* 20 questions. * Infinite (Bounce + Pounce). * Marks - Direct : 10 - Bonus : 10

11

Identify the singer of this song from the 1950 movie Arzoo.

Anil Biswas

22

After 14 unsuccessful attempts by 36 persons, this seemingly impossible task was achieved in 1962 by Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris.

Their act was later immortalised in a 1963 novel and a 1979 movie.

What did the trio successfully attempted?

Escape from Alcatraz

33

How did Bob Beamon express his solidarity with Black Power Salute protest, during this victory ceremony? (He got away with it as most people didn’t notice it.)

Bob Beamon put his black socks up over his tracks to show solidarity with John Carlos and Tommie Smith.   

44 Also known as Venus's car, Lady in

a bath, Dutchman's trousers or Lyre-flower -- this popular ornamental plant is found in the Eastern Asia, from Siberia to Japan. It is also used in floristry as a cut flower for Valentine's Day.

How is it commonly known?

Bleeding Heart

55 Spoofs of which famous

painting?

American Gothic, by Grant Wood.

66

He is the gladiator and rebellion leader Spartakis appearing in Asterix and Obelix All at Sea. On which real life person, this character has been based?  

Kirk Douglas

77

Himachal Pradesh’s famed Thoda-ka- Khel, a game of archery, where the target is a dancing human, is played between two teams -- the Saatha (team of sixty) and the Paasha (team of five).

What is so interesting about the members of these two teams?

Members of the two teams identify themselves as descendants of Pandavas and Kauravas.

88

Identify this gentleman who is meeting eleven-year-old Amanda, diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia, to fulfill her wish in 2009.  

Undertaker

99

Identify this funny elderly gentleman being interviewed by Shekhar Suman.

Surendra Sharma

1010 Titanic, Fortitude, Glimmer &

Airborne Cigar – were all carried out as a means of deception for Overlord, which infact commenced sensationally with Neptune.

What am I talking about? (Clue – the visuals)  

Operation Titanic, Operation Glimmer, Operation Fortitude & Operation Airborne Cigar were all deception operations to fox the enemies for the Operation Overlord(the code name for the Battle of Normandy). The Operation Overlord commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day).

1111 Time magazine

cover on Dec 15, 1967.

Put funda.

Christian Bernard. He performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.

1212 Whom did Robert Pattinson portray in this 2008 drama film set against the backdrop during the 20s and 30s?

Salvador Dali

1313

Put funda. (I am looking for a three-word term)  

Holy Roman Empire

1414 Originally titled ‘Where No Man

Has Gone Before’, this musical piece has been used as the theme music for which iconic tv series?

Star Trek

1515

According to University of Maryland: It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound continuously for 31 hrs. from east to west and carries a payload of 353,430 tons which is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner.

What is being described?

Santa Claus’ sleigh

1616

This song, from a movie based on a real life incident, won numerous prestigious awards including Broadcast Film Critics Association Award but lost the Oscar to “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3”.

Name the composer.  

A. R. Rahman

1717

According to a recent article at Outlook, a Bangalore book salesman named G.K. Ananthram was the man behind the publication of a popular something, in 1965—in Kannada. Though another gentleman is usually credited for starting this in 1967 in Mumbai.

What?

Amar Chitra Katha

1818

Identify this martial art which was part of the 1924 Olympics as a demonstration sport.

Savate

1919

Lyrics by Swanand Kirkire, composed by Shantanu Moitro.

Who is singing?

Kaushiki Chakraborty Desikan

2020 Household paint and clipped butterfly

wings make up this 3.5 million dollar kaleidoscopic image, titled - I am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds. Identify the creator of this artwork.    

Damien Hirst

• Written Round. • Marks for the ‘theme’ answer mentioned

on each slide.• One chance after every clue.• Non-exhaustive.

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Evening Star

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44

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66

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88

Exchange Your Papers

11

Evening Star

Vesper Lynd

22

Tiffany Case

33

Honey Rider

44

Solitaire

55

Kissy Suzuki

66

Mary Goodnight

77

Domino

88

Christmas Jones

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