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Page 1: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40

25th March 2017

SET BY

SAMANWAY BANERJEE

THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS

PRITHWISH DATTA DEBANJAN BOSE

THE DEAL4 written rounds of 3 questions each

2 Infinite Bounce and Pounce rounds of 15 questions each

WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questionsAlliterations

Mythbreakers

Q-poems

Swansong

WRITTEN ROUND 103 questions on MYTHS and MYTHBREAKERS+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5Put an to let others know that you have staked

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 2: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS

PRITHWISH DATTA DEBANJAN BOSE

THE DEAL4 written rounds of 3 questions each

2 Infinite Bounce and Pounce rounds of 15 questions each

WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questionsAlliterations

Mythbreakers

Q-poems

Swansong

WRITTEN ROUND 103 questions on MYTHS and MYTHBREAKERS+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5Put an to let others know that you have staked

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 3: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

THE DEAL4 written rounds of 3 questions each

2 Infinite Bounce and Pounce rounds of 15 questions each

WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questionsAlliterations

Mythbreakers

Q-poems

Swansong

WRITTEN ROUND 103 questions on MYTHS and MYTHBREAKERS+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5Put an to let others know that you have staked

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 4: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questionsAlliterations

Mythbreakers

Q-poems

Swansong

WRITTEN ROUND 103 questions on MYTHS and MYTHBREAKERS+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5Put an to let others know that you have staked

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 5: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WRITTEN ROUND 103 questions on MYTHS and MYTHBREAKERS+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5Put an to let others know that you have staked

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 6: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 8: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3 What does he say next

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 9: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Walter Raleigh

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What does he say next

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 10: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1 Apt name for whose biography

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 11: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Walter Raleigh

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What does he say next

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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2One of the greatest myth figures ever he didnrsquot return from his visit to the

New World (America) with Englandrsquos first potatoes and tobacco Though he is said to have introduced potatoes in 1586 they were first grown in Italy in 1585 and quickly spread throughout Europe (even across the English Channel) Also though people all over Europe blame him for their cigarette addictions Jean Nicot (for whom nicotine is named) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 Tobacco spread to England from France not the New World

Who is this person

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Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 13: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Walter Raleigh

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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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3 What does he say next

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WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 15: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 16: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 17: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

INFINITE BOUNCE 1015 questions

+10 for each correct answer

2 strike rule applicable for this round only

No negative on pounce

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 18: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

AUDIENCE QBefore LK Advani could harness the grapes of rath it was X who

transformed his vintage Chevrolet van normally used for outdoor into what was called `Chaitanya Ratham

Who was this flamboyant politician

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NT RAMA RAO

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1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 19: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

NT RAMA RAO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 20: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1American squadrons or other similar fighting groups in the World Wars had

typical fierce death-defying titles

In 1930 a Howard Hughes film displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation and it is believed that the World War II groups who used a particular two-word name based it on the film

The Flying Tigers in Burma and China had fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron had that name

Arvid Olsen who happened to serve in the above mentioned squadron suggested the name for an entity which was started on March 17 1948 by the Bishop family in Fontana California

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1 A

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 22: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

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2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 23: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2ldquoThe Curse of Minervardquo was one of the satirical poems of X written in Athens

in March 1807 during his first visit to Greece The poem was printed in England for private circulation only but it was pirated and read extensively in the United States and crossed the Atlantic back to England X refused to authorize any publication because he probably wanted to go back and live in England The poem consists of 312 lines and is a severe attack against somebody for a certain decision

In a memorandum published in 1810 the concerned person defended his action by stating that the deed was done to save those entities from the Turks

Who was X Why was the poem written

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A

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 24: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

LORD BYRONbull Thomas Bruce the 7th Earl of ELGIN took the MARBLES and

transported them to Britain

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3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 25: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3Some people believe that this is the result of some kind of offering others

tend to believe that it is the tough environment that resulted in this practice In 1971 the German biologist Hubert Hendrichs carried out a 3-month study and suggested that the saline water is responsible for this which cause irritation No one since has proved or disproved his idea

