NOTICE and ANSWERS SET1

BEFORE DECLARING THE ANSWERS HERE’S A SHORT NOTE:-

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Now before, I declare the answers to the first set of 50 questions here’s something-

THIS BLOG IS WARMLY DEDICATED TO THE FOLLOWING people:-
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1/ AMRIT PRITAM CHETIA, my quiz partner and the best quizzard of north-east india ( DAT'S in my opinion, please don’t start a controversy on this, I am a human being licensed to error!)
2/ PARIKSHIT PEGU, my quiz partner.
3/ BIDYUT BIKASH BAILUNG, my quiz partner.
4/ MR. SAILEN BAISHYA, I started my quiz career by 1st contributing to his column ‘QUIZONE’. Inspired me a lot.
5/ MR. NEELOTPAL DEKA, people started knowing me only via his column ‘THE COLOSSEUM’, perhaps India’s only cultural quiz column.
6/ ABHRA DAS, he is the writer of that book which I consider to be the ‘BIBLE OF QUIZZING WORLD’-
‘THE ULTIMATE QUIZ BOOK 2’.
7/ MANIMUGDHA SHARMA, for promoting that today’s quiz is not just a matter of info-management but also a game of ‘thinking out of the box’. Cheers to your mind-sharpening ‘CONNECTIONS’.
8/ FIRSTLY (not lastly) my MOM, for her love and care;

ANSWERS (1-50)

1/ The person is Vikash Swarup. Slumdog Millionaire is based on his book ‘Q&A’.
2/ CLOCKWISE: BASKIN ROBIN’S LOGO, AUGUSTUS CEASER, clip from OM SHANTI OM.
CONEXON is 31. Baskin Robins started with 31 flavours, also the number is displayed in the logo. OSO featured 31 stars for the first time. July and August having 31 days are named after Julius Ceaser and Emperor Augustus.
3/ Images: Laden and Issac Ashimov. Laden’s Al-quaida means ‘The foundation’ which is also the name of a famous book by Issac Ashimov.
4/ A tough one: Images clockwise:- Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath,Hanumant Singh and Lala Amarnath. They along with PRAVEEN AMRE and DEEPAK SODHAN are the only Indian cricketers who scored centuries on debut, but never scored a century again.
5/ Sony’s AKIO MORITA.

6/ Ramon Magsaysay Award
7/ Opening ceremony of Winter Olympics 2006.
8/ Death of Tulsi Virani, in an episode of “Kyonki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi”.
9/ Another toughy: She is LINDA HUNT, first and only person to win an Oscar for potraying a person of the opposite gender in the film “The year of living dangerously”. She performed as Billy Kwan, a male photographer.
10/ MANDRAKE. It’s the mandrake plant.

11/ PATTON.
12/ WEBBY. The award is presented by the International Academy of digital arts and sciences for achievement in technology and creativity. It is considered to be technology’s equivalent of the Oscars.
13/ Quality-Factor (Q-FACTOR). Trivia is that it shares its name with this blog. Q here is…… QUIZ ofcourse!!! SO did you like quiz factor?
14/ He is Douglas Fairbanks senior. Seigal and Schuster modeled the face of Superman after him.

15/ CLOCKWISE:- Eureka forbes’ logo, flag of California and Archimedes principle.
Connection is ‘EUREKA’. Motto of California, Archimedes reacted as ‘eureka eureka, I have found it’.
16/ BONSAI
17/ Images:- Chesterfield cigarettes and Margaret Mitchell.
Margaret wrote ‘Gone with the wind’. Chesterfield cigarettes were launched by the movie ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’.
18/ He designed the FIFA trophy.
19/ Arch de Triumph, Paris. INDIA GATE was modeled on this.
20/RUNNER’S POINT

21/ FISHERMAN’S RING.
22/ IMAGES: Somerset Maugham, A painting by Paul Gauguin.
CLUE:-Moon, Six
Paul was the inspiration for the character of Charles Strickland in Maugham’s novel THE MOON AND SIXPENCE.
23/ PAVITRA PRABHAKAR, Indian spiderman.
24/ IMAGES:- John LENON and J.D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.
MARK DAVID CHAPMAN was carrying this famous literary classic when he killed Lenon.
25/ ORDER OF MERIT AWARD.(BRITISH)

