Monday, April 17, 2006

Answers to the Ragam Lone Wolf Quiz

Answers:
Round 1:
1.Check Point Charlie on the Berlin Wall


2.James Dean

3.Shantaram(Gregory David Roberts)

4.Bodhidharma who took kalaripayattu to China and started the martial arts tradition.

5.The jewels of Helen of Troy.The lady in the picture is the wife of Heinrich Schleimann who excavated Troy

Round 2:
1.Tom and Jerry


2.Young Turks.The country is Turkey.This phrase is now a cliche.

3.Christopher Marlowe.The other "assumed identity" would be William Shakespeare!

4. OZ,as in Wizard of OZ.

5.Arsenal F.C.

6.Cedric Gibbons who designed the Oscar statuette.

7.Gestapo or Geheims Statz Polizei,the German secret police during WWII.

8.Alan Greenspan who recently retired as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

9.Austin Powers.


10.The Seven Samurai.

11.Carthage.

12.Shakunthala.(Goethe was a great fan of this poem by Kalidasa)

13.Pindar,the poet.

14.Carravagio

15.Pearl Harbour.

16.Ingolstadt University where Victor Frankenstein studied.The anatomy theater was where, the monster was assembled (in the novel by Mary Shelley).

17.Apu from Apu Trilogy by Satyajith Ray.The storylines refer to Pather Panjali, Apur Sansar and Aparajitho.

18.H5N1,the avian flu virus.H=Hemagglutinin,N=Neuraminidase.

19.Elvisaurus named after Elvis Prestley

20.The last words of Romeo and Juliet.

Round 3:
1. This is Hal Halbrook who acted as Deep Throat in the movie " AllPresident's Men". The guy with the gun is Mark Felt, the original Deepthroat. And at the bottom you have the poster of the movie Deep Throat.So the answer we are looking for is Deep Throat.


2. This is Isabella Eugenie Boyer, the wife of Isaac Singer, thesewing-machine industrialist. She was chosen by Frederic AugusteBartholdi as the model of Statue of Liberty.

3.From the top. In the first picture Venus is shown with her handmirror,in the second Mars is shown with his spear and shield and in thethird one, Mercury is shown .The symbols for genders are derived from these gods/godess. The symbol for female sex is Venus' handmirror, while the male symbol is Mars' shield and spear. Finally thereis symbol for intersexual organisms which is same as the symbol of the planet Mercury

4. The first pic is that of a Tapioca. Second one shows Alhambra.It is the most famous of Moorish Castles generically called Alcazars. The flag at the bottom is the national flag of San Theodoros, a fictional country inTintin. Both Tapioca and Alcazar are characters from Tintin who keeptrying to oust each other from power.

5. The guy at the bottom is Richard Bachman, a fictional personcreated by Stephen King ( other guy) as his alias. The first visual isthe cover of a book written by King with this nom de plume.

6.The flag shown at the bottom is the University of Michigan flag. Theseare the only flags to go to moon.

Round 4:

1. Lord Louis Mountbatten


2. New York
3. The Bhopal Gas tragedy(the letters MIC can be found on the photo)

4. The Black Hole Memorial Of Calcutta

5. The Balfour Declaration which led to the formation of Israel.Arthur Balfour was the guy.

6.The Horsemen of Apocalypse.The fifth horseman is death.

7."Is Paris Burning?"

Theme: The books of Larry Collins and Dominic LapierreThey wrote a biography of Mountbatten (Freedom at Midnight largely revolves around Mountbatten as well).Is NewYork burning,It was 5 past midnight at Bhopal(Lapierre and Javier Morro),O Jerusalem(formation of Israel),The City of Joy(about Calcutta),The fifth Horseman(a novel with Col.Gaddafi as the villain),Is Paris Burning(about liberation of Paris during WWII) are the other connections.

Round 5:
1. Khilafat


2. Exorcism

3. The unknown rebel at Tiananmen Square

4. Cobras

5. Georges Clemenceau

6. Camp David

7. Charles Babbage.

8. Handshakes.

9. Chicken Soup series.

10. Sufis

11.The towers of London

12. Karunesh

13. Tebbit argued that the loyalty of British Immigrants can betested by looking at who they support, in a cricket match involving England and the country of their origin.

14. Scud missiles

15. Vedic maths

16. Siddarth and Bhagat Singh

17. Copa America

18. The Harmonium

19. Chaiya Chaiya

20 Elo

21 Tory

22 Black Sabbath

Round 6:Buzzer
1.Margaret Thatcher becoming the first Woman PM of UK(the mis-spelling of historic, utterly-butterly etc reflect the 'Tory" victory)


2."I have a dream"(speeches by Luther King and Rajiv Gandhi,song by ABBA)

3.Thomas Hobbes and John Calvin (gave their names to Calvin and Hobbes strip)

4.The Raft of Medussa.

5.Mixed Doubles partners of Mahesh Bhupathi when he won the 6 Grandslams.(Martina Hingis,Ai Suguyama,Elena Likhovetseva,Mary Pierce,Hantuchova)

6.Maximum uses of the 'F' word

7.J.R.R.Tolkien

8.Faberge Eggs(easter eggs of Russia)

9.Quidditch

10.Prof.Moriarty.He's nicknamed the Napolean of Crime.He has written a thesis on Dynamics of an asteroid.Also worked on binomial theorem.

11.First people to take 100, 200,300,400,500 and 600 test wickets respectively

12.Herman Hesse, grandson of Herman Gundert.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting these. However it would be very nice if you posted the questions and answers together instead of just the answers. It is very cumbersome to scroll down and look at the question.

8:14 AM  
Blogger Karthik Narayan said...

Hi

am karthik from chennai.

the quiz is very very good. excellent compilation of connects. visit my blog when u find time http://quizakn.blogspot.com am not all that good as u are, but thats my lil attempt.

Thanks n bye for now
karthik narayan

11:12 PM  

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