This Quiz was conducted by me on my birthday(7th June, 2013) in my place(Nalbari) in presence of 18 quizzers.

1. The birthday Quiz

2. Rules
• This is a fun quiz ! So please don’t expect serious funda
here.
• This quiz will continue till I want to stop.
• Infinite pounce will follow.
• All questions will carry equal marks.
• Team with highest marks at the end will get a surprise
gift from me.
• QM is the boss here. So whatever he will ask is true.

3. Menu

4. 1
• India’s first National park was
established in 1936. it was called
the Hailey National Park. But later it
had been renamed. How do you
better know this national park now
?

5. Jim Corbett national park.

6. 2
• In 2003, a web-service started
which could ‘crush your face into a
pulp’. Today we know it by a better
name. What is the service?

7. Facebook
• Mark Zuckerberg created facemash (that’s what ‘crush
your face into
a pulp’ meant) in 2003 but later
renamed and redesigned the web-service to ‘the
facebook’ and then to Facebook.

8. 3. Its an initiative by which Indian
organization ?

10. 4
• This Award is an annual American award given
to short stories of exceptional merit. The award was
first presented in 1919 and funded by the Society of
Arts and Sciences. As of 2012, the series editor
chooses twenty short stories, each one an X Prize
story. All stories originally written in the English
language and published in an American or Canadian
periodical are eligible for consideration. Which
award, named after an American short story writer?

11. O. Henry Award

12. 5
• The series __________: Riddles of Time & Space would
provide a glimpse into “the man, the myth and the
legend,” writers Michael Lent and Brian McCarthy said
. Its an illustrated book on a very famous personality.
• Identify the man in the question or on whose life this
comic series is based on?

14. 6
The one in the left is Kenan Sofuoğlu, a driver from turkey and had won the
championship three times in 2007, 2010 and the one in the right is Fabien
Foret ,a driver from France and is a 2002 World champion.
My question is they are the part of a bike racing team owned by which famous
Indian?

15. Mahi Racing Team India

17. Made their ODI debut in Nehru
Stadium, Guwahati
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Thiru Kumaran
• Richie Richardson
• Sairaj Bahutule
• Raju Kulkarni

18. 8
• X is a respectful Korean term
used by females to call older
males such as older male friends
or older brothers. However the
word became familiar all over
the world last year. Which word
or how ?

19. Oppa

21. What’s the top result here for ‘why’?

23. 10.Identify the person is being remembered
here.

24. Steve Jobs.

25. 11
• It is the logo of a fictional
global terrorist
organization featured in the
James Bond novels by Ian
Fleming. . Led by evil
genius
and supervillain Ernst
Stavro Blofeld,
the supranational organisat
ion first formally appeared
in the
novel Thunderball(1961)
and in the movie Dr.
No (1962). Name it.

26. SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge
and Extortion)

27. 12
• Question in the next slide….

28. contd.
• The 1st structure inspired the 2nd structure. The 2nd
structure inspired something very famous in the
entertainment world. What ?

30. 13
• Question in the next slide…

31. • What will be for these two gentlemen ?

32. Thrilla in Manila

33. 14
• Percy George Herbert
Fender was an
English cricketer who
played 13 Tests and was
captain of Surrey between
1921 and 1931. An allrounder, he was a middleorder batsman who bowled
mainly leg spin, and
completed the
cricketer's double seven
times. Till 2013 he hold
what distinction in 1st class
cricket, that he achieved
way back in 1920 ?

34. Fastest century in FC cricket.

35. 15
• The earliest known reference to this in literature is in the
play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC. When the
title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his
vengeful wife Clytemnestra:
• "Now my beloved, step down from your chariot, and let not
your foot, my lord, touch the Earth. Servants, let there be
spread before the house he never expected to see, where
Justice leads him in, a crimson path.“
• What am I talking about ?

36. Walking on a red carpet.

37. 16
• X in Roman mythology was the goddess
who "haunted crossroads, graveyards,
and was the goddess of sorcery and
witchcraft, she wandered about at night
and was seen only by the barking of dogs
who told of her approach.
• Name the goddess, very familiar to us.

38. Trivia

39. 17
• He began his career as an upper-division clerk
in the office of the Deputy Accountant-General
(Post and Telegraph) in Calcutta. In 1963, he
began teaching political science at
the Vidyanagar College (in South 24 Parganas)
and he also worked as a journalist with
the Desher Dak (Call of Motherland).
• Identify the personality in the question.

41. 18. Connect.

42. Inferno

43. 19
• The Latinized name of the
city is a Spanish word
combination meaning "White
House”. How can you connect
this city to a play called
Everybody Comes to Rick's?

