QUIZMASTERS OF THE DAY:

NAYANMONI BARUAHGAUTAM PRIYAM MAHANTA

EL BISWAJIT

23 questions, 25 marks.

Separate marking for each question.

In-built tie-breakers in the form of additional marking in certain questions, as specified.(5, 9, 11, and 16 carry tie-breaker points)

In case there’s a second stage of a tie, teams answering maximum number of star (*) questions will advance to the grand finale.(2, 5, 6, 14, 16, and 17 are star questions)

Prelims (by El Biswajit & Gautam Priyam Mahanta)

Question 1:

In 1960, the name A was proposed bytheir original bassist X, which was a playon Buddy Holly’s Crickets. Y later alteredthe spelling to Z before meeting 19-year-old poet Royston Ellis who suggested theirname ______ as a double play on bothbeat poetry and music. Identify A, X, Y, Z.(0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5=2)

A: Beetles

X: Stuart Sutcliffe

Y: John Lennon

Z: Beatals

(In the blank it will be Beatles).

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*Question 2:

Who’s the photographer? (1)

Robert Capa

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Question 3:

This place was originally known for hosting twotraditional markets, and township started whenPurnananda Burhagohain encamped and settledhere after the uprising of the Moamarias, andofficially it became the last capital of the Ahomkingdom after Gaurinath Singha shifted hiscapital from Rangpur to this place, around 1794,id the place. (1)

Jorhat

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Question 4:

Whose statue? (1)

The Ancient Mariner (from Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)

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Lego recreation of?

(1;

IN CASE OF A TIE, GIVING THE NAMES OF THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER WOULD FETCH YOU 1+1 BONUS POINTS)

*Question 5:

Alberto Korda's March 5, 1960 “Guerrillero Heroico” photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara

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*Question 6:

“She wants head

Male bonding

Siamese twins

Tango 69

Me

I travel by images

Corporal landscapes

The mouth is the tunnel

Quick, now

The tongue the train…”

First three stanzas of a poem. Who is the poet? (1)

Pablo Picasso (“Night Train to Horta”)

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Question 7:

The subject below is a young John Brown, a Scottish royal servant. Who sketched it? (1)

Queen Victoria (she drew this sketch of a young John Brown, the Scottish servant who was her favourite)

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Question 8:

X began as a newspaper reporter and hisaggressive style caught the attention of WilliamRandolph Hearst who lured him away from theJournal of Commerce to do business reports forNew York American. He broke away from Hearstin 1917 to start a business magazine called 'Doers& Doings'. What was it later renamed? Alsoidentify X. (0.5+0.5)

Forbes.

X: William Forbes

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Question 9:

What unique unwanted feat in the history of World Cup dothese three Italian footballers hold? (1; IN CASE OF A TIE,IDENTIFICATION OF THE FOOTBALLERS WOULD FETCHYOU 1+1+1 BONUS POINTS)

The three fastest substitutions (From left to right, in 1978,Mauro Bellugi was substituted after six minutes againstArgentina, in 1982, Francesco Graziani was replaced afterseven minutes of the World Cup final, in 1998, AlessandroNesta went off after just four minutes against Austria.)

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Question 10:

He is an American artist, actor, stuntman, writer, personal trainer, former bodybuilder and retired professional wrestler. The picture on the right shows various injuries he sustained over many years. He designed the original logo of one of the world’s top international gymnasium chains. Identify him and the gym chain. (0.5+0.5=1)

Ric Drasin; he designed the original logo of Gold’s Gym, a cartoon sketch of a bald weightlifter

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Question 11:AC Milan: Liedholm, Sacchi (2), Capello (2), Tabarez, Zaccheroni, Cesare Maldini, Terim,

Ancelotti, Leonardo, Allegri

Arsenal: Graham, Rioch, Wenger

Barcelona: Venables, Aragones, Cruyff, Robson, Van Gaal (2), Ferrer, Rexach, Antic, Rijkaard,Guardiola

Bayern Munich: Lattek, Heynckes (2), Lerby, Ribbeck, Beckenbauer, Trapattoni (2), Rehhagel,Hitzfeld (2), Magath, Klinsmann, Van Gaal

Chelsea: Hollins, Campbell, Porterfield, Webb, Hoddle, Gullit, Vialli, Ranieri, Mourinho, Grant,Scolari, Hiddink, Ancelotti, Villas-Boas

Inter Milan: Trapattoni, Orrico, Bagnoli, Marini, Bianchi, Hodgson, Simoni, Lucescu, Lippi,Tardelli, Cuper, Zaccheroni, Mancini, Mourinho, Benitez, Leonardo, Gasperini, Raneiri

Juventus: Marchesi, Zoff, Maifredi, Trapattoni, Lippi (2), Ancelotti, Capello, Deschamps,Ranieri, Ferrara, Zaccheroni, Del Neri, Conte

Liverpool: Dalglish (2), Souness, Evans, Houllier, Benitez, Hodgson

Manchester United: ?

