1. Finals
• Prelims scores carried over to this 36 Q final.
• +1 for correct answer unless it’s “Duel question”
• Duel Questions
• Starting from 6th placed team (from prelims), one
team can choose a Q for an another team. If the
chosen team misses the Q (if they answer, they get
+1 only) & the team that chooses the Q (they will
have 1st right to answer), gets it then the team will
get +5, instead of 1. If neither team gets it & some
other team answers, then usual rules apply
• No team can be chose twice & no team can be
chosen twice.
• Connection round with bonus/penalties
2. 1/36
This lass, who at the age of 13, ran away from her home to land
up in the house of Naushad to become a singer. She went to
become a popular singer, reaching her peak in Chitralekha in
1948. Ironically her singing in this film lead to a breach of
contract with her mentor – AR Kardar. This, along with the rise to
Lata & others, lead to the decline of her style of singing. Things
reached a stage in 1950, destitute, she approached a close friend
of hers to ask for help in a new film of his. He not only helped
her but also renamed her (supposedly after a cat of his friend’s).
Who is this singer & his friend?
5. 2/36
This group is numbered with an abbreviation KV. So far there are
65 of them; from KV1 to KV65. The last one was announced on
2008 and the most famous one is KV 62 which got into
prominence sometime in 1922. What are we talking about?
13. Sadhna cut.
Sadhna was named after
Bengali actress Sadhna
Bose ( pic on the left)
RK Nayyar due on the
right, inspired by Audery
Hepburn designed the
Sadhna Cut
16. The villain Charles Muntz in the movie Up
is named after Charles Mintz, the
Universal Pictures executive who in 1928
stole Walt Disney's production rights to
his highly-successful "Oswald the Lucky
Rabbit" cartoon series. This led Walt
Disney to create Mickey Mouse, who
soon eclipsed Oswald in popularity
17. 6/36
Etymology of this word has “before” and also “after” & its
present use perhaps comes from the sea-faring who conjured
fantastic sea-animals during their tempestuous crossings. What
word?
20. 7/36 Connect +6/-6
His father owned a cigar company & along with friends/family
made an investment primarily to increase the cigar sales. He
took charge of this company & was a pioneer in this space &
grew the company to an pre-eminent position. A notorious
ladies man; he as an octogenarian was included in a list of the
ten most eligible bachelors compiled by Cosmopolitan magazine
in 1985. This was the inspiration for Late Night with David
Letterman's nightly Top Ten lists. Who & which company?
23. 8/36 Connect +5/-5
This movie is considered by many to be the finest Elvis movie &
was King’s personal favorite. Elvis was so keen to make this
movie that he successfully requested the draft board to got a 60-
day extension from his draft board to finish filming this movie
before he was inducted into the U.S. Army. Id the movie?
26. 9/36 Connect +4/-4
Lana Turner’s gangster boyfriend - Johnny Stompanato was
stabbed to death by her 14 year old daughter. Johnny was known
to be exceedingly jealous of Turner & once during the shooting
of a Turner film – Another Time & Another Place - the jealous
man had pointed a gun at the lead actor and warned him to keep
away from Turner. The actor answered by grabbing the gun out
of Stompanato's hand and followed it up with a thrashing. There
were strong rumors that instead of Turner’s daughter, it was this
actor who had killed the goon & the mafia had ordered a hit in
revenge. This lead the actor to lie low for many months & not
sign any further films. Id the actor?
29. 10/36 Connect +3/-3
X - an one time employee of Thomas Edison was so devoted that
on Edison's deathbed, he demanded Edison's son catch his final
breath in a test tube. He kept this test-tube for the rest of his life.
In Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World”, society is organized on
'Xist' lines and the years are dated A.X. or Anno X ('In the Year of
our X') - a reference to A.D., Anno Domini ("in the year of our
Lord"); and the expression 'My X' is used instead of 'My Lord.' Id
X?