44. Casablanca
• Casablanca is a city in
Morocco . And the film
Casablanca is based on a
play called Everybody
Comes to Rick's.

45. 20
• It is a still from the movie Momota. Identify the actor.

46. Rudra Baruah

47. 21
• Philip John Noel-Baker was a British politician,
diplomat and renowned campaigner for disarmament.
He'd go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. The
Prize, coupled with something else he did 39 years
earlier helped him accomplish a unique feat. What
feat?

48. The Only Man to win an Olympic
Medal and the Nobel Prize

49. 22
• As you can see
his name is
Omar Borkan Al
Gala. He came
into news last
month along
with two other
men. Why ?

50. • Following recent report that three men from the United Arab
Emirates were deported from Saudi Arabia because of their good
looks, one of the trio has been identified.
• The men, attending the Jenadrivah Heritage and Culture Festival
in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, were "forcibly" removed from the
event by the religious police because their sex appeal was deemed
too dangerous by organisers.
• US gossip website Jezebel has identified one of the three
handsome men that police "feared female visitors could fall for"
as Omar Borkan Al Gala.
• Al Gala, who claims to be a photographer, actor, and poet from
Dubai, has a Facebook page, with more than one hundred
thousand likes. He has also posted messages seemingly
confirming that he was involved in the incident.
• "This is what written in newspapers in over the world :) UAE men
ordered to leave Saudi Arabia for being 'too handsome'," one post
reads.
• Extract from THE HINDU.

51. 23
• His name is Robert
Stephenson Smyth
Baden-Powell, 1st
Baron BadenPowell, also known
as B-P or Lord BadenPowell, was
a lieutenant-general in
the British Army. He is
the founder of what ?

52. Scout Movement and first Chief
Scout of The Boy Scouts Association.

53. 24
• X is depicted as one of the world's most
prominent eco-terrorists. X is obsessed
with plants, botany, and environmentalism. X
uses toxins from plants and mind
controlling pheromones for criminal activities,
which are usually aimed at protecting
the natural environment. X’s real name is Dr.
Pamela Lillian Isley.
• Who is X ?

54. Poison Ivy

55. 25
• Which revolutionary product was
launched as a result of the collaboration
of these two companies in 1982?

56. Compact disc.

57. 26
• She
was
an
American photographer and d
ocumentary
photographer.
She is best known as the first
foreign
photographer
permitted to take pictures
of Soviet industry, the first
female war correspondent
(and
the
first
female
permitted to work in combat
zones). Apart from these she
has another feat. What ?

58. Margaret Bourke-White
• The first female photographer
for Henry Luce's Life magazine,
where her photograph appeared
on the first cover.

59. 27
• He
was
a Czech journalist,
writer and poet, one
of
the
most
prominent
representatives
of
Czech Realism and a
member of "the May
school". Which world
famous
Nobel
laureate took his pen
name
from
this
gentleman, because
his father didn’t want
him to be a writer?

60. Pablo Neruda
• The gentleman in the picture is Jan Nepomuk
Neruda.

61. 28
• An architect who worked on the Daley Center project,
Richard Bennett, wrote Picasso a poem asking him to
make the sculpture. Picasso accepted saying "You
know I never accept commissions to do any sort of
work, but in this case I am involved in projects for
the two great gangster cities" (the other being
Marseille, France). Picasso refused the $100,000
payment considering his work a gift to the people of
Chicago.
• You just have to name the sculpture in this context,
which is named after Picasso himself.

62. The Chicago Picasso

63. 29
• Greatest Military Commander of All
Time
• Military Leader of Europe
• High Protector of the Holy Mountain
• These are some of the honorary titles
referencing to a world famous leader.
Name him.

64. Führer

65. 30
This is an
autobiographi
cal book by
which famous
entrepreneur ?

66. Steve Wozniak

67. 31
• Catull is an old style serif typeface
designed by Gustav Jaeger for
the Berthold Type Foundry in 1982.
where you can most famously see this
typeface everyday ?

69. 32

70. Chetan Bhagat

71. 33

72. Based on O Henry’s short stories..

73. 34. Who released this heavy metal album
to commemorate his 91st birthday
recently?

74. Christopher Lee

75. 35
• X is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from
person to person within a culture. A X acts as a unit for
carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can
be transmitted from one mind to another through
writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable
phenomena. The word X originated with Richard
Dawkins 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins cites as
inspiration the work of geneticist L. L. Cavalli-Sforza,
anthropologist F. T. Cloak and ethologist J. M. Cullen.
• What is the word ?

