DQC General Quiz - Season Opener 2017

DQC Gen Quiz – Season
Opener 2017
9th Apr 2017
Pratyush Jha

General Quiz
• Rules
• +10 for Pounce/Bounce ; -10 for wrong pounce
• CW – 16, W – 8, CCW - 16
• QM in dire need to confiscate smartphones, smartwatches etc (for lab testing
purposes) so pls keep them out of sight
• For the duration of the quiz “I am the boss, and the boss is always right”
• Only first answer on pounce to be taken for scoring (reading from Top LHS)
• Pounce allowed on your own Q – YAFIYGI
• NO part pounce
• Comments
• Mix of World & India, skewed towards world
• Tried to balance old/new & across different fields

Warm up Q…
Is to as Is to ???

Q1
He (X) _____ ______ was born to a Jewish family in Mandatory Palestine at the advent
of WW2 owing to which his family migrated to the US the next year. His family’s
poverty meant his fascination for a particular type of books had to be sated by him
rummaging through the neighbourhood’s bins to find some to read.
At 15 he stole Gene Byrnes “Complete Guide to ________” from a public library &
learnt it by heart. His obvious talent in this field coupled with his juvenile delinquent
activities got him transferred to Manhatten’s School of Industrial Art. He graduated
with the award for best student in the field he would become famous for. A decade of
failures followed including stealing a project in Canada & nearly getting arrested at the
US Border.
His luck changed from the end-60s with a Coke commercial, shorts for Encyclopedia
Britannica, then taking over an iconic TV series & finally his seminal work (Y) _____
___ ___ – the first of it’s kind & also the most successful of it’s kind till date (for which
he did multiple work roles) – featuring one of the most famous promo taglines of all
time. However critics never warmed to him & referred to his work as “Dirty ______”
using the most famous name in his field. The only proper award he would win for a
piece of work would be for The Lord of the Rings some years later. He then passed up
the chance to adapt Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, referring Ridley Scott for it.
ID the person (X) as well as his most famous creation (Y). (Half pts on the bounce)

A1:
X: Ralph Bakshi
Y: Fritz the Cat (1st full length adult animation film)
"90 minutes of violence, excitement, and SEX ... he's X-rated
and animated!“
He was referred to as “Dirty Disney” by critics

Q2
In the 2008 summer transfer window, AC Milan signed Andriy Shevchenko, Ronaldinho and Mathieu
Flamini. But the preferred squad numbers for all three players were already occupied. This led the 3
of them to take up a unique set of new shirt numbers.
Give me the 3 nos (in order) & the logic behind the numbers. (half points for ALL 3 nos & half for the
logic – ONLY on the Bounce)

A2:
Nos: 76, 80 & 84
Reason: their resp year’s of birth

Q3
Le Moniteur’s edition of 18 Dec 1789 published an analysis of Petition of the Citizens Living in Paris
authored by X, which outlined an ideal Constitution/rules governing the lives of citizens of the city in
a democracy, as well as of a follow up speech in the Parliament by (X) - during the course of which
he had made a sensational statement that had become the joke of the town. A particular phrase in
the statement “a _________ __ __ ___” (something used by an English playwright before him)
would become a cliché to be used the world over for centuries to come. Ironic then that the person
would become synonymous with the ‘thing’ that for him was only a means to arrive at a ‘opposite’
end outcome.
ID X & give me the phrase (Y). (half points – ONLY on the Bounce)

A3:
X - Joseph Guillotin
Y – a twinkling of an eye ("Now, with my machine, I cut off your head in the
twinkling of an eye, and you never feel it!")

Q4
He (X) joined the US Airborne’s 101st Division at 19 yrs at Fort Campbell & trained as a paratrooper
to avoid a jail term after being convicted for riding in a stolen car twice. Often skipping training to
pursue his passion, on one such occasion a fellow serviceman (Y) happened upon him and sat down
& accompanied him. Their partnership would prove successful when they tried their dual act on
weekends at military. X feigned an ankle break during a paratrooping jump to try to get out of
service, the army ultimately agreed when he slept in during training too often.
A year later Y also managed a discharge after long persuasion by X & they started something called
the King Kasuals. X would however constantly change partners through-out his short-lived career as
he became more famous & was well known for being able to do his ‘thing’ with different parts of his
body.
ID X.

