OK, so the first installment of the Indore quiz questions. Your answers may be appended with a screened comment, that will be unscreened once I give the answers out. Yes, this was supposed to be a team quiz, so google is allowed. The condition is that, (a) you will click the google “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, and (b) you will click it only once.
I read Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer the night before I left for Indore, and on the trip, I finished SF Fantasy Masterworks: Elric by Michael Moorcock. Both books were awesome, and part of my short-term goals happen to be finishing the two other Fowl books, whose e-Text versions are stored in my HDD. I am slightly hesitant about starting Gloriana by Moorcock, since that’s a lot divorced from his Eternal Champion storyline.
Current Read: Gump and Co by Winston Groom, in which Gump has managed to semi-bankrupt the Coca Cola company and drown a village in pigshit. From a Buick Eight by Stephen King. Stuck at page 113.
This made my day. I met Gaurav at the fest, and as he told me his name, I thought it sounded familiar – “most likely Quiznet”- was what I thought. It was only when someone asked me who the person on table 5 in the Lone Wolf quiz was, there was this blinding flash of light, and I remembered who he was. Thanks, Gaurav.
1. This artist was much influenced by Moorish art during the early part of his life. His brother Berend, a professor of geology, recognised the connection between his brother’s woodcuts and crystallography, and encouraged him to read mathematician Polya’s paper on plane symmetry. The latter body of this artist’s work (woodcuts, paintings, sketches) is a deep study of symmetry and perspective, his extensive research and investigation culminating in 1941 with his first notebook Regular Division of the plane with Asymmetric congruent Polygons, and establishing him as one of the finest research mathematicians of his age. Which artist?
2. This character, in a book by William Steig, was kicked out by his parents from “the black hole in which he’d been hatched,” because he was “giving off his awful fumes”. He sets out to do “his share of damage.” Steig writes, “It delighted him to see the flowers bend aside and the trees lean away to let him go by.” Along the way, in exchange for a few of his “rare lice,” a witch tells his fortune:
‘Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch
Pay attention to this witch.
A ____ takes you to a knight–
Him you conquer in a fight.
Then you wed a princess who
Is even uglier than you.
Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,
the magic words are “Apple Strudel.”‘
Steig’s movie was massacred..er….adapted into a movie of the same name ( as that of the character and the book) . Identify the character.
3.In X’s initial years, the FBI maintained a dossier of anti-American activities X was indulging in. Charges included an illegal use of the US flag, filed by the American Federation of Police, attempting to counterfeit US banknotes, misuse of J Edgar Hoover’s name. It was sued by composer Irving Berlin, and later by a General who claimed that it was Communist propaganda, “X is a diabolical form of Red Propaganda used to infiltrate the minds of our Teenagers to destroy the American way of life,” wrote Greater Knoxville Youth for Christ. Members of the CCECB deemed it “objectionable” after it failed no fewer than eight of their tests for wholesomeness. What is X?
4.Why are the Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Closeau called so?
5.Short(definitely!), Simple ( maybe not..) :- Who is directing the next Harry Potter movie – The Prisoner of Azkaban?
6.Fill in the gap:-
The wonderful thing about ____,
Is ____ are wonderful things.
Their tops are made out of rubber,
Their bottoms are made out of springs.
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about ____ is…
I’m the only one.
7. The Oxford English Dictionary in 2001 defined this word as: “expressing frustration at the realizations that things have turned out badly…”. The word was originally called “annoyed grunt” in the context in which it was used. Which word?
8.Perry Farrell, singer for the band Jane’s Addiction conceived this in 1990 as a farewell tour for his band. The word itself is slang for “something outstanding of its kind”, which Farrell heard in a Three Stooges short film and liked the sound of. It however ran annually for 7 years, with the inclusion of non-musical features -performers like the Jim Rose Circus, an alternative freak show, or the Shaolin Monks – stretching the boundaries of traditional rock culture. What ?
