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Answers to the Questions

2005-08-23T01:45:00.000-07:00

1. This is the (in)famous Warne hair regrowth ad, brought out by the Advanced Hair Studio, earlier this year. Took up quite a bit of the newsprint, for no apparent reason. The threesome he proposed with his wife deserved so much more coverage, but do they thus ever serve???

2. Thats the Moulin Rouge. (the red windmill is quite a noticeble feature).

3. The first picture is a representation of the German offense into Russia code named Operation Barbarossa, after the Great Fredreich (Red Beard) Barbarossa, who united the German tribes into one kingdom under him.

4. The first gentleman is a young John Nash. The second being Jeffrey Wigand, the person who blew the whistle on Brown & Williamson Tobacco (the clue in the picture being the line "thank you for telling the truth about tobacco"). The third picture is of the fight between Braddock and Max Baer.
The connect being: All real life people played by Russel Crowe (in A beautiful Mind, The Insider, and Cinderella Man).

5. That is the path followed during the Toure de France.

6. The first actress is Lassie, the second is Elizabeth Taylor and the movie is Lassie Come Home.

7. The stats are of Rajdeep Sardesai, from the time he used to open for Oxford, the second stats are those of his father, Dilip Sardesai.

8. Thats George Orwell. The fact that he stayed for an extended period in India, is clearly reflected in his choice of tea. Orwell is considered quite a connoisseur of tea.

9. The band is the Rolling Stones, if you look at the painting carefully you can make out that the central character in it is Mick Jagger. The painting itself was done by Ron Wood who (subsequently long after the album and the painting), replaced Mick Taylor.
The album which is depicted is the Beggars Banquet. Pop legend has it that, since the album was released while Taylor was still with the band, Taylor was also in the original painting. Subsequently when Wood joined the band, at the departure of Taylor, to reflect the change, he painted a mask over Taylor's face. The guy with the Ghoulish face is actually Taylor with the mask.

10. I'll admit it, the question was rather cryptic. Put it down to my Commando's and War comics fascination. The connect that i was looking for was The Battle for North Africa or more precisely the Battle for Al Alamein.
The connect works thus: The phrase origin of Full Monty is ostensibly from General Montgomery or Monty. Rommel was called the Desert Fox, and the two other images are the British and the German cemetaries.

11. That is a piture of Vercingetorix surrendering to Julius Ceasar. An alternate colour pic would be this.

12. The connect is the Olympic Games. The tune is the Olympic Anthem and the picture is that of the declaration of the start of the modern olympics. You can make out Pierre de Coubertin sitting in the left.

13. Alphonse Capone. Charged on 21 counts, convicted finally for tax evasion.

14. Juanita Cruz became the first female matador in 1940 taking her alternativa in Mexico. Her achievement is often belittled on the count that in Mexico, the standards are a little less exacting than in Spain. Cristina Sanchez is the first woman to have taken her alternativa in Europe and made her debut as a matador in Spain.

15. This is the emblem of the Psychological Operations or PsyOps for short. They were in the news quite frequently during the Iraq invasion.

16. Thats a Edelweiss. Popularized in the song by the same name from the movie Sound of Music, people to date mistakenly believe the song to be the National Anthem of Austria.

17. The Playboy Mansion

18. The picture is of Stanley Laurel, from his days with the Karno Company. Laurel was Chaplin's understudy in the Vaudeville act, and apparently developed the character of the tramp. Chaplin copied the idea from Laurel without giving him any credit for it. Subsequently Laurel loses his job with Karno, Chaplin gets spotted by Hollywood and the story goes on. The fact that no where in his autobiography has Chaplin mentioned Laurel even from his days with Karno, despite naming several other lesser known understudies is often cited as proving the guilty conscience at work. However the point remains a controversial moot point.

