THE 365 QUIZ

ANSWERS

• Answers given in the following slides• The links to the theme are highlighted in

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• The Great Irish Famine Memorial in Dublin

• The Irish famine of 1840s was a result of the BLIGHT Disease of Potato caused by Phytophthora infestans

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• Tears for Fears started off with the name Graduate because they used to open their shows with a cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs Robinson”

• Dinny the Dinosaur , a very famous Brontosaurus sculpture in California is visible in the video of “Everybody wants to rule the world”

3

• Bessemer’s Process for manufacturing Steel

• Slag is the by-product of Bessemerisation

4

• Schezwan Fried Rice

• The dish takes its name from the Sczhechuan province of China . Another name for the province is Huyang . Huayangosaurus is a dinosaur named after this province .

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• Marine One H-13 Sioux was the first and VH-71 Kestrel was supposed to be the latest , but the project was cancelled

• The nickname for a Marine Corps Chopper pilot is Swoop

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• Alain ‘Spiderman’ Robert climbing the Luxor Obelisk in Place de la Concorde in Paris

• Concorde

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• Viper , Raptor , Laura and Stealthstar ( the missing one) are Fighter Spaceships in Battlestar Galactica

• F-16 Falcon is nicknamed Viper after the spaceship

8

• Robin Hood inspired Lee Falk to create skintights for Phantom

• Nickname for F-4 is Phantom ( I & II )

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• Interlagos , Brazil

• Schumi is overtaking Kimi Raikkonen by means of a Slingshot

10

• This is the USS Arizona Memorial . Beneath the memorial , of course , is USS Arizona

• The battleship was lost in the Air Raid on Pearl Harbour

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• The Claymore landmine is named after the Claymore Sword

• Land Mine

12

• Huey Long’s statue at the Louisiana State Capitol .

• The UH-1 Iroquois chopper is nicknamed Huey

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• Sound of Music , A Man for all seasons , Amadeus , Titanic and My Fair lady ( the missing one ) are the only productions to win the Best Play Tony as well as Best Picture Oscar

• The Nissan 300 2X sports car is nicknamed ‘Fair Lady’ in Japan

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• An Air-Bag to reduce damage in the event of an accident

• The model shown here is a Honda Gold Wing and was the first model incorporated with an Air-Bag

15

• Dr Michael E Debakey of M*A*S*H fame

• MASH is technically an Ambulance

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• Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two will be launched using the vehicle Whiteknight Two . 2 Whiteknights are under production and are named after Richard Branson’s mom EVE and close friend STEVE FOSSETT

• Spaceship

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• Pavel Cerenkov , the man who discovered Cerenkov Radiation

• Apsara , the nuclear reactor at BARC , named by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru when he likened the blue Cerenkov radiation to the beauty of the Apsaras

• The radiation is emitted when when a charged particle(such as an electron) passes through an insulator at a constant speed greater than the speed of light in that medium.

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• Caliban ( from The Tempest ) , Utopia and Inferno ( the Velasquez painting depicting Dante’s Inferno ) are titles of Roger MacBride Allen’s Isaac Asimov Series

• Inferno

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• The original Checkpoint Charlie at the Allied Forces Museum in Berlin

• Checkpoint

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• The Connect – Tron , the 1982 scifi flick• The motorcycle is a Tron Lightcycle and

the chap is Jay Maynard nicknamed the Tron Guy because of his costume which was inspired by the movie

• Tron Lightcycle

21

• Perforation of the ear drum

• One of the parts of the ear drum is the Shrapnel’s membrane

22

• The highest honour in the Airbrush ( A ) industry is the Vargas Award named after Alberto Vargas , as he was one of the masters of the art . B is Zita Johann , the most famous Vargas Girl , who shot to fame because of Vargas’ work for the poster of The Sin of Nora Moran

• Vargas Girl posters were used as pin-ups during WW II and were called BOMBSHELLS

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• Frank Rautenbach played Hansie Cronje in the film Hansie

• Hansie Cronje , as we all know , was into fixing matches , received bribes etc . Kickback is a slang for the same

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• The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad in Quentin Tarantino’s ( B ) Kill Bill was inspired by the movie Five Deadly Venoms featuring the Venom Mob ( A )

• Venom

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• The Spiral Lake Jetty in Utah

• Spiral

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• ‘Battle of Midway’ and ‘December 7th’ are the lesser known Oscar winning performances of John Ford

• One of John Ford’s earliest movies was ‘The Scrapper’

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• Velcro was inspired by the hook-and-loop system on the seeds of the Burdock plant

• Velcro is a brand of Hook-and-Loop fasteners

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• In 1945 , Shimon Peres ( A ) who was then known as Shimon Persky , found a nest of Bearded Vultures ( B ) in the Negev Desert . The bird is known as ‘Peres’ in hebrew and the named was adopted by Persky as his new surname .

