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QFI 2014-01-12 Sampler

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QFI / Jan 2014

Sutanu

In Kerala, local toddy is sold under many “brand” names. One of the most popular such brand is Yeshu. Why is it named as Yeshu?

ANSWER

Yeshu is Jesus. And anyone who drinks it, like Jesus, gets up only after the 3rd day.

Richard III was the last Brit king to be killed and die on British soil. Long vilified & at time caricatured by hacks like Shakespeare; his remains were lost for centuries…until recently found in 2013. One of the takes on Richard III is a popular & award winning documentary called “Looking for Richard” directed by which 1st time director?

ANSWER

Al Pacino

The story of Shrin & Farhad – the old Persian love story – has been told & filmed many times. But how was Abbas Kiarostami’s 2008 version of Shirin very different from the rest & most probably from all movies that you have seen so far?

ANSWER

The film is a parade of close-ups of 113 Iranian actresses who are watching a film ( presumably Shirin) which we never see. The film depicts the audience's emotional involvement with the story.

In “The last waltz”, the 1st guest was Ronnie Hawkins & the last guest was Bob Dylan for what specific reason?

ANSWER

Hawkins was chosen as he was the 1st leader of band ( when The band was known as Hawks). And Dylan was last because he did not want his songs to be filmed due to the release of his own film Renaldo & Clara. A compromise was reached that only 2 songs will be filmed in the end & the documentary will be released after Renaldo & Clara.

In Agatha C’s Evil Under the Sun, Poirot did not have enough proof to catch the villain Patrick Redfurn. And he lays a trap. At the end of the novel, when Patrick is checking out of the hotel he pays by cheque, signing the "R" in "Redfern" exactly as he did when he wrote the name "Felix Ruber", husband of the prologue's Yorkshire moor victim, on an insurance form. Patrick had earlier heard an Western

Classical piece by X, and translated the composer name

from Italian to "Joe Green", triggering Poirot to remember that "Felix Ruber" is Latin for "Red Fern". Id X?

ANSWER

Giuseppe Verdi

The central bus station in Slough, UK was rebuilt and unveiled in 2011. The design of the bus station was inspired by one of the works of a famous son of Slough. A composer, who had 24 symphonies to his credit, but he is remembered for something else today. Who?

ANSWER

William Herschel who discovered Uranus. The form of the building derives from the idea of different wavelengths of light inspired by Astronomer Royal, William Herschel’s discovery of infra-red waves in 1800 while a resident of Slough.

In 1842, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough issued a 'Proclamation of the Gates' in which he ordered the British army in Afghanistan to bring back to India the sandalwood gates from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni in Ghazni, Afghanistan. These were believed to have been taken by Mahmud from Somnath. Consequently there was a lot of public debate on this. According to historian Romila Thapar, this debate shaped an author to write his perhaps most famous book . Author & book?

ANSWER

Wilkie Collins’s Moonstone, which had the jewel stolen from Somnath temple.

X was a political guy, who wrote extensively, including many letters; none of which survive. Y was a poet and an author with a penchant for history wrote about X. These books inspired the book in the pic. Id X &Y

ANSWER

X = Claudius Y = Robert Graves author of “I Claudius”