9.He played the role of psychopathic gangster Harry Rout opposite Marisa Tomei in a Broadway Production called Wait Until Dark, produced and made a guest appearance in Julia Sweeney’s God Said Ha!. Acted as a blind preacher in the Sandler comedy Little NIcky. Was producer for the US rerelease of Yuen Wo Ping’s Iron Monkey. Plays the role of guest villain McKenas Cole in two episodes of ABC’s Alias. Who?
10.Which screen villain claims to be a nephew of Mogambo, he wears a long flowing cloak which he affectionately calls his Ghaghra, and his oft-repeated line ( translated) is:- I will take your eyeballs out and play marbles with them?
11.Between 1782 and 1785, Mozart composed a series of six string quartets which he dedicated to a composer, a friend of his, whose music had had a profound influence on him. Upon playing through some of them together, this composer said to Mozart’s father, who was present, “Before God and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer I know, either personally or by name.” Those quartets came to be known after the composer’s name. Who ?
12. H Rider Haggard wrote a series of novels that featured “She”. She: A History of Adventure, _____: The Return of She (1905), She and Allan (1921), and Wisdom’s Daughter (1923). Who is “She”?
13. What was artist Basil Hallward’s most famous work?
14. CS Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters is a series of letters from a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, X, who is an apprentice devil. The first letter reads:-…but the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is “the results of modern investigation.” Do remember you are there to fuddle him. From the way some of you young fiends talk, anyone would suppose it was our job to teach! Which contemporary character is inspired by X ?
15. The three forms of the Egyptian artform Ra’s Shar’i are Sh’abi (of rural origins), Shar’i (courtly origins), and Baladi (contemporary and bearing somewhat Western influences). How do we know Ra’s Shar’i as?
16. He has appeared in a total of 19 full-length novels, 48 novelettes or novellas, and 95 short stories. 13 films have been made on this fictional character, with the following actors essaying his role – Louis Hayward(1938,1953), George Sanders(1939), Hugh Sinclair (1940,1953) Roger Moore (1968, 2 movies), Ian Ogilvy (1980), the latest being Val Kilmer (1997). Also three French films, starring Felix Martin(1960) and Jean Marais (1966). The creator played him in a Life photofeature. Which character?
17. This guy’s first show was titled Moondog’s Rock n’ Roll Party, the success of which led to live concerts like Moondog’s Coronation Ball. He went on to act in movies like Don’t Knock The Rock, Rock Around The Clock, and Rock, Rock, Rock. Who?
18. His real name, in Hebrew means “All that is God”. His birth and arrival (according to theorists) is reminiscent of how baby Moses survived Pharaoh’s decree to kill all Jewish newborn sons. In the context of the 1930s, the story also reflects the saga of the Kindertransports–the evacuation to safety of hundreds of Jewish children, without their parents, from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. Of course, he was created by two Jewish boys. Who?
19. The actor who portrayed this character from a TV series was responsible for the character’s name. After trying out several accents for the part the production people told him they liked his Scotish accent best. Once he knew this he told the production personal that the Scotish made excellent engineers and proceeded to name the character Montgomery ____, and it stuck. Which character?
20. The only categories in which this artiste won Grammies in his lifetime was in the religious categories: How Great Thou Art (Best Sacred Performance, 1967, and Best Inspirational Performance, 1974 ) and He Touched Me(Best Inspirational Performance, 1972). Who?
21.Connect the following movies: – Aspi’s Garam Masala, Mehmood’s Kunwaara Baap, Basu Chatterjee’s Chhoti Si Baat, Khatta Meetha, Asrani’s Chala Murari Hero Banne, Krishna Shah’s Cinema Cinema, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Golmaal, S K Puri’s Ahsaas, Sai Paranjype’s Chashme Buddoor, Rakesh Kumar’s Commander, Tanuja Durai’s Pet Pyar Aur Paap, Pankaj Parashar’s Jalwa, Ketan Mehta’s Hero Hiralal, T Rama Rao’s Dosti Dushmani, Jagdeep’s Soorma Bhopali, Shashilal Nair’s Kroadh, Rajkumar Santoshi’s Ghatak, David Dhawan’s Biwi No 1 and Arjun Sajnani’s Agni Varsha.