Which strange (or different rather) behavior was Hendrichs studying (5)

Why was his study interrupted before he could test his hypothesis (5)

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A

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 26: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans

bull Halted by the Bangladesh Liberation War

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4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 27: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

4On the next slides are visuals of certain places in the United States

What connects them

A

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 28: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as

well as a wedding venue

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 29: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Liberty Boston Hotel

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 30: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for the homeless where social service workers

are helping residents find a way out

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 31: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 32: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

5On the next slide is one of the designs submitted by an artist to the

Dutch Central Bank for new banknotes in 1953 Later his proposals were not taken

Who is the artist (7)

Who features on it (3)

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A

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 33: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

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MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 34: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK

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6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 35: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

6In a 2009 essay lsquoCounterfactual Investingrsquo Cabot Research noted that

ldquoEmotional responses to outcomes often are influenced by what might have beenrdquo and counterfactual thinking often ends in regret An often-cited example is missing a flight by [five] minutes or by 45 minutes People who just barely miss their flight tend to kick themselves more than those who missed it by a mile The closer you were to making the flight the easier it is to construct an alternative outcome or counterfactual that triggers regret

In the 1995 study lsquoWhen Less Is More Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among _______ _______rsquo the researchers explained their findings with varying degrees of satisfaction among some people in the world of sports

What were they explaining (which might appear psychological)

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A

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 36: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

For the silver medallist the obvious counterfactual alternative is capturing the gold To the bronze medallist it is finishing without a medal In other words the silver medallists think about how close they came to winning gold whereas the bronze medallists think about how close they came to not medalling (phew)

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7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 37: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

7In 1936 the year of Ashok Kumarrsquos acting debut Niranjan Pal and Himanshu

Rai had a major falling out Pal had written some articles for a magazine named Filmland which were scathing in their criticism of the use of foreign technicians in Indian films Some of them specifically cited the example of Franz Osten Rai was furious and forbade Pal from expressing such controversial opinions in print Niranjan Pal walked out of Bombay Talkies never to look back again Pal was replaced by X Within two years of his joining three films were released by Bombay Talkies Nirmala Vachan and Durga

Who replaced Niranjan Pal in Bombay Talkies who would continue giving inputs in movies till 1952

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A

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 38: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY

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8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 39: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

8 Which group of people X

Besides developing idlis sambar and coconut chutney for a particular group of people the person in the picture also spent a year and a half developing Xs suitable to the same purpose

After having them freeze-dried and then vacuum-packed the syrup was dried to make a powder that can be dissolved in water Xs are apt because ldquothey have a beautiful texture that does not disintegrate easilyrdquo

Well culinary innovations from him arenrsquot unexpected given his father and uncle ran an Udupi restaurant in Mysore

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A

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 40: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts

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WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 41: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WRITTEN ROUND 203 questions on alliterative answers+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 42: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 43: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 44: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

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919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 45: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 46: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 47: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug

1921 at San Francisco

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GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 48: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

GOBOR GOHO

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2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 49: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2The Raincoats is a two-part episode of Seinfeld which was first shown on

NBC on April 28 1994 In the Part 2 of the said episode Jerry and Rachel go to see a Best Picture winner but cannot help making out since they have not been alone in such a long time Newman also in the cinema spots them and is visibly angered

In an interview Jerry Seinfeld commented that references to that movie were included after learning a particular fact about the director of the concerned movie

So after getting to know which interesting fact did Jerry include the references

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This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 50: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

This is what Elaine has to sayhellip

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 51: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

When he was filming Schindlers List in 1993 Spielberg admitted he often got depressed His solution was to watch Seinfeld to laugh and cheer up

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3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 52: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3What nickname for the supporters of the national team arose

when the team sported such a jersey contrary to the one we know during the early 1980s

