally decreed this as an official religion.

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is the first pakistani to win an Oscar, for her documentary Saving Face. What is the subject of this film?

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Mamta Sharma, Chairperson, National Council for Women, on her controversial statement said ____ can mean beautiful or charming, and we should not always take this in a negative sense. FITB

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Katniss Everdeens name comes from an edible plant called katniss, and was based in part on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, in which seven boys and seven girls from Athens are sent every nine years against their will to be devoured by the Minotaur, a cycle that doesn't stop until Theseus kills the Minotaur. What/Where?

6. What do you have with you?

Connect

Madonna Maxim Gorky Nargis Dutt

Aureville, Puducherry

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Narcissus poeticus (Poet's Daffodil, ______, Pheasant's Eye, Findern Flower, and Pinkster Lily) was one of the first daffodils to be cultivated, and is frequently associated with the Greek legend of Narcissus. The hindustani name, probably itself derived from narcissus was used by Fatima Rashid, the daughter of the courtesan Jaddanbai, as her screen name. FITB.

8. 1966, 2007
All three shades are variants of the same feat. What?

9. Mothers of the believers

Khadija bint Khuwaylid Sawda bint Zama Aisha bint Abi Bakr Hafsa bint Umar Zaynab bint Khuzayma Hind bint Abi Umayya
Zaynab bint Jahsh Juwayriyya bint alHarith Rayhana bint Zayd Safiyya bint Huyayy Ramla bint Abi Sufyan Maria al-Qibtiyya Maymuna bint alHarith

10. Glen or Glenda?

11. Funny People

Bob Hope _____ _______ Johnny Carson Jack Lemmon Whoopi Goldberg Conrad Nagel Jerry Lewis David Niven Steve Martin 19 9 5 4 4 3 3 3 3

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This was one of the 20th centurys most recognizable furniture designs, designed by the Eileen Gray. The chair is very much for lounging in and socializing. It was designed as part of the modernist movement which was completely different from her earlier, more traditional work. She decided to make the change in style to simply make progress. The art critics loved the chair and reviews in papers and magazines exclaimed that it was a triumph of modern living. What is the name of this design?

13.
The biological term parthenogenesis describes how many animal species reproduce, takes half of its name from Greek parthenos, the same word parthenon gets its name from, meaning what?

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Sydney Padua writes the web comic 2D Goggles or The Thrilling Adventures of X and Y, in which the Father and the Mother of ________ _______, have actually built an engine and use it to fight crime by Queen Victoria's request. Also featured in the comic is the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whom Padua has called The Wolverine of the early Victorians. X, Y, Z (Xs father) (3)

15. Exist-what?
Identify the Intellectual partners with Che. (2)

16. Permanent Rule: You may not play it the same way twice.

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_____ _____ is a type of chutney, reputedly created by a 19th century British Army officer of the same name who presumably lived in Colonial India. Its characteristic ingredients are mango, raisins, vinegar, lime juice, onion, tamarind extract (occasionally), sweetening and spices.

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First of its kind. What?

19. Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore

Who/What is Homer Parodying?

20.
_____ kebab literally means Syrian kebab in Arabic. The name comes from the old Arabic name for Syria, as they were introduced to India by Syrian cooks serving the Mughals.

21. My Love
Identify the missing one and connect (2)

Wazir Khan Masjid, Lahore

Jama Masjid, Delhi

Moti Masjid, Lahore

Lahore Fort, Lahore

Agra Fort, Agra

Red Fort, Delhi

22. Cymotrichous
Nine of the last thirteen winners have been Indian Americans reflecting the recent dominance of students of this community in this competition. It is important to note that Indian Americans make up less than 1% of the population of the USA. Sukanya Roy was the latest Indian-American to win _____ ________ ________ ___.

23. Boys:Roy Rogers

A X is a non-alcoholic cocktail made with two parts Ginger ale, one part orange juice, and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry. The cocktail may have been invented by a bartender at Chasen's, a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, in the 1930s to serve to X, who had requested a cocktail as she was not supposed to drink alcohol.

24. A song of hot and cold

The X Y was forged by all the swords of all the hundreds of lords who surrendered to the conqueror and offered him fealty were melted down to form a Y of imposing size and appearance. It is reportedly uncomfortable to use X Y due to the sharp protrusions, occasionally cutting the incumbent.

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Arjuna explained each story to Subhadra in detail, about things like Makara, Kurma, Sarpa. However Subhadra dozed off halfway through the stories, later to be realized her greatest mistake. Why?

26.
Homage to_____ _____, also published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?, is a collection of essays by Anthony Burgess published in 1986. The title is a reference to the urban legend of an Hungarian man , who supposedly invented the modern English keyboard.

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Connect

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The X is the oldest English-language publication of its kind still being produced. It was first published between 1768 and 1771. Although publication has been based in the United States since 1901, the X has maintained British spelling. References to the X can be found in "The Red-Headed League". Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Carl Sagan and others have contributed to X. George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition.

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Connect (Page 1/2)

29. (Contd)

Jack Hobbes

Cambridge Circus, London

30. Water my farm after this!

Mark Pincus playing poker with his whom?

31.
Connect to a specific feat.

Martina Navratilova

Jaroslav Drobny

Billie Jean King

32.
Home Taping Is Killing Music was the slogan of a 1980s anticopyright infringement campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). With the rise in cassette recorder popularity, the BPI feared that people being able to record music from the radio onto cassettes would cause a decline in record sales. However, its logo has been more famous being incorporated in another logo. Where?

33. They didnt see it in 3D either

On January 4th 1912, the sun and the moon lined up with the earth in such a way that their combined gravity led to a cycle of unusually high and low tides. At almost exactly the same, the moon just happened to make its closest approach to earth in 1,400 years. This made the Lunar gravitational pull on the earth unusually strong. On Jan 3rd, the earth made its closest approach to the sun, which happens every year at this time. That meant that solar gravity was stronger than usual too. So the tides on Jan 4th were not just high, but higher than theyd been in many hundreds of years. What?

34. Hello, Dave.

Ranked as 13th-greatest film villain in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, No one knows the age of ___ ____. The creators had an argument whether it should be 12 January 1997 or 12 January 1992 . One wanted ___ ____ to be young, and the other wanted ___ ____ to be old. So, they decided that theyll never mention the age. However, 30 years later, Roger Ebert held a birthday party for ___ ____, inviting both the creators in Urbana, Illinois in 1997, the date and place of birth according to one of the creators. One of the creators did not turn up saying that they missed the party in 1992.

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When this object cools, moisture gather at it outer edges and causes it to expand, at the same time moisture at its center causes that portion to contract. This result in developing random crisscrossing fault-lines not dissimilar to that in earth's crust. The resulting unpredictability about which faultline will it break along when subjected to external stress given rise to which phrase in English language?

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A capirote is a conical hat traditionally worn in Spain by flagellants during religious processions, most notably by Nazarenos during the Holy Week in Seville. During the Spanish Inquisition condemned men were forced to wear one and undergo public humiliation before being executed. The modern uniform of which organization is thought to be derived from that of Nazarenos?

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Cole Porter, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Juan Belmonte, Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Djuna Barnes, Salvador Dal, Man Ray, Luis Buuel, T. S. Eliot, Henri Matisse, Leo Stein, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas. Where can you see all of them together?

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FITB