The Ninth Entry
On one of the Thursdays...Quiz Master was Niraj Chaudhary
1. Who recruited youngest president of Pepsi at that time John Sculley by saying, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?"
2. This is part of an advertisement. Fill in the blanks.
"Big Brother": "Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
Announcer: "On January 24th, ______________ will introduce _______________. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'."
3. To whom the following quote is attributed :"Van Gogh would have sold more paintings, if they had tigers in them."
4. What do you understand by term "Frodo-economy?"
5. What's the latest addition to Wimbledon Museum?
6. For an etymologist, what's common to the words bikini, serendipity and lesbian.
7. The company chose its name because it thought that people would have more faith in it, if they thougt that it has government connection. Later they shortened the company name and hence removed a big scarlet part of logo. It saved around $1000 on paintjobs on every tractor trailer. Which company?
8. When American philosopher Henry David Thoreau ran into the local tax collector who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes (1846). Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery, for which he spent a night in jail. This is first instance of what?
9. This movie was advertised with punchline "The wrong man. In the wrong place. At the right time." It was based on an American radio jockey Adrian Cronauer, posted in Vietnam.
10. Among all the people who came to audition for the role of Gunther in sitcom 'Freinds' why was James Michael Taylor chosen?
11. Which sitcome is also referred to as The Show about Nothing?
12. A song composed in 1956 by Cole Porter goes like this: "___ _____ __ __ _ ___________? I don't. (...) And I don't 'cause all I want is you." Fill in the blanks to name the TV show, that got its name from the this song, ironically though.
13. Fill in the blanks (its a song by Pete deRose):
"When the ____ ______ falls, Over sleepy garden walls.
And the stars begin, To flicker in the sky
Through the mist of a memory, You wander back to me.
Breathing my name with a sigh.
14. A Japanese publisher Nikoli Co. Ltd owns a trademark, "Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru", while the same is referred to as ‘nanpure' by other Japanese publisher. What?
15. Greek philosopher Aristotle produced a number of works, collectively know as, say X. In the library of Alexandria, those works of Aristotle, which were kept after X, were referred to by librarians as the "books that come after X" and hence the name of work came?
16. What could have been known as Sound About or Stow Away for pure grammatical reasons?
17. A wealthy tractor manufacturer, who also possessed a super car, went to manufacturer of that super car to complain about quality of car's clutch. The manufacturer told him "what does a tractor manufacturer knows about making super cars, go and drive tractors". This even led to something big in automobile industry. Identify both the parties.
18. Connect U2, the Irish Rock Band and Salman Rushdie.
19. This book has been divided into three parts: temples, mosques and caves. Its also beem made into a movie with Indian connection. Which book?
20. From Paris to Marseilles to Otan to ___________ to Lisbon. The route was followed by many in pre-WWII Europe as an esacape route to 'New World' ie America. Fill in the blanks.
21. "…because it is the privilege and the curse of ___________ ___________ to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes and to be able to live or die in peace."
Fill in the blanks to get the title of the book, this is an exceprt from.
22. How this guy missed world cup editions of soccer is part of legends now. He played for Spain in ’50, but authorities found out that he has also represented Argentina in the past and hence barred from taking part. In next edition, ’54 ,authorities agreed, but Spain didn’t qualify. In ’58 he played for Argentina and Argentina refused to take part in world cup due to political reasons. He was injured for ’62's edtion and in ’66 he was 40. Identify.
23. This lizard known scientifically as Basilisk Lizard with scientific name Basiliscus basiliscus, have webby feet and hence it can run on water when scurrying at a good speed. What is it commonly known as?
1. Who recruited youngest president of Pepsi at that time John Sculley by saying, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?"
2. This is part of an advertisement. Fill in the blanks.
"Big Brother": "Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
Announcer: "On January 24th, ______________ will introduce _______________. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'."
3. To whom the following quote is attributed :"Van Gogh would have sold more paintings, if they had tigers in them."
4. What do you understand by term "Frodo-economy?"
5. What's the latest addition to Wimbledon Museum?
6. For an etymologist, what's common to the words bikini, serendipity and lesbian.
7. The company chose its name because it thought that people would have more faith in it, if they thougt that it has government connection. Later they shortened the company name and hence removed a big scarlet part of logo. It saved around $1000 on paintjobs on every tractor trailer. Which company?
8. When American philosopher Henry David Thoreau ran into the local tax collector who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes (1846). Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery, for which he spent a night in jail. This is first instance of what?
9. This movie was advertised with punchline "The wrong man. In the wrong place. At the right time." It was based on an American radio jockey Adrian Cronauer, posted in Vietnam.
10. Among all the people who came to audition for the role of Gunther in sitcom 'Freinds' why was James Michael Taylor chosen?
11. Which sitcome is also referred to as The Show about Nothing?
12. A song composed in 1956 by Cole Porter goes like this: "___ _____ __ __ _ ___________? I don't. (...) And I don't 'cause all I want is you." Fill in the blanks to name the TV show, that got its name from the this song, ironically though.
13. Fill in the blanks (its a song by Pete deRose):
"When the ____ ______ falls, Over sleepy garden walls.
And the stars begin, To flicker in the sky
Through the mist of a memory, You wander back to me.
Breathing my name with a sigh.
14. A Japanese publisher Nikoli Co. Ltd owns a trademark, "Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru", while the same is referred to as ‘nanpure' by other Japanese publisher. What?
15. Greek philosopher Aristotle produced a number of works, collectively know as, say X. In the library of Alexandria, those works of Aristotle, which were kept after X, were referred to by librarians as the "books that come after X" and hence the name of work came?
16. What could have been known as Sound About or Stow Away for pure grammatical reasons?
17. A wealthy tractor manufacturer, who also possessed a super car, went to manufacturer of that super car to complain about quality of car's clutch. The manufacturer told him "what does a tractor manufacturer knows about making super cars, go and drive tractors". This even led to something big in automobile industry. Identify both the parties.
18. Connect U2, the Irish Rock Band and Salman Rushdie.
19. This book has been divided into three parts: temples, mosques and caves. Its also beem made into a movie with Indian connection. Which book?
20. From Paris to Marseilles to Otan to ___________ to Lisbon. The route was followed by many in pre-WWII Europe as an esacape route to 'New World' ie America. Fill in the blanks.
21. "…because it is the privilege and the curse of ___________ ___________ to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes and to be able to live or die in peace."
Fill in the blanks to get the title of the book, this is an exceprt from.
22. How this guy missed world cup editions of soccer is part of legends now. He played for Spain in ’50, but authorities found out that he has also represented Argentina in the past and hence barred from taking part. In next edition, ’54 ,authorities agreed, but Spain didn’t qualify. In ’58 he played for Argentina and Argentina refused to take part in world cup due to political reasons. He was injured for ’62's edtion and in ’66 he was 40. Identify.
23. This lizard known scientifically as Basilisk Lizard with scientific name Basiliscus basiliscus, have webby feet and hence it can run on water when scurrying at a good speed. What is it commonly known as?
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