An easier connect…
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As usual, filenames have not been changed for your convenience.
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I have 15 replies, but as a quizmaster, ought to consider only 13. Simply Pepsi would be too apocryphal. Pepsi and the World Cup would be OK. But Full points would definitely have to be given to Pepsi’s ‘Change the Game’ ad campaign. These people and Tillakratne Dilshan feature prominently in them!
Connect these.
1. It’s the film that’s important.
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3. The cricket team is important.
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Three answers, and they rightly say Amul! I meant the first photo to be of Manthan, the film. The second is Operation Flood. And Amul is the official sponsor of the Netherlands cricket team at CWC – 2011.
Which television series, currently being aired in India, features yoghurt being eaten, stored or purchased in every episode, because apparently its the protagonist’s favourite dessert?
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Just three answers, and two correct. This is Burn Notice, the series that stars ‘TV’s James Bond’, Michael Westen.
Just pulled another all-nighter, and will conduct another quiz in a few hours’ time.
Meanwhile, here are a few questions on comics for y’all!
Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks! Meanwhile, wish me luck!
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Only Sachin got all three correct. Incidentally, I thought that the second question was the most difficult, but it was the most answered too!
Which was the first instance in the history of Indian entertainment when Gulzar, Nana Patekar and Vishal Bharadwaj came together?
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Twelve answers, but two of you have to think before Wajood and Hu tu tu. It’s the Jungle Book, broadcast after being dubbed, on TV, which had music by Vishal Bharadwaj, lyrics by Gulzar and Nana PAtekar lending his voice for Sher Khan!
Connect. Think slightly laterally.
1. Identify the flower.
2. Just the bird, please.
3. Creepy. But what are these things, that form on rocks, called?
4. Identify the character.
5. The second par of the name of the organisation is important.
What are all these a nod to?
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Nine answers, and all correct! Even Karthike Ramesh was on the right track! These are all characters form the television series How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM). Lily, Robin, Barnacle aka Barney, Ted Mosby from Mr Mosbey and Marshall Erikssen from Sony Ericsson.
Just asked this one in an entertainment quiz.
What is special about this hand-drawn picture? Sorry for the low resolution.
PS: Thanks for all your wishes, folks! It was a nice visit to Nagpur. Learnt a lot from my peer. Lotsa feedback.
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Twelve answers, and only half of them are correct. Nevertheless, I gotta give something to all those who identified the Tintin bit at least. This is actually the last panel of Tintin and Alph-Art drawn by Herge.
A slightly tricky one.
Can you tell my why the first family of Indian cinema is making what seems like a very rude gesture to the fans?
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PS: Within a few hours, I’ll be on my way to Nagpur to conduct two quizzes. Wish me luck. Meanwhile, the questions may get a bit delayed due to this trip. If they do, i promise that they’ll be back on track by next Tuesday.
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Sixteen answers, and yes, its definitely due to the elections. However, none of you guys seem to have noticed that while indelible ink is put on the index finger, it has been put here on the middle finger. That’s because the general and assembly elections took place the same year there. Thus, it was instructed that ink be put on the index finger for the first election, and the middle finger for the next. This was to avoid confusion.
An extremely easy one.
Identify the person who wrote the Bengali lyrics. Give it time to load. The Bengali part is right at the end.
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Six answers till now, and all correct. this is a Rabindrasangeet, by Rabindranath Tagore.
Connect.
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It’s a very specific connect. Filenames are as usual unchanged.
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Eight replies, and all of them almost invariably correct, barring a few glitches here and there. And one answer that said Jane Austen. The answer I was looking for is Kandukondain Kandukondain, the film. It was based on Sense and Sensibility, Shankar Mahadevan won his first National Award for it, and it featured a song or a small piece, sung by Hariharan, which was originally written by Subramanya Bharathi, aka Bharathiyar.
A current funda.
Connect this Bengali song, sung by the legend SD Burman, to a recent lovey-dovey list published by a magazine known for publishing lists.
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Three people answered it, but just two got it right. This is the earlier Bengali version of Jaane Kya Tune Kahi, from Pyaasa, which has just found a place in the Time magazine list of top 10 romantic films of all times.
A slightly difficult one.
Identify the creature, and tell me the back story.
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Oh, and Happy Valentine’s Day too!
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Seven answers, and all as lovely as Hachiko, the Akita dog from Japan showed his master, waiting for him for nine years in front of a train station, but the owner never came, because he had died!
An extremely easy one!
This is the first use of which technical / programming term?
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Fifteen replies, and you all got it right! This is the first computer bug, and it’s that very word that’s been blocked out.
An easily google-able one.
What are these five people collectively known as?
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PS: Here’s the info on the two quizzes I’ll conduct in Nagpur. Oh, and Karthike Ramesh, I would love to conduct quizzes in Delhi. Haven’t been invited there yet, though. Think of me when you need a quizmaster.