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Beige Brigade

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 53: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Beige Brigade

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919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

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A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 54: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

SCORES PLEASE

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

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A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 55: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

919121 people flocked to Madison Square Garden on March 31 1985 The

event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television making it the largest showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time

Several celebrities most notably Muhammad Ali Liberace (with the The Rockettes) and Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin all appeared during the main event

Which event be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 56: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WRESTLEMANIA I

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10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 57: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has been an Ambassador to China and the

European Union One of his booksWar and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48 is largely based on documents that

have now been declassifiedldquoIn 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir Britain decided to adopt a pro-Pakistan tilt mdash not because of any merit in the case but strictly in pursuit of British global interests in the belief that this was essential for her Middle Eastern policy Unfortunately for India the British minister in charge of executing this policy X had few scruples in exceeding his instructionsrdquo X decided to take a totally anti-India stand in the UN instead of leaning in its favour as instructed by his government and deliberately misrepresented Indiarsquos position to his own government

The book also gives a vivid account of how X misled his government on the US position too Dasgupta says ldquoIn 1947-48 Washington accepted the fact that Kashmir legally belonged to India by virtue of the Maharajarsquos accession In February 1948 the Americans informed X that they were disturbed by the implications of the resolution that he wanted to move in the UN which would have allowed Pakistan to deploy its troops in Kashmirrdquo

Who was X whose name is quite familiar courtesy an old-chestnut

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A

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 58: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

PHILIP NOEL BAKERbull The old chestnut being the only person ever to win an Olympic medal

as well as a Nobel Prize

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11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 59: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

11Working for Exxon Production Research and then Landmark Graphics a

company he co-founded Andy Hildebrand developed software for processing data from reflection seismology a method of estimating properties of Earthrsquos subsurface using reflected seismic waves His innovations were great for finding oil and they reportedly made him a lot of money

Hildebrand thought a fluke comment made by a distributorrsquos wife over and realized that the type of processing he used in the oil industry could be used in another field as well

Time Magazine called his invention one of the 50 worst inventions while others have compared it to body modifications and plastic surgery

What in todayrsquos world was conceptualized by him

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A

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 60: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

AUTO-TUNE

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12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 61: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

12The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of

government in Australian history During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion

The then Governor of New South Wales was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur on 26 January 1808 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded the first European settlement in Australia

Who was this Governor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 62: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WILLIAM BLIGH

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1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 63: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1A similar monument stands close by the one who was the saintrsquos greatest

disciple Legend has it that he did not live long after the saint and wished to be buried beside his beloved master The poetrsquos devotion to the Sufi has been enshrined in a traditionmdashdevotees first offer prayers at his tomb and then cross the courtyard to offer haazri at his masterrsquos tomb

ID the 2 persons in question

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13

A

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 64: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA

bull In the vicinity are Jahanararsquos as well as Muhammad Shah Rangeelarsquos tombs

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14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 65: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

14From the day we learnt how to use an Atlas in our school we have seen that

the north side is up while the southern section is downwards For those who donrsquot just take it for granted the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top

However some of the very earliest maps in a particular country show the south as up because it equated something of geographical significance to that of the force of gravity

Which country and on basis of what did they make such a representation

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A

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 66: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE

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15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 67: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

15 Put pun dahellipRight after Operation Polo the Nizam of Hyderabad was not ready to meet

Sardar Patel after the treatment meted out to him but some say he was advised as prudent some say he was coerced to receive him It is said that when Patel saw the Nizam waiting he commented lsquoSo ___ ________ ________ is therersquo a subtle pun referencing his title

Researching on it further I came to know that the same 3 word term was used on Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala by John Gunther in his ldquoInside Asiardquo to refer to his prodigious harem and the fact that a considerable part of his activity was the acquisition of young ladies to freshen it

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A

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

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WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 68: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS

