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50 Questions75 points all togetherThere is a theme scattered in these set.5 points for the themeTotal of 75 points to be scored .
1.Who is the designer ?
ANSWER
The Jeff Koons-designed car, driven by Andy Priaulx, Dirk Müller
2.Which US neighborhood connects ?
ANSWER
Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff
3 . Give me a phrase .
ANSWER
Here's Johnny The catchphrase that was reused by
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
4.What ‘s his medical connection ?
ANSWER
Tommy JohnTommy John surgery, known in
medical practice as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction
5.Construction of what ?
ANSWER
Atomium , Belgium
6.What material connects ?
ANSWER
Tiberium, found in the banks of River Tiber and Tiberium effected person
7.Man of Ice , Who ?
ANSWER
Carl Vinson after whom Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain is named .
8.Identify the most famous thing named after this fellow other than this ship
ANSWER
Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare
9.Monument dedicated to his famous work ?Who/What work ?(2 points)
ANSWER
Thomas Gray. The Monument is dedicated to "Elegy".
10.What has been restored ?
ANSWER
de Havilland Mosquito being restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre near St Albans.
11.ID the laughing guy .
ANSWER
Alan Shugart who invented computer disk
12
.”What” was inspired by his father ? This dude is the one of the only 2 guys to achieve a unqiue feat.What ? (2 pts)
(PIC IN NEXT SLIDE )
ANSWER
Auguste Piccard , served as an inspiration for Professor Calculus in Tintin .
His son Jacques Piccard is one of only two people, along with Lt. Don Walsh of the United States Navy, to have explored the deepest part of the world's ocean, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust, the Challenger Deep
13.What made this hotel famous in early 1980s ?
ANSWER
The Overlook Hotel of The Shining fame (yaa again)
14.Which city connects?(2 pts)
ANSWER
Sweet Home Alabama
15.Famous occupants ?
ANSWER
Blake 7
16. What is its famous terrestrial namesake ?
ANSWER
Ontario Lacus, the lake in Titan named after Lake Ontario
17.Which film comes to your mind ?
ANSWER
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
18.Give me a bright thingy .
ANSWER
Beta Centauri / HadarThe name Hadar comes from the
Arabic word for "ground" In Chinese, (Mǎ Fù), meaning
Horse's Abdomen, refers to an asterism consisting of β Centauri and the stars in Centaurus which were unrecognized yet.
19.Creation by (A) was popularized by (B) . What ? ( 3 points )
(A) (B)
ANSWER
Natas Kaupas who discovored 'Natas spin'.
And popularized by Tony Hawk
20.A served as an inspiration for X created by B. Solve A , B and X .(3 points)
A B
ANSWER
Doctor Gideon Fell (X) created by John Dickson Carr . is supposedly based upon G. K. Chesterton, (author of the Father Brown stories), whose physical appearance and personality were apparently similar to those of Doctor Fell.
21.Who made this rocks famous in late 1970s ?
ANSWER
SigiriyaUsed as the location of many of
the events in the science-fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
22.What caused this mishap ?
ANSWER
Eruption of Mt St Helens
23.Mocking what ?
ANSWER
Richard Thompson's Richard's Poor Almanac Mocking George Bush/Bushisms.
24.Connect .
ANSWER
Connect - Chuck HobermanHoberman sphereChrysler Headquarters in Auburn
Hills, Michigan . He won Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design in 1997
Hoberman Arch, Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park
25.Blues ? yup then who ?
ANSWER
Yves Klein famous for 'International Klein
Blue' (IKB)
26.It is the most famous invention by the dude & his bro .What ? (2 pts)
ANSWER
Rotoscoping, invented by Max and David Fleishcer.
27. 3M .Who are they ?
ANSWER
McKim, Mead and White( William Rutherford Mead, Charles Folen McKim & Stanford White).
28.Id the horseman .
ANSWER
Rudolph Valentino with the Arabian Stallion Jadaan. Publicity photo for Son of the Sheik, 1926
29.Gimme a 1960s musical piece .
