Quizzically Yours

1)What has been censored? Give full funda behind the controversy.


Muhammad. Google "Southpark 200" for funda.

2)Identify the lady in the pic.


Sada Abe. Prostitute who cut her lover's balls after wild sex.

3)The term Iceberg Theory describes which author's distinctive style of writing?

Alexandre Dumas

4)Marketed with the tag,"The greatest break up story ever told", this film was completely made using 2D flash animation by Nina Paley. It uses shadow puppets to narrate the story of _____ and is interspersed with songs of the blues genre. What?

Sita Sings The Blues

5)X means rebellion or revolution.
"Today there begins 'X' in foreign lands, but in our country's tongue, a war against the British Raj. What is our name? X. What is our work? X. Where will be the Revolution? In India. The time will soon come when rifles and blood will take the place of pens and ink." - these were the lines from the first issue of X, published in Berkeley.

Ghadar

Why is this rapper, unknown to many till a few months back, all set to achieve fame?

K'naan, Wavin' Flag (Coke's anthem for FIFA World Cup 2010)

Coke's anti Pepsi campaign with the Max Headroom character.

4) What are these the locations of?



5) What is special about mykandi.com, a website launched in November, 2009? ( Its the first of its kind)

6) It is known as Lappa Duggi in Pashto, Kuttiyum Kolum in Malayalam, Billam Godu in telugu. What?

The name has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. According to folklore,  Elliss "Puss" Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to the pavilion, Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being done by a bloody ________", leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.
What?

Ruth Belville was also known as X. Her entire family, including herself sold something peculiar to the people. Every morning, John, her father, would go to the Greenwich Observatory, do some act there and then provide service to about 200 clients in 1836. What did they sell?

Greenwich Meridian Time !!

The man is Sohrab Mirza. The girl is Ayesha Siddiqui. Connect is ob, Sania Mirza

1) Founded in 1979 by ______ and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the ______ and is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes. Often referred to as the Nobel of architecture, it is awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology". The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and a bronze medallion. There is a Latin inscription on the reverse of the medallion— firmitas, utilitas, venustas (durability, utility, and beauty). Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize.

Pritzker Prize

2)Some believe that X's flight ran out of fuel and fell into the sea. This is known as the crash and sink theory while many believe that the flight ended in Phoenix Island (The Gardner Island Hypothesis). The latter is "the most confirmed theory" of X's disappearance. The movie Flight for Freedom furthered a myth that X was spying on the Japanese in the Pacific at the request of the Roosevelt administration. Who?

Amelia Earhart

3)X is sent back in time by Nobita Nobi's great-great grandson to improve Nobita's circumstances so that his descendants may enjoy a better future. In the original timeline, Nobita experienced nothing but misery and misfortune throughout his life. As a result of this, Nobita's failures in school and subsequently, his career, have left his family line with financial problems. In order to alter history, The great-great grandson sent him X,a robot. Id X.

Doraemon

4) When Pokemon game was released in 1998 by Nintendo, this city was renamed in honour of Pikachu for a day as this city was the site for the launch. As a part of April Fool's hoaxes, Google announced that it would change its name to ______ to honor ______'s "name change" to Google . Which city?

Topeka, Kansas

5) This pic depicts "death" coming to take away a man's life. What is the name for this kind of depiction of death?



The Grim Reaper

6) This word originates from a character's name in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. Which word?

Paparazzi

In 2002, X was ranked 92nd in Channel 4's list of 100 Greatest Sporting Moments in British television. As the
ball travels towards Y, the ____________ starts to drift to the right (due to the Magnus effect).  Z , on the reaction of  Y : "He looked as though someone had just nicked his lunch.", as Y was much-mocked for his rotundness.  And again Z added "If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him."
In 2009 the Irish chamber pop group ___________ wrote a song called "Jiggery Pokery" about this incident.

what is the X we are talking about?
The blanks and the variables are all different and are there just make it a bit more tougher.

This lead to a huge increase in the popularity of something...what?

Which University's website reads"__________, home of the Boilermakers, alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon, proud member of The Big Ten Conference ....."?

Purdue University