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WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 69: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WRITTEN ROUND 303 questions in the form of poems (or a pathetic attempt at one)

+5 for each correct answer

Stake for +5-5

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AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 70: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

AUDIENCE QIn a video thatrsquos not so hazy

She says these people are driving her crazyThen she utters those five words immortalTouted by the netizens as savage and brutal

She gradually takes over all InternetWith no further words of regret

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YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 71: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 73: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 74: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

RUST BELT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 75: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 76: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1The industrial sector starting from the north-east

To the Great Lakes and MidwestStarted to shrink and fade away

Economic decline and urban decay were to be dealt (with)So people called these places the ____ ____

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RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

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2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 77: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

RUST BELT

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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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2Rainier III as the ruling prince

The land did not see a longer monarch sinceHer wifersquos fatal accident then

And he gracefully refused to marry againThis place went on to become a hit

After it promised a tax benefit

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MONACO

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3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

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3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

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CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

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FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

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ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

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1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 79: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

MONACO

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 80: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3On the floor behind her

Among other things is a foot warmerLight brightens up the round shoulders and thick waist

Her linen cap and blue apron thus look bestThe earthenware container adds to her profile

As she goes about her daily task with a faint smile

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The MILKMAID by VERMEER

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

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A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 81: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

The MILKMAID by VERMEER

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SCORES PLEASE

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

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A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

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2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 82: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

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INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

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A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

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A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 83: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

INFINITE BOUNCE 2015 questions+10 for each correct answer2 strike rule applies

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

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A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

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4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 84: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1John Fairfax lived an exciting life filled with danger and adventure from living in

the jungle to being the apprentice to a pirate to life as a smuggler

None of those is the main reason why Fairfax is remembered today though Close to 5 decades ago Fairfax set off on his own from the Canary Islands in a boat 6 months later he arrived in Florida becoming the first person to row across an ocean solo

Fairfax became the talk of the town but only for a day His bad timing didnrsquot allow him to bask in the adulation of the media

Why was his moment under the sun ephemeral

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 85: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

The date was July 19 1969On July 20 1969 all of humanity was watching as the Apollo 11

astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 86: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2On the occasion of World Leprosy Day on 31st January the All Nippon News

Network asked somebody in response to an urban legend that has been circulating and the person replied in the affirmative

He said ldquoI thought I had to depict people who are ill with whatrsquos clearly called an incurable disease but who are living as best they canhelliprdquo He further added that for the same he visited a sanatorium in Tokyo

The original Japanese version doesnrsquot use the word ldquoleprosyrdquo and instead uses the Japanese word ldquogyobyordquo (incurable disease)

Who is the concerned person What is the urban legend (3+7)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 87: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

HAYAO MIYAZAKIbull A Japanese Studio Ghibli urban legend site recounted

the Princess Mononoke leprosy interpretation in English pointing out that the characters who are covered with bandages at the Tatara factory are believed to actually have leprosy (Hansenrsquos Disease)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

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A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

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A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 88: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

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14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 89: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3 What happened right after this photograph was taken

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A

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

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5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 90: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

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28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 91: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

4Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer and shooter who competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and placed third in the sabre event

However he is more well-known to sports aficionados because of a James Naismith-esque activity he did in 1898 What

Though later banned an alternative technique of what was named after him which was described in the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States in 1911 and was used for comedic effect even in Tom and Jerry

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 92: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 93: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

CPR

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 94: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

5Ira Hayes Franklin Sousley John Bradley Harlon Block Michael Strank and

Rene Gagnon were part of Easy Company who orchestrated the entire act

Three of the menmdashStrank Sousley and Blockmdashdied soon after the act Strank the eldest of the men was the first to die killed by friendly fire The three survivorsmdashGagnon Hayes and Bradleymdashhandled the attention they received from their participation in different ways some better than others Hayes became an alcoholic and died 10 years after the end of the war and Bradley shied away from the publicity and bought a funeral parlor Gagnon allegedly capitalized on the fame but quickly faded into obscurity dying from a heart attack in 1979 while working as a janitor