26/ HAMZANAMA.
27/ IMAGES:- DYLAN THOMAS and logos of VICTORIA’S SECRET. BOB DYLAN appeared in an ad campaign for VICTORIA’S STREET. Dylan’s song LOVESICK from his Grammy-winning 1997 album ‘TIME OUT OF MIND’ produced the musical backdrop for the commercial.
28/ In the flag of CAMBODIA
29/ CLOCKWISE: L.K. ADVANI, HALF MOON,MADAM CAMA, RISING SUN and ALBUM COVER OF A.R. RAHMAN’S VANDEMATARAM.
eight LOTUSES, ‘VANDE MATARAM’ in hindi, a HALF MOON and a RISING SUN are illustrated on the first national flag of India unfurled by MADAM CAMA.
30/ CLOCKWISE: INDIA, YAGA VENUGOPAL REDDY(focus on background), PAKISTAN and MYANMAR.
REDDY – governor of R.B.I. and R.B.I. has served as the central bank of INDIA,PAKISTAN and MYANMAR.
So, conexon is R.B.I.

31/ Earlier COKE bottles in the 30s, before the curved bottles came.
32/ CONNECTION IS ‘CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA’
CLOCKWISE- ENGLISH VERSION OF “CHANDU KE CHACHA NE ,CHANDU KE CHACHI KO ,CHANDNI CHOWK MEIN,CHANDNI RAAT MEIN, CHUTNEY CHATAI”(CHANDU,CHANDNI CHOWK AND CHUTNEY were hidden); JAHAN ARA; BANGLORE TORPEDO; BUILDING AT C.C and MAP OF CHINA.
JAHANARA BEGUM designed C.C.;DEEPIKA PADUKONE daughter of ‘BANGLORE TORPEDO’-prakash padukone acted in the movie C.C.
MOST INTERESTING ONE…REMAIN UNCRACKED!
33/ All these are pictures of RICHARD NIXON that appeared in the cover page of TIME magazine. A total of 55 times.
34/ CLOCKWISE: INDIAN IDOL, JUNOON BAND member, PIEGION, RUSKIN BOND.
CONNECTION is JUNOON. Album by Abhijeet Sawant (Indian Idol 1), Shyam Benegal’s JUNOON is based on BOND’S A flight of piegion.
35/ CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

36/ SARASWATI. ( the picture is of MINERVA, Roman godess of wisdom)
37/ ADRASEER CHURETSJEE, first Indian fellow of Royal Society.
38/ pictures: SIBELIUS’S LEMMINKAINEN’S RETURN and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Both were inspired by the Finnish myth THE KALEVALA.
39/ PENROSE STAIRWAY.
40/ IMAGES: ASSAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE and NDA logo. Motto of both: SERVICE BEFORE SELF.
This question is dedicated to my college. AEC ROCKS!!!!

41/ SISYPHUS.
42/ KARL MARX.(not Swami Vivekananda).
43/ CLOCKWISE:- DEMOLITION OF BERLIN WALL, ‘THE ROCK’ POSTER and FALAKNUMA PALACE.
CONNECTION:- SCORPION. DEMOLITION OF BERLIN WALL is shown in the video of SCORPION’S ‘WIND OF CHANGE’. THE ROCK( WWE) acted in THE SCORPION KING and FALAKNUMA PALACE is designed in the shape of SCORPION.
44/ MOPTOP, hair style popularized by THE BEATLES.
45/ YEHUDI MENUHIN

46/ RAJA RAVI VERMA. It’s the KILIMANOOR PALACE.
47/ IMAGES: AMRITA SHERGILL’S MOTHER INDIA and still from MOTHER INDIA. Common name.
48/ AMRITA SHERGILL
49/ 86+293 (steps of LEANING TOWER OF PISA) =379(steps of QUTUB MINAR).
50/ Outside the building in Braunauam Inn, Austria where Adolf Hitler was born. This is a memorial stone warning of the horror of WWII.