The Jan Edition of the Monthly quiz of the Sunday Evening Quiz Club (SEQC), a quiz club from Goa, India. This quiz was conducted on Jan 3rd 2010

1. SEQC Monthly Jan 2010 QM: Navin Pai

4. Round Uno The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

6. Answer Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle Named by the inventor Jack Cover, after the novel written by Victor Appleton. Gotcha!! (hopefully!!  )

8. Answer The Benzene Ring The Chemist was of course August Kekule

10. Answer TrackGandhi is a non-commercial initiative to track the use and spread of Indian Rupee banknotes. Volunteers enter the location and identification of the rupee notes they observe. This information is collected and will be used for statistical and scientific purposes.

12. Answer Flash Mobs India had it’s taste of a Flash Mob for the first time in 2003, when a Flash Mob assembled in Mumbai.

14. Answer Nijuuhibaku= “Twice Bombed”.These are double A-bomb survivors The number of people killed by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima was more than 80,000. In an amazing story of luck and survival, nearly 200 people lived through the Hiroshima bombing and sought refuge in Nagasaki only to face the same terrible fate 3 days later. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Hideo Nakamura told the story of those survivors in Twice Bombed, Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

16. Answer The actual list of Disney Productions’ 50 early hopefuls for the names of the Seven Dwarfs.

17. Round Zwei Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West

19. Answer Om

21. Answer Richard Branson!!

23. Answer The trend of people visiting places/countries/locations which have been used as background settings for a movie. A la Bruges, Belgium, Switzerland et al.

24. 4: This is a poster for Akiro Kurosawa’s movie The Hidden Fortress, made in 1958. In 1974, it inspired a certain director to write a 13 page rough draft, which was expanded to a full script and launched as a movie in 1977. Name The Movie.

25. Answer If the force was with you, you’d get this one right!! Yeah, It’s Star Wars!!

27. Answer He is the only player from the 1983 Indian WC winning team who didn’t play a single game!

29. Answer It is the privilege to wear white when in a meet with the Pope. Shown below is Queen Fabiola, excercizing this right, when she met Pope John Paul II, in 2004.

30. Round Tatlo Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin

32. Answer These were the only medals won by participants at the Olympics who participated as Independents. This happened at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where athletes from Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia contested independently. Macedonian athletes could not appear under their own flag because their NOC had not been formed. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) was under UN sanctions which prevented the country from taking part in the Olympics.

34. Answer Mehendi (Henna)

36. Answer Freddie Mercury!!

37. 4: The emblem of the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron features which famous cartoon character? Hint: Curse You, Red Baron

38. Answer Snoopy!

40. Answer Subhash Chandra Bose’s Pseudonyms!!

42. Answer The Hungarian article on Nicholas Hillard officially became the Ten Millionth entry on Wikipedia, since its inception.

43. Round Dört When angry, count to four; When very angry, swear. Mark Twain

45. Answer Bacardi!!

47. Answer Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

49. Answer This is the official 160 Character SMS Phrase used for the Guinness Book of World Records Fastest Texter On September 5, 2009, Ben Cook set the fastest texter world record by tapping the Guinness Book of World Records phrase on his 31st attempt in 40.72 seconds!!

50. 4: In 1999, Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova formed Russia’s most successful international pop act to date. Courting controversy with ostentatious lesbian behaviour in their concerts and pop videos they later admitted this was all an act. What was the name of this Russian pop-duo?

51. Answer t.A.t.u

53. Answer Lollapalooza. It’s a music festival that started in 1991, and has Been taking place every year since then. (except in 1998-2002 and 2004).