Q5
This scene holds a record that is unlikely to be
broken. ID the two protagonists (X & Y) as well as
their most famous creation together (Z).
(NO half points even on Bounce)

A5:
X/Y – Devika Rani & Himanshu Rai
Z – Bombay Talkies
Record: longest kissing scene in Indian
cinema – 4 min! in Karma (1933)

Q6
Connect the following (specific, but not necessarily to these exact pics):

A6:
Buster Crabbe – played Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon & Tarzan on screen

Q7
• ID the Brand (specific)

Q8
(X) ________ was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his
eternal punishment in Tartarus. He was made to stand in a pool of
water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever
eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take
a drink. He was the father of _____ (Y), and was a son of Zeus. He
served another child of his (Z) to the gods as a meal by cutting &
boiling him amongst many other villianous acts.
Y had 14 children, all but 1 of whom were slayed in front of Y causing
legends to be made of Y giving up food & later turning into a weeping
rock (image on the right).
They are both separately immortalised by the naming of different
things after each (like the lake in the image after X – in the same
country as Y), however there is one place that both have been
immortalised together & are the only parent & child to have this
honour amongst many others in that list. Give me how they are thus
immortalised together.

A8:
X: Tantalus Y: Niobe
They are only father & child to both have elements in the periodic table named after them
(Tantalum & Niobium)

Q9
Connect these four movie scenes. Connect is exhaustive AFAIK. (a proper noun necessary in the answer):

A9:
Only 4 movies to feature Rothko paintings
Sabrina – Untitled (Black on Grey)
Limitless – Untitled No.12
Iron Man 3 – Ochre & Red on Red
I Am Legend - No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange)

Q10
The incidents (Y) captured in the accompanying image
were recorded as the ___X___ (blank length deliberately
not indicative).
This is the first official use of the ‘term’ X which became
renowned many years later when it was reused for
another event (Z).
Give me Y & Z (part points on the bounce).

A10:
X: D-Day
Y: Battle of St Mihiel (shown in image)
Z: Normandy landings

Q11
Connect the following (specific connect – 2 seperate proper nouns necessary)

A11:
Movies based on Edna Ferber novels which had
won the Pulitzer prize for fiction

Q12
The Bunker family consisting of 2 brothers, their wives Adelaide & Sarah Anne &
their 22 or 23 children (historians are divided on the issue of issues or perhaps they
just lost count!) lived on & ran a slave plantation near Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
After a few years Adelaide & Sarah became jealous of each other which necessitated
a changed & peculiar living arrangement in the nearby town of White Plains. Some of
their children served in the Confederate Army in the Civil war which led to both
personal losses & financial ruin. The brothers decided to return to their occupation
prior to running the plantation (whose success had led to them being able to buy the
plantation) but this time only met with moderate success – partly due to the fact
that their act’s novelty had gone down in the intervening years.
This led to the elder brother’s drinking problems ergo declining health & ultimate
death with his brother’s demise soon after inspite of him keeping good health.
Their biography was written by Darren Strauss & is being adapted into a Hollywood
biopic by Gary Oltman who has written the screenplay himself. Their descendants
now number ~1500, a few hundred of whom have a reunion annually on the old
family lands since 1989.
Who am I talking about (both names required)?