22.Possibly the longest question of the quiz:-
He’s supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody ever believed he was real. Nobody ever knew him or saw anybody that ever worked directly for him. You never knew; that was his power. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
One story the guys told me, the story I believe, was from his days in Turkey. There was a gang of Hungarians that wanted their own mob. They realized that to be in power, you didn’t need guns or money or even numbers. You just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn’t. After a while, they come into power and then they come after him. X was small-time then, just running dope, they say.
They come to his home in the afternoon, looking for his business. They find his wife and kids in the house and decide to wait for him. He comes home to find his wife raped and children screaming. The Hungarians knew X was tough, not to be trifled with, so they let him know they meant business.
They tell him they want his territory, all his business. X looks over the faces of his family. Then he showed these men of will what will really was.
He tells him he would rather see his family dead than live another day after this. He lets the last Hungarian go, waits until his wife and kids are in the ground, and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids. He kills their wives. He kills their parents and their parents’ friends. He burns down the houses they live in, the stores they work in. He kills people that owe them money. And like that, he’s gone. Underground. Nobody’s ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. “Rat on your pop and X will get you.” But no one ever really believes…..”
A famous movie. A famous character. A question that’s being answered. Funda, please.
Yummy. Let me get this in due time. Dont give out the answers anytime soon. Give me a little time.
no problemo. :)
btw, uddu got 9/22. :-D no googling.
My guesses – no google, no nothing….and it shows ! ;-)
2. Has to be Shrek, I love you. I really do. First Shrek. Then Crime Master Gogo. The Saint. And now Kaiser Soze from The Usual Suspects. I now wonder about the ones I’ve missed…
3. Mad Magazine ?
4. The first movie, A Shot in the Dark, featured a diamond called the Pink Panther, around which the story revolved. I think the name stuck.
5. Forgot his name – some spanish director, if I’m not mistaken.
7. Uh-oh ?
10. Crime Master Gogo !! Great question :-)
14. Mrs Wormwood by any chance ?
16. Heh. I guess you missed seing my previous default pic. The Saint, by Leslie Charteris
17. Wild guess – Elvis ?
18. Superman, I’d say
22.
Lovely quiz. But you knew that already ! ;-)
Re: My guesses – no google, no nothing….and it shows ! ;-)
Heh heh. OK, in case u didnt know, or didnt notice, 8 out of the 22 questions were based on my lj-friends’ user-icons.
:-D don’t shoot me.
my shots
nice Q
my answers
did this thrice before i moved to notepad cos it was getting refreshed
googled(single clicks) marked with *. didnt have to patience to google the others
1. mc escher (escherian staircases ;)
2. shrek
3. mad magazine
4. the logo of the producer??
5.
6. tiggers
7. simpsons d’oh
8. lollapaloza (also famous as a jap bait in the war)
9.
10. mugambo kush hua – shakthi kapoor
11. haydn*
12.
13.
14. hobbes- nephw wormwood*
15. belly dancing*
16. the saint
17.
18. superman
19. chief engineerscott
20
21. male in female casts??
22. usual suspects- keyser soze – one of my favorite movies
Re: my shots
i screened your comment, for now. will unscreen after the answers.
all your guesses, except for #4 and #21, were correct. cool! :D
Re: my shots
thanks
feel like old days when the wild shots never failed to hit target….
of course 4 and 21were to wild…haha
1. M.C.Escher
2. Shrek
3. Jim Morrison?!
5. Shame on me, I dont know this… He directed – pricess bride – or was it – the little pricess – one of these!
9. Quentin Tarantino
11. Joseph Haydn :-)
16. What is Val Kilmer’s name in ‘The Saint’?
17. Bill Haley?!
19. Clift?!
5 correct.
Haley happened to be Uddu’s guess for that question, too.
A Little Princess. :-)
:D
I say (& William Steig would agree), “Beatzo’s Quiz is like Onions, (his questions are) in layers (of hints info combined) just as onions have layers”.:p
-Mons.