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Thirteen answers, with one correcting from Black Sabbath (dunno what you were thinking!!) to Six and Out, the band that stars cricketing siblings Shane and Brett Lee.
Relatively easy.
Which language or script is illustrated here?
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PS: I’ll be conducting three more quizzes this month: two in Nagpur and one back in Jaipur. Here are the details of the entertainment quiz in Jaipur. Will post more details of the Nagpur quizzes soon. They’re on the weekend just after V-Day.
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Dr Sheldon Cooper would have been proud of you five! This is indeed the Klingon language, used in the Star Trek Universe!
Looks like things are becoming too tough. So here’s an easy one for the day.
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Connect.
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That was probably the largest number of replies to a single post here! The connect is obviously Wiki! These are the logos of Wikileaks, Wikipedia and Wikimedia respectively.
“Chemical Weapons Factory”
“Lead by the Minister of Defence Nigel Yupland, a bomb squad searches a chemical weapons factory. All appears to be normal. However, in a lab where computer-driven devices perform tasks too risky for humans, one of the machines goes haywire and soon bursts into flames. Outside the bomb squad duck for cover as the factory explodes.” (sic)
According to the script, this was the opening sequence of a thriller in one of the most enduring franchises in the history of motion pictures. Which film is being talked about?
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Nine answers, but only pritfloyd is wholly correct. Another anonymous answerer does answer Bond 17, which is the correct answer, but he is only partly correct. To several others, James Bond has NEVER been the name of a film in this franchise!
True, that the 17th Bond film was Goldeneye, but there was talk before that of a third Bond film starring Timothy Dalton. It never materialised. It’s simply known as Bond 17 now. Some websites, however, attribute the name The property of a lady to it.
X and Y are two films starring the same person. X was released in 1971. However, X’s intended name, which was very near to a Gene Hackman film that was released shortly before, was intended for it because of the theme of drugs in X. However, the initial names of X and Y got somehow interchanged. It was only in 2005 that the names were changed back again. As a result, Y came to be known what X was originally released as, but to reduce confusion, an alphabet was dropped from X’s original name, and the result became Y’s new name. X, on the other hand, came to be known by a different name. Give me the present names of both these films.
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Looks like this one was a real toughie! No answers yet! Lets clear the air, then.
X was supposed to have been called The Chinese Connection, after Hackman’s The French Connection. but came to be known as Fists of Fury. It’s now known as The Big Boss.
Y was supposed to have been Fist of Fury (not Fists…), but was erroneously called The Chinese Connection. It’s now reverted back to Fist of Fury.
A slightly difficult one.
Those of you who know this language may find it very easy. Tell me, what is the claim to fame of this film? And it’s a very specific one!
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Nine answers, but only five have the desired info. I understand that it’s already written in Tamil on the cover that Suyamvaram, the film, was shot in less than 24 hours. However, some of you didn’t go the distance to find out that this film holds the Guinness World Record for this feat! In fact, from its starting to shoot to release, it took less than 24 hours!
Easy one.
What word is blocked out? Gimme the EXACT word, please. :)
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Nine answers, and all correct! It’s indeed Phelp! After Michael Phelps, of course. And here’s the answer to Aditya Morarka’s question.
Another connect.
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PS: If you are in and around Jaipur, go check out the Business Quiz at the Jaipuria Institute of Management from 1pm today. I’m conducting it. Oh, and wish me luck too!
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Six answers, and all correct! The connection is Maneka Gandhi, because she was spotted by husband Sanjay Gandhi when she was modelling for an advertisement for Bombay Dyeing, she has started People for Animals along with Pritish Nandi, and is an MP on a BJP ticket now.
A straight one for the day.
Identify the brand, of which this is a print ad. Shouldn’t be all that difficult.
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Five answers, and all correct! The blocked-out product is indeed Head and Shoulders, the anti-dandruff shampoo!
An easy one for today.
1. The name of the film is important.
2. A. Again, the name of the film is important.
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3. A. This gentleman’s surname is important.
3. B. The curd part is important. What is it called in Northern India?
2A and 2B combine to give one clue, as do 3A and 3B. Which classic work of ‘art’ am I referring to here?
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Just three answers, and only one correct! Well, little else would be expected of Akhil Singh, the entertainment expert. ;) The connect, as he says, is Andaz Apna Apna, the film. What else connects Ram and Shyam Bajaj, Amar Prem, Teja and Bhalla? PS: I wish I could weave in Crime Master Gogo in here somewhere too!
Another connect. More of a lateral connect, actually.
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3. The denomination or the country are not important. It’s the constitution of the coin.
4. The name of her recently-launched TV network is important.
What is the sporty thing that connects these four pictures?
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Just two replies, and none of them even came close to a sporty connect! These are all different types of goals in football! As in, ghost goal, own goal (from the Oprah Winfrey Network), golden goal and silver goal.
