Qonnoisseur 2015

QonnoisseurQuizmaster: Vibhav Tungar

ELIMS

AcknowledgementsCollege of Engineering, Pune and MindSpark15 for giving me an opportunity to conduct this quiz.Chinmay Tadwalkar and Aman Shaikh for helping setting the quiz.The volunteers and coordinators for their support.Most importantly, Kartik Balasubramaniam for moderating the quiz.

Rules The elims consist of 30 non-MCQ type questions.No negatives.The top six teams qualify for the finals.5 Star marked questions to decide a tie-break.If two or more teams are tied after star marked questions are considered, sudden death will be used.Any team using electronic devices during the quiz will be disqualified.Decision of the quizmaster will be final and binding.

BEST OF LUCK!

Q1: The band X is considered as the fathers of heavy metal. The band's front-man Y was known for his controversial behavior. He once bit the head of a dove at a meeting with CBS Records in 1981. In 1982, he bit the head of bat while performing at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. He was kicked out of the band after his frequent spats with the lead guitarist and was replaced by Ronnie James Dio. ID X and Y.

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X- Black SabbathY John Michael Ozzy Osbourne

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Q2:ID X and Y from this exhaustive list (arranged in chronological order) RoseanneFrannie's TurnGrace Under FireCybillDharma & GregXYMike & MollyMomMention X and Y in the answer. Part points.

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X- Two and a Half Men Y The Big Bang Theory

TV shows created by Chuck Lorre

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Q3:Stanley Martin Lieber, is an American writer, editor, actor, publisher. He is more popularly known as?

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Stan Lee

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Q4:X's Tomb is complex of structures located in Thanesar, Haryana, India, near Kurukshetra. It includes two tombs, a madarsa, mughal gardens and various subsequent features. X shares his name with famous character in children's books, known for his slow wit and stupidity. Id X.

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Sheikh Chilli

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Q5:X is a Hindu hymn addressed to Y. It is traditionally believed to be composed by 16th century poet Tulsidas in the Awadhi language, and remains one of his best known works. The qualities of Y - strength, celibacy. courage, wisdom and devotion along with the many names with which Y is known, are all listed in X. Id X and Y. No part points.

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X- Hanuman ChalisaY - Hanuman

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Q6: Frederick Clinton Quimby was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of X, for which he won seven Academy Awards. He was the film sales executive in charge of a cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of X. Id X.

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Tom and Jerry

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*Q7:The actor's first memory of this iconic gesture is years before the script of the movie that contained the gesture was presented to him. He remembers seeing it first in a synagogue service in Boston, as part of a blessing. The gesture resembles the Hebrew letter Shin, which is the first letter of the word Shekhinah, which he defined as the feminine aspect of God who supposedly was created to live among humans. The light from this Deity could be very damaging. So we are told to protect ourselves by closing our eyes, he said of the goddess. "They get their tallits over their heads, and they start this chanting, the actor said in a 2013 interview, And my father said to me, dont look. At first he obliged, but what he could hear intrigued him. I thought, something major is happening here. So I peeked. . And I saw them with their hands stuck out from beneath the tallit like this (the gesture being talked about) to protect themselves from any injury or fatality. The best part about it, the actor said, was that even though people still loved the gesture, they had no idea that while doing it, they were blessing each other. Who is talking about what?

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Leonard Nimoy on Live Long and Prosper (The Vulcan Salute)

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Q8:FITB from this tweet.

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Elvis Presley

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Q9: Put funda.

Note: This is a tweet from a spoof account.

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Green Days Wake Me Up When September Ends

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Q10:This is a snippet of the theme song to an American TV sitcom, that originally aired from Sep. 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The rapper plays a fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom. Id the rapper and the sitcom.

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Will SmithThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Rap.

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*Q11: X is an composer and music producer of Indian origin and is best known for winning the Best New Age Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, for Winds of Samsara, for which X collaborated with Wouter Kellerman, a South African flutist. Id X.

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Ricky Kej

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Q12:Connect:

The Battle of Hastings,

Rebirth of dragons in GoT,

"I'd go out with it", said Mark Twain (and he did),

An image drawn by Tyco Brahe

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Comets.

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Q13:ID the band.

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One Direction

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Q14:This tradition owes its origin to Norma Talmadge, who while inaugurating Grauman's Chinese Theatre, stepped into some wet cement. What tradition is this?

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The imprinting of hands and feet in the Walk of Fame

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Q15:

Connect to a song: A person of mixed black and white parentageMelanin (or the lack of it)Aedes and AnophelesHorniness.

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

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Q16: In which movie's soundtrack, would you find this song?

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The Departed

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*Q17:X is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The name originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and a plaque on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it.The origins of the name X are unclear. One account claims that it was a derogatory reference to the sound of many pianos resembling the banging of tin pans. Another version claims the name stemmed from the way that songwriters modified their pianos so that they had a more percussive sound.After many years, the term came to refer to the U.S. music industry in general.Id X.

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Tin Pan Alley

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*Q18:This word originally existed in the Cornish dialect meaning clumsy. During the reformation, with the Church declaring all prayers be made in English, Cornish speakers revolted, leading a dwindling of the population of Cornish speakers. It was officially declared dead in 1777. In the 1800s a revival of the Cornish dialect was attempted by documenting Cornish vocabulary and grammar in books. This is the reason for the slight blip on the graph around the 1800s. The word resurfaced in the 1990s, unrelated in meaning and origin and went on to become one of the most widely recognized things in the world. What is the word?Graph on next slide.

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Pokemon

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Q19:X is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.Id X.

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The State Hermitage Museum

From left to right: Hermitage Theatre Old Hermitage Small Hermitage Winter Palace (the "New Hermitage" is situated behind the Old Hermitage).

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Q20:_____ ______ is a 1964 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, loosely based on P. L. Travers' book series of the same name.The movie was released on August 27, 1964 to universal acclaim, receiving a total of thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picturean unsurpassed record for any other film released by Walt Disney Studiosand won five. The word in the second blank is also the name of a yesteryear candy manufactured by Parle Products. Id X-Y.

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Mary Poppins

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Q21:

This is the opening line of a novel. Id the literary work.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Pride and Prejudice

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Q22: Norville ______ is a cowardly slacker and the long-time best friend and owner of his cowardly dog. Eating is his primary objective. He and the dog are the only characters to appear in all iterations of the franchise. What is he popularly known as?

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Shaggy Rogers Scooby Doo

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Q23:

Connect:

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Characters voiced by Tom Kenny

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*Q24:

He was a National Award winning musician, winning the award for his work on Dastak in 1971. He passed away in 1975. His untouched compositions were revised by his son, Sanjeev Kohli, and then used in a movie released in 2004, 29 years after his death. According to BoxOfficeIndia, the album went on to become the highest grossing Bollywood soundtrack of the year. Id the music director.

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Madan MohanVeer - Zaara

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Q25:This print pattern has been around since the Sassanid dynasty and is known as Boteh Jegheh. This is pattern is extremely popular even in India and is the traditional motif for Kanjivaram saris. However, it derives its name from a town in Scotland, which became the center for this pattern after its popularization in England in the 18th and 19th century.

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Paisley

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Q26:This place in Clear Lake, Iowa, marks the site of the accident where rock and roll legends P, Q and R died. The place is referred to as "The Place the Music Died" after S in his song T referred to the incident as "The Day the Music Died." The place now has a monument in memory of the three performers and a little away, there is a sign in the shape of Ps signature wayfarer glasses. ID P, Q, R, S, T.Part points.

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P- Buddy HollyQ- Ritchie ValensR- J.P RichardsonS- Don McLeanT- American Pie

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