Which lsquoactrsquo be this

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 95: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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6Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an honest tagline

ldquoDefending your rights in the digital worldrdquo One of its frequently sold products include a small thing whose popularity increased manifold after Mark Zuckerberg used something similar and uploaded his pic (next slide)

FBIrsquos director James Comey too went on record suggesting its use

What am I talking about

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A

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

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A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

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>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

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3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

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Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

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AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

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John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

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SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

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A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

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10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

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A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

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11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

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12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

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A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

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13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

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15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

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A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

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That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 97: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

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WEBCAM STICKERS

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7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

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8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

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Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 98: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WEBCAM STICKERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 99: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

7Late in his life at the age of 77 upon being impressed with a meeting with

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba in England Thomas was instrumental in helping to arrange for Meher Baba to come to the United States for his first visit there in 1931 Later though he became disenchanted with Baba

In his early life he was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston and then hired by a professor at Boston University

He later became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor for time and then set up his own machine shop

How do we come to know of his surname through the deeds of the aforementioned professor

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 100: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 101: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

8Born and raised in rural Indiana a childhood love of art and comics led the

garrulous and friendly Ryan Germick to study illustration and creative writing in New York before spending several months sign painting and learning remedial Tamil in South India in the early 2000s There he created his first website to share photographs hed taken on his Sony Digital Mavica floppy disc camera with family and friends

He oversees in-house 10 artists and works with four engineers and two producers who coordinate with the 100 or so people they work with across the world as well as making sure the creation process runs as smoothly as possible

He and his team is behind which almost everyday lsquophenomenonrsquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 102: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

GOOGLE DOODLES

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 103: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the

Republic Day of which country

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 104: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

ITALY

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 105: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

WRITTEN ROUND 403 questions on swansongs+5 for each correct answerStake for +5-5

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 106: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 107: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 108: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 109: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 110: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

1Whether or not Riding With Death

is Xrsquos final painting is still up for debate The work certainly has a morbid quality about it that evokes a sense of an ending and the artist painted it shortly before his own death from a heroin overdose

Which member of the 28-club

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 111: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 112: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is sung by another guy (Y) associated with the same entity

The reason Y sings the last verse is because X completed 23 of the song before deciding he was too tired and hed come back to finish the

song later

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

>

null

28932654

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 113: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAYMay explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that Freddie would say give me words I will sing so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love I would give him a line he would sing it then sing it again then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything After hed finished the second verse he said Oh I dont feel too well Im going to go home and well finish it tomorrow and he never did That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studioThe final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 114: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out is a reference to an earlier movie one of the most famous ones made by the director Which director and Which 5 letter word fills the blank

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 115: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue

This is from FAMILY PLOT

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 116: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

AUDIENCE Qbull The background score of Family Plot was done by whom

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 117: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

John Williamsbull His only collaboration with Hitch

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 118: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

SCORES PLEASE

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 119: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

9This species of primates that finds its place in the IUCN Red list of

endangered species gets its name due to the similarity of one of its body features with that of another lsquoroyalrsquo mammal

Its most distinguishing physical characteristics also bears similarity to the male member of the said mammalian species which also gives it its German name Bartaffe

ID the species also known as the wanderoo Also what is the similarity

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 120: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Lion-tailed macaquePhysical feature is the mane just like a lionBartaffe means beard-apehellip

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 121: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

10In 1987 workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the

world The frame was finished two years latermdasha little behind schedule the structure was supposed to open in 1989 Then in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union work stopped completely

The 105-story 1083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the capitals skyline

Frequently referred to as the Hotel of Doom what is it the largest kind of

Also id the capital city as referred to

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 122: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Largest abandoned building Pyongyang

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 123: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

