1. Presents
BALL PARK FIGURES ANSWERS
THE SPENT (SPorts and ENTertainment) QUIZ
16 July 2011
QM: Varun and Arif

2. Rules
• Teams of 3 – all 3 from the same section
• There will be a written prelims followed by
interactive finals
• Top 6 teams qualify for the finals based on
performance in prelims with a cap of a maximum
of 2 teams per section in the finals
• No negative marks for incorrect answer
• There are a few tie-breaker (starred) questions.
Please encircle the question no in your sheet to
indicate the same!
• Please write your names and Section legibly
• Also mention your contact number(s)

3. *1. Claim to fame of the song ‘Rail Gadi’ sung by Ashok Kumar in
‘Ashirbad’?

4. • The first Indian Rap song!

5. 2. Identify
• Merchant Ivory Productions made a
documentary on her in 1973. A book on her
called ‘The Life and Times of an H Bomb” was
also published. She is half French, one fourth
Spanish and one fourth Burmese. Who is she?

6. • Helen

7. 3. Claim to fame of the song ‘Pehle Nasha’ from JJWS.

8. • Claimed to be the first Indian song filmed in
complete slow-motion

9. 4.
• Anuradha Sawhney, PETA India's ex-chief
functionary said, "the X ads are a refreshing
change from the earlier …ad campaigns." She
also said, "the popularity of this ad campaign
proves that there are many creative ways to
convey a message without using animals.
Animals used in films are often treated as little
more than props, and many suffer terribly
behind the scenes.” Consequently this ad
campaign came to win the (PETA) 2009
Glitterbox Award. What are we talking about?

10. • Zoozoos
• (instead of using Pug!)

11. 5.
• This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards
of ancient northern India
• These bards, performing in village squares and temple
courtyards, embellished their recitals with hand
gestures and facial expressions.
• The technique of the dance today is characterized by
fast rhythmic footwork set to complex time cycles. The
footwork is matched by the accompanying percussion
instruments such as tabla and pakhawaj, and the
dancer and percussionists often indulge in a virtuoso
display of rhythmic wizardry.
• Sangeet Natak Academy currently confers classical
status on this dance
• Identify the dance

12. • Kathak

13. 6. Identify the guy in Tintin’s ‘King Ottokar's Sceptre’

14. • Herge

15. 7.
• X is ranked No. 13 on a list of greatest film villains of
all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and
Villains.
• X’s French name is Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et
de Liaison ("Analytic Brain for Research and
Communication")
• “However, about once a week some character spots
the fact that X is …ahead of IBM... As it happened, IBM
had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite
embarrassed by this, and would have changed the
name had we spotted the coincidence.”-Y( a famous
author)

16. • X-HAL
• Y- Arthur C. Clarke
• HAL 9000 is the sentient on-board computer of the
Discovery One spacecraft in Arthur C. Clarke's fictional
Space Odyssey saga.
• Clarke more directly addressed this issue in his book The
Lost Worlds of 2001
• As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for
Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.
However, about once a week some character spots the fact
that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes
that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable
institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal
of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would
have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

17. 8. What was promoted by this ad?

18. Ans
• iPOD ( not the Mac as many people thought!)
• The 1984 Apple commercial was rebroadcast
in an updated version in 2004 on its 20th
anniversary, with the heroine modified to be
listening to an iPod.

19. 9. Claim to fame of the Dire Straits video: Money for
Nothing?

20. Ans
• Cited to be the first music video using
computer generated imagery!

21. 10. Funda

22. • Windows 95 was promoted using Rolling
Stones’ ‘Start me Up’ song!
• Parodied by Weird Al Yankovic in ‘Windows 95
Sucks’

23. *11. Identify X
• The term X was coined by Hitchcock’s Scottish
friend, screenwriter Angus MacPhail, for something
that sets the film’s plot revolving around it. It’s really
just an excuse and a diversion. In a whimsical
anecdote told by Hitchcock, he compared the X to a
mythical ‘apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish
Highlands’. In other words, it could be anything - or
nothing - at all. In North by Northwest, it’s
‘government secrets’, whatever they may
be. (Hitchcock considered that this was his ‘best’
X.) . In effect, the function of a X is like the ‘meaning’
of a poem - which T.S. Eliot compared to the bone
thrown by a burglar to distract the watchdog of the
mind while the poem goes about its own, deeper
business.

24. • MacGuffin