19. The painting is by Rembrandt and is called Anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulip. 1632

20. The word I had cut out was 'Maquis', which is also the connect. The french resistance movement during the WW was called the Maquis, originally the word comes from the plural of Italian macchia or thicket, and was usually used to mean a high ground, covered with scrub growth, mainly in the island of Corsica. The extremely dense nature of maquis made it ideal cover for bandits and guerrillas, who would use it to shelter from the authorities. During the WW, this kind of terrain was ideal for armed resistance groups to hide in with the members of those bands called maquisards. Eventually the term became a sort-of-a honorary term that meant armed resistance fighter.

21. The real comic story has the Wayne family watching the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks' movie the Mark of Zorro. The similarities between the two characters and it is quite obvious the manner of inspiration that Zorro was to the creation of Batman.

22. The connect I was looking for was America. The people in the pictures are Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. Te map is a old Nordic Map discovered in the mid 90s, showing Greenland and America. According to Nordic sagas, Vínland was discovered when ships went off course during one of the long journeys from Iceland or Norway to Greenland. The Saga of the Greenlanders attributes the first sighting of America to Bjarni Herjólfsson who had emigrated with Eiríkr the Red to Greenland, although Bjarni didn't actually set foot on Vínland; the Saga of Eiríkr the Red, on the other hand, says that the discovery was made by Leifr the Lucky, Eiríkr's son. In the mid 90s Norway made a claim to the truth of this fact, that Normans discovered America and not Columbus on the basis of this map

24. That is the Statue of "Mannequin Piss", at Brussels, Belgium.

25. That particular balcony is known as the Juliet Balcony, at Verona.

26. Ramar Pillai of the Herbal Petrol fame.

27. Big Daddy. One of the few Sandler movies I can stand.

28. The raaga is the Raaga Malhar, which causes rain. If you look at the picture, you can see the rain fall from the clouds.

29. G.I. Jane

30. Spartakus

31. Naim Suleymanoglu, popularly known as Pocket Hercules, who used to religiously play games of chess before his lifts to help him concentrate during the actual lift.

32. La Traviata was the inspiration for the movie Pretty Woman. The sad desolate end of La Traviata was changed for the hollywood movie as it wouldn't have any box office appeal other wise. Roy Orbison sang the song Pretty Woman.

The overall theme running through all the questions are the 32 books of Asterix.

THEMEatics

2005-08-03T06:26:00.000-07:00

ob·scur·ant·ism (n).

1. The principles or practice of obscurants.
2. A policy of withholding information from the public.
3. A style in art and literature characterized by deliberate vagueness or obliqueness.

The noun obscurantism has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
Meaning #2: a deliberate act intended to make something obscure

ob·scur·ant·e : just an obscurant online

Ya ya whatever :

32 questions, 1 Common theme running through them all. Not all are direct connects, but for heaven's sake, with 32 clues, you need direct connects as well!!!

These questions were amongst the ones asked last year at the quizzes last year. More questions in a few more days as well as the answers. The audio/video files are *.mp4 since i know how annoying it is is to be behind a firewall which blocks all other formats. (if the link doesn't work, right click and 'copy shortcut', then open Windows media player, click on file, and go to the 'open url' function, paste the link with a Ctrl-v and the file should then work)

Anyway cheerio, have fun answering.

'Nite

The Literary and Debating Society, NLSIU

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THEMEatics

1. This Ad was in the news for all the wrong reasons. Ad for which company and why was it in the news?

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2. Identify the building?

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3. Connect the two.

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4. Connect all 3 pictures.

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5. What is this a map of?

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6. Identify both actresses and movie.

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7. Cricketting stats for whom? The second stats below are a clue to the first.

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8. Identify the author (in the pic) writing on one of the topics he is consdered authority upon. (Click on the icon to get to the file)

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9. Painting depicting a album by a certain band, with the band members being the characters in the painting. The painter had also painted himself in the painting, and in a strange quirk of fate, later joined the band as a guitarist, upon the departure of the original member of the band who had also incidentally performed in the album that was painted. Give me either the band or the album.

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10. Connect the following 4 pictures.

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11. What is happening here?

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12. Again what is happening here, and connect the same to the audio clip. (Click on the link to hear the file)

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13. Particularly proud of this question, I am. Verdict convicting whom?

