VORTEX 2011SpEnt Quiz

0. Lego representation of which famous event in sports history?

Four Minute Mile

1.

Sigils of the major houses in Game of Thrones

In the first ever Indian GP held at the Buddh International Circuit, Fernando Alonso's helmet had a couple of additional stickers. Alonso was also joined by the likes of Mark Webber, Jensen Button, Jarno Trulli, Daniel Ricciardo, Narain Karthikeyan, Rubens Barrichello and teammate Felipe Massa who made similar gestures. What was the gesture for?

2.

Dan Wheldon & Marco Simonchelli

Fill in the blank 3.• At night they fly, you'd better run. These winged things are

not much fun.• In the jungle you must wait. • A tiny bite can make you itch, make you sneeze, make you

twitch. • This will not be an easy mission. Monkeys slow the

expedition.• His fangs are sharp, he likes your taste. Your party better

move poste-haste. • They grow much faster than bamboo. Take care or they'll

come after you. • A hunter from the darkest wild makes you feel just like a

child .• Don't be fooled, it isn't thunder. Staying put would be a

blunder. • A law having been broken, you'll be set back even more than

your token. • Every month at the quarter moon, there'll be a monsoon in

your lagoon. • Beware the ground on which you stand. The floor is quicker

than the sand.• There is a lesson you will learn. Sometimes you must go back

a turn. • Need a hand? Well you just wait. We'll help you out. • You're almost there with much at stake, but now the ground

begins to quake. • _______________

Jumanji

X? 4.

X was established in 1999 by Daimler and Richemont, and is supported by its Global Partners Mercedes-Benz, IWC Schaffhausen and Vodafone. The first gala was held on May 25, 2000 in Monte Carlo.

Each winner receives a statuette exclusively produced by Cartier. The universal nature of sport is celebrated by the representation of the five continents, which are engraved on the base. The statuettes are 30 cm high and weigh 2.5 kg. Each figure contains 670 g of solid silver with a 650 g gold finish base.

Laureus World Sports Awards 

…I was movin my hips… …I gotta pee…

…in the land of china people

hardly got nothin at all…

…I played so much football…

…in the buttocks…

…Uh…its called Hotel

Airbot….

*5.

6.

Little Zizou

Who are Micheal Fassbender & Viggo Mortenson playing? 7.

Freud & Jung

8.

6-0, 6-0

6-1, 7-6

5-7, 6-2, 6-1

6-3, 6-3

6-3, 3-6, 6-1

Steffi Graff’s Golden Slam

Better known for? 9. Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who sacrificed himself at the busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963 while protesting against the Roman Catholic persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem Roman Catholic administration.

Accounts of the life of Thich Quang Duc are derived from information disseminated by Buddhist organizations.

After his death, his body was re-cremated, but his heart remained intact. This was interpreted as a symbol of compassion and led Buddhists to revere him as a bodhisattva, heightening the impact of his death on the public psyche.

Self Immolation monk on RATM’s first album

  *10.

 A complete set of numbers was housed within the banner, which were rotated several times a season to give the effect that the ticker was rotating. Every February 28th, the banner used to updated. The last update shown in the picture. Though now retired, what did the banner represent while it was put up?

The no of years of Manchester City went trophy less before winning the FA

Cup in May

11.

Originally co bought by nightclub owner Hank Berger & actor George Weinbarger form Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.Sold to Dan Bliss for an undisclosed six figure amount.

Bliss went on to sell it for a staggering $450,000 on an online auction site to artist and sculptor Bill Mackay 25 years later in 2007.

Efforts made by-

• Terence Donnelly – Independent newspaper publisher

• Giovanni Mazzie- Movie producer• Les Kelly- Originator of Kelly Blue Book.• Gene Autry- Singer and 1930’s radio star• Hugh Hefner- Creator of magazine Playboy• Andy Williams- Singer and entertainer• Warner Brothers Records- Recording company• Alice Cooper-dedicated to Graucho Marx• Dennis Lidke- Businessman

Hollywood Sign

What? 12.

Traveler's Diarrhea, colloquially known as ‘Aztec two step’ in Mexico, ‘Pharaoh's revenge’ in Egypt, ‘The Mcshits’ in US, ‘Down Under Butt Chunder’ in Australia and ‘Karachi Crouch’ in Pakistan usually occurs while travelling to especially tropical or subtropical areas where sanitation is poor. Many different agents can cause it, the most common being a toxigen.

This particular disease caused a lot of fear among the visiting foreign teams during the Commonwealth Games 2010. What is this disease famously known as in India?

Which company? 13.  Viren Rasquinha - COOGeet Sethi - DirectorPrakash Padukone - DirectorLeander Paes - DirectorViswanathan Anand - DirectorNiraj Bajaj - DirectorRamaraj - DirectorShitin Desai - DirectorNeeraj Bharadwaj - DirectorRakesh Khanna - Director

Olympic Gold Quest

X & Y 14.

X was first mentioned in a 1985 New York Magazine article to describe ‘core’ members  Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy who frequently appeared in teen-oriented coming of age movies of the 80s.The actors hated this term Y and claim that it was one of the main reasons why none of their careers took off in spite of having good starts.