A12:
Chang & Eng – the original Siamese twins

Q13
2017 has been a year of setting records on stock markets across the world. Berkshire Hathaway became
the first stock anywhere in the world to have it’s share price cross $250,000.
Closer home there is one particular share (X) which became the first to cross Rs. 50,000/- in 2016 &
recently crossed Rs. 60,000/-. This when no other share has ever crossed Rs. 30,000/- & only two others
(Y & Z) have crossed Rs. 20000/-. All three companies work in related categories.
This has been possible as X has never in it’s 30 years+ history on Indian bourses had either a stock split or
issued bonus shares – also a rarity. They believe that such pricing helps ensure only quality investors get
into their stock. They were also the first brand from their category to start advertising on TV soon after
DD went colour & have subsequently never been outside the top 2 in market share in their category. Well
known events & celebrities have constantly been associated with them. Ironically the company was
created to be in a different business altogether.
ID X, Y & Z. (part points on bounce. Pounce – for X & either Y or Z. Bounce for any 2/3 BUT points only
when specific alphabet is given)

A13:
X – MRF
Y – Eicher Motors
Z – Bosch

Q14
What specific ordered finite list are these people a part of (X) & who’s photograph (Y) is missing from
the set. Y being the most famous person in this list. Pic at the bottom is a clue – someone who should
have been at the start of the list but chose not to be.
?
Biographer
Y
Founder

A14:
X: English/ non-Indian Presidents of INC (George Yule, William Wedderburn, Alfred Webb, Henry Cotton)
Y: Annie Besant
Person at the bottom was AO Hume

Q15
They were born on the same day.
They got married on the same day .
They became Olympic Gold medallists on the same day.
ID these two people.

A15:
Emil Zatopek & Dana Zatopkova

Q16
This plaque can be found outside one of the main gates of
this sprawling complex build many hundred years ago with
a government grant of £400 by decree in Oct 1636, paid in
two halves before the work commenced & post completion.
An English clergyman looking for a new direction in life after
losing most of his family to bubonic plague quite early & the
remainder gone during/just after his student years at
Emmanuel College in Cambridge, added £780 from his own
estate at the time of his death for completion of the
complex & also donated his personal collection of 329 titles
(~400 books) to serve as the library on the estate.
Give me either the person or the complex being spoken of.

A16:
John Harvard, Harvard University

Written Round
• Scoring: +10/correct answer
• Bonus: +10 if 8/8 correct
• All Q’s are from public performance fields. You will be provided either with a
• ‘filmography’/events/equivalent list from other fields OR
• with a relevant cast/crew/people set
• Just ID the person/event/movie/show etc in Q
• Some entries have been blanked out to ensure Answer doesn’t become
obvious. If it doesn’t have a letter associated with it, then it’s not being
asked as an answer

Q1
Kelly Rohrbach
Alexandra Daddario
Zac Efron
Ilfenesh Hadera
Ana Flavia Gavlak
Jon Bass
&
______ _______ (X)
vs
________ ______ (Y)
ID X & Y.

Q2
TJ Miller
Patrick Stewart
Jennifer Coolidge
James Corden
Maya Rudolph
Jake T Austin
Ilana Glazer
Rob Riggle
Steven Wright
ID what this is the ‘cast’ (X) for & it’s tagline (Y) – (half points each)

Q3
ID the Movie (X) & the missing cast member (Y) – half points will be given
Movie: __________ (X)
Cast
Actor Role(s)
Dharmendra Shekhar / Dilip P Singh
Tanuja Deepa
___________ (Y) Jhumki
Balraj Sahni Thakur Pratap Singh
Mehmood Mahesh
David Abraham Vinod Babu
Manmohan Krishna Father Abraham
Mukri Rondhu

Q4
What links (X) these (ordered by release date) movies (specific):
Bawarchi _________
Balika Badhu Swami
________ __ _______ Ek Krantiveer: Vasudev Balwant Phadke
Kanoon Kya Karega Jodhaa Akbar
Ghulami Zor Laga Ke… Haiya!
Batwara Krrish 3
Zulm Ki Hukumat Mahabharat
Tere Mere Sapne Veergatha
Hero Hindustani
Hello Brother
______
Khushi
Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost
Fun2shh… Dudes in the 10th Century
Rudraksh
Insaaf: The Justice

