FUNDAMENTALS
This week's quiz is on some of the most popular and iconic rock albums of all times. Rock on!
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QUESTIONS
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1. The last album of the Beatles features the now iconic photograph of the Beatles band members on the zebra crossing. Two questions: Name the album and who was the photographer?
2. Which music group collaborated with the metal band Scorpions to produce the album 'Moment of Glory'?
3. Sri Yukteshwar Giri, Mahavata Babaji, Paramahansa Yoganand, Lahiri Mahasaya - all adorned the cover of which famous rock album?
4. Which album's name was inspired by a newspaper article about a woman with a pacemaker who had given birth?
5. Yucca brevifolia or the Yucca palm features in which album - both in the cover picture as well as its name?
6. Which Nirvana album famously features a baby swimming toward a US dollar bill on a fishhook?
7. Easy one: Which album recorded mostly in South Africa and featuring African sounds was inspired by a visit to Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee?
8. Which Dylan album is named after a road that is sometimes known as Blues Highway that goes from New Orleans through Memphis to the Canadian border?
9. Identify this rock group from their albums: Vs, Ten, Vitalogy, No Code,
Binaural, Riot Act, Yield, Backspacer?
10. The last album of Doors before Jim Morrison died in a bathtub in Paris at age 27 features songs such as 'Riders on the Storm' and 'Love Her Madly'. Name the album?
ANYTHING GOES
1. This cricketer scored the first test century in his debut test match and he was independent India's first Test captain. He is the only cricketer in the history to start and end his international career on the same date. Identify him?(Arnab Ghosal, Secunderabad)
2. The outflow of forex on account of import of women's cosmetics in the early years of the Indian independence led Nehru to request Tatas to start which enterprise?(Dee Surendranath, Hyderabad)
3. America's first female mayor, Susanna Salter, was elected in 1887 in a rather unusual circumstance. What was it? (C Ramamurthy, Chennai)
4. Which city in Pakistan produces seventy percent of all hand stitched football in the world?(U.N.Murthy, Secunderabad)
5. There are some people who resume work at their place of employment from which they have retired. What is this practice called? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
6. The five principles of 'Mitra Bhedha' (Loss of Friends), 'Mitra Laabha' (Gaining Friends), 'Suhrudbheda' (Causing discord between Friends), 'Vigraha' (Separation) and 'Sandhi' (Union) for the basis of what tradition? (P. Nivriti Sreelekha, Secunderabad)
7. Which song by Tonmoy Abhinaba Banerjee went viral not just in Eastern India but in other parts of India as well? (Robin Dasgupta, Kolkata)