32. 11/36 Connect : +2/-2
Porfino Rubirosa, a
Dominican diplomat is
regarded by many as
the greatest playboy
of 1940-50s, known
for many marriages to
rich heiresses &
quicker divorces,
which always left him
richer. In his memoirs,
he considered X as his
prime conquest. When X refused to leave her current husband, the
actor George Sanders, Rubirosa struck her. X called a news conference
and showed up wearing an eye patch. “In Spanish, Rubirosa means a red
rose, but to me it’s a black eye,” she told reporters. The headline in The
New York Daily News read: “I Said No, So Porfy Poked Me”. Id X?
38. Connection
All sources/or derived for/from Harold Robbins’ novels
7. Tycoon – Based on Paley
8. Stone for Danny Fisher – King Creole is an adaption
9. Where the love is gone – partly based on Lana Turner & the
end is based on Stompanato’s murder
10. The Betsy – Based on Henry Ford
11. The Adventurers – Based on Porfiro Rubirosa
12. The Carperbaggers
39. 13/36
James Hilton’s Shangrila is actually based on the legend of
Shambala – a mythical Buddhist kingdom, where everyone is
spiritually well advanced & peaceful. It takes it’s root to the
Buddhist myth of King Suchandra ( Dwa Sangpo in Tibetian) of
the kingdom Shambala, who requested teachings from the
Buddha that would allow him to practice the Dharma without
renouncing his worldly enjoyments and responsibilities. In
response, Buddha taught him Kalachakra concepts in his capital –
Dharanikota. Dharanikota later became the capital of Satyavana
dynasty and is close to which modern Indian city, where as late
as 2006 Dalai Lama came to hold the 30 Kalachakra International
festival?
42. 14/36
During the 1st Filmfare award for best playback singer in
1959, Lata Mangeshkar, who won the award, refused to accept
the award for a particular reason.How was it resolved?
44. The Filmfare statuette was designed in
the shape of a woman and the woman
had no clothes on. So Lata had
reservations in accepting that nude
statuette. Finally the award had to be
wrapped with a handkerchief to be
granted to Lata.
45. 15/36
He started as a child actor & then after his mother’s death,
trained to be jockey. Faced with middling success, he returned to
acting & gained fame for his role of Artful Dodger in the West
End production of Oliver. The production also opened in
Broadway to acclaim & he, along with the cast, was invited to the
Ed Sullivan show in the famous episode which the Beatles for the
1st time. Seeing the screaming girls, he decided to switch career
to music & in due course became the front man of which band?
48. 16/36
When American president William McKinley was shot in Buffalo,
his aides contacted a certain person for something new that he
had developed at that time. This something was promptly sent,
but was never used as it was felt that the President was
improving. History showed that McKinley died 8 days later. Who
was contacted & what was sent?
51. 17/36
Part Peruvian, he spent his childhood in Lima. Among the jobs
that he held were – construction worker building the Panama
Canal, deckhand at a merchant ship, stockbroker & an artist. He
failed to make money in all of them. Fond of causes, his last
cause was to support a particular nation’s natives against their
colonial masters, for which he was sentenced to jail. Suffering
from syphilis, he very likely ODed on morphine & died before he
could get locked up for good. Mario Vargas Llosa’s - The way to
paradise – is partly based on him. Who?
57. 19/36
• V.S. Bias - son of a jagirdar at Khajrana Kothi died in early
2010
• Baldev Singh – a famous dentist of Bangalore. Now dead.
• J. Singh Rao Kalevar died in 2006. He had worked in a
company in Mumbai, then grew vegetables at a farm in
Thane
Connect!
59. Veeru, Thakur & Jai’s name were taken
from their names. Bias & Kalevar were
Salim Khan’s drinking buddies & Baldev
was his father-in-law
60. 20/36
This star of French origin, got his fame & fortune in Hollywood in
20s. Nicknamed as the "mortgage lifter", as his film with Claire
Adams - Where the North begins - saved Warner Bros from
bankruptcy. A popular urban legend surrounding him is that he
won the most Best Actor votes at the first Academy Award
competition in 1929...but certain vested interests changed the
rules to ensure than Emil Jannings got the 1st Oscar. What was
this rule change that got Jannings the 1st Oscar?
