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Prasant's Prize Quiz - June 1998

Here are the Answers to the Prize Quiz by Prasanth Samavedam.

The Quiz master's says "thanx":

Hi,
Thank you for the outrageous response ( what are you guys trying to do, lose my job ? :)). Out of 600+ 'serious' replies..( yes ,did go thru them all )...five stand apart.With the first standing way apart.

Mortal--> Deepak Kamat ( Mudra Adv.,New Delhi ) with 9 correct. Gets the prize.

Lesser--> Anand Manikutty (ex-IITM,working with his nickname ? -Oracle(8)),
Arun Hiregange ( Motorola,Bangalore(7)),
Murli Bhashyam(the CISCO kid ?(7)),
Bipul Chauhan - schooler from Gauhati (7) and 17 being his age ( round of applause ?)

Finally, thanks again. It was fun. Did the earth move for you ?

The Answers

1. In June 1994,Christie's held an auction for some Elvis collectibles. The object that brought in the highest amount was something small.The opening bid was $100 and the hammer came down at $41,400. What was the object ?

ANS : Elvis's AMEX Credit card.

2. Name the fruit which took their name from their resemblance to small grapes and raisins brought from a place called Corinth in Greece.

ANS: Currants.

3. Linda Hunt won an Academy award for her performance in the movie 'The Year of Living Dangerously'.What was unique about this ?

ANS: She was the first person to receive the Academy Award for portraying a character of the opposite sex.

4. Edgar Rice Burroughs,the creator of Tarzan sold his very first story - 'Under the Moon of Mars' under a pseudonym chosen with a purpose.Mind the P's - Pseudonym and Purpose Please.

ANS: The pseudonym was 'Normal Bean'.He chose it because he thought of himself at that time as "the average mind in search of average readers".

5. Look up a French - English Dictionary and this word is a naughty slang for "a landscape with a lot of hills" - which word ?

ANS: the word - Lollobrigidan - the person named after - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian movie Star - the reason - more than one.

6. Check out this imaginary situation.You meet an Englishman who talks a lot of slang and this is how the conversation proceeds ---

You say "I'm going to play Pool."
The Englishman asks "Back or White ?"

What does the Englishman mean ?

ANS: 'Playing pool' in England is local slang for going to Blackpool whose claim to world fame is - it has the most number of Roller Coasters (10 in 1994) than any other city in the world. Playing (White) pool is mine( and the Englishman's ) imagination of playing cards.

7. Which is the highest water falls in the Alps ?

ANS: The Reichenbach Falls of the Holmes v/s Moriarty duel fame.

8.On November 22,1968 the first inter-racial kiss happened on US Network Television which sparked off a controversy. On which serial ?

ANS: Its in Star Trek. Lt Uhura(Nichelle Nichols) shared a kiss with Captain Kirk(William Shatner). They were forced to kiss under the control of a 2,700 year-old alien. The episode - 'Plato's Stepchildren'.

9. The celebrated US comedian Bob Hope started off his career as a professional boxer,fighting under the name"Packy East".Soon his nickname was changed by his fans to 'Rembrandt'.Why ?

ANS: He was nicknamed 'Rembrandt' as he spent most of his time facing the canvas. Punny man.

10. Where is the poet Ben Jonson's buried ? And what is strange about that ?

ANS: Ben Jonson's mentor was Charles I.When asked what he wanted by Charles I ,he said 'a square foot of land in Westminster Abbey' and thats what he got.He was buried upright in a standing position in his land.

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