This document contains questions and answers from a quiz competition. Some of the questions identify important people, places, movies, songs and events. Others seek to identify common themes or connections between real and fictional characters, or ask participants to complete quotes or lists related to sports, music, politics or history. The quiz covers a wide range of topics tested through direct questions and answers.
11. QN 5.
At least two TV channels made similar mistakes
while reporting an event that occurred on April
8, 2013, in the UK. One was Thailand's Channel
5, while the other was Taiwan's CTi Cable
channel. The former chose to go with the
actress Meryl Streep, the latter with Queen
Elizabeth II.
What event, and what was the error?
12. THE EVENT WAS THE DEATH OF FORMER
BRITISH PM MARGARET THATCHER. THESE
CHANNELS MISTAKENLY FLASHED PHOTOS
OF THESE TWO LADIES (STREEP HAS PLAYED
THATCHER IN A FILM) WHILE TALKING ABOUT
THE IRON LADY AND PROFUSELY
APOLOGIZED LATER.
15. QN 7.
Qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals (to
be held in Brazil) came to an end in November
2013, with thirty-two teams being identified.
Asia had four direct qualifying spots, three of
which were taken by Japan, South Korea, and
Iran.
Which was the fourth team from Asia?
16. AUSTRALIA, WHO FOR THE LAST DECADE HAVE
SWITCHED FROM THE OCEANIA FOOTBALL
CONFEDERATION TO THE ASIAN FOOTBALL
CONFEDERATION. THIS IS BECAUSE THE OFC DOES
NOT HAVE A DIRECT QUALIFYING SPOT (THE
REGIONAL WINNER HAS TO BEAT A TEAM FROM THE
CONCACAF IN A PLAY-OFF), WHILE THE ASIANS
HAVE AT LEAST 4 SLOTS, WHICH THE AUSSIES ARE
SURE OF HAVING A BETTER SHOT AT.
17. QN 8. "Aningaaq" is a short film (about 7
minutes) released in November 2013. The
titular character is an Inuit fisherman in
Greenland, who answers a call on his radio
set, and ends up having a short, yet
meaningful, conversation with the other
person. The idea of this film emerged from
another 2013 release.
Which is this other 2013 release, which was
directed by the father of the director of
"Aningaaq"?
19. QN 9. X is real while Y is fictional. It cannot
be said that X inspired Y or vice versa.
However, X and Y share a lot of common
themes with each other. Both were
essentially good guys, battled cancer and
managed to survive the same. They were
involved with drugs in different ways. Both
indulged in threatening and intimidating
their colleagues and friends for separate
reasons. They were also arguably the best
at what they did. Identify X and Y.
21. QN 10. Some of Xโs most famous comments
were made during the 1999 UCL final. Just
before the first goal, he said โCan
Manchester United score? They always
score.โ. And again, just before the winner
was scored, he said โAs things stand, weโre
going into extra time with the golden goal
hanging like a massive shadow over this
final, unless Ole Gunnar Solksjaer can
conjure up anotherโ. And of
course, Solksjaer obliged. ID X
25. QN 12. โX" is a song written by
for
the band Y. The song consists of six sections:
Introduction
Ballad,
Guitar solo,
Opera,
Hard rock
and finale.
This format, with abrupt changes in style, tone
and tempo, was unusual to rock music.
ID X and Y.
26. X - BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Y - QUEEN
FREDDIE MERCURY (FARROKH BULSARA)
27. QN 13. Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster banned this
technical tool during his successful capture of
Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005 and liked it to an
internal threat.
He remarks โ
โItโs dangerous because it can create the
illusion of understanding and the illusion of
control, some problems in the world are not
bulletizable.โ
About what?
29. QN 14. Give X
1 Under Par โ Birdie
2 Under Par โ Eagle
3 Under Par โ Albatross
4 Under Par โ Condor
5 Under Par โ Ostrich
6 Under Par โ X
33. QN 16.
Who is the only person to have been awarded
both, a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an
Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature
and for his work on the film Pygmalion
(adaptation of his play of the same
name), respectively.
35. QN 17.
Nima Namchu and Nitin Berry of Leo Burnett
while working on a Reebok campaign in 199697 came up with three nicknames โ Assassin
and Viper were two of the nicknames. What
was the third and more famous nickname?
36. THE WALL
AZHARUDDIN WAS THE โVIPERโ
KUMBLE WAS THE โASSASSINโ
AND OFCOURSE DRAVID WAS THE โWALLโ
37. QN 18.
Fiction
Writer, Publisher, Illustrator, Calligrapher, Graphi
c Designer and Film Critic, second film
personality after Chaplin to get honorary
doctorate from Oxford, recipient of Legion of
Honour by French President and the Bharat
Ratna.
Who am I referring to?
39. QN 19.
โAnd in that moment, I swear we were infiniteโ
is a popular quote from a coming of age
epistolary novel which was later made into a
movie in 2012. The story follows the life of a boy
through his freshman year of High School in a
Pittsburgh Suburb. Name the book.
41. QN 20.
X was an English author, journalist and naval
intelligence officer.
He came from a wealthy family, and his father
was the Member of Parliament for Henley from
1910 to 1917. His wartime service and his career
as a journalist provided much of the
background, detail and depth for creating
some of the best spy novels in the world.
Identify X
45. QN 22.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a
novel by X, and forms a part of his collection
โDifferent Seasonsโ which was published in 1982.
The story was adapted for the screen by Frank
Darabront in 1994 and starred Morgan Freeman
and Tim Robbins in lead roles. Who is X?
49. QN 25. The song โXโ is used to train medical
professionals to provide the correct number of
chest compressions per minute while
performing CPR. This is because of the fact that
the song has consistent 104 beats per
minute, which is close to the recommended
compressions per minute needed for a CPR.
Which song?
53. QN 27. Late Nelson Mandela is revered in his
own country as well as across the world. It is
said that at his first day in school, his teacher Ms
Mdingane named him 'Nelson'. However, his
natives consider him a father figure and call
him X (meaning father in the local isiXhosa
language) as an endearment to him.
Identify X, which coincidentally is a very known
name in the Indian business world.
62. QN 31. ID X
โข X is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads
from person to person within a culture.โ
โข X acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas,
symbols, or practices that can be transmitted
from one mind to another through writing,
speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable
phenomena.
โข Supporters of the concept regard X as
cultural analogues to genes in that they selfreplicate, mutate, and respond to selective
pressures.
68. QN 34. L'Italiano (Lasciatemi Cantare)
(commonly known as L'Italiano) is an Italian pop
song by Toto Cutugno released 1983. It was his
biggest international hit and is his best known
composition. The song was forgotten during the
1990s and was re-birthed when Toto Cutugno
performed it live at a charity concert in Rome
commemorating Italy's victory at the 2006 FIFA
World Cup. This song provided the inspiration for
a Bollywood song. Give me the actress of that
Bollywood movie.
84. ANSWER: GOLD
1.โAURUMโ COMES FROM A LATIN WORD MEANING
โSHINING DAWNโ
2.FIRST PLACE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A GOLD MEDAL.
3.PHI IS THE SYMBOL FOR THE GOLDEN RATIO
4.OIL IS CALLED FOOLโS GOLD.