55. Answer Hamish is the harrier hawk who is used to get rid of all the pigeons from the stadium surroundings. Before you PETA guys start a riot, let me tell you that Hamish has been trained to drives away the pigeons, and NOT to kill them!! Hamish with his trainer Tanya

56. Round Vijf Always have an answer, even if you change your mind five minutes later. Richard E. Grant

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59. Answer Heath Ledger CONNECTS: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Heath’s last movie Cesar Romero – Who Immortalised the Joker in the 1966 movie Oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine. –The 6 drugs found in Heath’s system during his post mortem

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61. Answer El Nino Connects: Sergio Garcia, Hanley Ramirez, Fernando Torres All 3 are nicknamed “El Nino”

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63. Answer Star TV channels Connects: V for Vendetta  Channel [V] Vijay Mallya  Star Vijay World  Star World Utsav  Star Utsav Vishwanathan Anand  Star Anand

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65. Answer Nandan Nilekani Connects: Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat, dedicated the book to Nilekani. Rohini Nilekani- Nandan Nilekani’s wife Logo of Patni Infotech- Nandan Nilekani’s first company

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67. Answer DoCoMo!! Connects: Docomodake –The Company Mascot Logo of NTT- The original owners of the Docomo brand Tata- have a Joint venture with NTT on the Docomo brand name Everywhere by Tim McGraw –Dokomo means “Everywhere” in Japanese (One of the explanations for the name Docomo)

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69. Answer Famous film characters who acted under a tonne of makeup!! Connects: Zoë Saldaña –Neytiri (Avatar) Jackie Earle Haley –Rorscach (Watchmen) David Prowse –Darth Vader (Star Wars) Ralph Fiennes –Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)

72. Round Seis Everybody loves you when you're six feet below the ground. John Lennon

74. Answer Mediocre But Arrogant

76. Answer The “Idea” telecom Jingle!! Played: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =ElEk97jwNxU

78. Answer The Toblerone Logo

79. 4: What?? Why?? When??

80. Answer Taipei 101, lit up with Einstein’s famous equation to mark the beginning of the International Year of Physics, 2005

82. Answer Because The Beatles wore the Nehru Jacket during their Shea stadium concerts Video: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =XfvA6luvdAg

84. Answer Alfa Romeo

85. Round Sette I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are ‘ Hello,' ‘Goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'. Dean Martin

87. Answer Agent Orange… Used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War.

89. Answer Donkey Kong

91. Answer Bob Dylan!

92. 4: This man was conscripted into the Red Army in 1938, and became a tank driver-mechanic, achieving the rank of senior sergeant. He was seriously injured in the battle of Bryansk. Despite these war credentials, he was known more famously for another of his warfare related contributions. What?

93. Answer The dude is Mikhail Kalashnikov, and his contribution of course is the AK-47

95. Answer London Bridge!!

97. Answer Santiago Bernabeu

98. Round Osm A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. Hayden Christensen

100. Answer Martina Hingis (2006) and Sania Mirza (2009) Bhupathi’s mixed doubles Grandslam winning partners.

102. Answer The Ku Klux Clan. The movie was also released in some parts as “The Clansman”. The film is said to have facilitated the refounding of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. As late as the 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan continued to use the film as a recruitment tool.

104. Answer It’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

105. 4: X is an annual event which started as a joke, meant to be a side attraction for the music video festival. The rules are similar to figure skating, especially the 6.0 scoring system. The judging criteria include technical merit, stage presence and airiness. Sylvain "Gunther Love" Quimene, from France, won the prestigious event in 2009

106. Answer The Air Guitar World Championships

108. Answer The Gods Must Be Crazy

110. Answer Zippers!!

111. Round Kumi I was born nine months premature. Jay London

113. Answer The Foo Fighters

115. Answer "Goldilocks Zone" (because it's neither too hot nor too cold, but "just right").

117. Answer He is V.K. Krishna Menon (shown on the cover of TIME magazine Feb. 2, 1962 ) On 23 January 1957 he delivered an unprecedented 8-hour speech defending India’s stand on Kashmir. To date, Krishna Menon’s speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council

118. 4: This is the picture of a famous Malayali filmmaker and scriptwriter. He is recognized as a genius in Malayalam cinema. Considered an avant-garde film director and writer, he completed only four films,all four written and directed by him. But I personally feel that he’s the most unfortunate guy. Because his name is generally related to someone else, who’s much more popular (in India atleast). What is the name?

