COIMBATORE QUIZ CIRCLE

INFORMALS 25/10/2009

ABOUT ME & THE QUIZ…

• I am Ganapathy, doing my final year in Production-@#!&*^%-Engineering at PSG Tech.• Friends call me Ganja.• I love movies. So, don’t be surprised to find LOTS of movie-based questions.• Usual rules- 10 points for correct answers, infi-bounce, QM’s decision is final, no answering out of the turn, and so on and so forth…• Now, here we go…

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Connect… The number of stars indicate the amount of relevance the parti cular movie

has to the answer.

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Identi fy this gentleman.

Oskar Schindler

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Identi fy the logo.

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Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) were Thai brothers born in X. They traveled with P.T. Barnum's c ircus for many years and were bi l led as the Y. Due to the brothers' fame and the rarity of their conditi on, Y came to be used as a synonym for Z.

X, Y & Z?

X – SiamY – Siamese TwinsZ – Conjoined Twins

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The Hindi word for “tasti ng a delicacy” or “to

taste” is a very popular snack variety in India.

What?

Chaat

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Connect… The list is exhausti ble.

Age of Empires II Cheats!!

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Identi fy this gentleman.

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• X are cr iminal acts that are modeled on previous cr imes that have been reported in the media.• Y is defi ned as a dupl icati on of a suic ide

that the person att empti ng suic ide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depicti ons of the original suic ide on televis ion and in other media.• Z refers to the tendency of sensati onal

publ ic ity about violent murders or suic ides to result in more of the same through imitati on.

X, Y & Z?

X – Copycat CrimeY – Copycat SuicideZ – Copycat Effect

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What are these known as?

The Five Lost HitchcocksThese films were unavailable for decades because their rights were bought back by Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. They were re-released in theatres around 1984 after a

30-year absence.

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Momofuku Ando is the founder and chairman of a famous company. He is credited with the inventi on of X during the post-WW-II era. X is a popular commodity across the globe, and the story of its inventi on is menti oned in all its covers.

Cup Noodles!!

Momofuku Ando is the founder-chairman of Nissin Food Products

Co., Ltd.

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This painti ng depicts…

The conspirators of the “Gunpowder Plot” of 1605.

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Connect…

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Identi fy…

James Haven Voight

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Identi fy/Give the Signifi cance.

Samantha-Geimer

The 13-year old girl, whom Roman Polanski was accused

of molesting.

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In December 1981, Dr. James Naismith, invented an indoor-game to keep his students at YMCA fi t during the long winters of Massachusett s.He incorporated rules from a chi ldren’s game cal led “Duck on a Rock”, whi le writi ng the rules for this game.The game initi al ly involved a ‘container ’ used for storing peaches. The ‘container ’ has now evolved into something else.

What game?

Basketball!!

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The Fulton surface-to-a i r recovery system (STARS) i s a system used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy for retr iev ing persons on the ground f rom an a i rcraft . I t involves an overa l l - type harness and a se l f-infl ati ng bal loon which carr ies an att ached l ift l ine. An a i rcraft engages the l ine with i t s V-shaped yoke and the indiv idual i s reeled on board. Red fl ags on the l ift l ine guide the p i lot dur ing dayl ight recover ies ; l ights on the l ift l ine are used for n ight recover ies .

How bett er i s STARS know as?

Skyhook

VIDEO CLIP

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In a day-club (as against a night-club) in Toronto, there once broke out a fi ght. When the fi ght started getti ng very serious, one of the on-lookers stepped in and said, “Alright, nobody fi ghts. Or, ________ _____ ___ _ ____ ____ ___”. The l ine became very popular later on, in a diff erent context.

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Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad!

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The Cross of Lorra ine i s part of the hera ld ic arms of Lorra ine in eastern France. I t was or ig ina l ly held to be a symbol of Joan of Arc , who was f rom Lorra ine. Between 1871 and 1918 (and again between 1940-1944) , the northern th i rd of Lorra ine was annexed to Germany, a long with Alsace. Dur ing that per iod the Cross ser ved as a ra l ly ing point for French ambiti ons to recover i t s " lost" provinces .

Something l ike an anti -c l imax, the symbol ended up s igni fy ing something e lse in which fi cti onal work?

V for Vendetta

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Identi fy.

SOUND CLIP

Dustin Hoffman

From his Oscar acceptance speech for “Kramer Vs Kramer”.

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The Gospel of John states that the Romans p lanned to break Jesus ' legs , a practi ce known as crur i f ragium , which was a method of hastening the death dur ing a cruc ifi x ion. Just before they d id so, they rea l i zed that Jesus was a l ready dead and that there was no reason to break h is legs . To make sure that he was dead, a Roman Centur ion named in extra-B ib l ica l t raditi on as Longinus stabbed h im in the s ide.

What legendary arti fact , only r iva led by the Holy Grai l was born out of th is?

The Holy LanceOr

The Spear of DestinyOr

The Holy SpearOr

The Spear of Christ

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What’s the signifi cance of these Ads?

Dick HammerDavid McLeanWayne McLaren

All three models died of Cancer from smoking. Marlboro faced severe

criticism and a subsequent depreciation in sales.

SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH.

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