Q5
What is this a (almost) complete ordered list (X) of & give me A & B (correct order only) ?
George Summerz
Andy Ducat
Abdul Aziz
Hilel Oscar *
Willie Slack
Ian Folley
_____ ____ (A)
_____ _____ (B)
Syed Faaqer Ali
Alcwyn Jenkins *
Richard Beaumont
Zulfikar Bhatti
Darynn Randal
____ ______ (C)

Q6
ID the missing link(s) X & Y. The timelines start from early 1980s (pic at the bottom is
given as a clue of some sort).
Green River Malfunkshun
Ten Minute
Warning
Skin Yard
Lords of the Wasteland
Mother Love Bone
Temple of the Dog
X
Mudhoney
Mookie Blaycock
Y
Bad Radio Shadow

Q7
What is common to the following events (list - not ordered & not exhaustive, blanks not indicative):
WWE Raw, Orlando – Apr 4 2017
New Zealand vs Fiji Rugby, Wellington – Mar 28 2017
Coldplay concert, Singapore – Apr 2 2017
Anti-Trump protest, London – Feb 21 2017
Al Fateh vs Al Ittihad Basketball game, Al Hasa – Mar 31 2017
______ vs _________, West Midlands, Eng – Mar 18 2017
Akhisar Belediyespor vs Basaksehir, Akhisar, Turkey – Apr 4 2017
Ultra Music Festival, Miami – Mar 27 2017
Engineers protest of “Beyrout syndicate”, Beirut, Lebanon – Apr 4 2017

Q8
What/who connects the following films (list - ordered &
not exhaustive):
National Red Cross Pageant
Romance
The Black Panther’s Cub
The Man Who Found Himself
The Song and Dance Man
Dancing Mothers
Beau Geste
The Ace of Cads
The Music Master
New York
Afraid to Love
Children of Divorce
Sorrell and Son

A1:
X: Dwayne Johnson
Y: Priyanka Chopra
These are the lifeguards in the new Baywatch movie releasing next month & Piggy Chops is the
vamp

Q2
Patrick Stewart
TJ Miller
Jennifer Coolidge
James Corden
Maya Rudolph
Jake T Austin
Ilana Glazer
Rob Riggle
Steven Wright
ID what this is the ‘cast’ (X) for & it’s tagline (Y)

A2:
X: The Emoji Movie
Y: This movie takes place completely inside a smartphone

Q3
ID the Movie (X) & the missing cast member (Y) – half points will be given
Movie: __________
Cast
Actor Role(s)
Dharmendra Shekhar / Dilip P Singh
Tanuja Deepa
___________ Jhumki
Balraj Sahni Thakur Pratap Singh
Mehmood Mahesh
David Abraham Vinod Babu
Manmohan Krishna Father Abraham
Mukri Rondhu

A3:
X: Izzat (1968)
Y: J Jayalalitha – her only Hindi movie

A4:
Movies where Amitabh Bachhan has done Narration/ voice acting
The missing ones are Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Lagaan & Parineeta

Q5
What is this a complete ordered list (X) of & give me A & B (correct order only) ?
George Summerz
Andy Ducat
Abdul Aziz
Hilel Oscar *
Willie Slack
Ian Folley
_____ ____ (A)
_____ _____ (B)
Syed Faaqer Ali
Alcwyn Jenkins *
Richard Beaumont
Zulfikar Bhatti
Darynn Randal
____ ______ (C)

A5:
X: List of people who have died due to being hit by the cricket ball in recognized (1st class or higher & List A or higher
or recognised club league) cricket matches (* being Umpires)
A: Wasim Raja
B: Raman Lamba
C: Phil Hughes

Q6
ID the missing link(s) X & Y. The timelines start from early 1980s.
Green River Malfunkshun
Ten Minute
Warning
Skin Yard
Lords of the Wasteland
Mother Love Bone
Temple of the Dog
X
Mudhoney
Mookie Blaycock
Y
Bad Radio Shadow

A6:
X: Soundgarden
Y: Pearl Jam (the album Ten is named after Mookie Blaycock’s jersey no. as seen in the pic)