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14. Who is?

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15. The emblem of a US Defense forces Operation unit. Was in the news with regards the Iraqi war. Which Unit?

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16. Simple question, identify flower.

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17. My kingdom to spend a night, a single night out here. Most guys would have seen this place featured in several videos. Where is?

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18. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but then ... which came first, the blog or the blogger? A rather controversial question at that, Who is?

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19. You haven't made it big in the world of art until you have gotten your first commission. The commissioned painting with which the painter started off on the route to artistic immortality, give me the name of the painting and painter?

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20. I am looking for a single word connect between the two sets of pictures. (Just in case you were wondering, the plants are the same and so are the two other pictures)

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21. The character Batman was inspired by another superhero (in the loosest sense of the eulogy) character, and as tribute and possibly acknowledgment of that character's influence, the character was incorporated into the original Batman book. One would expect that a movie about the beginnings of Batman, (Batman Begins i.e.) would at least be true to that integral part... but NO, what do they do? They send him to watch an opera. What should really have been in place of this opera scene? (click on the link to see the video)

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22. Connect the following:

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24. There are two rather interesting stories as to why our young gentleman happens to have been immortalized thus. The first story potrays him as a hero who unwittingly saved his city by defusing a lighted fuse. Naturally his heroic achievement was etched for prosterity. The second story features him as a little lost boy, whose disraught father vowed to make a statue of him in whatever state he found him in. The rest as they say is history. Give me both the name of the statue and the city where you would find this fountain.

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25. Where exactly is this place?

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26. Identify this gentleman, of very dubious achievement.

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27. Identify Movie

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28. Identify the Raaga. (i generally don't know my raaga's from doremi-s, hence sympathising with fellow ignoramuses, the visual clue as well) (click on the link to get to the file)

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29. Identify Movie from the audio clip.

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30. Identify Movie

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31. Identify this Olympic Gold Medalist, probably more famous for his feats elsewhere.

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32. Connect the following

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Answers -

1. This is the (in)famous Warne hair regrowth ad, brought out by the Advanced Hair Studio, earlier this year. Took up quite a bit of the newsprint, for no apparent reason. The threesome he proposed with his wife deserved so much more coverage, but do they thus ever serve???

2. Thats the Moulin Rouge. (the red windmill is quite a noticeble feature).

3. The first picture is a representation of the German offense into Russia code named Operation Barbarossa, after the Great Fredreich (Red Beard) Barbarossa, who united the German tribes into one kingdom under him.

4. The first gentleman is a young John Nash. The second being Jeffrey Wigand, the person who blew the whistle on Brown & Williamson Tobacco (the clue in the picture being the line "thank you for telling the truth about tobacco"). The third picture is of the fight between Braddock and Max Baer.
The connect being: All real life people played by Russel Crowe (in A beautiful Mind, The Insider, and Cinderella Man).

5. That is the path followed during the Toure de France.

6. The first actress is Lassie, the second is Elizabeth Taylor and the movie is Lassie Come Home.

7. The stats are of Rajdeep Sardesai, from the time he used to open for Oxford, the second stats are those of his father, Dilip Sardesai.

8. Thats George Orwell. The fact that he stayed for an extended period in India, is clearly reflected in his choice of tea. Orwell is considered quite a connoisseur of tea.

9. The band is the Rolling Stones, if you look at the painting carefully you can make out that the central character in it is Mick Jagger. The painting itself was done by Ron Wood who (subsequently long after the album and the painting), replaced Mick Taylor.
The album which is depicted is the Beggars Banquet. Pop legend has it that, since the album was released while Taylor was still with the band, Taylor was also in the original painting. Subsequently when Wood joined the band, at the departure of Taylor, to reflect the change, he painted a mask over Taylor's face. The guy with the Ghoulish face is actually Taylor with the mask.

10. I'll admit it, the question was rather cryptic. Put it down to my Commando's and War comics fascination. The connect that i was looking for was The Battle for North Africa or more precisely the Battle for Al Alamein.
The connect works thus: The phrase origin of Full Monty is ostensibly from General Montgomery or Monty. Rommel was called the Desert Fox, and the two other images are the British and the German cemetaries.