• Bearded Vulture is nicknamed ‘Bonecrusher’

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• Aghori Sadhus

• They are cannibals and hence , technically , are Scavengers

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• The image is an infrared image of the Valley of Geysers in Russia . It has the 2nd largest concentration of geysers in the world . At No. 1 position is the Upper Geyser basin in the Yellowstone National park

• The image shows a Landslide occuring

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• The surrender of the militant outfit DHD (J) better known as ‘Black Widow’ in Assam couple of days back

• Black Widow

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• The man in the pic is Jody Scheckter who won the 1979 F1 championship with Ferrari . Scheckter was the last driver to win a driver's championship for Ferrari until Michael Schumacher did so 21 years later .

• The car Scheckter is seen driving here is a Tyrrell P34 , the most famous 6 – wheeled F1 car

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• This is Bag End , the residence of Bilbo Baggins from ‘The Hobbit’ and LOTR

• J. R. R. Tolkien used the name Bag End as a literal translation of "cul-de-sac," the french term for Dead End , to poke fun at the British use of French terms

34

• Nuccio Bertone , legendary automobile designer and constructor

• One of the most famous cars named by Bertone was the Lamborghini Countach

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• Bob Burns , who invented and popularised the Bazooka and the comic strip is Bazooka Joe

• The connect - Bazooka

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• This is the poster for the movie Attila . His followers are/were the Huns . If they try to imitate big cats , they would become Hun-Grrr !!

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• Slaying the Hydra was the 2nd of the 12 Labours of Hercules . 1st was to slay the Nemean Lion ( A – Lion ) and 3rd was to capture the Ceryneian Hind ( B – Deer ) .

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• Russell Marker , who gave the concept of Octane Number for fuels

• Octane

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• X=Kubrick , Y=Peter George , Z=RED ALERT Dr. Strangelove

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• Alex Osborn , the man behind the concept of Brainstorming

• Brainstorm

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• ARIEL - Uranus moon, a name of Jerusalem, and name of the Little Mermaid . And of course , Ariel is a P&G brand ( gents in the last pic being Messrs Procter & Gamble )

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• Promotional poster for the Federer Vs Nadal match at the 2008 US Open , which was given the nickname ‘Grapple in the Apple’

• Grapple

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• Biodiversity Hot Spots - Cerrado, Chile , Mexico ,Madagascar, Horn of Africa

• Hot Spot

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• Reverend John Flynn founded the world first air ambulance , the Royal Flying Doctor service , and was known as the Flynn of the OUTBACK

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• Cut-throat Trout and Cut-throat Finch

• Cut-Throat

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• Madame de Pompadour is alleged to have comforted Louis XV after the Battle of Rossbach by saying this now famous by-word: "au reste, après nous, le Déluge" ("After us, the Deluge") , a premonition of impending political and social collapse

• Deluge

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• A- Poster for Don , B – Robert Stephenson’s Rocket

• Donald “Don” Budge, Rod “Rocket” Laver won career Tennis Grand Slams in 1938 and 1962 . Rod Laver did it again in 1969 .

• Rocket

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• Henry Shrapnel , inventor of the Shrapnel Shell

• Shrapnel , yet again ;-)

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• Jim Cummings , Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin ( missing member ) gave the voices for the 3 hyenas Ed , Shenzi and Banzai in The Lion King

• Banzai

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• The Parachute Memorial in Sainte Mere Eglise in France to commemorate the D-day landings . The story behind this memorial is a famous incident involving paratrooper John Steele of the 505th PIR, whose parachute caught on the spire of the town church, and could only observe the fighting going on below.

• Overlord

THEME

TRANSFORMERS

Individual Links( Names of Transformers in Yellow )• Blight• Sludge – Transforms into a Brontosaurus• Slag• Snarl – Transforms into a Stegosaurus , of which

Huayangosaurus is a variant• Swoop• Silverbolt – Transforms into a Concorde• Skydive – Transforms into a F-16 Falcon• Fireflight – Transforms into a F-4 Phantom II• Slingshot• Air Raid

Individual Links• Land Mine• Blades – Transforms into a UH-1 Iroquois• Streetwise – Transforms into a Nissan 300 2X• Groove – Transforms into a Gold Wing• First Aid – Transforms into a Toyota Hiace

ambulance• Scattershot – Transforms into a Spaceship• Light Speed• Inferno• Checkpoint• Afterburner – Transforms into a motorcycle whose

design is inspired by the Tron Lightcycle

Individual Links• Shrapnel• Bombshell• Kickback• Venom• Spiral• Scrapper• Hook• Bonecrusher• Scavengers• Landslide

Individual Links• Blackarachnia – named after Black Widow• Drag Master – Turns into a Tyrrell P 34• Dead End• Breakdown – Transforms into a Lambo

Countach• Bazooka• Hun-grrr• Hydra• Octane• Red Alert• Brainstorm

Individual Links• Ariel • Grapple• Hot Spot• Outback• Cut-throat• Deluge• Rocket• Shrapnel• Banzai• Overlord

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