Q7
What is common to the following events (list - not ordered & not exhaustive, blanks not indicative):
WWE Raw, Orlando – Apr 4 2017
New Zealand vs Fiji Rugby, Wellington – Mar 28 2017
Coldplay concert, Singapore – Apr 2 2017
Anti-Trump protest, London – Feb 21 2017
Al Fateh vs Al Ittihad Basketball game, Al Hasa – Mar 31 2017
Overhead ____ ____ vs _______, Midlands, Eng – Mar 18 2017
Akhisar Belediyespor vs Basaksehir, Akhisar, Turkey – Apr 4 2017
Ultra Music Festival, Miami – Mar 27 2017
Engineers protest of “Beyrout syndicate”, Beirut, Lebanon – Apr 4 2017

A7:
#WengerOut
“Wenger Out” banners were found at all these events & more (only included the verified ones)
“West Brom vs Arsenal” match being blanked out

A8:
Norman Pritchard/Trevor – India’s first Olympics medallist who went on to a successful Hollywood
career in the silent era

Q25
Excerpts from a person (X) relating his life story to an audience.
“I was born in Chandigarh but grew up in Pune & Bangalore. My father was in the army & I went around asking
everyone to call me General ______. I was always up to mischief at St Joseph’s, Bangalore even telling my
Maths teacher that there was a simpler way to solve problems & showing it in front of the class due to which
the teacher used to hate me…
IIT was my first choice but I secured a poor rank so I went to BITS Pilani. There I did what I wanted – dating
girls, spending time outdoors… the Caltech scholarship made me jittery, I landed in LA with $250 & was terribly
homesick… Stanford taught me a lot & got me a job at Apple but I wanted to break free & do something on my
own so I moved to Firepower Systems… I was heartbroken over a girl that left me so I moved to San Francisco &
started fooling around with this new language I’d learnt, on the Internet & that’s how (Y) _______ came into
being… We were turned down by 19 venture capitalists before Draper Fisher Jurvetson came up with $3,00,000
for 20% of the pie…
People tell me to settle down but I am waiting for the right person… Aishwarya and me? I wish it were true! I
have met Aishwarya Rai only once in my life — at a beauty pageant. When the rumours of us being together
reached me, I hadn’t even met her. When I meet her again, I’ll tell her that since so much has been written
about us, we should give it a try!
ID X & Y (no half points).

A25:
X: Sabeer Bhatia
Y: Hotmail

Q26
The city (X) in the image on the right comprising of
70000 inhabitants was set up by a Presidential
decree no. 33221 many decades ago near the
country’s main international airport & shaped as
shown so as to resemble a particular shape (Y)
when seen by people from aircrafts during take
off/landings.
For some years subsequently the city was managed
by the National Mortgage Bank & renamed after
the person who had designed the country’s
national flag (Z). After a few more renaming's it’s
name went back to the original one & was declared
a National Historical Monument in 1997.
For full points either give me X OR Y+Z (if the choice
is the latter – there will be half points on the
bounce).
Z
X

A26:
X: Ciudad Evita
Y: Eva Peron
Z: Manuel Belgrano

Q27
Where (famously) in modern times would you find the following line taken from Virgil’s
Aeneid 6th song, verse 663: “Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes”. This (loosely)
translates to - And they who bettered life on earth by their newly found mastery.
It is accompanied by the image of an unidentified young man sitting under a laurel tree,
enchanted by (& recording) the singing of the Muse. This image happened to transfix the gaze
of one of the more recent people to see it.
Give the very specific place you would find the above.

A27:
Literature Nobel Prize medal.
The recent recipient being Bob Dylan.

