FUNDAMENTALS
Some lines stay forever — immortalised because of their prescience, wit or just plain luck. Take this quiz on famous lines. Write to us with your suggestions, cribs and questions ( with answers) to senjam@ gmail. com
FAMOUS LINES
1. “Mr Livingstone, I presume” — journalist Henry M. Stanley to David Livingstone who had lost contact with the outside world for six years. What is the exact location of the place where this famous encounter took place? 2. “Sab lal ho jayega” is the line attributed to Maharaja Ranjit Singh. What was he referring to? 3. “Dilli du ast” is the line attributed to Nizamuddin Auliya. He uttered this line in context of a particular king who was on his way to Delhi from Bengal. Who was this king who died before he reached the capital? 4. “I would rather live two days as a tiger than two hundred years as a sheep” — so said a man who lived true to his words. Who? 5. “The turban thou must defend” — who put his turban on the ground and said this to his commander, later to be only betrayed? 6. In mid 19th century after Charles Napier conquered the Sindh Province, he is supposed to have sent a message to his superiors which simply said “Peccavi”. What is the significance of this word? 7. “I hope you are all Republicans” uttered by a former President of United States. To whom and what is the context? 8. Complete this line “When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘ If you become a soldier, you will be a General. If you become a monk, you will end up as a pope.’ Instead…” 9. Gary Gilmore was executed in 1977 for two murders that he committed in Utah. His last line served as an inspiration for an advertising slogan. What? 10. “Now I become death, destroyer of worlds” — these lines from Bhagavad Gita came to prominence in 1945 when a prominent scientist got it to world attention. Who and what was the situation?
ANYTHING GOES
1. What does a vexillologist do for his living? ( Commander G. R. Balakrishnan ( Retd) Chennai) 2. Name the nephew of Vijay Hazare who became an international umpire after playing 48 first class matches for Baroda. ( ASM Rao, Vijaywada) 3. Which actress studied fashion designing at SNDT University and designed costumes for films such as Mera Dil Leke Dekho, before becoming a full time actor? ( D. Surendranath, Hyderabad) 4. The Aligarh born Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder of One97 Communications. What is the name of the more famous company he is associated with? ( Rajeev Lochan, Kolkata) 5. In almost 140 years of Test cricket, only three bowlers have taken a hattrick on debut in Tests. Damien Fleming ( Australia) against Pakistan in 1994 and Peter Petherick ( New Zealand) against Pakistan at Lahore in 1976 are the two bowlers. Name the third bowler. ( B. K. Harinath, Mysuru) 6. During the Mughal rule, the kings mostly patronised Persian scholars, while Sanskrit was not patronised by them. But in the court of Shah Jahan there was a Sanskrit scholar. He was born in a village in the present East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. Name him. ( U. N. Murthy, Secunderabad) 7. This Bollywood hit movie of 1973 was originally titled Raag Ragini. Later the name was changed. It became especially popular in Sri Lanka where it screened continuously for 590 days in the same cinema hall in Colombo. Identify the movie. ( Arnab Ghoshal, Secunderabad) 8. Jim Stovall, the American author of The Ultimate Gift and other novels, co- founded Narrative Television Network which received the Emmy award. The award was neither for writing nor for acting. What was it for? ( ASM Rao, Vijaywada)