ANSWER
Sunset Boulevard
30.Which iconic structure connects ?
ANSWER
Spaceship Earth,a part of Walt Disney World Resort. Built with the help of a science fiction by Ray Bradbury. "Spaceship Earth" was coined by Buckminster Fuller.
31.Tendency ?
ANSWER
ELIZA effectA trivial example of the specific
form of the Eliza effect, given by Douglas Hofstadter, involves an automated teller machine which displays the words "THANK YOU" at the end of a transaction.
The effect is named for the 1966 chatterbot ELIZA, developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum.
32.Lots of firsts happened here .
ANSWER
Le Bateau-Lavoir : It was in this milieu that Picasso first discussed Cubism
33.Became infamous as X derived from this guy’s phrase .Who ?
ANSWER
Julian Assange : began hacking under the name "Mendax" (derived from a phrase of Horace: "splendide mendax", or "nobly untruthful")
34.Restrictor . What ?
ANSWER
Green Dam Youth Escort.
37.Connect .
ANSWER
Douglas A-3 Skywarrior nicknamed Whales.
Hartford Whalers, a former NHL franchise nicknamed "the whale"
38.What’s chaps looking into?
ANSWER
Rosetta Stone
39.Add all of them in equal mixture. What you get ?
ANSWER Haudenosaunee flag created in
the 1980s. It is based on the "Hiawatha WampumBelt ... created from purple and white wampum beads centuries ago to symbolize the union forged when the former enemies buried their weapons under the Great Tree of Peace."It represents the original five nations that were united by the Peacemaker and Hiawatha. The tree symbol in the center represents an Eastern White Pine, the needles of which are clustered in groups of five.
40.Connect .
ANSWER
Characters in Hellboy series . (Abe Sapien(Abe Lincoln),Rasputin, Project Rag Narok)
41.Which Indian connects ?
ANSWER
Rituparno Ghosh films .
42. The company X is named after this person A ,
And Y has created the project B while working at this company.And the project itself took its name from the child of the dude in C .
Solve for X , Y , A , B and C
( 0.5 * 5 + 0.5 for getting all right )
Pics in next slide
A B
C
ANSWER
X=Groupe BullY=ADAA=Fredrik Rosing BullB=Jean IchbiahC=Lord Byron
43.Gimme a decorative soul .
ANSWER
Cervantes de LeonThe inspiration for a pirate as
the game's antagonist was derived from two other fictional pirates, Captain Hook and Long John Silver.
44.Which famous American connects ?
ANSWER
J. Willard Marriott who formed Roy Rogers Restaurants chain and Roy Rogers Martini and hence the connect Roy Rogers
45.X is named after Y . ID X or Y . X
Y
X=Mission San Francisco Solano Circa, 1910; Y=Francis Solano
46.What was this mansion converted into in late 17th century ?
The British Museum, first opened in the Montague House, Bloomsbury.
47.What’s the connect ? (2 points)
ANSWER
Neal Stephenson makes use of historical figures as characters in The Baroque Cycle, such as (counterclockwise from upper left) Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Sophia of Hanover and William of Orange
48.What are the famous missing names ?
ANSWER
Johannes Nicholas Bronsted and Martin Lowry are the missing ones .
Svante Arrhenius and Gilbert N. Lewis are the guys pictured.
49.This prompted some one to do something. Who and what ?
ANSWER
The Fort McHenry bombardment inspired Sir Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Sprangled Banner".
50.Both God and Evil .
ANSWER
Charles Manson
51.THE THEME LINKERS Solano Ontatrio Westwood Eliza Acid Ada Hare Natas Whale Bomber (Havilland Mosquito is a bomber) Alabama Beta Centauri also known as Agena Scotts Valley (headquarters of Seagate Technology
by Alan Shuggart)
THE THEME IS : DOS file viruses
That’s All folks !
With love Subin and Rithwik !
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