Answers to Q2-April Tadka- Mixed Bag

Answers to Q2-April Tadka- Mixed Bag

1. François Pienaar,Theodore Roosevelt,Nelson Mandela - It was an excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the arena" speech that Nelson Mandela handed over to François Pienaar before the Rugby World Cup, 1995. South Africa went on to win the Cup and this is the inspiration for the movie Invictus.
2. Fortune magazine (Most of you cracked it)
3. Oedipus/Electra Complex
4. Lonely Planet
5. Old Spice( Globally cracked :-) )

Congratulations to Tanmay and Suvagata for answering all the questions correctly ! Shobhit, Sugandha, Priya were close on 4! Next quiz shall be posted soon :)

Q2-April Tadka- Mixed Bag

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1.

Identify the three individuals. What is the connection here?

2. This magazine was founded by Henry Booth Luce in February 1930, ironically four months after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that marked the onset of the Great Depression. Single copies of that first issue cost $1 at a time when the Sunday New York Times was only 5¢. At a time when business publications were little more than numbers and statistics printed in black and white, this magazine was an oversized 11"×14", using creamy heavy paper, and art on a cover printed by a special process, and became popular because of a team of writers including James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Alfred Kazin.

Which magazine?

3. In psychoanalytic theory, it is defined as “a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which centre around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex”. How do we better know it as? (Hint: It is suggested that Adolf Hitler suffered from this complex)

4. This company was founded by a husband and wife duo ( see picture ) in 1972 and is now controlled by BBC Worldwide, which owns a 75% share, while founders own the remaining 25%. The company name comes from a misheard line in "Space Captain," a song by Joe Cocker and Leon Russell. The actual words are "X" but the founders in the picture below heard "Y" and named the company “Y”. Which company?



5. This brand was introduced by the Shulton company. The first product under this brand was a fragrance called “Early American __ __” for women (the two blanks represent the name of the company), introduced in 1937, while the fragrance for men followed in 1938. It was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1990. Which brand? (Hint : Yo-ho! Yo-Ho!

Brushless or lather boys,
Whichever you've a notion
Fifty cents for the cream,
A dollar for the lotion.
"__ __ means quality,"
Said the Captain to the Bosun.
Asks for the package with
…………………………………… )

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Answers to previous quiz

1. Nayagan. The film starred Kamal Hassan and was directed by Mani Ratnam.
2. Shankar Jaikishan indeed :)
3. Luck By Chance ;-) Surprised some of you got it wrong :-)
4. Titanic (all films of James Cameron)
5. No Man's Land of Bosnia
6. Ronald Reagan for Casablanca :-)
7. The film Sholay was shot here
8. Alam Ara
9. Tarantino (almost all of you got this right)
10. Abhay Deol

Summer Tadka: Q1 April, 2010

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1. It was rumoured that this film was a biopic on the life of Varadaraja Mudaliar. This one featured in the list of the All Time 100 Greatest movies compilation by the Time magazine. Name the film. (You could also write in the Hindi remake here as an answer in case you don’t know the vernacular name)

2. Identify the duo



3. Name the only Hindi film that featured Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla in it. This is a sitter.

4. Fill in the blanks: The Terminator, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, ______, Avatar.

5. This poster belongs to the film that pipped out Lagaan for the “Best Foreign Film” at the Oscars. Name the film.



6. An announcement in Hollywood Reporter on 5th January, 1942 said, “Ann Sheridan and X will be teamed by Warner Bros. for the third time in Y, a story about war refugees in French Morocco."
It was never really confirmed if X was considered for the role, but that perhaps remains his biggest claim to fame in Hollywood ;-)
Identify X (the person) and Y (the film)

7. What is the claim to fame of a village called Ramanagaram in Indian cinema?

8. Identify the film from this still. Hint: Translated into English, the title means “Light of the World”. More hint: The hit song “de de Khuda ke naam par” featured in this movie.



9. Identify:
(This one doesn’t need a hint, but his middle name is Jerome)



10. Well, this one might be a tad overstretched. Fill in the blanks.
Phani Sharma, P C Baruah, K L Saigal, Dilip Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shah Rukh Khan, ________.
(Hint: Nageswara Rao and Prasenjit Chatterjee also form a part of this list)


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Answers to the previous quiz

Quite a few of you got 3 and 4 answers right. Great work!! Here are the answers
1) Shahjahaanabad
2) Pt. Ravi Shankar :-)
3) Mandavi and Shrutakirti, respectively
4) Pankaj Parashar
5) Tanishq

Quiz 1, March 2010

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1. Complete the list- Lal Qot (or Qila Rai Pithora), Siri, Tughalaqabad, Jahanpanah, Firozabad, Dinpanah and "X". Name "X".

2. All of us know that it was Mohd. Iqbal who wrote "Saare Jahaan Se Achcha". Who set it to the tune as we know it today?

3. In Ramayana, we know that Rama was married to Sita and Lakshmana to Urmila. Who was Bharata married to and what was the name of Shatrugna's wife?

4. We all remember the popular TV serial Karamchand starring Pankaj Kapoor. Who directed the series? (Hint: has directed some movies- most of them nobody heard of)

5. The brand is named "X" (7 letter word). It is formed by pulling out the first two letters of the parent group that owns the brand and 5 letters which mean "necklace" in Sanskrit. Name the brand. Hint: The answer, or rather, one of the products of the brand is there in the question :-)

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Answers to weekend tadka 1

Dear all,
We apologise for the delay in giving out the answers. Also, due to a technical error, we are unable to spell out the individual scores for this edition.

Here go the answers..

1. Sued Akshay Kumar for obscene behaviour at the Lakme India Fashion Week (the unbuttoning episode).

2. Bret “The Hitman” Hart

3. Catamaran

4. Rabindranath Tagore (Tough One)

5. The Wailing Wall

6. “Bear” Grylls (Man Vs Wild fame).

7. Erdos-Bacon Number

8. Ford (The car in Pic is Ford T Model)

9. Clockwork Orange

10. Tasmanian Devil (“Devil” was the clue here)