Cast in India is a 26 min docu directed by Natasha Raheja a PhD candidate of Anthropology at New York University

The docu opens with a shot of New York Cityrsquos iconic ______ ______ and then travels to one of the several foundries in Howrah in West Bengal where they are produced The production process is depicted from the start to the finish and although the film was shot over many days it has been edited to look like it takes place over a working day

So majority of what in NYC is actually manufactured in Howrah

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

11 A

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 124: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 125: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

A QUIZ BY SAMANWAY BANERJEE

SEWER COVERS OR MANHOLE COVERS

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 126: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

12Rachel Beer while she was the Editor of The Observer bought the Sunday

Times in 1893 For a short period she edited both papers ndash quite unthinkable today

She began contributing articles to The Observer which the Beer family then owned after marrying Frederick In 1891 she took over as editor becoming the first female editor of a national newspaper in the process Two years later she purchased the Sunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well Though not a brilliant editor she was known for her occasional flair and business-like decisions

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families of the 19th century who was her father

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 127: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 128: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

13In this fast-paced world this two word term (often hyphenated) is heard so

often that people often forget that in a phrase which according to etymologists referred to hanging up animals for slaughter who would then in their death throes kick a beam

Back in 1999 the screenwriter Justin Zackham was thinking about that phrase when he began jotting down something which got shortened and gave rise to a 2007 film

The filmrsquos release brought the phrase into common parlance and as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds many people assume the term must have long predated the movie

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 129: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

bull Justin began composing a checklist that he called ldquoJustinrsquos list of things to do before he kicks the bucketrdquo bull After finishing the list he thought of a

more succinct title for it ldquoJustinrsquos bucket listrdquo

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 130: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

14The Croatia-Serbia border dispute first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved

during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia It became a contentious issue after the breakup of Yugoslavia Particular prominence was given to the dispute at the time of Croatias accession to the European Union As of September 2014 the dispute remains unresolved and the line of control mostly corresponds to Serbias claim

Despite having a proper border demarcated in the first place what made these 2 countries claim new territories (and lose some)

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 131: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER

The river changed its courseCroatia claims the old course while Serbia claims the new one

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 132: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

15When Dharam Bir Sharma one of the partners of this eatery was asked he

said ldquoHe was very close to my father Chamanlal Sharma ever since he first dropped by for tea some 25-30 years ago After that hersquod drop by every day when he stayed here for a chat with my father One day he said a portion of the wall should be cleanedrdquo

ldquoAround 30 years ago X saab wanted to have some nice tea and he just couldnrsquot find the kind he liked So I took him to hellip which was more popular among taxi-drivers back thenrdquo reminisced chauffeur Bhola Singh

Which eatery Also why was the wall cleaned which made a huge difference to the footfall

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

A

AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
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AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN

25TH MARCH 2017 CMC | KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 2017 | SAMANWAY BANERJEE

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 134: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

That was in 1996 The wall was cleaned and a black-and-white sketch done by the master in two hours That was the turning point for the dhaba that grew from a small roadside address to a 40-seater eatery

The next masterstroke came in 1999 when Husain returned to colour the sketch and modify parts of the painting He changed ldquothe horse to an elephantrdquo and rubbed out a line from a song he had scribbled to replace it with the words Gaja Gamini

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 135: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

SCORES PLEASE

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS
Page 136: Kaushik Banerjee Memorial Quiz 2017 finals

FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATSbull samanway96gmailcombull +917998012802bullhttpswwwfacebookcomsamanwaybanerjee7