62. The star is Rin Tin Tin and the rule was changed
to ensure that the 1st oscar goes to a human.
63. 21/36
Richard Hadlee nearly made it to list. If he had made it, he
would have been only the 2nd person to have the honor. The 1st
person was among other things once the president of his
country’s cricket board and a boring cricket commentator who
once during a commentary started describing his hunting skills.
His co –commentator Kohan Kanhai sarcastically remarked
“Really? I thought you just left a transistor radio on when you
were commentating and bored them to death “ Who & what
list?
65. List was of playing
international cricketeers,
who were knighted.
Maharaja of Vizzygram is the
only person, so far in this list.
66. 22/36
This organization was formed in 80s, but did not have
permanent home. Many cities were in the race to house
this…and among them were NY, Memphis, Cincinnati etc. The
city that finally won this, did so because it lobbied on three
things – a) a resident of the city played part in naming this
organization b) 1st ever event that this organization associated
with was held in this city & c) pledged $65M to fund the
construction. Which city?
71. Last work of Andy Warhol,
who had done the portrait
on the cover
72. 24/36
Prince William married Kate – a commoner. Royal marrying a
commoner is a sticky issue for many years. Prince Adolphus
Frederick, was the seventh son of King George III. Frederick
refused to participate in an arranged marriage and wed his
commoner actress mistress in 1847. Why was Fredrick in news
on the same day – 29/4/11 – the day William & Kate wed?
74. Royal couples are granted new names at the
time of their marriage & William/Kate were
made Duke & Duchess of Cambridge. The
Dukedom of Cambridge was created in 1801 but
became extinct on the death of the second duke
of Cambridge in 1904 & hence it was free to be
given. 2nd duke who died was Fredrick & since
his marriage to mistress wasn’t legal, the
dukedom become vacant after his death, instead
of going to his illegitimate heirs.
75. 25/36
His great great grandfather was Fazl-e-Haq-Khairabadi – a sufi
poet who edited the 1st collection of poems of Mirza Ghalib & a
freedom fighter in the 1857 war of independence, who had
issued the fatwa for Jihad against the British. He get’s his name
from the line of his father’s poem - "Lamba, lamba kisi jadoo ka
fasana hoga". Who?
80. In the movie “Remains of the day”, the servants'
quarters, conservatory, entrance hall ( servant
qtrs is shown in the clip) are shot in Badminton
Hall.
Snap is of Pune district.
Game badminton, was originally called as
Poona…then from Badminton House,
Gloucestershire, the sport gets it’s modern name
81. 27/36
Diocletian, the first Roman emperor to voluntarily abdicate the
position, lead the last & perhaps the greatest prosecution of
Christians in Roman empire. This prosecution was so severe
that roughly 200 years later, it lead a Christian monk called
Dennis the Humble (translated from Latin) to do something.
What Dennis the Humble did was popularized by Venerable
Bede in the English speaking world and Alcuin in continental
Europe in 7-8th century. What did Dennis the Humble do?
83. Dennis the Humble aka Dionysius Exiguus
was the inventor of the Anno Domini era,
which is used to number the years of both
the Gregorian calendar and the Julian
calendar. He invented a new system of
numbering years to replace the Diocletian
years that had been used in Easter table
because he did not wish to continue the
memory of a tyrant who persecuted
Christians
84. 28/36
Adolf was a part of a group called "The Three Nightingales". On
seeing a performance of the group, theater critic Joe Stiller
wrote, "Adolph performed beautifully, but the routine was
ruined whenever he spoke". This lead to something, what?
