{"id":1955,"date":"2013-03-07T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:15:47","slug":"the-rahman-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/the-rahman-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rahman Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I acknowledge that I am a Lapsed Quizzer, there comes a time in a man&#8217;s life when he is forced to shake that queasy (yeah, fine, pun intended) feeling out of himself by going all Powerpointy. I have been listening to some Rahman every now and then. Though I tend to stay away from his earlier catalog as much as I can, ever since that year-long sabbatical from his music. A friend and I were talking about &#8220;Aha&#8221; moments in his songs &#8211; where random back-up singers go &#8220;aha&#8221;, like in &#8216;Kilimanjaro&#8217; and the title track of Parthaley Paravasam. We tried to think of\u00a0<em>other\u00a0<\/em>songs of a similar nature, and suddenly I found odd bits of trivia popping up in my head. So here, out, damned spot. A bunch of 20 questions that are somewhat sensible, and sometimes not. Please make sure to read the fine print (second slide), and come back here for answers in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>(For those who cannot see what&#8217;s below, it&#8217;s supposed to be an embedded Slideshare iFrame. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beatzo\/the-rahman-quiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here&#8217;s a direct link to the page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-slideshare wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-slideshare wp-embed-aspect-1-1 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The rahman quiz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/r4rRaIZ4oHc3Y8\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beatzo\/the-rahman-quiz\" title=\"The rahman quiz\" target=\"_blank\">The rahman quiz<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beatzo\" target=\"_blank\">Satyajit Chetri<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I acknowledge that I am a Lapsed Quizzer, there comes a time in a man&#8217;s life when he is forced to shake that queasy (yeah, fine, pun intended) feeling out of himself by going all Powerpointy. I have been listening to some Rahman every now and then. Though I tend to stay away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,51],"tags":[531,104,113],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ar-rahman","category-music","category-quizzing","tag-ar-rahman","tag-quiz","tag-rahman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}