The "In The News" Quiz S02Q10

A general announcement : The Quiz for the October 2nd Weekend would have a Winner's prize..So please make it a point to attend that..Would be FUN..

Send in your answers to deepakdondas@gmail.com before 22nd September 2009 ,1800 hrs IST..

Half of the Questions have answers that were in news in the last week..Thats why "In the News" Quiz..Frankly i could not think of a better name..Lets Roll..

Question 1 : Lets begin this quiz with a rather easy one..Whats the speciality of this Vehicle ?

Answer : Google Street View Camera Car.

Question 2 : The Connection is Simple..Its their names..Identify each Picture to get the full marks..


Answer : First pic is of The Kamikaze Cocktail is made of equal parts Vodka, Triple Sec and lime juice.Second Pic is of the Kamikaze ,a fictional character, who is a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. Third Pic is of 1937 aircraft Kamikaze-Go ..

Question 3 : Recently there has been buzz around ________ that they believe would make them the number 1 is their field..The top two pics are related in the same way that the bottom pic is related to __________ .


Answer : Liverpool FC . They recently signed a sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered Bank worth 80 millon $ . Aon has a similar sponsorship deal with Manchester United.

Question 4*: Put Fundaes..The 1st and the 3rd pics are obviously posters of movies..They are somehow related to the 2nd pic..That would be the answer ..[Open in a new window for larger resolution..if any]

Answer : The poster for a double feature consisting of the films “Dragstrip Girl” and “Rock All Night” sparked the idea for “Grindhouse”, a double feature consisting of two feature-length segments, the Robert Rodriguez-directed “Planet Terror” and Quentin Tarantino-directed “Death Proof”.


Question 5: Babes and Dudes play it together.. : ) Identify the Sport..


Answer : Korfball.

Question 6 :Easy one...Identify both and connect..



Answer : 1st pic is a map of the four nations. Human civilization is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation.
Second picture is of Aang, a fictional character in Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender
Connect - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Question 7 : Recent News...Connect both..

Answer :1st Pic is the Cover of Coldplay's Album ,Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends ..2nd Pic is of Joe Satriani.. Joe Satriani recently settled his lawsuit with Coldplay, claiming that the band's song Viva La Vida violated the copyright on his song, If I Could Fly.

Question 8 *: Not Recent and Not in news too..However Connect both..

Answer : 1st Pic is of the Band Gorillaz . 2nd Pic is of the Movie Million Dollar Baby,starring Clint Eastwood,Morgan freeman and Hillary Swank. Connection is the song Client Eastwood which was the Debut Single of the Gorillaz.


Question 9 : Identify the yet-to-be released movie..The Movie premiers today ..(18th September ) ..And it is related to Cannes Film Festival ..

Answer : "Road,Movie" directed by Dev Benegal.[Only Road fetches half marks..]

Question 10 : Joey Shouted ,"London baby!!" ..He was excited at being in London ..Well this might be completely out-of-context...But tell me what is this Pic about ?

Answer :London 2012 Summer Olympics.

Question 11: When and Why ?


Answer :Michael Jackson's Death .On june 25th 2009 all these sites experienced outages owing to high internet traffic as the death of michael jackson made news...

Question 12 : Identify the Movie ..

Answer : Patrick Swayze,who passed away recently, and Om Puri starrer City Of Joy.


Question 13 : Which place is shown in the Pic ? The waterbody is coloured Blue..and the Land is coloured White..

Answer :The seven islands that came to constitute Bombay.(Mumbai)



Question 14* : Connect the Pics1,2,3..[Hint --Pic 4(bottom right) is the Spanish translation Of Pic 3 ...]

Answer : 1st Pic is the Poster of the movie Taj Mahal,2nd Pic is of the Movie Shakti , 4th Pic is of the Movie Casa Blanca ,which in English means White House which is what is shown in the 3rd Pic,i.e White House of Russia.

India’s nuclear test in 1998. Shakti was the Code name for Pokhran II. Operation Shakti - The thermonuclear device was emplaced in the shaft code named White House while the Taj Mahal shaft was assigned to the fission bomb.

Question 15: To round off , Identify the Book from its cover..


Answer : Dan Brown's latest Best Seller(yes already !!) The Lost Symbol..

Now for the Scores :

Anand Maharana --13
Sushmee--11
Ashwini Maharana--13
Kaustaba--11
Saurav Mandal--7