  • KAUSHIK BANERJEE MEMORIAL QUIZ 40 25th March 2017
  • THANKS TO THE GUINEA PIGS
  • THE DEAL
  • WRITTEN ROUNDs consisting of 3 questions
  • WRITTEN ROUND 10
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography
  • 2
  • 3 What does he say next
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS
  • 1 Apt name for whose biography (2)
  • Slide 11
  • 2 (2)
  • Walter Raleigh
  • 3 What does he say next (2)
  • WHEN THE LEGEND BECOMES FACT PRINT THE LEGEND
  • SCORES PLEASE
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 10
  • AUDIENCE Q
  • NT RAMA RAO
  • 1
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • 2 (3)
  • LORD BYRON
  • 3
  • Why do TIGERS in Sunderbans so frequently hunt humans
  • 4
  • Place Moundsville Use Haunted house attraction as well as a
  • Liberty Boston Hotel
  • Volunteers working at Grace Marketplace a nonprofit campus for
  • ALL ARE FORMER PRISONS
  • 5
  • Slide 33
  • MC ESCHER ANTON VON LEEUWENHOEK
  • 6
  • Slide 36
  • 7
  • SARADINDU BANDOPADHYAY
  • 8 Which group of people X
  • DR K RADHAKRISHNAN of ISRO made Rosogollas for astronauts
  • WRITTEN ROUND 20
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug
  • 2 (4)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip
  • 3 (2)
  • Slide 46
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (2)
  • 1ID this gentleman whose moment under the sun came on 23rd Aug (2)
  • GOBOR GOHO
  • 2 (5)
  • This is what Elaine has to sayhellip (2)
  • Slide 52
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 54
  • Beige Brigade
  • SCORES PLEASE (2)
  • 9
  • WRESTLEMANIA I
  • 10 One of Indiarsquos most distinguished diplomats C Dasgupta has
  • PHILIP NOEL BAKER
  • 11
  • AUTO-TUNE
  • 12
  • WILLIAM BLIGH
  • 1 (2)
  • AMIR KHUSRAU amp NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA
  • 14
  • EGYPT The northward flow of RIVER NILE
  • 15 Put pun dahellip
  • HIS EXHAUSTED HIGHNESS
  • WRITTEN ROUND 30
  • AUDIENCE Q (2)
  • YEH BIK GAYI HAI GORMINT
  • 1 (3)
  • 2 (6)
  • 3 (4)
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (3)
  • 1 (4)
  • RUST BELT
  • 2 (7)
  • MONACO
  • 3 (5)
  • The MILKMAID by VERMEER
  • SCORES PLEASE (3)
  • INFINITE BOUNCE 20
  • 1 (5)
  • Slide 87
  • 2 (8)
  • HAYAO MIYAZAKI
  • Slide 90
  • 3 What happened right after this photograph was taken
  • Robert Capa stepped on a mine and died
  • 4 (2)
  • Developing an early set of rules for HANDBALL
  • CPR
  • 5 (2)
  • Slide 97
  • 6 (2)
  • Slide 99
  • WEBCAM STICKERS
  • 7 (2)
  • Slide 102
  • 8
  • GOOGLE DOODLES
  • FOR AUDIENCE This doodle celebrates the Republic Day of which
  • ITALY
  • WRITTEN ROUND 40
  • 1 (6)
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out
  • PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS (4)
  • 1 (7)
  • JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
  • 2 This is the last song sung by someone (X) The last verse is (2)
  • FREDDIE MERCURY BRIAN MAY
  • 3 Still from a directorrsquos last movie Whatever is blanked out (2)
  • Alfred Hitchcock BATES Avenue
  • AUDIENCE Q (3)
  • John Williams
  • SCORES PLEASE (4)
  • 9 (2)
  • Slide 122
  • 10
  • Largest abandoned building Pyongyang
  • 11 (2)
  • Slide 126
  • Slide 127
  • 12 (2)
  • SASSOON DAVID SASSOON son of David Sassoon
  • 13
  • Slide 131
  • 14 (2)
  • THE DANUBE RIVER WAS THE BORDER
  • 15
  • AZAD HIND DHABA MF HUSSAIN
  • Slide 136
  • SCORES PLEASE (5)
  • FOR BOUQUETS amp BRICKBATS