Jaquizzi XII

Arkadev Ghoshal

Round 1Rules:

1.All questions pass, but no infinite bounce.2.+10 for a direct question, +5 for a bonus question.3.Teams can ‘double’ their passes, but they have to say so before they answer their questions. Only passes are ‘doubled’, with +10 for a correct answer, and -5 for a wrong one.4.This is a dry round with two sweeps. Left to right first, right to left later.

1. Lets start with the Vighnaharta himself. What connects Ganesha’s fight with Parashurama while the

former followed his father’s instructions and did not let anyone disturb his parents, and, Ganesha writing the Mahabharata as Vyasa

recited it?

2. Connect the James Bond films superficially: Dr No, The Man with the Golden Gun and Goldfinger.

3. X was once asked by the host in a party if he would like his tea

with lemon or cream. “Both,” he replied. The host’s reaction

became the title of one of the books written by X. Id X.

4. X was originally a small poem, describing the victory of one clan

of relatives over others in war. Back then, it was called the ‘Jaya’. How do we know it in its evolved

form today?

5. Connect Sunny Deol, Shilpa Shetty, George Orwell and

Praveen Mishra (of Jaquizzi).

6. The committee that gives out the Oscar awards has a clause

that specifies something that the awardees must do before they

can sell their Oscar statuettes to someone else, or even in the grey market. This clause helps prevent

a second-hand market of such statuettes. What is the clause?

7. Currently, Saurav Ganguly is conducting a quiz show called

Dadagiri on a Bengali television channel. The last round of this show, the rapid fire round, is called ‘Baapi Bari Jaa’, which,

loosely translated, means , ‘Go home, boy!’ What is the funda

behind this nomenclature?

8. “Leave the gun, take the Cannoli,” “…take to the mattresses,” and “Maunday Tuesday, Thursday

Wednesday…” are all excerpts of dialogues from The Godfather.

However, these were also used in a romantic comedy where one of the

protagonists explained how The Godfather had the answer to all of

life’s questions. What was the romantic comedy?

9. We all know Safdar Hashmi and Emraan Hashmi. But how do we know Tabassum Hashmi better?

10. Which song, sung by Kishore Kumar, was played on the first

day of every month on the radio station Radio Ceylon?

11. Sanjay Leela Bhansali had conceptualised the film Black while working on his first film

ever, which featured a lot of the dialogues being spoken in sign language because two of the

characters in the film were deaf and mute. Who played these two

characters?

12. X never called himself a detective, but someone who was

looking for the truth. X met his wife while solving one of his own cases. X

was also the subject of the film which got an Oscar winner the first National Award for Best Picture in his country, although the film in

question is said to be the director’s weakest. Id X.

Round 2Rules:

1.All questions pass, but no infinite bounce.2.+10 for a direct question, +5 for a bonus question.3.Teams can ‘double’ their passes, but they have to say so before they answer their questions. Only passes are ‘doubled’, with +10 for a correct answer, and -5 for a wrong one.4.This is an audio-visual round. with four sweeps. Left to right first, right to left later.

1. Connect

2. Identify

3. Identify

3A. Identify

4. Identify and put fundaes

4A. Identify and put fundaes

5. Identify

6. Identify

7. Identify

8. Connect to India’s financial capital

9. Identify the film

10. Identify

11. Identify

12. Connect