Pot Pourri

POT POURRI

Quiz by : Siddharth Majumdar(Additional inputs from Shivam Kapoor)

INSTRUCTIONS The quiz will consist of 32 questions. +20/-10 for a pounce. A complete answer is required for a correct pounce. Part answers will be deemed incorrect. +10/0 for a bounce. Part marks as per the discretion of the quizmaster. The decision of the quizmaster shall be final.

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Q. How do we better know Krishna Pandit Bhanji?

Ben Kingsley.

Chamarajnagar : HD Dewegowda, SM Krishna Guntakal : Kiran Reddy, YSR Reddy NOIDA : Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav Thanjavur Brihadeeswara Temple : Jayalalithaa, K KarunanidhiPut Funda?

Politicians do not visit these places, for there is a prevalent superstition that people lose their seats/posts if they go there.

Q. After leaving school at Eton, X briefly considered joining the Indian Army. Eventually he joined the Territorial Army and served as a reservist with the 21st SAS regiment till 1997. In 1998, at the age of 23, he climbed Mount Everest.Identify X.

Bear Grylls

Q. Why has this club been in news recently?

This is the first La Liga club to sign an Indian footballer (Ishan Pandita) to a professional contract.

Q. Connect.

Nitin NohriaAlumni of IIT Bombay and MIT Sloan Management SchoolMember of the Board of Directors in TATA and PiramalDean of Harvard Business School

Q. What special service is given by this Russian company?

Insurance against damage caused by Pokemon Go

Q. Which movie did Rishi Kapoor talk about in this tweet?

Chandni

Q. While serving 22 months in a California federal prison, Xs cellmate was Tommy Chong, one half of Cheech and Chong, who was serving 9 months in jail for selling bongs. It was Chong who encouraged X to write a book after laughing at his stories.X said he read Tom Wolfes The Bonfire of the Vanities and modeled his writing after Hunter S. Thompson as well. His books ended up netting him an advance from Random House of more than $1 million, and he also received more than another $1 million from the film rights.Who is X?

Jordan Belfort

Q. Connect

Types of BondsPanda RMB denominated bond Bulldog British Pound bond Maple Canadian Dollar bondKiwi New Zealand Dollar Bond (for NZ)Yankee US Dollar Bond

Q. Southern California resident Cecilia Abadie was given a ticket for speeding and using X, under a law originally drafted to keep people from watching TV while driving. Id X.

Google Goggles

Q. 1949 Ireland 2003 Zimbabwe 2013 The Gambia 2016 XId X and Put Funda.

MaldivesVoluntary Exit from the Commonwealth

Q. Its designer French mechanical engineer Louis Reard named it after the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean where the United States conducted its first peace-time nuclear weapons test. His hope was that it would create an explosive commercial and cultural reaction, similar in intensity to societys response to the nuclear test. It did, and the name stuck with the media and public. What am I talking about?

Bikini(Photograph was necessary!!!!!)

Q. Michael, a former FBI agent lived in San Francisco with his Indian wife, Sita and his daughter. He was an alcoholic and physically abusive towards his wife and daughter. When he was killed during a violent episode against Sita, the police declined to press charges, unaware that his daughter was responsible for his death. After his death, his daughter was sent to live with Sitas family in Mumbai, and after few years, she again returned to the United States.Identify the well-known daughter.

Alex Parrish from Quantico

Q. Who is the only player from Zimbabwe to have played a match in the IPL?

Tatenda Taibu

+ +Q. Add-Words..

Harvey (from Ian Harvey) + Spectre (from the movie poster = Harvey SpectreMike (from Mike Hussey) + Ross (from Ross Taylor = Mike RossBoth are principal characters in Suits.

Q. There was sixteen castings released in 1968, eleven of them designed by Harry Bentley Bradley, with the first one produced being a dark blue Custom Camaro. Although Bradley was from the car industry, he had not designed the fully functional versions of the real cars, except the Dodge Deora concept car, which had been built by Mike and Larry Alexander. Another of his notable designs was the Custom Fleetside, which was based on his own heavily customised 64 El Camino.What is being talked about here?

Q. X was founded on December 8, 2009 as a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. Its stakeholders now consist of both UMG and SME as well as Abu Dhabi Media and Google after it took a 7% share in 2013, with the Warner Music Group joining X in August this year.Id X. Hint: Dont link it with IPL

Q. This is graphic designer and artist, Akshar Pathak. What is his claim to fame?

Minimalist Bollywood Posters

Q. Which epic work was compiled during 1469 to 1708, containing works of Surdas, Ramanand, Sheikh Farid, Kabir, Beni, Ravidas, Namdev, Sadhana, Bhikhana, Parmananda, Sain, Dhanna, Pipa, Jayadev and Trilochan?

Guru Granth Sahib

Q. Which bank introduced the first ATM in India?

Q. With the opening of Bhartiya Mahila Bank in 2013, India became the third country in the world to have a bank especially for women. Which was the first country to have such a bank?

Q. What replaces the question mark??

The logo of the United NationsThe person in context is Antonio Guterres, the new Secretary general of the United Nations.

Q. After scoring goals for Chelsea against Leicester City this week, Diego Costa (in pic), Eden Hazard and Victor Moses, made the gesture shown below. Why?

They dedicated their goals to their teammate Willian, who was not part of the team after this mother died this week.

Q. This Bollywood song has been allegedly copied from a famous 1978 single. Who was the subject of the original song?

Grigori RasputinThe song was Rasputin by Boney M

Q. What did Outlook magazine humorously describe as The Biggest Sex Change Operation in Independent India in 1995-96?

The renaming of Victoria Terminus to Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai

Q. Identify the movie and put funda.

The movie was This is Spinal Tap.As a tribute to the famous phrase derived from the movie - Up To Eleven.

Q. Featured in a 1970 Parker commercial, What is X in the given formula?

Martini3.5 shots of Gin + .5 shot of Vermouth with 4 ice Cubes (water cube) with 3 stirs (360 degrees)

Q. Which phrase is blanked out in the given Google search result?

Q. Guenter Parche is a former toolmaker who now lives in a retirement home in Nordhausen, Germany. What is his claim to fame in the world of Tennis?

Stabbing Monica Seles

Q. Xs record was surpassed by Swearnet: the Movie (2014). Before X, the record was held by Summer of Sam (1999). Id X and the record.

The Wolf of Wall StreetMaximum uses of the F-Word

Q. This particular plan developed in Japan has already created a lot of controversy, but most people have welcomed it as the people concerned made this idea with an eye towards a Sustainable Future.With the particular item with which these plans are being made is equivalent to 16% of Worlds Gold and 22% of Worlds Silver, what particular scheme of thing or idea has been discussed here?

The idea of creating medals for 2020 Tokyo Olympics with recycled metals that comes from Smartphones

Q. Connect

Lord Shiva Amish TripathiMixed Doubles Rajat Kapoors filmGangs of Wasseypur Varun Grovers LyricsAshok Masale Ashok KhemkaSand Nitish BharatiIndian Ocean Rahul RamAll speakers in gnoTalks.

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