11. That is a piture of Vercingetorix surrendering to Julius Ceasar. An alternate colour pic would be this.

12. The connect is the Olympic Games. The tune is the Olympic Anthem and the picture is that of the declaration of the start of the modern olympics. You can make out Pierre de Coubertin sitting in the left.

13. Alphonse Capone. Charged on 21 counts, convicted finally for tax evasion.

14. Juanita Cruz became the first female matador in 1940 taking her alternativa in Mexico. Her achievement is often belittled on the count that in Mexico, the standards are a little less exacting than in Spain. Cristina Sanchez is the first woman to have taken her alternativa in Europe and made her debut as a matador in Spain.

15. This is the emblem of the Psychological Operations or PsyOps for short. They were in the news quite frequently during the Iraq invasion.

16. Thats a Edelweiss. Popularized in the song by the same name from the movie Sound of Music, people to date mistakenly believe the song to be the National Anthem of Austria.

17. The Playboy Mansion

18. The picture is of Stanley Laurel, from his days with the Karno Company. Laurel was Chaplin's understudy in the Vaudeville act, and apparently developed the character of the tramp. Chaplin copied the idea from Laurel without giving him any credit for it. Subsequently Laurel loses his job with Karno, Chaplin gets spotted by Hollywood and the story goes on. The fact that no where in his autobiography has Chaplin mentioned Laurel even from his days with Karno, despite naming several other lesser known understudies is often cited as proving the guilty conscience at work. However the point remains a controversial moot point.

19. The painting is by Rembrandt and is called Anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulip. 1632

20. The word I had cut out was 'Maquis', which is also the connect. The french resistance movement during the WW was called the Maquis, originally the word comes from the plural of Italian macchia or thicket, and was usually used to mean a high ground, covered with scrub growth, mainly in the island of Corsica. The extremely dense nature of maquis made it ideal cover for bandits and guerrillas, who would use it to shelter from the authorities. During the WW, this kind of terrain was ideal for armed resistance groups to hide in with the members of those bands called maquisards. Eventually the term became a sort-of-a honorary term that meant armed resistance fighter.

21. The real comic story has the Wayne family watching the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks' movie the Mark of Zorro. The similarities between the two characters and it is quite obvious the manner of inspiration that Zorro was to the creation of Batman.

22. The connect I was looking for was America. The people in the pictures are Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. Te map is a old Nordic Map discovered in the mid 90s, showing Greenland and America. According to Nordic sagas, Vínland was discovered when ships went off course during one of the long journeys from Iceland or Norway to Greenland. The Saga of the Greenlanders attributes the first sighting of America to Bjarni Herjólfsson who had emigrated with Eiríkr the Red to Greenland, although Bjarni didn't actually set foot on Vínland; the Saga of Eiríkr the Red, on the other hand, says that the discovery was made by Leifr the Lucky, Eiríkr's son. In the mid 90s Norway made a claim to the truth of this fact, that Normans discovered America and not Columbus on the basis of this map.

23. London School of Economics

24. That is the Statue of "Mannequin Piss", at Brussels, Belgium.

25. That particular balcony is known as the Juliet Balcony, at Verona.

26. Ramar Pillai of the Herbal Petrol fame.

27. Big Daddy. One of the few Sandler movies I can stand.

28. The raaga is the Raaga Malhar, which causes rain. If you look at the picture, you can see the rain fall from the clouds.

29. G.I. Jane

30. Spartakus

31. Naim Suleymanoglu, popularly known as Pocket Hercules, who used to religiously play games of chess before his lifts to help him concentrate during the actual lift.

32. La Traviata was the inspiration for the movie Pretty Woman. The sad desolate end of La Traviata was changed for the hollywood movie as it wouldn't have any box office appeal other wise. Roy Orbison sang the song Pretty Woman.

The overall theme running through all the questions are the 32 books of Asterix.