The "Winners Take It All" Quiz S02Q11

Quite a Dull Response despite the fact that this Quiz had Prizes to be won..

Rules :
1. All * marked questions carry 2 marks and the rest carry 1 mark..In case people get equal marks ,early entries would win..

Lets begin..

Question 1* :The Group left many spell bound and created a niche for themselves. Identify the chart-topping Album and the Band .



Answer : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & The Beatles

Question2: Identify the Logo . Colours are a give away..And its a craze now-a-days..
Answer : Google Wave

Question 3* : Identify and Connect the 4 Pics . We might just see some of these places in TV in the near future..



Answer :Pink floyd Hotel in Pushkar, Rajasthan; Xuan Zang Memorial in Nalanda; Begum ka Church also known as the Basilica of Our Lady of Graces in Sardhana near Meerut; JAMBUR - INDIA KA AFRICA; New Ad campaign for Bajaj Discover DTS-Si
Only Anand gave the correct answer for this..Great Crack..

Question 4 : Identify the Book. Everything has been wiped off except...

Answer : Imagining India - The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nileakani.

Question 5 : What is missing in the Pic ?

Answer :Taxi 9211 (Hindi adaptation of Changing Lanes(1st poster)), the last poster is the Tamil adaptation of the earlier two - TN07 AL 4777

Question 6 *: Identify the award winning Animation Movie.

Answer : No time for nuts .

Question 7 *Innovative and Intelligent.. Identify and connect .

Answer : Pics are of Logo of the Colors Channel,Dabbawalas with Prince Charles,1984 movie and motorola. The Mumbai Dabbawalas,who are 6 Sigma certified, were used for the promotion of BIGG BOSS Season 3 .They wore the mask of Amitabh Bachchan and T-shirts for the marketing of reality show Bigg Boss.Bigg Boss as we all know is inspired by Big Brother ,inspired from fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four(made to film 1984).

Question 8 : Seriously ? Identify


Answer : PlayBoy in Braille for Blind.

Question 9 : All set to undress . :P Identify and Connect ..

Answer :Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana(Connection); And the new ad campaign for its latest fragrance collection, The D&G Anthology.Easy One.Which wasn't?

Question 10 *: Identify . And it has no connection to District 9.

Answer : The mangled TV antenna from the World Trade Center anchors the 9/11 exhibit with a wall of that days front pages from around the world at the new Newseum building in Washington, D.C

Question 11* : Identify and Connect . Something we all grew up with..

Answer :The connection is the TV series RAMAYAN.
The pics are of :
Coverpage of Limca Book of world records.Ramayan was listed in the Limca Book of Records as the world's "most viewed mythological serial" until June 2003.
NDTV Imagine.In 2008, a re-make of Ramayan produced by Sagar Arts began airing on NDTV Imagine.
Sunil Lahiri who featured as Lakshman in the TV series.

Question 12 : The Latest and the First . Whats the connection ?

Answer : Album Covers of Death Magnetic by Metallica and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely; Both won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover or Best Recording Package in 2009(latest) and 1959(the first or the inaugural Grammy awards).

Question 13* : What connects all of them ?

Answer :Pics are of Henry King "Hank" Ketcham, creator of The Dennis the Menace ; A Briard ; Alice in Wonderland; logo of Wilson sporting goods; Henry VIII. The connection is Dennis The Menace .Hank Ketcham is the creator of Dennis The Menace it. Father of the character Henry Mitchell, Mother Alice Mitchell. Mr. George Wilson whom Dennis always disturbs. And Dennis’s dog Ruff,which is a briard.

Question 14* : A : B :: C:D . A & B are the 1st 2 pics..C& D are the next 2 . Identify D (Shown here as something else) and give the Formoula (connection).



Answer :William Shatner.
Star Trek Charachters of the original series and the latest movie Star Trek in 2009.
A =Zachary Quinto B=Leonard Nimoy..both portrayed the character of Spock
C=Chris Pine D=William Shatner..both portrayed the character of James T. Kirk

Question 15* : Connect ...


Answer :Murder of John Lenon/Mark Chapman.- The book 'The Catcher in the Rye'(1st Pict) which the killer Mark Chapman was obssesed with and considered his life mirrored the main protagonist Holden Claufield.The killer was camly reading the book after he shot Lenon at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, (3rd Pict).The 2nd pic is of the 2008 movie 'Chapter 27' based on Lenon's murder.

Question 16 : Identify the Flop Movie .Its was however the start of a brilliant career.

Answer : Pehla Nasha ,directorial Debut of Ashutosh Gowariker.


Now for the scores..

A tight finish for the Top Spot this time..
Tirtha Mandal--17.5
Sushmee--16
Sourav mandal--14.5
Ashish --19
Rajeev jena--13
Ashwini--22.5(q1-half answer for the name of the album,q3-wrong answer)
Anand--22(q11-wrong,q7-wrong connection )Tough Luck .

Ashwini gets a GIFT VOUCHER from LIFESTYLE worth Rs 500..Congrats to You..

The next Quiz would be on Wednesday/Thursday i.e 14th /15th Oct.