76. Meme

77. 36
• X is a three-day rock music festival held annually at
Donington Park, England .It usually takes place in June
(although in 2003, the first day of the festival took
place on the last day of May). The festival is owned and
managed by Live Nation.
• The name X was chosen for the festival for two
reasons. X was a dirty word in the music industry at
the time, due to file sharing, and rock is seen as a
rebellious genre of music.
• Name the festival.
• Logo of the festival is in the next slide……

79. Download Festival

80. 37. A sitter
• She is the Earth-Two counterpart of Supergirl and the
first cousin of Kal-L, Superman of the pre-Crisis EarthTwo. The infant X’s parents enabled her to escape the
destruction of Krypton. Although she left the planet at
the same time that Superman did, her ship took much
longer to reach Earth-Two.
• Possessing all standard Kryptonian powers, she is a
member of the Justice Society of America and the
team's first chairwoman.
• Name this comic character from DC Comics.

82. Power Girl

83. 38
• The Arabic word X is a shortened version meaning
simply "Garden". According to Islamic eschatology,
after death, one will reside in the grave until the
appointed resurrection on Yawm alQiyāmah. Muslim believe that the treatment of the
individual in the life of the grave will be according to
his or her deeds in the worldly life.
• What common word in Hindi/Urdu language is
derived from this description?

84. Jannat from Jannah

85. 39
• Eugene Polley (November 29, 1915 – May 20, 2012)
was an engineer and engineering manager for Zenith
Electronics. He invented many things while working
with it. Best known among these was called the "FlashMatic", a revolutionary new product that eventually
became an (now almost) indispensable household
product. "Flash" because it focused visible light (from a
device like a flashlight) to a set of photo-cells.
• So what product thus came about?

86. Remote controll.

87. 40
• Which film recently came into news is based on this
graphic novel?

88. It won the Palme d'Or at the 2013
Cannes Film Festival

89. 41. Connect these three ladies.

90. Only women to have won the Palme
d'Or.
• As of 2013, Jane Campion, Adèle
Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux are the only women
to have won the Palme d'Or. Exarchopoulos and
Seydoux won as the stars of Blue Is the Warmest
Colour with director Abdellatif Kechiche in an
unorthodox move by the Steven Spielberg-headed
jury.

91. 42
• X
is the Hindu god of war and victory, worshiped
primarily in areas with Tamil influences,
especially
South
India,
Sri
Lanka, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore and Reunion
Island. His six most important shrines in India are
theArupadaiveedu temples. He is also known as
Senthil
(meaning
'smart'
or
'clever'), Saravaṇa, Arumugam, Sanmuga (from
Sanskrit Ṣaṇmukha), Shadanana(meaning 'one with six
faces'), Kumāra (meaning 'prince or child or young
one'),
Dhandapany
(meaning
God
with
a Club), Guhan or Guruhuha (meaning 'cavedweller'), Skanda (meaning 'that which is spilled or
oozed,
namely
seed'
in
Sanskrit),Vēlaṇ and Swaminatha.
• Identify this Hindu deity?

92. Clue :

93. Murugan

94. 43
• He studied at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. He
started his career as a wicketkeeper, playing for cricket
clubs (including his college team) in Calcutta and had
once made a double-century. He joined his father's
firm and made it into one of India's top construction
firms. His firm constructed Calcutta's M.P.Birla
Planetarium in 1963. He was the treasurer of BCCI in
1983 ,the year India won the Cricket World Cup. In
2005 he was awarded the International Journal of
the History of Sports Achievement award for
administrative excellence in global sport.
• Who is he?

95. Jagmohan Dalmiya

96. 45.. OBQ

97. 7th June………

98. 46
• His
name
is
Władysław
"Wladek" Szpilman.
Which
2002 biographical
war drama film
directed by Roman
Polanski, is actually
based
on
his
memoir ?

99. The Pianist

100. 47. Simple one name this cricketer
from his cricinfo profile.

101. Asad Rauf

102. 48. This is one of the few rare
instances in world cricket. What am I
talking about ?

103. Three pairs of brothers played
together in the Zimbabwe side.
• Flower Brothers.
• Rennie Brothers.
• Strang Brothers.

104. 49.
• Born in 1918 in Barpeta, he was one of the
pioneers of modern Assamese music. He
directed music in three Assamese films; those
were Badan Borphukan (1947), Paarghat
(1949) and Nimila Onko (1955).
• Identify him.

105. Purushottam Das

106. 50
• Who is he and what in the world of sports is named
after him?

107. Dr. Arpad Elo and Elo rating.