Manchester City: Frizzell, Machin, Kendall, Reid, Horton, Ball, Coppell, Clark, Royle, Keegan,Pearce, Eriksson, Hughes, Mancini

Real Madrid: Beenhakker (2), Toshack (2), Di Stefano, Antic, Floro, Valdano, Iglesias, Capello(2), Heynckes, Camacho (2), Hiddink, Del Bosque, Queiroz, Remon, Luxemburgo, LopezCaro, Schuster, Ramos, Pellegrini, Mourinho

Tottenham: Pleat, Venables, Shreeves, Livermore, Ardiles, Francis, Gross, Graham, Hoddle,Santini, Jol, Ramos, Redknapp

What it would be for Manchester United? (1; IN CASE OF A TIE, EXPLANATION OF THEANSWER WOULD FETCH YOU 1 BONUS POINT)

Sir Alex Ferguson;

these are the 144 managers of Manchester United’s biggest rival clubs since Fergie took up the hotseat at Old Trafford in November 1986

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Question 12:

He is a cross dresser between a pirate and a superhero. He claims to be the nephew of one of the most fearsome characters of Bollywood. Identify him. (1)

Mogambo ka bhateeja Crime master Gogo in Andaz ApnaApna

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Question 13:

According to a Chetan Bhagat novel, BHUkampis the magazine of which college/university?

Banaras Hindu University (BHU)

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*Question 14:

The X story begins in Kansas, when Y (picture on thenext slide) founded the company in 1889. Recognizingthe benefits of producing work clothes such asoveralls, jackets, and dungarees, X set out tomanufacture Z. Legend has it that the idea originatedwith Y himself, who realized the need of a sturdy one-piece outfit that could easily be pulled over uniformsto protect workers from the dirt of their work. Zconsisted of a jacket and a pair of work pants sewntogether at the waist, designed exclusively for workers.It became the official fatigue uniform for Americansoldiers when X was asked to manufacture as many Zas possible for the US Army during the World War I.Thus X is said to be the _____ that built America. Xentered the Indian market in 1995, the firstinternational brand to have exclusive outlets in India.Identify X, Y, and Z. (0.5+0.5+1=2)

X: Lee

Y: Henry David Lee

Z: Lee Union-All jumpsuit

(In the blank it will be “jeans”)

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Question 15:

According to legend, when there wasdraught at Ali Pukhuri, Sankardeva andhis disciples prayed at the Kirtana Ghar,and as a result of their prayer water fellfrom the sky upon earth with so muchforce that the place where there waspreviously a Bot tree on which the waterfell turned into a huge pond. What is thisplace or the huge pond called? (1)

Akashi Ganga

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On November 19, 2005, he created history. Hisperformance was so angelic and surreal that even theWhite House faithful, noted for their notorious anti-Xstance, could not resist giving him a standing ovation attheir home ground, making him the first player since Y tobe applauded this way. Spanish daily AS termed him asuperior being while a renowned columnist went on toexclaim how “_____ could charm the birds from thetrees”. In the blank will be one of his nicknames. Identifyhim. (1; IN CASE OF A TIE, IDENTIFYING “Y” WOULDFETCH YOU 1 BONUS POINT)

*Question 16:

Ronaldinho (Y: Diego Maradona; in the blank will be Dinho; X: Barcelona)

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*Question 17:This is a screenshot from the 2009 movie Blood and Bone. Who is being quoted here? (1)

Genghis Khan

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Question 18:

Anthony Rossi, a native Sicilian came to NewYork and ran a grocery store for 13 years. In1947 he began selling oranges and grapes ingift boxes to departmental stores under thename of Fruit Industries, Inc. Since only thelarger oranges were used for the gift boxes,he used the smaller oranges to producechilled jars of fruit concentrate using aprocess he had developed in the restaurantbusiness. In 1957, the name of the companywas changed to that of the brand name of thisconcentrate juice. Name it. (1)

Tropicana Products, Inc.

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Question 19:

Zee Telefilms, part of the Essel grouppromoted by Subhash Chandra, had bid forthe telecast rights to the 2003 Cricket WorldCup. Although the highest bid, it wasunsuccessful. In 2004, Subhash Chandraagain bid for telecast rights and ended up inan inconclusive court battle. He madeanother bid for the 2006 ICC ChampionsTrophy rights and once again lost. What washis famous reactionary measure? (1)

He conceived and created the much hyped Indian Cricket League

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Question 20:

Which union territory in India has thehighest percentage of Muslim population? (1)

Lakshadweep

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Question 21:

Identify the female singer.

Nirmala Mishra

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Question 22:

This is a song from the movie Saawariya. Who was the music director?

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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*Question 23:

Name the band. Their name is inspired from a drama, originally written in French.

Godot (the play is, of course, Waiting for Godot)

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