FUNDAMENTALS
SENJAM RAJ SEKHAR
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” — Lauren Hutton. How true? Take this fashion quiz with some fashion googly thrown in.
Write with your suggestions, questions ( with answers) to senjam@ gmail. com.
FASHION
1. Sammy Davis Jr. was said to have owned about 200 of them. Which item known for its lack of lapels and collar was a favourite of Johnny Carson, Joe Namath, the Beatles and Mike Love of the Beach Boys?
2. Tank tops, specially the solid white tank top, are unisex dress items loved and worn by both men and women. Why are they called tank tops?
3. What was originally gifted by Rameshkumar Bhikabhai Virani and later won in an auction by Laljibhai Tulsibai Patel?
4. Remember bellbottoms — those flared trousers that became a great fashion craze of the 1970s in India. Bellbottoms were initially designed for Naval personnel in the West and its design served a practical purpose. What purpose?
5. Which item of wear was supposed to be first popularized in the 1920s by news correspondent Noel Coward?
6. The Nehru Jacket is now also known as Modi Kurta. Name the Ahmedabad store that has been outfitting Narendra Modi with this jacket for more than two decades?
7. Bermuda shorts had its place in the sun in the popular sartorial pantheon. Why are they called Bermuda shorts? 8. Which world leaders was once declared as “the most chic man in the world” by American fashion designer Tom Ford
ANYTHING GOES
1. What would be the colour of a candle's flame in zero gravity?( Partha Sarkar, Kolkata)
2. The movie where Charlie Chaplin's voice was first heard is a powerful critique of the industrial age. Name the movie? ( Md. Asif Ahmed, Bengaluru)
3. What was demonstrated by materials scientists have shown for the first time in 2016 that this product of nature does not form in a crystallisation process but is a result of the aggregation of nanoparticles within an organic matrix? ( Daniel Murad, Kochi)
4. Francesco Baracca, an Italian ace pilot first displayed this logo — a rampant horse on a yellow shield, on his fighter. This was later given by the parents of the pilot to a sports car maker. Which car does this logo now adorn? ( Asim Choudhary, Delhi)
5. In test cricket, there have been 84 instances of batsmen scoring a century in each innings of a Test match . However this batsman, who scored a century in each innings of a Test had the mortification of seeing his team losing the Test by an innings and 16 runs. Identify this Test & the batsman who scored a century in each innings? ( B. K. Harinath, Mysuru)
6. Mufasa and Sarabi are the parents of which famous Walt Disney character? ( Cdr G. R. Balakrishnan ( Retd), Chennai)
7. Bengal Waterproof company owns which brand that is a household name in Eastern India? ( Ashutosh Dutt, Kolkata)