FUNDAMENTALS
Bob Dylan’s nomination as the Nobel Literature laureate certainly set the world of writing as well as music on a tizzy. See how much you know about the man who is certainly blowin’ in the wind now.
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THE TAMBOURINE MAN
1. None of the songs sung by Dylan ever reached the number one spot on the charts. Two of his songs however reached number two on the charts. One of them is Like a Rolling Stone’in 1965. Which is the other? 2. What is common to these books by Dylan — The Brazil Series, The Asia Series and Drawn Blank? 3. The only song of this balladeer that rose to be number one on the charts was not sung by Dylan. It was released by the Byrds. Which number? 4. Some critics may dispute Dylan’s crowning as a Nobel literature laureate. However, one of his songs was included in the 2006 edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Which one? 5. Which Bob Dylan song was nominated by the Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest song of all times? 6. What is common to Bob Landy, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Blind Boy Grunt and Elston Gunn? 7. When the legendary songmeister was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, in his acceptance speech, Dylan thanked a musician and a sportsman. The musician was Little Richard. Who is the sportsman? 8. In 2008, Dylan became the first rock musician to receive this award for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Name this award. 9. The Tambourine Man had appeared on screen in a commercial only once in 2004 and that too for an unlikely brand. Which one? 10. Which eight-minute long Dylan song championed the innocence of boxer Rubin Carter who was imprisoned for triple murder in New Jersey?
ANYTHING GOES
1. Two fast bowlers have taken 300 wickets in Test cricket without a ten wicket match haul. One of them is Bob Willis. Who is the other? (Praveen, Mysuru) 2. Which was the first Indian organisation to acquire a computer when it imported an HEC2M digital computer from the UK in 1955? (Ashutosh Sharma, Bengaluru) 3. Which Indian bestselling brand in international superstores was founded by Dilip Kapur in 1979? (P. Ravi, Chennai) 4. Ian Smith of New Zealand scored 173 against India at Auckland in 1990. What is unique about this score? (B.K. Harinath, Mysuru) 5. 29-year-old Christine Chubbuck, on July 15, 1974 has done something which no one else had done earlier at about 9 am on that day in the TV studio of WXLT-TV in Florida. What has she done? (U.N. Murthy, Secunderabad) 6. Harnam Singh (HS) Rawail may be a Sikh but some of his best known films have been based on Muslim culture. His Mere Mehboob was set in Aligarh Muslim University. Its sequel
Mehboob ki Mehndi starring Rajesh Khanna was released on 30 January 1971. Why? (Deepak Gomes, Kolkata) 7. In the Navy Seal operation to nab Osama bin Laden, one of the helicopters used in the operation crashed by mistake into what area of the compound in Abbotabad? (Rajeev Pillai, Kochi)