FUNDAMENTALS
Today’s quiz is a potpourri of trivia from various fields. Take a crack at it.
POTPOURRI
1. Norma McCorvey is a well-known proponent of the pro-life movement and participated in several protests against abortion in the United States. How do you better know her? 2. M.F. Husain never painted the faces of the women that he portrayed including iconic ones like Mother Teresa. Why? 3. Kanpur-born Rita Luthra met which Pakistani cricket in England, married him and later changed her name to Samina? 4. Tatanagar saw action in Far East and the Mediterranean during the World War II. What is Tatanagar? 5. Which pair of sunglasses is supposed to be inspired by the tail fin of the Cadillac? 6. The Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1899 gave to the world the Eiffel Tower and also a part of a hotel. Which one? 7. The world knows it as Mao suit, but in China, this suit ubiquitous with Communist China is known by some other name. What? 8. Ghatak, Nidar and Nirbheek are all brands produced by an unlikely organisation. Which one? 9. Aggie Kenny, Bill Robles, Elizabeth Williams are among the most famous reportorial artists in United States. What are Reportorial artists? 10. The seeing stones in JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit series has given its name to a technology company. Which one?
ANYTHING GOES
1. This cricketer played for India in two unofficial Tests against Jack Ryder’s Australian team in 1935. He was also a member of the Nawanagar cricket team which won the Ranji Trophy in 1937-38. After Partition he migrated to Pakistan, while his son stayed back in India. While in Pakistan he undertook coaching assignments and one of his wards was Pakistan’s great Hanif Mohammed. His son played with distinction for India in Test matches. Name the father and son duo.
(B.K. Harinath, Mysore) 2. How did Point Sonam at Siachen glaciers make it into the record book? (Arun Raju, Thiruvananthapuram) 3. Albert Einstein, Bruce Lee, Thomas Edison, Johnny Cash, Steve McQueen and Muhammad Ali — the personality rights of these famous personalities are all owned by one company. Which one?
(Daniel Murad, Kochi) 4. Burritos, the famous Mexican snack, consists of a flatbread wrapped around a filling. What is the bread called? (Jevetha Vijayadasan, Vellore) 5. Most toll-free numbers across the world carry the number 800 in it. Why 800?
(Aadisht Grover, Kolkata) 6. The Jeffrey Archer novel Kane and Abel has been remade into Telugu twice as Prana Snehitulu and Kondapalli Raja, once in Tamil as
Annamalai, once in
Oriya as Ae Jugara Krishna Sudama and in
Kannada as Gokarna. What is the name of the Hindi version made by Rakesh Roshan? (U.N. Murthy, Secunderabad) 7. Three personalities got the first ever Bharat Ratna together in 1954. Two of them were politicians: S. Radhakrishnan and C. Rajagopalachari. Who was the third awardee? (P.V. Madhu, Secunderabad)