119. Answer John Abraham

121. Answer General Butt Naked!! Blahyi led his troops naked except for shoes and a gun. Apparently, he believed that his nakedness was a source of protection from bullets. I guess it worked, since he’s still alive today. However he’s now changed professions. He’s a preacher now!

124. Round Tio Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz

125. Pick Your Death!! Current Affairs Sports Slang Literature I’m Feeling Lucky Tech Business Comics Music Movies India History (Sort of)

126. History The picture shows a politician being arrested. Well, sort of. Actually, this was a pig who, led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin , was declared as the candidate for President of the United States for the Youth International Party (Yippies) during the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Name the pig.

127. Answer Pigasus  Back

129. Answer Indian Standard Time (IST) is calculated from the clock tower in Mirzapur which is nearly exactly on the reference longitude of Indian Standard Time at 82.5°  Back

131. Answer Midnight Cowboy. It is the only X-rated movie to win at the Oscars (in1969) The two lead actors are Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight  Back

132. Music Listen to this sample from R&B singer R. Kelly ’s track, from the unfinished album Loveland . A certain sentence has been beeped out. Fill in the beep, and tell me who the song was dedicated to. Incase U can’t hear it: I am a river, Down in the valley Ohhh, I am a vision, And I can see clearly If anybody asks you who I am Just stand up tall look 'em in the face and say I'm that star up in the sky I'm that mountain peak up high Hey, I made it _____________________ And I'm that little bit of hope When my backs against the ropes I can feel it mmm _______________________ Music piece played. Lyrics provided at the right side

133. Answer The beep is “ I’m The Greatest ”, and the song was dedicated to Muhammad Ali . Infact it was originally featured on the soundtrack to the 2001 biographical film Ali  Back

134. Comics The _________ is a reward given out to fans who get a letter printed in a Marvel comic, which points out a mistake within a series and comes up with a clever excuse for it being printed.

135. Answer No-prize!! Actually it started out, when Stan Lee ran a contest and mentioned " there will be no prizes, and therefore, no losers .“ Earlier, No-prizes were just that…. No Prizes!! Just an empty envelope!! However, in recent years, No Prizes include Marvel goodies like tees and comic subscriptions.  Back

136. Business “ The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: Management. “ What do we better know this principle by? And which famous personality came up with it? Hint: The principle name is also the name of a 1996 bestseller, by the same personality

138. Tech Which product is Jobs talking about? Note: It’s NOT the iPhone or the iPhone 3G or 3GS

139. Answer The iPhone 3Gi. The “i” stands for “invisible”. According to Jobs, only the most loyal Apple customers can see the phone!! Basically it’s just a bunch of software updates and tools for the iPhone. Crazy?? Yeah…. but thousands of customers have already bought the iPhone 3Gi for $600!!  Back

141. Answer Naguib Mahfouz Author of Children of Gebelawi  Back

143. Answer People who commit suicide by jumping in front of trains on the Underground train service. Not really an one-under, but couldn’t resist!!   Back

144. Sports Ball-girl Chloe Chambers shot to fame after she was called to play a round of tennis with one of the top tennis players in the world in front of more than 10,000 fans at Wimbledon, 2009. This happened after the Michael Llodra, the opponent, had to retire after he crashed into another ball-girl. Who was this player who brought Chloe into the spotlight?

145. Answer Tommy Haas  Back

147. Answer Close Encounters. The 5 classifications are Close Encounters of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth kind.  Back

148. Current Affairs An ax-wielding Somali man breaks into the home of 74 year old ___________. The 74 year old, takes his 5 year old grand daughter and runs into a specially made safe room. Cops arrive 2 minutes later. The Somali threatens the cops. One of the cops shoots the Somali twice, in the hand and the knee. The Somali is taken into custody, and the 74 year old is shifted to an undisclosed location. Fill in the blank.

149. Answer Kurt Westergaard ….. The incident was the assassination attempt that took place yesterday.  Back