OQ #57

Mixed bag.

1. Proposed logos for?

2. Currently, business firms are employing a technique known as Reverse Mentoring to stay in the game, ahead of competitors.

A book of the same name by Earl Creps (written about the concept being applied in a church scenario) is also a bestseller in the Amazon market.

So what exactly is Reverse Mentoring?

3. The movie is based on the French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It has the tagline "My Fair Lady" and stars the youngest woman to be crowned Miss India (at age 17, in 1981).

X, who is now an icon in Indian instrumental music got to public fame after this album. He once said (about this album), "I played some 30 ragas for Y. He wasn't satisfied. Finally I played Kalyana Vasantam, and he said, "Thats it!"".

4. A mandatory Been-reading-the-papers? question.

"Geronimo EKIA."

Significance?

5. The flu epidemic of 1918 increased sales of this product from $900,000 to $2.9 million in just one year. It is marketed as "The only thing more powerful than a mother's touch."

Identify.

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OQ #56:

1. The Maltese Falcon was based on a novel of the same name by Dashiell Hamett. Its protagonist, Det. Sam Spade was a chief influence of Raymond Chandler's character Det. Philip Marlowe, who was the protagonist of The Big Sleep. The obvious connect was both were characters played by Humphrey Bogart.

went uncracked.

2. That's Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Cracked by Arjun Murali, part points to Sourabh.

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This was a quiz conducted by Anjuchu for Aitreya 2011, an inter-Amrita lit fest, which our resident Quiz God Sticky ran for last week's CQC session. enjoy!

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OQ #56

1. Connect the films The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. Don't give me the obvious.

2. Who playing what character?

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OQ #55:

1. He worked at Guinness Breweries and started the Guinness Book of World Records.

cracked by Tolstoy, Asok and Ameya.

2. Sivappu Mazhai, produced by and starring Suresh Joachim. The movie holds the Guinness Record for being completed in the shortest time (11 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes).

comprehensively cracked by Ameya, part points to Asok.

3. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel here.

cracked by all who attempted.

OQ #55

Questions courtesy Sourabh Banthia.

1.On 4 May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the X, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the koshin golden plover or the grouse. That evening at Castlebridge House he realised that it was impossible to confirm whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird. This led to the formation of X, and the rest is history.

2. Which movie's plot is this? And what is its claim to fame?

The film revolves around Nandhan (X), a Lankan youth who kidnaps Meera Jasmine, a Minister's daughter and a television journalist.

The Minister (Suman) is helped by the Director General of Police (Rajeev) and his subordinate (Bose Venkat) to rescue Meera. Things take a turn when they get an interesting demand from Nandhan seeking the release of a Lankan national detained by police. Why and for what the demand is forms the crux.

3. Sitter. Funda behind the place?

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OQ #54:

1. Scene taken from "William and Kate: The Movie" starring Nico Evers-Swindell and Camilla Luddington as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

cracked by Meenakshi

2. Transylvania

cracked by Sivaram and Meenakshi