CONCIMIENTO '09

Welcome to the examination special edition - CONCIMIENTO 2009

This set consists of 30 questions , Points for each question are indicated against them.

Total points @ stake: 35

It will be open for the next 15 days, and will close on March 18th 2009. No daily questions shall be uploaded till the 18th March . This is due to my university exams. Hope this keeps you engaged!

Click on the pics to enlarge them . Answers as comments or mail them to vikas90@gmail.com

Good luck!


Q1. Simpsons pun on what? (1)

Q2. The two buildings were used as exterior and interior of X respectively. Solve for X (1)



Q3. Connect the musician to the infamous 19th century painting (0.5 *2 =1 )



Q4.How has he been im-mortalised in the world of athletics? (0.5)


Q5.Sitter, A wrote a book based on his experiences at B which was the base for 2 popular movies of different ages. First was written, directed and produced by C -a movie that started the 3-d revolution while the second was a movie by D in the last decade. Identify A-D (0.5 *4 =2)

A

B

C

D
Q6. What is so dark about the places marked in red? (0.5)

Q7. First it was called A(logo of?) , then it came to known by the place shown in B( HQ of an important organisation pictured) - How do we know it now? (1)

A

B
Q8. ID and tell me what unique distinction do these famous actors hold together? (1)

Q9. Amul ad question, just cant avoid it in such a quiz. What is the fight for? (0.5)

Q10. Just Connect !! (2 points)

Q11. The building is the headquarters of X, which was the centre of a scandalous incident involving the person Y shown in the comic scene which was inspired by the incident itself. Identify X , Y (1)


Q12. Identify this very modern music instrument! (0.5)
Q13. It was built by world famous architect A based on the design used in flag B on the land once owned by business magnate C- What? Identify A,B and C. (2)
A


BC
Q14. What is this painting, the artist's last based upon? Identify the artist as well. (1)
Q15. A , considered to be one of the most famous movies ever made in history was directed by the acclaimed director B . The music of the movie was done by C , who later went on to do every other movie of B. The name of A was taken from a chartbuster song which consists of many versions, most popular of which was perhaps by D. Infact, the song was used directly in the movie as well. Solve A-D (2)

A

BC
D
Q16. He is the first ever person to achieve a distinctive record. What? He is often called as X because of his middle name which translates to X. (1)

Q17. A, whose statues can be seen in and around the USA , one of which is shown here mapped B after their infamous expedition. Who and what is the importance of the map? (0.5 *2 = 1)

A

B


Q18. Connect the movies A and B to one of C's songs . C is perhaps considered the best English band sans the Beatles(2)

A


B

C


Q19. What is happening? (0.5)
Q20. The trophy(A) is in memory of (B) who met with untimely death. (C) shows the authors of a book on the life and times of B posing with the book itself. Who is B? (1)

A

B
C

Q21. Connect !! (2)



Q22.A - 1992, B- 1992, C-1994, D- 2009, What am i talking about, Also identify A-D? (1.5)

A
B
C
D

Q23.Name this distinctive sport played in a European nation? (0.5)


Q24. This question comes from Rithwik, a young quizzer! Connect! (2)



Q25. What incident inspired the tagline of this poster? This incident , caught on video , was the year's most viewed youtube video. The incident was used in promoting various things, including ads of 2006 Fifa world cup. (1)

Q26. Connect the names to a child's joy! (1)





Q27. Sitter, A gave B something C refused (0.5) -- Question by Sandeep!

A
B
C


Q28. What clubs these athletes together? (1)



Q29. The murder of A by B , known as the A-B tragedy or X tragedy was catapulted from the fact that A had an illegitimate child whom A never accepted as daughter . This tragedy was the basis of legendary writer C's only known play. Identify A-C and X (0.5*4=2)

A
B
C
and the final question, No.30 : It was named after one of the phantom islands A and inspired by B- What? (1)

A

B

Thanks everyone for your efforts, I hope the quiz was good! :)

Answers:-

1. Simpsons pun on the album cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind"

2. Knebworth House and Hatfield house were used as exterior and interior of "Wayne Manor"- The Residence of Bruce Wayne a.k.a Batman in Batman movies of Tim Burton. (Uncracked!!)

3. The song "Vincent" by Don Mclean , starts with the line "Starry Starry Night" , the painting by Vincent van gogh, the song being a direct tribute to him.

4. Dick Fosbury , who invented the famous Fosbury Flop technique of high jump!

5. John Henry Patterson(A) wrote a book based on his experience with Man-Eaters of Tsavo in Kenya(B) which formed the basis of Bwana Devil, movie by Arch Oebler(C) and movie by Stephen Hopkins(D) starring Micheal Douglas.