Re: :D
I reply ( and Shrek, if not Steig, would agree), “Cakes are somewhat better than onions.”
Thanks for the multilayered compliment, madam. :)
Re: :D
(And)she sends him (cow) dung cakes B-)that are (as smelly)as swamps
Re: :D
Oh mummy, they are yummy!
9. Is there any connection with the movie Wait Until Dark in which Audrey Hepburn played the blind woman?!
One simple way to find out would be to check the casting for the Hepburn film. if there is a character called Harry Rout in the movie, that means it’s a stage adaptation of the former. Right?
I was wondering the same myself. Harry Roat (not Rout) is a character, as per imdb. I didn’t know about the Broadway version.
Some more light….
This should clear up all doubts. First a play, starring hepburn. Then a movie, also starring Hepburn. and now this, with Tomei and Tarantino. And it’s Roat, not Rout. :) Mish-take!
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Audrey Hepburn …. Susy Hendrix
Alan Arkin …. Roat/Harry Roat Jr/Roat Sr
Richard Crenna …. Mike Talman
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. …. Sam Hendrix
Jack Weston …. Carlino
Samantha Jones …. Lisa
Julie Herrod …. Gloria
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Robby Benson …. Boy Tossing Ball in Opening Airport Scene (uncredited)
Jean Del Val …. The Old Man (uncredited)
Gary Morgan …. Boy (uncredited)
Frank O’Brien …. Shatner (uncredited)
:-)
Answer to the chicken-egg problem: Movie followed the stage version.
Cool! :-D
Now that’s something i didn’t know. :)
Number 18 is my personal favourite as I told you at the quiz.
By the way, we were never told the answers since we took the elims late. Could you please mail me a copy at sabnis(at the rate)iiml(dot)ac(dot)in
Gaurav
Righto, Gaurav, will do.
Q.18 came from two sources – one was an Online Jewish magazine, whose link I have misplaced, and the other was Michael Chabon’s amazing novel on Golden age comics – The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay. Read it sometime if you get it. Or if you’re interested, just tell me, there are second-hand copies available at Hyderabad.
Ahemm.. i got 2. the usual suspects (khyber suze is the name i have no idea how u spell that), and shrek. Google answered Haydn for mozart’s six quartets, MS Escher for Polygons, shakti kapoor for mogambo. will wait for you answers for the rest. No:21 looks really weird to me. i hope u don’t come up with some arbit connection !!
So much for my quizzing abilities! But i was always weakest in music and movies, so i guess its ok! Who sang Strawberry fields is just my kinda question really! :-)
Well, you got the answer based on your lj-userpic, so that’s something. ;-)
Number 21 is not an arbit connection at all, most of the names are red herrings, think about the those you’ve seen and THEN go for an answer.
Ah! Remember my comment about Dhaaji and The Beatles? That arose out of a question that was somewhat like “Who sang Strawberry Fields?” ( I had played a demo outtake of that song)
No 21
I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time. Two options come to mind:
1. All of them are inspired by either a play or another movie
2. All of them were shot somewhere in the South. Perhaps featured the same tree or something ?? ;-)
Re: No 21
Ha ha. Nothing that convoluted. Again, like I said, there are some specific entries in the list that should give you the clue. The lats one is the most obvious, I think….
Re: No 21
Guest appearances?
:-)
Now the actor……
Heh heh heh.
I hope your comments are automatically screened, because I don’t know how to screen this myself.
1. Salvador Dali
2. Shrek
3. Mad Magazine
4. the Pink Panther is the diamond David Niven wants to steal in the first movie
5. Alfonso Cuaron
6. Tiggers!
7. D’oh!
8. Lollapalooza
9. Quentin Tarantino
10. Crime Master Gogo
11. Haydn
12. Ayesha
13. The Picture of Dorian Grey
14. Charles Darwin
15. bellydancing
16. The Saint
17. Alan Freed
18. Superman
19. Scott (Scottie)
20. Elvis Presley
21. ???