Q28
The following images (next slide) are of a famous moving exhibit in three different locations starting
2006. Though it has a 35 foot diameter & weights 23 tons, it is well guarded & at one of the
locations it’s security for a period of 6 months cost over £120,000. For Part A of the Question – give
me the exhibit’s name (X) and it’s creator (Y).
Y also created (Z) – his country’s tallest sculpture/exhibit a few years back at 115m (next slide) with
a way built in for people to experience the installation from the ‘inside’. This was selected out of
many in a competition for something special. At the unveiling of Z, Y said that he was ‘thinking
about the mythical wonders of the world like Hanging Gardens of Babylon & Tower of Babel when
coming up with Z’ though it was also an interpretation of the motion of electron clouds.
ID X, Y & Z (2/3 on the bounce for half points)

A28:
X: Sky Mirror
Y: Sir Anish Kapoor
Z: Arcellor Mittal Orbit/ Orbit Tower – Olympics Village, London

Q29:
This map shows the recent history of a certain ‘event’. The two most
important places involved of late have been Asuncion & Buenos Aires.
This has been viewed in 190 countries & is sometimes signified via the
image below (A).
It history includes the disappearance of Margaret Thatcher’s son, the
death of it’s founder mid-event due to a helicopter crash, cancellation
due to terrorists, two (5 & 10 year old) girls dying while crossing a road
& many other notable & freakish occurrences including Osama bin
Laden’s son Omar proposing an alternate ‘event’ to replace it. This (B)
is a monument dedicated to this ‘event’.
What am I talking about? (exact name only)
A B

A29:
The Dakar Rally (formerly Paris Dakar) which has moved to South
America post terrorist threats disrupting it in 2008

Q30
Both of these album covers by Boogie Down Productions & Bilal (& one by Nicky Minaj not shown here) have
tried to recreate an iconic photograph from the 20th century etched into pop culture history. What was the
original photograph – also recreated in a famous movie.
(a name + 1 keyword required for points)

A30:
Malcolm X with his gun, after his house had been firebombed

Q31
Originating from Greek/Phoenicians it (X) literally means “hollow of the hand” & was shaped to
represent the same. It was introduced to English culture by the Normans & became widely accepted
(in it’s present day form - Y) to distinguish from something similar which was gaining prominence in
France around the same time.
Over time it’s symbolism grew, it (Y) began to stand for many other things in varied fields – in
scientific studies, in mining, in computers & commerce.
Give me both X & Y (no half points).

A31:
X – Kappa/ Kaph
Y – K (which became popular amongst the English to distinguish from ‘C’ which had gained prominence
in France)

Q32
Between 1923 & 1935 the % of women undertaking _______ in the US
jumped from 5% to over 18%. Marketing genius Edward Bernay (now called
“the Father of PR”) was the tour-de-force behind this extraordinary rise,
organising public events promoting this activity (most famously the 1929
Easter Parade in New York) as an expression of their newfound freedom & as
a means of bringing about gender equality (women didn’t have the right to
vote) - they were breaking a sexual taboo and partaking of something the
‘selfish men’ were keeping to themselves! Those who did it, didn't have to
hide it anymore.
The Easter Parade mentioned above was remembered for a particular act of
defiance called _______ __ _______(X) where 11 women led by a woman
named Bertha Hunt (later revealed to be Bernay’s secy) did a particular
stunt sponsored by _____ ______ (Y) in front of a large crowd of people on
5th Ave. This helped the brand to revive it’s flagging sales & continue to grow
during the Great Depression whilst other businesses were falling by the
wayside.
ID X & Y (part points on the bounce).

A32:
X: Torches of Freedom
Y: Lucky Strike cigarettes

Q33
Rrose Sélavy first appeared in the public eye in 1920, but the
second ‘r’ in her name wasn’t added until 1921 when she
added her signature to Francis Picabia’s collage L’Oeil
Cacodylate. Soon after, she began appearing in photographs
taken by Man Ray, fashion photographer, fellow artist and
informal Dada compatriot.
After her instant celebrity acclaim she appeared on a perfume
bottle that was labelled Belle Haleine meaning Beautiful
Breath (image on the right). She wrote many essays, articles &
a supposed failed attempt at writing a book though she did
write & make the animation film Anemic Cinema. She was also
the subject of a piece of installation are (image below right)
titled – Why not sneeze Rrose Selavy?.
How/by what name do we better know her?