6. Locations where the still un-identified Jack the Ripper committed murders

7. (A) is the logo of Blackcomb mountains famous for its sky sport adventures, (B) is the headquarters of IAEA in Vienna.
Black Comb and Vienna are earlier names of the upcoming Windows version Windows 7 - The Question no. was a clue!! :)

8. Marlon Brando (for The Godfather) and George C Scott (for Patton) are the only two people to have openly refused the Oscars.

9. The "Quota" Issue

10.
A - Gisele Bundchen ( Aww! :D)
B - Andre Agassi & Steffi Graf
C - Catherine Deneuve
D - Mikhail Gorbachev
Connect - All have appeared in Louis Vuitton ads

11. X is Societie Generale , Y is Jerome Kerviel , now a comic character thanks to the famous trading loss incident.

12. Plasmaphone

13. Cesar Pelli(A) used the design called Rub el Hizb(A muslim sign, seen in the flag of two squares placed in that manner) in the land owned by Tamil-Lankan business magnate Anandha Krishnan(C) to build the tall Petronas Twin towers in Malaysia !!

14. The Swallow's Tail, based on the Rene's Catastrophe theory, last known painting of Salvador Dali.

15. A- Blue Velvet , B- David Lynch , C- Angelo Badalamenti , D- Bobby Vinton

16. Mário Zagallo, was the first footballer to win the World Cup as a player (1958, 1962), as a manager (1970), and as assistant coach (World Cup 1994), all with the Brazilian national team

17.Lewis and Clarke, The famous map of Lewis and Clark's expedition. It changed mapping of northwest America by providing the first accurate depiction of the relationship of the sources of the Columbia and Missouri rivers, and the Rocky Mountains.

18. A – Orphee , B – Sleuth , C – The Smiths ; The connect is the song “This Charming Man” , lyrics of the song have been borrowed from Sleuth , while the record sleeve features a still from Orphee featuring the hero Jean Marais

19.Former US President Mckinley's last address

20. The Hawthorn Memorial trophy is in memory of Mike Hawthorn, the old racing car driver who passed away in an accident. "Golden Boy" is a book on him written by Tony Bailey and Paul Skilleter

21.Connect is Hindenburg ; A – Paul von Hindenburg after whom d zeppelin is named , B – Led Zeppelin traces their name origin back to the Hindenburg disaster and their debut album features the Hindenburg on its cover , C – Flag of Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei GmbH which operated the Hindenburg , D – plot of the 3rd book in the Pendragon series ,The Never War , is based on the disaster

22.Recipients of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award – Elizabeth Taylor ( A ) and Audrey Hepburn ( B ) in 1992 , Quincy Jones ( C ) in 1994 and Jerry Lewis ( D ) in 2009 .

23. Hornussen, a game played in Switzerland (Uncracked!!)

24. As Rithwik puts it

"Connect-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Ian Fleming's children's book

Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park, christened "Chitty Bang Bang".

Dick Van Dyke acted as Caractacus Pott the main charcter of the story in the 1968 film based on it."

25. The Bus uncle incident in Hong Kong which was caught on mobile camera . It shows an elderly person and youngster exchange heated words in a bus, for more details, check out youtube/wikipedia- It inspired the poster tagline which says : i have pressure, u have pressure.

26. Characters in Toy Story: Woody (Allen) , T.Rex, (Mia) Hamm, Slinky

27. The song "Jai Ho!" was initially offered to Subhash Ghai for "Yuvraaj" . He found it too subtle and ARR gave it to Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionare fetching him the Oscar!!

28. Puerto, Marc Vivian Foe( Sorry for the Serginho error!) , Reggie Lewis , Dale Earnhardt suffered death while playing their sport! (Take a bow!)

29. A – Solomon P Sharp , B – Jereboam O Beauchamp , C – Edgar Allen Poe , X – Kentucky Tragedy

30. "Antilia" , Mukesh Ambani's upcoming house gets its named from a phantom island named Antilia(A) and is inspired by the Hanging gardens of babylon(B)

Answers have been quoted from several comments , since I was too lazy to type out! :D


Congrats to all who worked out the answers - Let's take a bow for Captain Chandrakant Nair who has raced away to 60 points on the blog!!

1. Chandrakant Nair - 29

2. Abhiram - 28

3. Rithwik K - 23.5

4. Jyothi - 23

5. Kamal Rathi - 23

6. Malcaluffin - 18

7. Sreeram- 7

8. Manjith- 6

9. Shibin Azad- 1.5

10.Vigneshwar - 1

11.Balakrishnan - 0.5