22. The Usual Suspects, Keyser Soze
I had to use Google on 5 (which I might’ve gotten if I had thought some more), 10 (which I NEVER would’ve gotten), 11, 12, 13 (Google took me to a League of Extraordinary Gentleman site!), 15, 17, and 20. I didn’t even attempt 21! These are good questions, lots of variety. Too bad I’d have only gotten half right without cheating. As it is, I’m still guessing on some, so maybe I wouldn’t have even gotten half right.
Whoa! 19 correct in all, and 8 were googles. So you got 11, exactly half right, and that’s just too much, you would have torn the quiz apart, I guess.:-) There were 20 more questions, and the cutoff for the finals was 13.5.
Oh, I just remembered that you were a Trivia buff. Right?
When I was doing questions 12 and 13, I was thinking of the League of Extraordinary gentlemen. Wanted to have questions on all the characters, but then it would have been too easy, I guess.
Here I was wondering how on earth you got Gogo right.
Hey! Came here for the very first time. These questions were amazing. I got Escher; d’oh; Crime Master Gogo; and Picture of Dorian Gray without googling… I suck at this.. :|
And the most interesting answer for the googled queries was the one for Ques 21st. ;)
Great blog you have,
Will be back again,
Eagerly waiting for the answers.
Cheers,
Sarika
Thanks for the kind words, Sarika.
I will post the answers pretty soon, actually am waiting for to take a crack at ’em. :)
I’m late again! :(
Many people have answered the questions I knew by now…
Steig fans, just in case you didn’t know, William Steig, passed away on 6th this month. Sad…
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/10/04/obit.steig.ap/index.html
And dude, you rock! These questions are marvellous. And I will nevr, evr mess with you on trivia. Never, ;)
Thanks, buddy.
Me don’t wanna go mano-a-mano with you on game trivia, man. i remember u cracking that Atari Quiz wide open on your lj. :-)
::Me don’t wanna go mano-a-mano with you on game trivia, man
You’re too kind… I’m just a geek who knows his games :)
My answers…
The one’s marked with (*) are the ones I googled (I’m feeling lucky – just once)…
1. M C Escher
2. Shrek (This one’s a guess, the poem’s a giveaway methinks, since I didn’t want to waste a ‘google’…!)
3. Mad Magazine (*)
4. For the diamond of the same name in the movie..?
5. Alfonso Cuaron (*)
6. Tigger. From Winnie the Pooh
7. D’oh. The Simpson’s favourite exclamation (*)
8.
9. And I suspect him of having had a severely traumatised childhood. Quentin Tarantino. Love the guy’s movies.
10. Crime Master Gogo. Andaz Apna Apna. Good one ;)
11. Josef Haydn. Though I wouldn’t agree with him. Maybe I’m wierd but I prefer Bach.
12.
13. The picture of Dorian Gray. I’ve been meaning to read the book for well over a month, it’s lying around but I haven’t gotten round to it !!
14.
15. Belly Dance (Not-so-wild guess)
16. The Saint
17. Alan Freed ? The Rock ‘n Roll guy…??
18. Superman. The kids were Seigel and Schuster. (*)
19. Chief Enggr Montgomerry Scott. ‘Scotty’ from Star Trek.
20.
21.
22.
I’d be interested in the last ‘funda’ question… and the connection question… waiting for the answers to be up…
whiz (http://www.blurty.com/users/whiz)
Great guessing!
I will post the answers by the end of the week.
Thanks..!
This ws my first stop at ur blog, btw… stumbled here from Gaurav’s… Hope to be stopping by more often now…
whiz (http://www.blurty.com/users/whiz)
Quiz
Gr8 quiz beatzo, Gaurav recommended your blog .
It is a swell quiz,
My answers.
1. Picasso
2. Shrek
3. c.chaplin
4. name of diamond that is to be stolen.
5. speilberg
6. sedgewick
7. chutiya
10. crime master gogo , shakti kapor in andaz apana apna
12. alice
16. saint
18.ariel
Cheers,
Samrat
Four correct, samrat. I just couldn’t help chuckling at your answer to Q7. :-P