the dr. vikram sarabhai rotating shield quiz 2011 finals (round 1)

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College Of Engineering

Presents

Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Rotating Shield Quiz

Which company's logo consists of three tuning forks on a circular disc,

which according to the company stands for its employees, customers

and the community?

• Yamaha

• Gandalf (The look of the character was inspired from this painting).

The name (X) for this fictional ‘character’ is a spoof on the name by which a figure from a controversial event of the 1970s was known. Several years later, a supercomputer intended to take on Garry Kasparov in a two-game match in 1989 was named X. What is X?

• Deep Thought

The famous legal case of the terrified typist in 1956 attracted widespread notice. A famous lawyer, representing Duane Jefferson, made an eloquent plea but lost. He brought in a retrial citing the fact that his client was an impostor and was posing under another person's name- this did not help and he still lost the case. Why is this case unique?

• The only case lost by Perry Mason.

X was canned and given to Allied pilots flying sorties during WWII. The idea was that if shot down and stranded on a remote island, the pilots would eat X and then urinate into the sea. X contains mercaptons - powerful chemical agents - that would attract fish to the shore, whereupon the pilots could catch them for food. What is X?

• Asparagus

• The question was, what is unique about this moment. This is Al Capone, and in this panel and the subsequent ones, he became the only real-life personality to appear in a Tintin comic.

In 1998, a film X was the first film dubbed from

its language into Japanese and grossed $1.6 million. It became a cult hit and resulted in its star Y becoming, in the words of a Newsweek article, "Japan's trendiest heartthrob since Leonardo di Caprio". Some routines performed by Y became huge hits for Japanese to perform on reality TV shows. Identify X and Y.

• Rajnikanth, Muthu The Dancing Maharaja

Narrated as part tragedy part comedy, the novel is set as the memoirs of a fictional character, X. The latter is shown to be an unreliable narrator, portraying his actions as reasonable and provoking further contempt in the reader’s mind; although X does show remorse occasionally at the result of his actions on Y, the main protagonist of the story. The novel concludes on a tragic note : Y dies in childbirth, X of thrombosis. The US edition set a sales record, becoming the first book since Gone With The Wind to sell 100,000 copies in its first three weeks. Name X, Y and the book.

• Humbert Humbert, Lolita

What tradition was started by a prominent newsmagazine in 1927 in order to cover up the embarassment of not featuring Charles Lindbergh on their cover after his trans-Atlantic flight?

• TIME Man of the Year (now Person of the Year).

• Robert De Niro with the real Jake LaMotta, the character he played in Raging Bull. This is a still from the sets of the movie.

This gentleman died young in Florida in 1971 while still in his early 50s. He would become (supposedly) the 1st non-musician to get a full page obituary in Rolling Stone. Why?

[Hint : Check out the timeline]

• Max Yasgur, who owned the Woodstock farm.

According to an urban myth, it was during a Test match between the West Indies and England when X was about to bowl to Y, that the radio commentator Brian Johnston said: "The bowler's X, the batsman's Y".

While Wisden stated that there is no record of Johnston or anyone else actually saying this, Johnston's co-commentator, Henry Blofeld, recalled the incident as having taken place at The Oval in 1976.

Y refused to join the ICC Elite Umpire Panel as it meant a lot of travelling and officiates in county cricket.

• The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey!