THE LAST BALL

THE SPENT QUIZ – Sports and EntertainmentQM: ‘C’est la vie’ Arif

AND PRESENT

What is the claim to fame of this graphic novel series ?

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• It is the only comic book series ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize

• How are the pictures collectively known as ?(Not an exhaustive list)

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• Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards(On the vanity card for Chuck Lorre Productions at the end of every episode of Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly, Lorre includes a message that usually reads like an editorial, essay, or observation on life)

• Connect

• Andha Naal (English: That Day!)

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• Rashomon Effect• effect of the perception on recollection• when observers of an event are able to

produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.

A woman director with Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS .What was her most famous creation?

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• Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director• Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens

(Triumph of the Will), a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party

When?

"You can see the end of the world but it's just a shame you don't know what you're looking at."- Former New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam Parore

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When he became the first cricketer to scale Mount Everest but was too disoriented to enjoy the view!

What ranking?

1. Michael Schumacher 1162. Sebastien Buemi 1143. Kamui Kobayashi 994. Jaime Alguersuari 945. Pastor Maldonado 916. Paul di Resta 907. Sergio Perez 878. Rubens Barrichello 869. Jenson Button 8510. Felipe Massa 82

(Source: Mercedes GP data, 2011)

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• The top 10 overtakers of 2011 F1 season

Artist?

• American footballer OJ Simpson, golfer Jack Nicklaus, jockey Willie Shoemaker

• Muhammad Ali, Chris Evert, Pele, figure skater Dorothy Hamill

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• Andy Warhol's Athletes Series

Connect

Japanese Hanafuda (lit. flower cards)

Playing Cards

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Theme Only LVC

• +20 / -10• +15 / - 7• +10 / -5• +5 / No -ve

Pictures follow

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• Pepsi Change the Game

• World Cup Ads

The film X has a scene in which several stars make guest appearances while appearing for the premiere of the movie Y . They include Dilip Kumar, Geeta Dutt, Guru Dutt, Kishore Kumar, Raj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Sohrab Modi, Mohammed Rafi, Nargis, Nadira and Nimmi. In the movie X, the lead actor is shown selling tickets of Y in black

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• X- Kala Bazaar• Y- Mother India

• Yubi Lakpi is a Manipuri style of rugby. Yubi means a ____ and Lakpi means snatching in the Manipuri language. To score a goal, a player has to approach the goal from the front with his oiled ___ and pass the goal line. The __ serves the purpose of a ball and is offered to the king or the judges who sit just beyond the goal line.

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• coconut

What was inspired after him?

• Perhaps most well know under the name ‘The French Angel’, Maurice Tillet was born in France in 1903 .He aspired to become an actor and was highly intelligent, allegedly speaking 14 languages and being quite gifted in prose.

• However, in his twenties, Maurice developed acromegaly - a rather rare hormonal disorder that occurs when the pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone.

• Tillet moved to the United States where he made a living on his appearance by becoming a professional wrestler, and was dubbed as the "freak ___ of the ring

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• Shrek

What?

Leader: Ringa pakia! (Slap the hands against the thighs!)Uma tiraha! ( Puff out the chest)Turi whatia! (Bend the knees!)Hope whai ake! (Let the hip follow!)Waewae takahia kia kino! (Stamp the feet as hard as you can!)Leader: Ka mate, ka mate (I die, I die)Others:Ka ora' Ka ora' (I live, I live)

Leader: Ka mate, ka mate (I die, I die)Others:Ka ora' Ka ora' (I live, I live) All: Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru (This is the fierce, powerful man)Nāna i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā (Who caused the sun to shine again for me)A Upane! Ka Upane! (Up the ladder, Up the ladder)Upane Kaupane" (Up to the top)Whiti te rā,! (The sun shines!)

Ans: Haka dance

The origins of the name X is debatable. One theory goes like this:It was part of the founder’s favourite parable: “We are all born into this world with a big boulder on our shoulder. Every day we chip at it until, at the end of our lives, all that is left is a small ___that makes up you!”

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• Hard Rock Café

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy. by pop rock group Bow Wow Wow

Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass") – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) –oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet

Graffiti famous during which event?“ Only an imbecile worries - nobody beats Honduras

Pick up your guns and let's go guysCut those Salvadorans down to size”

Ans : The football War

Dates : July 14 - July 18, 1969.

Also known as the 100 Hours War

It was fought over Honduran land reform and El Salvador's immigration problem, as well as a border dispute. These existing tensions between the two countries coincided with the inflamed rioting during the second North American qualifying round of the 1970 FIFA World Cup

Noted for being the last war where both sides fought in the skies using piston-engined fighters, namely ex-American World War II and Korean War fighters.