The year that was...Quiz S02Q13

Wishing u all a very happy and prosperous new year .
                                                             ~the weekly quiz blog team.
As promised,we are back with the answers,a winner and a gift.


News, views, controversies ,awards ,gossips and scandals...year 2009 had it all.
Before the drift into yet another year of events begins,let"s remember and relish 2009 in our own ishtyle :)

Mail in your answers to sbadhulika@gmail.com latest by 30th dec "09.
Results to be announced on 1st jan 2010( There"s nothing better than being a winner on a new year"s day :)
A surprise gift awaiting as well !

Please restrict all clarifications on the questions to the  "comments" jurisdiction page.


All the best.

1.Identify and connect

Answer:Coat of Arms of Sri Lanka; Killing of LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran by Sri Lankan Army .

2.Identify and connect both pictures

    

Answer:Michael Phelps contract with Kellog’s  was terminated after he was found taking marijuana.

3.Too creative yet controversial.Identify the retail brand to which these ads belong.

Answer:United Colors of Benetton

4.All that glitters is not gold...easy one...Identify the location ...

Answer:Dubai

 

5.All the best :) Identify  the logo.

Answer:Prometric (CAT 2009 going online)

6.Identify the movie.

Answer:Inglorious Basterds

7.Identify the incident and the popular phrase it created.

Answer:Beer Summit; U.S. President Obama hosted a meeting over beers on July 30, 2009 between a black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates and the white police officer Sgt. James Crowley who arrested him in a sitdown aimed at calming racial tensions and nationwide uproar sparked by the incident.

8.R.I.P. Identify the famous personality

Answer:Dr Norman Borlaug  deemed as the father of Green Revolution.

9.Identify the lady and her overnight claim to fame.

Answer:Rachel Uchitel; The most famous mistress of Tiger Woods

10.Tough fasting times...hungry kya?

simple one....Identify

Answer:Telangana

@Anand...if only u dint think too much :)

11.Unfortunate...

Identify and connect the 2 pictures.

Answer:Air France Logo. Air France plane crashed in Atlantic; the black box (flight Recorder) hasn’t been found yet.

12.Too tech savvy...

Identify each of the 4 images and connect.

Answer:Shashi Tharoor controversial  "cattle class" tweet based on austerity drive of Govt. of  India on Twitter;the party crashing of Tareq and Michaele Salahi at white house that made news after the couple posted the photographs of the party in FaceBook.

13...And finally the award goes to...

Identify the  personality and his reason to fame.

Answer:Ben Bernanke; Chairman of US Federal Reserve; named the TIME magazine"s person of the year 2009.

Time for the scores:
Preetam 10.5

Deepak 8.5

Shruvi 11.5(...almost there,better luck next time :)

Subin 10.5

Anand 12
 
Great show folks!
Congratulations to  Anand Maharana(You get a copy of the best seller "2 States The Story of My Marriage" by Chetan Bhagat)
 
And now let"s make the resolution for 2010...more quizzes and better participation :)