Venkatesh N'A'

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Venkatesh N.A.

• Xquizzite Quiz
• February 15/16, 2005

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Question 1

• He was created by Leo Burnett advertising
  agency's copywriter, Rudy Perz, as he was sitting
  in his kitchen in 1965, under pressure to create
  an advertising campaign. Perz imagined a living
  dough boy popping out of a Cresent Rolls can. To
  distinguish the dough boy from the rolls he gave
  it a scarf, a chef's hat, two big blue eyes, a
  blush when girls kissed him, and a high pitched
  giggle when poked in the stomach. Perz originally
  conceived Fresh as an animated figure, but
  changed his mind after seeing a stop-action
  titling technique used in the opening credits for
  The Dinah Shore Show. A 3-D Doughboy doll of clay
  was then created at a cost of 16,000.
• Identify the brand or the mascot for the brand
  that was created?
• Pillsbury Mascot

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Question 2

• The story of this Hollywood flick goes like this.
  When a newlywed American couple goes to India on
  their honeymoon, little do they realize that they
  were about to go on the adventure of their life
  time. A ruby, back from the ages of the Indian
  Maharajas has been stolen and placed in the
  backpack of the Americans. When the bad guys
  realize this, they kidnap the wife.. Now the
  husband and his Indian friend must go out to save
  the wife. But along the way, they are confronted
  with many challenges, like the Indian bad guys
  who steal the ruby from them. The main cast is as
  follows
• Brett Stimely .... Sandy McVey
• Anna Nicholas .... Stephanie
• Charlie Brill .... Inspector Ramesh
• Jack Kehler .... Paul Lorre
• Christopher Neame . Van Hoeven
• Bob Christo .... Haggerty
• Deep Dhillon .... Tanjeer
• Carol Teasdale Anna
• Laura Albert .... Kim Chi
• Theres one more name missing from this list.
  Identify this famous actor?
• Rajnikant

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Question 3

• It is quite clear that you are the one person
  who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity
  to the savage state. Must you pay the price for
  an object however worthy however worthy it may
  appear to you to be? Will you listen to the
  appeal of one who has deliberately shunned
  violence not without considerable success?
• Who wrote to whom?
• Gandhi to Hitler

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Question 4

• It is a form of entertainment featuring comedy,
  song, dance, and theatre. These performances
  could range from political satire to light
  entertainment, each being introduced by a Master
  of Ceremonies, or MC. The term is a French word
  for the taprooms or cafés, where this form of
  entertainment was born, as a more artistic type
  of café-chantant. It is derived from Middle Dutch
  through Old North French, from Late Latin camera.
  It basically means "small room".
• What term?
• Cabaret

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Question 5

• Whose tag line
• All about India and everything Indian?
• Sify

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Question 6

• He is named after a Greek soldier. He did his
  schooling from La Martinere Kolkata. At age three
  he suffered from epileptic fits. At ten, he had
  Oscar Sclatter's disease, which is an injury to
  the knee joints in children, and had to wear
  braces. At age thirty had a parasitic infection
  called neurocysticercosis.
• Identify?
• Leander Paes

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Question 7

• Charlotte M Yonge used this word in The Daisy
  Chain, published in 1875 Those slopes of fresh
  turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of
  the moor thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf
  purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy,
  black-tailed, yellow-banded ____________. Old
  English word for any insect that flies with a
  loud humming noise.
• Fill in the blank?
• Dumbeldore

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Question 8

• The Sanskrit word for the prophecy that Kamsa
  received which said that he would be killed by
  the eighth son born to Vasudeva and Devaki is
  also the name of a Government of India semi
  commercial operation. What?
• Akashvani

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Question 9

• The Indian equivalent of the US reality show
  Apperentice is going to be aired on Star TV.
  Who is going to host it?
• Vijay Mallya

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Question 10

• This term originally refers to military parade.
  The term was used starting in the mid-18th
  century to refer to a day when military units
  would stand parade for the public. By the 1820s,
  it had transformed into any day of exciting
  events and opportunities.
• What term?
• Have a field day

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Question 11

• Who has HLL roped in to promote its Surf Excel
  Win with stains campaign?
• Jonty Rhodes

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Question 12

• The hunter Jara killed Lord Krishna by shooting
  with an arrow mistaking him for a deer. What
  started immediately after this?
• Kalyug

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Question 13

• In Triplicane in Chennai you will find the famous
  Parthasarathy temple. The uniqueness of this
  temple lies in the fact that the deity here, Lord
  Krishnas statue is full of marks all over the
  body and no amount of scrubbing seems to remove
  it. Also the Lord is not shown in his usual
  beautiful self. He is shown with a huge moustache
  and big beard. Why has this been depicted?
• He went there staright from the battle field of
  kurukshetra. Hence the spots are the arrow marks
  and the mosutsache and beard r bcos he had not
  shaved

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Question 14

• What has been inspired by the shape of the
  Matterhorn? Once you have got this try getting
  this. Who approved the patent for the famous mold
  used for making these chocolates?
• Toblerone, Albert Einstein

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Visuals

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Frozen dessert Why not ice cream?
Because ice-creams are reserved for SSIs and
co-operatives
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What is this?
Tsunami
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Dedicated to whom?
Senna
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Naam kya hai?
Tsunami, Baby 81, Abilass
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Connect
Amrish Puri. Acted in Indian Jones. Second movie
is called Mogambo