Basically A Dry Quiz - Answers & Scores

1. He was born on August 11, 1943 in

Daryaganj in Delhi. He is from a family of

civil servants. His grandfather, Qazi

Mohtashimuddin, bought Neharwali Haveli in

the old walled city of Delhi where he was

born. The haveli, with its high roofs and

arches, is believed to have been the home

of a "Wazir" (Minister) in the court of

Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Who is he?

GEN. MUSHARAFF


2. Stephen Anthony ………………… was a high

school mathematics teacher and sports

coach. He was a FIFA referee in the World

Cup qualifier between El Salvador and the

Netherlands Antilles in 1988. In October

2007 he was awarded the Order of Jamaica,

Commander Class, for "outstanding services

in the field of sports". Who am I talking

about?


STEVE BUCKNOR

3. "At the rehearsal for the scene in Rear

Window when I wore a sheer nightgown,

Hitchcock called for Edith Head. He came

over here and said, 'Look, the bosom is not

right, we're going to have to put something

in there.' He was very sweet about it; he

didn't want to upset me, so he spoke

quietly to Edith. When we went into my

dressing room and Edith said, 'Mr.

Hitchcock is worried because there's a

false pleat here. He wants me to put in

falsies.' Well, I said, 'You can't put

falsies in this, it's going to show and I'm

not going to wear them.' And she said,

'What are we going to do?' So we quickly

took it up here, made some adjustments

there, and I just did what I could and

stood as straight as possible - without

falsies. When I walked out onto the set

Hitchcock looked at me and at Edith and

said, 'See what a difference they make'?"

Whose words?

GRACE KELLY


4. In a letter to Ezra Pound, he describes

why bulls are better than literary critics:

"Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't

marry old women of 55 and expect to be

invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you

cited as co-respondent in Society divorce

trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are

edible after they have been killed."

Identify.


ERNEST HEMINGWAY




5. CONNECT

i) "If you can meet with triumph and

disaster / And treat those two imposters

just the same"

ii) Gandhiji

iii) Winston Churchill

iv) Arthur Conan Doyle

BOER WAR




6. ………………………… is a 1974 horror-thriller

musical film written and directed by Brian

De Palma. The story is a loosely adapted

mixture of Phantom of the Opera, The

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Picture of

Dorian Gray and Faust. The film was

marketed with the tagline "He sold his soul

for rock and roll," and then with "He's

been maimed and framed, beaten, robbed and

mutilated. But they still can't keep him

from the woman he loves." Initially a box

office failure and panned by some critics,

it has since gained a cult following. FILL

IN.


PHANTOM OF PARADISE


7. ……………… …. ..……... is a 1990 power

ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of

XXXX. It appeared on their 1990 album Crazy

World, but did not become a worldwide hit

single until 1991. In 2005 the viewers of

the German television network ZDF chose

this song as the song of the century. It

is widely known in Germany as the song of

German reunification (and fall of communism

in Eastern Europe generally), even though

it only rose to popularity two years later.

WIND OF CHANGE




8. But have you heard of a software company

skipping the version no 13 and 14 of its

prime product because of the perceived

issues with the unlucky number 13 in the US

and some other European countries and

unlucky 14 in some other cultures.

The company used to sponsor the third

oldest men's professional tennis tournament

in the U.S. for a few years in the last

decade. Name the company that shares its

name with its prime product.

SYBASE


9. In October, 1963 at the ceremony to

mark the dedication of this Project to the

Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal

Nehru said- "This has been built with the

unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of

mankind and therefore is worthy of worship.

May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a

Mosque, it inspires our admiration and

reverence".

Which project are we talking about ?


BHAKRANANGAL


10. Which Black leader is nicknamed the

Black Pimpernel?

MANDELA



SCORES

1. limited.memory -7 (Grt work.......nd ur

memory is quite unlimited)

2. sandeep kumar -4

3.Ninad W- 1 (attempted just one)

4. Gokul- 8 (good score dude...keep up the

good work)

5.Hussain Poonawala- 3 (sorry if i got ur

spelling wrong)

6.Prateek Rath - (dint trouble me..... u

could have attempted all of them, nah?? )

7. Devadas Krishnan - 9 (thanx a lot for

attempting my quiz. Have hrd a lot abt u

from other quizzers in kerala)

8. Sukrit Vijayakar - 2

9. anubhav chatterjee - 2

10.Varun-2

11. Kamal Rathi-7

12. Ramachandran V-1

13. Prateek Vijayavargia - 1 (y don't u

attempt the non sporty questions also....)

14. Anand Shankar-4

15. Raghuram Godavarthi-8

16. Vishaka Datta S -8

17. himanshu tyagi - 4