86. Adolf Marx, stung by the feedback, decided to
change his routine to “not to speak” again. Also
changed his 1st name to Harpo….and history
notes Harpo Marx never spoke again in his public
performances
87. 29/36
The large number of youth who participated in the armed
struggle or the non cooperation movement could not be
accommodated in ordinary jails. The British Government
decided to establish a few detention camps – among them was
the Hijli Detention Camp set-up in 1930. The Hijli Detention
Camp was closed in 1937 and was reopened again in 1940 to
detain the freedom fighters without trial. In 1942 the camp was
again closed and the detainees were transferred elswhere. In
1950 the camp infrastructure was used to start something else –
a 1st in the country. What?
89. Hijli camp is the site for 1st IIT in Kharagpur. The
college initially was started in the sheds of the
camp.
90. 30/36
Gulab Singh, the 1st Dogra Raja of Kashmir, passed a law restricting
something for the beautification of Srinagar. The British, living in
the city, to circumvent the law & start something. What did this
lead to?
92. Houseboats in Dal Lake. Gulab
Singh had banned construction
of houses on the lake share,
hence the Brits started the
concept of houseboats.
93. 31/36
Vivian Hubert Howard Green (died on January 2005) was a Fellow
and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, a priest, author, teacher,
and historian.
John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook
(died on August 1988) was an English novelist who published 17
thrillers, detective novels and spy novels.
Had they been alive, very likely they would have had some media
spotlight on Feb 26th, 2012. Why?
95. These two gentlemen are the inspirations for
George Smiley of Le Carre’s Circus series. Gary
Oldman’s fate for Oscar for best actor as Smiley
in Tinker TSS…was decided on Feb 26th.
96. 32/36
American writer Sylvia Wright coined this term X in her essay "The
Death of Lady X," published in Harper's Magazine in November
1954. A well known example of X would be the origin of the title –
“Catcher in the Rye”. What?
98. X= Mondegreen. A mondegreen is the mishearing
or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near
homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It
most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a
lyric in a song. The title of J. D. Salinger's The
Catcher in the Rye comes from the main character,
Holden Caulfield, mishearing a sung version of the
Robert Burns poem Coming Through the Rye: the
line "Gin a body meet a body / comin' through the
rye" is understood as "Gin a body catch a body /
comin' through the rye."
99. 33/36
In 1909, six members of Yale's Skull and Bones secret society,
including Prescott Bush, grandfather of 43rd President George W.
Bush, allegedly stole something while serving as army volunteers
in Oklahoma during World War I. Researchers in 2006, uncovered
a letter, in which one of the members wrote a letter, which
unearthed the deed & also indicated that the stolen object was
kept in the society’s presumed meeting place in New Haven. A
flurry of law suits to retrieve the object followed, but have been
deflected by the Skull and Bones, which denies possession of it.
But it still can't ward away campus rumors that this object is used
in the society's nocturnal initiation rites. What object?
102. 34/36
Prince St. Imre, a Hungarian price,died young but was such a
good boy that he was canonized by a pope. History should have
forgotten him, but it didn’t, through what quirk of fate?
105. 35/36
In 1993, the museum of modern art in Stockholm was burgled. 6
Picassos & 2 Braques were stolen by thieves who came in through
the roof by night, copying the method from the 1955 French
movie Rififi. This museum also has indirect claim to an origin of an
expression. The expression was derived a line in a painter’s
exhibition catalog for an exhibit at the museum in Stockholm from
February to March 1968. What expression?
107. “15 minutes of fame” derived from Andy Warhol’s
exhibition catalog.
108. 36/36
John Roberts & Joel Rosenman placed the following
advertisement in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
under the name of Challenge International, Ltd.:
“Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting,
legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions.”
Martie Lang & Artie Kornfeld responded to the ad and the 4 of
planned to start their 1st business venture in Mills Industrial Park,
Wakill, NY, but had to shift due to the opposition of Wakill city
council. Where did they shift to…for their 1st & last business
venture together?
