Saarang Buzzer Quiz Finals
Saarang Buzzer Quiz Finals
Saarang Buzzer Quiz Finals
‘Why am I _____________,
____________________?
Ding! Dong! Wedding Bells,
______________________.
But one fine day –
Please let it be soon –
I shall wake up in the morning
_____________________.’
1) Break the woks and sink the boats – from an order given by a
Chinese general to the soldiers so that there is no way to
return across a river crossed and they had to go forward
(which was instumental in them winning the war)
2) Burning bridges – similar to above – burn the bridge after
crossing it
3) Crossing the rubicon – when Caesar crossed it during his
invasion of Rome, war became inevitable
4) Point of no return – in airlines, both when fuel onboard is not
sufficient to return to point of origin (and you have to go
forward), and when there is no space left on runway to slow
down, the plane is commited to taking off.
5) “Alea Jacta est” – Caesar’s famous “the die has been cast”
saying
10) X, and integral part of Organization Y gets its name from
the title of a book by William Willoya and Vinson Brown. Z,
the founder of organization Y first read this book during a
voyage on the rough seas of the North pacific (where
incidentally the name Y too was coined). The book
describes what the authors say are Hopi prophecies of
warriors who would be mankind's key to survival. The
legend says these warriors would appear at a dark time
when the fish would die in the streams, the birds would fall
from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees
would no longer be; mankind as we know it would all but
cease to exist. Widely repeated accounts of the legend
recorded in the Naturegraph book say "They will be called
The _________, Protectors of the Environment." (the
blank is the title of the book).
Identify X,Y?
Greenpeace, The Rainbow Warrior – the
famous ship of Greenpeace
Identify/put fundaes.
The Tales of Beetle the Bard, mentioned in
the Deathly Hallows. Rowling wrote this as
her ‘farewell’ to the series.
? ?
Put fundaes.
These were guys involved in the translation of
‘The Satanic Verses’. The fatwa issued by
Ayatollah Khomeini said “I inform the proud
Muslim people of the world that the author of
the Satanic Verses book, which is against
Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all
those involved in its publication who are
aware of its content are sentenced to death.”
As they too were 'involved' in writing the book,
people were trying to kill them.
18) Richard Felton Outcault was an American
comic strip scriptwriter, sketcher and painter
and is considered the inventor of the modern
day comic strips. He worked for the ‘New York
World’ in the 1890s and is famous for his comic
strip “Hogan’s Alley” in which the chief character
was this kid.
In 1896, he defected to the ‘New York Journal’,
attracted by a much larger pay check and
continued to draw the cartoons with this
character, albeit the name had to be changed
due to a lawsuit which awarded the title
“Hogan’s Alley” to the New York World. The
Journal too continued the cartoon with a
different artist.
This was just one of the many occurrences in the What phrase did the
bitter rivalry between the Journal and the World ‘New York Press’ coin
to increase their circulation. to describe the rivalry
between these two
papers?
Both papers used to print sensational news
items and sensationalize all news to
increase their circulation. The New York
Press coined the phrase ‘Yellow Kid
Journalism’ to describe this kind of
journalism aimed at increasing circulation,
which we now call ‘Yellow Journalism’
19) This street was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of
the development of the Burlington Estate, and is named
after Lady Dorothy ____, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington.
It originally ran from Burlington Gardens to Boyle Street
and extended to Conduit Street later. Initially this street
was occupied by military officers and their wives, and
gradually became the place for many upper class gentry.
Some resident include William Pitt the younger and
playwright Richard Sheridan. To keep these upper class
gentry happy, a group of workers had formed some shops
at one end of the street, with some of them having their
shops on this street. In 1846, Henry Poole created a
second opening to his shop which opened to this street
and is considered the ‘Founder of _____’ though their
were other shops before his on this street.
AUDIO
• Mehbooba, sholay
21) Identify the person talking in this audio.
This is from a video posted on the New
York Times site last year, in the obituary
section. ans
Question
When writer Art Buchwald died last year,
The NY Times posted a video obituary
which included an interview with
Buchwald, in which they had recorded him
saying “Hi. I’m Art Buchwald and I just
died” so that they could use it when they
died.
Answer
22) The Book X was not a particularly famous book in America,
selling a few thousand copies a year at best and by no
means a bestseller. However, shortly after the movie Y was
released, amazon.com received lots and lots of buy requests
for this book and was soon sold out, infact they had a one
month backlog of orders for this book X.
Many sarcastic reviews were written by readers for the book like
Audio 1 Audio 2
• Chura Liya hai tumne jo dil ko.. Yaadon ki
baraat and tune inspired by if it’s tuesday
24) What is this a picture of?
Angelina Jolie – the places where she got
her 4 children
25) The famous Royal Shrovetide Football match occurs annually in the
town of Ashbourne in England. It is an all-in football match, where
everyone can participate and is a tradition since the 12th century.
Though it is technically football, kicking, carrying and throwing the ball is
allowed. The 2 teams which play are the Up'Ards and the Down'Ards
distinguished by the people who live on the 2 sides of the river which
runs through the town. The two goal posts are 3 miles apart and the
objective like any football match is to get the ball into the opponents goal
(there is no fixed route, you have to just get through the town and across
the river). Anything is allowed in the game which is usually quite violent,
the only rules being:
1) Committing murder or manslaughter is prohibited. Unnecessary violence
is frowned upon.
2) The ball may not be carried in a motorised vehicle.
3) The ball may not be hidden in a bag, coat or rucksack etc.
4) Cemeteries, churchyards and the town memorial gardens are strictly out
of bounds.
5) Playing after 10 pm is forbidden.
(rephrase..)
28) When the Los Angeles Herald Examiner
reviewed the movie ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1970,
a famous record (atleast at that time),
which had stood for 30 years was broken.
What was the record?
Citizen Kane. William Randolph Hearst was so
dead against the movie (which painted him in
bad light) and hence forbade any of his
numerous newspapers from publishing reviews
of the movie. So what is the greatest movie of all
time did not have any reviews in the major
newspapers owned by Hearst. Only in 1970 (18
years after Hearst’s death) did the Herald
Examiner review it, it was the first time a Hearst
paper reviewed the movie.
29) Here is the title of a book and all the
chapters in it. Simply fill in the missing
chapter.
For your eyes only
• From a view to a kill
• For your eyes only
• _____
• Risico
• The Hildebrand Rarity
30) X was reading the script of the movie Y
when she came across a paragraph about
the character Z. X immediately struck out
the paragraph and scribbled something in
the margin. That something created a
whole lot of news late last year.
Video
The entire scene is a reference to the
Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds’, and the last
part is a reference to Alfred Hitckcock
cameo in the movie – fat bald guy just
walking across the screen…