Sports Quiz 3

1. Identify this legend & where would you find this statue?












Matt Busby(Sir Alexander Matthew Busby-the longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United) & one would find the statue at the Old Trafford Stadium.

2. This man has been in the news in 2007 for a particular reason. Questions about him have been asked in several quizzes. Whos he?


















Mir Ranjan Negi and everyone knows the Chak De.. funda. He he has also been participating in a dance show called 'Jhalak Dikhlaja'.

3. Put Fundae..



















Poster of the only Olympic cricket match. Only two teams competed-France & England. England won.

4. Mugshot again. Easy one.












Jennifer Capriati, arrested for possession of marijuana.

5. Identify.










Bernie Ecclestone.

Bonus Quesion?
Oh yeah! Not the ladies..Their hubbies/boyfriend/whatever?














1-Ashley Cole(Cheryl 'Tweedy' Cole), 2-David Beckham(Victoria Beckham) & 3-Wayne Rooney(Coleen McLoughlin)

Scores:
Rahul-2
Rishabh-2

Comics & Literature Quiz 3

1. These are some of X's famous creations(comics). Whos X & Gimme his most famous creation?























Herge (Georges Remi) & The Adventures of Tintin.

2. The character & the comic?
















Howard the Duck in Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness.

3. Id.













Tennesse Williams.

4. What has been blanked out?



















Three Blind Mice. (The billing from the Radio Times issue, illustrating the night's programmes on radio for Queen Mary including the performance of Three Blind Mice)

5. Movie based on the life of which famous author?(Gimme the movie's name too)











Janes Austen & Becoming Jane.

Scores:
Nikhil-2
Pooja-1
Rahul-2.5
Shreya-2
Anon-2

Movie Quiz 4

1. Connect:

























The Maltese Falcon. The novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask". Humphrey Bogart with the Maltese Falcon(in the 1941 movie 'The Maltese Falcon'). The yatch 'The Maltese Falcon', apparently the world's largest privately-owned clipper yacht.

2. Id the movie.











Anatomy Of A Murder.

3. Connect:























Wes Craven.(The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street & Scream)

4. Identify.












George A Romero.

5. Connect:












Napster. Shawn Fanning had a cameo appearance, playing himself, in the film The Italian Job, where Seth Green's character accuses Fanning of stealing Napster from him while he was taking a nap (And therefore the name "Napster").

Scores:
Anonymous-2
Prerana-3
Homesgone-Better luck next time!

Music Quiz 4

1. Gimme the band named after this character.












Uriah Heep from the Charles Dickens character of the same name in David Copperfield.

2. The newspaper article shown below was the inspiration for a famous song by a very famous band. The song, the band & funda?









The song, 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam.The song takes its main inspiration from this newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle, from Richardson, Texas who shot himself in front of his English class in Richardson High School on the morning of January 8, 1991.

3. The blanks?


















Martin Scorsese & B.B. King. (Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: B.B. King)

4. Id.



















50 Cent. (shudnt have asked this one)

5. The band named after this place.

























Dimmu Borgir(after Dimmuborgir, a volcanic formation found in Iceland).

Scores:
Nikhil-2
Tyson Kiran-3
Rishabh-2

Sports Quiz 2

1. What is depicted here?











This is the Villeneuve Curva (San Marino Grand Prix), the location of Roland Ratzenberger's fatal crash.(Everyone went for Ayrton Senna crash at Tamburello corner - Ayrton Senna question has been asked several times)

2. What list is this?















Victims(Israeli Olympic team) of the 1972 Munich Olympics.

3. Connect:










Liverpool F.C. Pic 1 - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. "You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carousel. Liverpool F.C. was founded by John Houlding(Pic 2).

4. The trophy?












Davis Cup.

5. Connect:
























Force India F1. The team was formed when a consortium led by Vijay Mallya and Michiel Mol(Pic 1) bought Spyker F1. The team will use Ferrari engines. Adrian Sutil & Giancarlo Fisichella-The Drivers.

Scores:
Tyson Kiran-2
Nikhil(mail)-1
Rishabh-Got the Munich part right!

Comics & Literature Quiz 2

1. What resulted from this strip?







Specialist Chip Gizmo, the computer geek in Beetle Bailey comic strips. The contest to name the new character Gizmo first appeared in this 6 May 2002 strip when Gen. Halftrack walks into Mort Walker's studio demanding a new character to help him with computer related stuff. The contest was sponsored by Dell Computer Corp., and it received more than 84,000 entries. It raised more than $100,000 for the Fisher House Foundation, a non-profit organistation that provides housing for families of patients at military and veterans hospitals.

2. Meera Jain, Aunt Maya, Uncle Bhim, Nalin Oberoi, Hari Oberoi. What am I talking about?

Spider-Man: India. Peter Parker is Pavitr Prabhakar. The names mentioned are analogous to Mary Jane Watson, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Norman Osborn(the Green Goblin) & Harry Osborne respectively.

3. Connect: (Hint: Mass Muder --> Famous book)












'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. It deals with the slaying of Herbert Clutter(Pic 3) & his family by Richard "Dick" Hickock(Pic 2) and Perry Smith(Pic 1).

4. The cartoonist?



















Dr. Seuss.

5. Who is depicted in this coin?












Helen Keller.

Scores:
Tyson Kiran-3
Saurabh-1
Anon-3

Crack IT! 3

1. Gimme the species & funda behind its name.














The GoldenPalace.com Monkey. It was discovered in western Bolivia's Madidi National Park in 2004 by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Rather than choosing a name themselves, they auctioned off the naming rights to raise funds for a nonprofit organization. GoldenPalace.com(an online casino, well-known for its winning Internet auctions, mostly for bizarre items) one of over a dozen bidders, paid US$ 650,000 to have the species named after them.

2. Headquarters of which IT giant??









Infosys.

3. The last event was on the 5th of September and it was titled "The Beat Goes On". The next one will be on January 15, 2008, titled "There's something in the air". What am I talking about?
Stevenote. (Speeches by Apple CEO Steve Jobs)

4. Connect:
























All these albums were released on a USB stick. (other than CDs)

5. Logo of???












The Windows Vista Codename (Longhorn) logo.

Scores:
Tyson Msk-2
Varun KR-2

Movie Quiz 3

1. Connect:











Good Night, and Good Luck. The movie portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow (Pic 1) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (Pic 2).

2. Actor & Movie??














Frank Sinatra as Maj. Bennett Marco in The Manchurian Candidate.

3. The images show four not-so-famous actors. One was murdered and the others died of natural causes but many people believe it was 'something else' that killed them. What?
























The Poltergeist curse. Dominique Dunne(starred as Dana in the first movie), Heather O'Rourke(played Carol Anne in all three movies), Julian Beck(played Kane in Poltergeist II), Will Sampson(played Taylor the Medicine Man in Poltergeist II). The rumor is a superstition largely derived from the fact that all four cast members died in a relatively short span of time (six years) between the release of the first film and the release of the third, with one dying during production of the second film.

4. Gimme the movie. The movie was remade recently.



















3:10 to Yuma(1957) starring Glenn Ford.

5. Connect:












Grace Kelly. Her marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. The French fashion house Hermès's most famous product, the "Kelly Bag". The singer, Mika famous for his "Grace Kelly" song.