A33:
Rrose Selavy was a female alter ego of Marcel Duschamps
The name itself was a pun on Eros C’est La Vie

Q34
The movie (X) ________ _______ was released in Jan 2013 &
subsequently it’s English dubbed version was released as
Point Blank Justice. It’s headlined by Jimmy Shergill as
Commissioner and (Y) _______ ____ branded as a terrorist &
other stars include Kiran Kumar, Gulshan Grover, Mukesh
Rishi and Sayali Bhagat amongst others. The movie’s tagline
was “An unsafe journey by a common man”. Critics panned it
as a failed socio-political drama & it has an imdb rating of 3.1.
One of it’s better known scenes is shown in the image on the
right.
ID X & Y (no part points).

A34:
X: Rajdhani Express
Y: Leander Paes

Q35
Robert Klark Graham was the inventor of the shatterproof eyeglass
lens from which he made a $70 million fortune when 3M bought
his compant Armorlite from him. He devoted a significant
proportion of this money towards pioneering the development of
the Repository of _______ ______ (X), his next big idea. His work
towards the same made him one of the first recipients of an award.
He travelled worldwide looking for benefactors & recipients for this
cause (under a very strict criteria) but unfortunately most of the
people he approached were either unwilling or unable to donate to
the cause (though they were mostly distinguished in their
respective fields). During it’s near two decades of existence, the
institution got donations (sometimes repeat donations) from
around 30 people & managed to produce 218 of it’s intended
output/product. William Bradford Shockley was the only publically
revealed donor though many other names were hypothesised
about.
Give me either the name of the Institution (X) OR what (very
specifically) it did/was it’s purpose.

A35:
The Institution was The Repository of Germinal
Choice for which he was in the first set of people to
win the Ig Nobel.
It took/stored sperm donations from Nobel winners
& Olympics medallists (& later other prodigies) & at
times transplanted them into women who were
Mensa members married to infertile men (218 such
kids).
Since most Nobel winners used to be 55 years+, he
widened the criteria to include Olympians/others.
William Shockley of course won the Nobel for
Physics in 1956

Q36: Video
The family depicted in this song in the film _______ (X) is a parody of a real world family (Y) & the idea is
based on something else (Z) which was seen by the public a year or so before this movie.
ID X AND give me EITHER Y (with specific people depicted here) OR Z

A36:
X: Humjoli
Y: 3 generations of the Kapoor family (Prithviraj, Raj, Randhir)
Z: the movie Kal Aaj aur Kal – depicting reel life meeting real life of the original ‘K’ family

Q37: Video
This is the trailer of Postcards From The Edge, a movie partially based on the semi-autobiographical best selling
book of the same name. Give me the real life people on whom the characters played by Streep (X – also the
writer of the book) & Shirley Maclaine (Y) are supposedly based.

A37:
X: Carrie Fisher
Y: Debbie Reynolds

Q38
(X)______ ________ has been in use for a few decades for a
variety of things, such as in the running of certain computer units,
in medicine to remove unwanted skin, warts and pre-cancerous
cells and in cryogenics. Some of it’s uses are surprising considering
that it’s poisonous if ingested in anything greater than minute
quantities by humans & dangerous as the person wouldn’t
immediately realise they have ingested it due to the “Leidenfrost
effect” - which happens when a fluid, in near contact with a mass
significantly hotter than it's boiling point, produces an insulating
vapour layer. Due to this it’s usual storage is in vacuum containers.
It’s most famous use this century has been for the item (Y) shown
in the image on the right by (Z). This has opened up it’s (somewhat
controversial) use in a field where it’s now very much in the public
eye. Z is known as a master of this art now with numerous
followers in this cult form.
ID Y & Z (half points on the bounce).

A38:
X: Liquid Nitrogen
Y: Egg & Bacon Ice-cream
Z: Heston Blumenthal

Tie Break Q
We all know where it appears.
Just give me the given ‘name’ (not the company/ brand/ model/ make etc) of THIS (& only this) car.

Tie Break Answer:
Austin Powers’ Shaguar

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