We have decided to have a small rehersal of what that will take place tomorrow , Go – Ogle ,dubbed as the world ‘s toughest quiz and also Captain ‘S END OF DAZE .So since tomorrow all of the users will be working on those two sets we have decided to put this one day earlier .
1.TOTAL 120 points to be scored in the quiz
2.SEND THE ANSWERS to gsubing@gmail.com or quiz4rithu@ymail.com OR Post them as comments
3.Try to inclde all answers in a single comment
4.The result will be annoucned on Jan 4 , 6.00 pm
AND OFFCURSE THERE ARE SMALL PRIZES!!
First : Rs 750
Second : Rs 500
Third : Rs 250
Part 1 – (75 POINTS)
* There are 50 Questions in this part
* There is a hidden theme and 5 points of the theme and another 5 for the explanation
* All questions carry individual marks points on the slide
Part 2: (45 POINTS)
* There are 25 questions in this part
* Which includes 3 themes of 5 questions each
* Each theme carries 5 points each and the point of the individual questions will be given in the slide
Questions are in Slideshare format , you can download them and work it out or view from the site itself
A small correction : No 35 & 36 Qs are not there !
PART ONE
PART TWO
Regards ,
Subin & Rithwik !!
Happy new Year Folks !!
SET 1
1 –
2 – TriBeCa
2A – Jane Rosenthal
2B – Robert De Niro
2C –
3 – The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick
3A – The Shining (novel inspired the movie)
3B – Homer Simpson (spoof of Shining)
4 –
5 – Building the Golden Gate Bridge
6 – Tiberium
6A – Tiber River
6B – Tiberius
6C – Tiberium infected person
7 – Carl Vinson
8 – The Chicago-area Orchard Depot Airport was renamed O’Hare International Airport.
8A – Edward O’Hare
9 – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
9A – Thomas Gray
9B – Monument inscribed with the Elegy in Stoke Poges
10 –
11 – Alan Shugart
12 –
13 – The Stanley Hotel, where Stephen King wrote The Shining.
The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubrick’s The Shining on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions.
14 – Alabama
14A – Andy Tennant (Sweet Home Alabama (2002))
14B – Neil Young (Alabama, 1970s)
14C – Kid Rock
15 – Liberator (Blake’s 7)
16 – Ontario (Ontario Lacus on Saturn)
17 –
18 –
18A –
18B – Allianz Arena
18C – Cartilage of the Knee
19 –
19A –
19B – Tony Hawk
20X – Gideon Fell
20A – G. K. Chesterton
20B – John Dickson Carr
21 – Sigiriya (Lion’s rock)
Sigiriya is used as the location of many of the events in the science-fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise (1979) by Arthur C. Clarke, although Clarke changed the name to Yakkagala in the book.
22 – Eruption of Mount St. Helens
23 – “Make the pie Higher!” poem, composed of actual quotes from George W Bush.
24 – Chuck Hoberman
24A – Hoberman sphere
24B – Chrysler HQ (He won the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design in 1997)
24C – Hoberman Arch, Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park
25 – Yves Klein
26 – Ralph Bakshi
26A – Patent drawing for the rotoscoping technique, which is used extensively in Wizards and The Lord of the Rings
27 – McKim, Mead & White
28 – Rudolph Valentino
29 – Beverly Hills
30 – Spaceship Earth (Epcot)
30A – Ray Bradbury
30B – Buckminster Fuller
30C – Disney
31 – ELIZA
31A – Joseph Weizenbaum
31B – ATM
31C –
32 – Le Bateau-Lavoir
33 – Horace
34 – Green Dam Youth Escort
YOU HAVE OMMITTED NOS 35 and 36, I WROTE THE ANSWERS ACCORDING TO YOUR NOS.
37 –
38 – Experts inspecting the Rosetta Stone during the Second International Congress of Orientalists, 1874
39 –
39A –
39B – Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus
39C – Wampum
40 –
40A – Then the Awful Fight Began (1908) by George Wright
40B – Grigori Rasputin
40C – Abraham Lincoln
41 – Rituparno Ghosh’
41A – The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (Subho Mahurat (2003))
41B –
41C – Autumn Sonata ( Unishe April (1994))
42 –
42A – Fredrik Rosing Bull
42B – Jean Ichbiah
42C – Lord Byron
42X – Groupe Bull
42Y – Ada
43 –
43A – Miguel de Cervantes
43B – Long John Silver, Treasure Island
43C – Captain Cook
44 – Roy Rogers
45 –
46 – Montagu House became the first home of the British Museum.
47 – A montage showing author Neal Stephenson and four historical characters from his book series The Baroque Cycle: (counterclockwise from top left) Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Electress Sophia of Hanover
and William of Orange
48A – Svante Arrhenius
48B – Gilbert N. Lewis
49 – Battle at Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key was inspired to write “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
50 – Charles Manson
SET 2
1 –
1A – Search engine optimization
1B – The Hindu
1C – Gaspard Monge
1D – Welsh Corgi
1E – Atomic Scientists from Chicago Pile 1
2 –
3 – Midas, Midas Touch
4 – Tommy
4A – Harry Patch ( known as “the Last Fighting Tommy”)
4B – Rudyard Kipling (published the poem Tommy)
5 –
6 –
6A – Karl Malden
6B – Kurt Russell
6X – Herb Brooks
7 –
7A – Avicenna
7B – Carlos Finlay
7C – Qaboos bin Said al Said
7D – Simón Bolívar
7E – Kalinga
7F – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso
8 – Minis
8A – Mary Quant
8B – Alec Issigonis
9 –
10 – he Ranfurly Shield, colloquially known as the Log o’ Wood
10A – Ranfurly Shield
10B – Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly
11 –
12 – mostly of The Right Stuff and 2001: A Space Odyssey
13 – Starlight Express
13A – Thomas the Tank Engine
13B – Andrew Lloyd Webber
14 –
15-
15A- Bacardi
15B- Blue
15C- Solokha Comb
15D- Air Force One, Barack Obama
15E- Japan
15F- Pink
16- The Pearl-Qatar
17-
18- Hector Hugh Munro aka Saki
18A- Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
18B- Saki monkey
19 – Liancourt Rocks
20- Australia is divided for some sport…am not able to recollect the funda 😦
21-
22- John Trumbull, Declaration of Independence
23-
24-
25-
PART 1
5.Atomium , Belgium
13.The Hotel served as the location for The Shining by Kubrick
15. Zen/Blake’s 7
20.A=G. K. Chesterton,B= John Dickson Carr, X= Gideon Fell
22.St Helena Disaster of 1980
26.Rotoscoping & Dave Fleischer
27. McKim, Mead & White
PART 2
3.Kind Midas and the Golden touch
4.Rudyard Kipling is tat for sure
7. UNESCO prizes named after them
10.Ranfurly Shield named after Earl of Ranfurly
13.Thomas the engine and ?
18. X= Hector Hugh Munro who is supposed to get the pseudonym Saki from the ape or Rubbaiyat
23.Goya ,3rd may of 1808
This is what I knew , bit lazy to google .Good qstns ,Second part is too tough .