Answers prelims spent_echoes2012
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This document provides a series of trivia questions and answers about various topics including sports, music, movies, and history. It tests knowledge about the origins of band names, top songs, famous cricket and baseball events, movie references, Olympic sports, and more. The questions cover identifying people, places, events, and making connections between related topics through images or descriptions.
Answers prelims spent_echoes2012
- 1. AND PRESENT THE LAST BALL THE SPENT (Sports and Entertainment ) QUIZ QM: ‘C’est la vie’ Arif
- 2. 1 This band’s name is derived from the fact that when they started, three of the band members were of full Malayali descent and the fourth member was not a full but part Malayali. Which band?
- 3. Ans • The fourth member was one-quarter Malayali, hence "Three Malayalis and a quarter Malayali", which was later shortened to "Three Mals and a Quarter" and corrupted to "Thermal and a Quarter"
- 4. 2 Which is 2011's top song according to CNN (US)?
- 5. Ans • Why this Kolaveri di
- 7. Ans • While playing against Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1936, Jehangir Khan bowled a ball to Tom Pearce that hit a sparrow on the way. The sparrow fell dead against the stumps and is preserved in the MCC museum at Lord's.
- 9. Ans • Bradman, captaining his Invincibles for the last time in a Test, arrived at the crease on Aug 14 1948 • Once he stepped on to the field of play, Norman Yardley, the opposing skipper, insisted on shaking hands with the great man, while the rest of the English team doffed their caps to salute the Don
- 11. • Estádio Municipal de Braga (English: Braga Municipal Stadium) • home for local club Sporting Clube de Braga • The stadium is also known as A Pedreira (The Quarry), as it is carved into the face of the adjacent Monte Castro quarry
- 12. 6.Claim to fame ?
- 13. Ans • first full length Indian movie to be shown in the United Nations auditorium
- 14. 7. Why is this cartoon famous? November 6, 1902 :Washington Post cartoon, "Drawing the Line in Mississippi”
- 15. Ans • Clifford Berryman depicted President Theodore Roosevelt showing compassion for a small bear cub. • The cartoon inspired New York store owner Morris Michtom to create a new toy and call it the teddy bear
- 16. 8. Who?
- 18. 9. What was described as "throwing the offending lump of metal fully 40 yards towards the pavilion” ?
- 19. Ans • Dennis Lillee’s ComBat (aluminium bat) incident
- 20. 10. FITB • Johan Cruyff (Holland), Michel Platini (France), Marco van Basten (Holland) and ______
- 21. Ans Lionel Messi (Argentina) – Winning the Ballon d'Or thrice (Since 2010 known as FIFA Ballon d'Or)
- 22. 11 Where would you find “Multan ke Sultan Ki Tikdi” , “Unbeaten Century Partnership” and "Half Century Partnership” ?
- 23. Ans Virendar Sehwag’s signature vegetarian eating joint Sehwag Favourites in Delhi’s Fun Republic Cineplex
- 24. 12. Connect • Pictures follow
- 26. Ans Official timekeepers of Grand Slams • Rolex- Wimbledon and Australian Open • Longines – French Open • Citizen – US Open
- 27. *13. Parody of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band . Name band or album.
- 28. We're Only in It For the Money by The Mothers of Invention(Frank Zappa)
- 29. 14. Connect
- 30. Ans • The torpedo system converts the traditional ice hockey layout of three forwards and two defensemen, into two torpedoes up front, two halfbacks, and one lone defenceman (or libero). • Torpedo Ray fish
- 31. 15. Movie name?
- 32. Moneyball . About the Oakland Athletics baseball team and the analytical approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite a disadvantaged revenue situation
- 33. 16. What event was depicted?
- 34. Ans • Red used to officially signify American continent (before 1951)
- 35. 17. What ? • While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy of Science in 1984, the 29-year-old Alexey Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the game in his free time for the Elektronika 60, a Soviet terminal computer. • In 1989, a major video game company purchased the rights of the game and marketed it as FROM RUSSIA WITH FUN!
- 36. Ans
- 37. *18 • X did not become an official Winter Olympic sport until the Nagano Games in 1998 despite the fact that Scots have been wearing out corn brooms on local ponds since at least 1511.
- 38. Curling
- 39. 19. Who appears at the end ?
- 40. Don Quixote’s character
- 41. 20 • The history of X began in Bridgeport, Connecticut when Yale University students played with ____ from the local X Baking Co. Inspired by the UFO obsession that swept through American culture in the late 1940s, two men, Warren Franscioni and Walter Morrison, created it from a different form of material. Wham-O purchased the rights in 1955 and renamed it the X - an ode to the bakery that inspired it.
- 42. Ans • Frisbee
- 43. *21. Parodies of corporate and political advertisements. Term?
- 44. Ans • Subvertising or a Subvert
- 45. 22 • X's debut Bollywood song is "Jaago Gori" for Chachi 420 .For Hey Ram, she sang the title song "Ram Ram" in bilingual versions - Tamil and Hindi. She is also the vocalist of an alternative rock band The Extramentals. • Her younger sister Y represents India nationally for Z and had plans to participate in 2012 London Olympics for Z .However Z has not yet been recognized in the Olympics!
- 46. Ans • X- Shruti Haasan • Y- Akshara Haasan • Z- (Latin Ball) Room Dance
- 47. 23. Connect
- 48. Ans • At the peak of their success in the 1970s, the Dutch football team was famous for its mastery of Total Football and was nicknamed Clockwork Orange for its precision passing. • Also Flying Dutchman- the Ghost Ship • Flying Dutchmen- supposed to be another nickname of the Dutch soccer team
- 49. 24 • X (1967) was a remake of a Telugu film called Goodachari 116 (1967) starring Krishna Ghattamaneni, or ‘Super Star’ Krishna as he was known. Krishna would later star in P Q 777. The main hero in X reprised his role in another movie Y in 1981 and he also played a similar role in 1985 in Q 303
- 50. Ans • P Q = James Bond • X- Farz • Y- Raksha
- 51. *25 • Video from The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci ). • Pays homage to what?
- 53. Ans
- 54. Ans. • In one scene, the three youth run through the Louvre in homage to the race in Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)
- 55. 26. • Original artist : Joaquim Antônio Barroso Neto – Brazil (Around the World) • Name the group
- 56. The Three Tenors (Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti)
- 57. FINITO