Along the same lines, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Steve Carell are collectively known as Y which was first used by USA Today in September 2004. It is an allusion and is reference to their most popular movie Old School and the sophomoric style of humour used in most of their films.  

Brat Pack & Frat Pack

*15.

Homer- The alien has a sweet heavenly voice…like Urkel! & he appears every Friday night…like Urkel!Wiggum- Well, your story is compelling Mr.Jackass, I mean Simpson. So I’ll just type it up on my invisible typewriter (Hums and makes typing motion in the air)Homer- Ugh, you don’t have to humiliate me (He leaves and another man walks in with scorched clothing)Arsonist- I just torched a building downtown, and I’m afraid I’d do it again!Wiggum- Oh, yeah right, I’ll just type it up on my invisible type writer (Hums and types again) Fruitcake.

Establishing shot outside a building. Text appears on-screen as if being typedFBI, Division of Paranormal Activity , Washington D.CInside there is a picture of J.Edgar Hoover in a dress, X is typing on the computer. Y enters the room.

Y- Look at this X (Shows the Springfield Shopper Newspaper, with the headline-’Human blimp sees flying saucer’ and a picture of Homer) There’s been another unsubstantiated UFO sighting in the heartland of America. We’ve got to get there right away.X-Well, see Y, there is also this report of a shipment of drugs and illegal weapons coming into New Jersey tonight.Y-I hardly think the FBI is concerned with matters like that.

Y & X visit the Simpsons home. Y knocks on the door, Marge answers.

Agents Scully & Mulder from The X-Files

Significance of this movie? 16.

My dear Kuttichathan is a Malayalam film released in 1984 produced by Maliampurackal Appachan of Navodaya Studios in Kerala.

It is the story of how three children befriend a friendly ghost named Kuttichathan who is being forced by a cruel magician to get him some sort of treasure.

It was re-released on August 25, 2011

First 3D film in of India

17.

82 Boulevard de Clichy, 75018 ParisRenowned as the birth place of the can-can dance (picture in next slide) which  evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe.

Moulin Rouge

18.

Rajneeti, the acclaimed 2010 Prakash Jha movie is said to be based on which great work?

Mahabharata

X? 19.

The X is a stringed instrument developed by enslaved Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments. The name X is commonly thought to be derived from the Kimbundu (one of the many African languages) term mbanza.

The modern X comes in a variety of forms, including four and five-string versions. In almost all of its forms, the X's playing is characterized by fast arpeggiated plucking. Famous player if this instrument is Bela Fleck of 'Bela Fleck and the Flecktones’. Steve Martin has collaborated many time with them playing X which is one of his hidden talents.

Banjo

X & Y? *20. X debuted in 1952 in Gemini’s hindi film Mr.Sampat.

After a few hit songs, his career actually took off when he started to sing for Y. This association with Y went on for years to gather critical acclaim, fans and some of the most stylized songs of Kannada cinema. Stylized meaning songs that didn’t depend on classical ragas, but which experimented with all kinds of tonal and orchestral colour.

But in 1974, Y was given a chance to sing his own songs. He took the opportunity and turned out to be a brilliant singer giving the major hit- ‘Yaare Kogadali’ Hence, X was shunned and pretty much stopped getting many offers. In due course, Y ultimately also won the National Award for Best Playback Singer Male in 1993 while X struggled.

Like Mukesh, X was known was his melancholic heaviness, his songs could handle light songs but he excelled in the sad ones. Y was the opposite capable of great vivacity and bringing energy into the song.

P.B Srinivas & Rajkumar

In 1896 Olympics, no track and field events had been won by Greece, and the interests for this event was heightened by this fact. Spyridon "Spyros" Louis, a water carrier, was encouraged to participate by Colonel Papadiamantopoulos, who gave the starting signal for the small field of 17 (13 Greeks). Spyros went on to win the event, making him Greece’s first medalist.

An excerpt from an official report of the Games:Here the Olympic Victor was received with full honour; the King rose from his seat and congratulated him most warmly on his success. Some of the King’s aides-de-camp, and several members of the Committee went so far as to kiss and embrace the victor, who finally was carried in triumph to the retiring room under the vaulted entrance. The scene witnessed then inside the Stadion cannot be easily described, and even foreigners were carried away by the general enthusiasm.

The event?

21.

Marathon

Who? 22.

First appearance-13 April 1973 Adorns a striking costume with red hair

“creating perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture” (in the words of biographer David Buckley)

Supposedly suffers from schizophrenia which is indicated by the makeup consisting of a lightning bolt representing the duality of his mind.

Aladdin Sane

Connect 23.

Deadheads

X? 24.

X’s style of play is that of a serve-and-volleyer. He holds many serving records. He held the record for the most aces in a match when he fired down 78 aces against Radek Stepanek in a Davis Cup match in 2009. This record was beaten by two players in the same match when John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played the longest match in tennis history at the first round of the Wimbledon 2010 championships. X also served the fastest serve ever recorded (251 km/h) in a doubles match in the first round of the Davis Cup. Against Paul Capdeville he served the fastest second serve ever recorded (232 km/h) as well.

Ivo Karlovic.

Who singing which song? *25.

Scala & Kolackny Brothers; Smells like Teen Spirit