A short quiz. I am not posting this on Quizbusters because of a couple of reasons. Primarily because this is not a good<\/i> quiz. This is more of an ego-stoking thing, brought about by a few discoveries made while I was using ( what else! ) Google for not-so-official purposes over the weekend. Also because these are not meant to be answered – Now that’s stupid, I know – what else are questions for, if not answers? – but really, it’s the sixth question you need to get, not all of them. If you get six, you get the rest. Of course, you can also work Question 6 out if you get any, or some of questions 1-5.<\/p>\n
Non-Indian answerers:- Feel free to use google to get the connect. The desis ( even the non-resident ones ) better play fair.<\/p>\n
Onward, then.<\/p>\n
1. A film by Robert Altman, based on Raymond Chandler’s penultimate novel, in which Altman reinvents Philip Marlowe as someone who has been sleeping for thirty years and wakes up in LA of the 1970’s. Altman called it his “Rip Van Marlowe” concept. Arnold Schwarzenneger’s second movie ( he plays a dialogue-less muscleman ) Name?<\/p>\n
2. ______, ‘Badshah Hamara<\/i>‘ by Rajbhuja Dutt Choudhary, ‘Namo Hindustan<\/i>‘ by Saraladevi. Fill in the first blank, along with requisite fundaes.<\/p>\n
3. In Indian mythology, its curative properties were attributed to the belief that a few drops of heavenly nectar fell on it. It was the main protection from Insects, who were said to be the creation of Asuras. What?<\/p>\n
4. The measurement scale was invented by James Hardy and his research colleagues Herbert Wolff and Helen Goodell at Cornell University where from 1950 to 1959, they carried out pioneering experiments on pain. Hasrdy, Wolff and Goodell used precisely calibrated radiant heat directed to the foreheads or hands of trained experimental subjects. They asked the subjects to report each “just noticeable difference” in the intensity of pain they experienced, and graphed their responses on a scale they called ____. Which scale?<\/p>\n
5. Ok, a dud. I can’t really think of anything to connect to the theme. But let me try something that connects to Question 4. Pretty straight and simple – who is the female vocalist on the haunting interlude of The Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up<\/i>? <\/p>\n
6. A key element in Sufi thought, and is analogous to Nirvana in Buddhism. Once the Sufi becomes assiduous in dthikr<\/i>, or rememberance of Allah, they claim that he acquires sufficient tranquility of heart to experience a delusion which helps him pass through the various stages described below. First he is bewildered, then intoxicated with love of the Remembered One, and finally he passes through the stage of ___________, or annihilation, in which he becomes fully absorbed to the point of becoming unaware of himself or the objects around him. Every existing thing seems to vanish, and he feels free of every barrier that could stand in the way of his viewing the Remembered One and nothing else.
\n the ultimate goal of the Sufi movement is _____, and Wusool<\/i> the meeting and unification of the human soul with Allaah in this life. Fill the gap.<\/p>\n
Well, tha-tha-that’s all, folks. Don’t kill me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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