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1. The X Challenge, a promotional initiative for the movie X, hit social media recently. Alia Bhatt did it hanging upside down from some equipment in a gym; Anil Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao did it outside a pharmacy somewhere in Punjab, prompting Sonam Kapoor to tweet: "Woohoo!! Dad this is fantastic! I am who I am because of you and how you think! #progressive #feminist #artist #BestDad"; Ravi Shastri did it at his hotel in South Africa; Diana Penty did it with a bunch of friends, all of them pointing fingers at her.
What is X?
Who took the challenge and posted the following tweet with his photo? [Half points for an explanation, 1 point for the name]
"Yes that’s a Y in my hand & there's nothing to be ashamed about. It's natural! Period. #StandByHer Copy, Paste this & Challenge your friends to take a photo with a Y!"
Y is part of the name X, and you don't have to tell me what it is (I'm shy that way).
2. A band called Siervas, which is Spanish for "servants” or "those who serve", is a group of 12 unconventional female members who come from Argentina, China, the Philippines, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Japan. Their first music video, "Confía en Dios” recorded in Lima, Peru, was released in October 2015, and notched up nearly 1.25 million views. What is the common vocation of the group members?
You can listen to the song here.
3. For most of the 1920s and part of the '30s, the man in the picture below quit art and devoted his life to learning and playing chess. Later, after doing quite well at several international tournaments, he realised that he had got as good as he was ever going to be and was never going to make it to the top flight in the world. He then returned to his Cubist and Dadaist art. His gravestone epitaph roughly translates in English to “Anyway, it’s always other people who die.” Who?
4. This is a song from the film '1920'. Identify the singer and also name the music director, who is of late an Indian.
5. This design, still persistent though obsolete, was created by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1873 for the Sholes and Glidden __________ and sold to X in the same year. While it is often said that it was designed to slow things down, this is incorrect – it was designed to prevent jams. The design of what, and who or what is X?
6. Polish pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski has a star on the Hollwood Walk of Fame. How does that make him unique in terms of people so honoured?
7. Watch this video clip.
That is Elvis singing the German children's song "Muss i denn" in a 1960 movie, where it's part of an English adaptation. What is the Elvis song called in English, and what's the film (appropriate given he was posted as a soldier in Germany at the time)?
The same tune appears in the form of some "ku-ru-ku"ing in a song from a 1971 Hindi film based on the Tamil movie 'Server Sundaram'. Name the song (the initial few words after the ku-ru-ku will suffice).
8. The Oxford Group, a non-denominational movement modelled on 1st-century Christianity. One of its 'Groupers', Ebby Thacher, found membership in the group an aid in avoiding one of his major vices, and recruited buddy Bill Wilson, who also found that it helped him. What did Bill W. go on to found as a result?
9. The most recent one fell on April 4 two years ago. The next one will be on May 5 seven years from now. One suggested way of celebrating it is by eating dishes like the one being cooked here. What is this 'holiday'? (It has a three-word name.)
10. This restaurant and entertainment venue in Stockholm is based on the Greek taverna featured in which 2008 musical?
Answers
1. 'Padman', Muruganathan (the actual chap the movie is based on)
2. Watch the video
They are all nuns
3. Marcel Duchamp
4. Pandit Jasraj, Adnan Sami
5. The QWERTY design of a typewriter and now computer keyboard, X is Remington
6. The only European head of government with a star (he served as Prime Minister of Poland between the World Wars)
7. Watch ...
"Wooden Heart" from 'GI Blues'
Here is the Hindi song
"Do Mastaane" from 'Main Sunder Hoon'
8. Alcoholics Anonymous
9. Square Root Day -- 4/4/16, 5/5/25, etc (and root vegetable cut into squares, get it?)
10. This one.
'Mamma Mia!'
It is the brainchild of ex-ABBA member Benny Ulvaes, who's the guy in the picture.
1. The X Challenge, a promotional initiative for the movie X, hit social media recently. Alia Bhatt did it hanging upside down from some equipment in a gym; Anil Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao did it outside a pharmacy somewhere in Punjab, prompting Sonam Kapoor to tweet: "Woohoo!! Dad this is fantastic! I am who I am because of you and how you think! #progressive #feminist #artist #BestDad"; Ravi Shastri did it at his hotel in South Africa; Diana Penty did it with a bunch of friends, all of them pointing fingers at her.
What is X?
Who took the challenge and posted the following tweet with his photo? [Half points for an explanation, 1 point for the name]
"Yes that’s a Y in my hand & there's nothing to be ashamed about. It's natural! Period. #StandByHer Copy, Paste this & Challenge your friends to take a photo with a Y!"
Y is part of the name X, and you don't have to tell me what it is (I'm shy that way).
2. A band called Siervas, which is Spanish for "servants” or "those who serve", is a group of 12 unconventional female members who come from Argentina, China, the Philippines, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Japan. Their first music video, "Confía en Dios” recorded in Lima, Peru, was released in October 2015, and notched up nearly 1.25 million views. What is the common vocation of the group members?
You can listen to the song here.
3. For most of the 1920s and part of the '30s, the man in the picture below quit art and devoted his life to learning and playing chess. Later, after doing quite well at several international tournaments, he realised that he had got as good as he was ever going to be and was never going to make it to the top flight in the world. He then returned to his Cubist and Dadaist art. His gravestone epitaph roughly translates in English to “Anyway, it’s always other people who die.” Who?
5. This design, still persistent though obsolete, was created by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1873 for the Sholes and Glidden __________ and sold to X in the same year. While it is often said that it was designed to slow things down, this is incorrect – it was designed to prevent jams. The design of what, and who or what is X?
6. Polish pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski has a star on the Hollwood Walk of Fame. How does that make him unique in terms of people so honoured?
7. Watch this video clip.
That is Elvis singing the German children's song "Muss i denn" in a 1960 movie, where it's part of an English adaptation. What is the Elvis song called in English, and what's the film (appropriate given he was posted as a soldier in Germany at the time)?
The same tune appears in the form of some "ku-ru-ku"ing in a song from a 1971 Hindi film based on the Tamil movie 'Server Sundaram'. Name the song (the initial few words after the ku-ru-ku will suffice).
8. The Oxford Group, a non-denominational movement modelled on 1st-century Christianity. One of its 'Groupers', Ebby Thacher, found membership in the group an aid in avoiding one of his major vices, and recruited buddy Bill Wilson, who also found that it helped him. What did Bill W. go on to found as a result?
9. The most recent one fell on April 4 two years ago. The next one will be on May 5 seven years from now. One suggested way of celebrating it is by eating dishes like the one being cooked here. What is this 'holiday'? (It has a three-word name.)
10. This restaurant and entertainment venue in Stockholm is based on the Greek taverna featured in which 2008 musical?
Answers
1. 'Padman', Muruganathan (the actual chap the movie is based on)
2. Watch the video
They are all nuns
3. Marcel Duchamp
4. Pandit Jasraj, Adnan Sami
5. The QWERTY design of a typewriter and now computer keyboard, X is Remington
6. The only European head of government with a star (he served as Prime Minister of Poland between the World Wars)
7. Watch ...
"Wooden Heart" from 'GI Blues'
Here is the Hindi song
"Do Mastaane" from 'Main Sunder Hoon'
8. Alcoholics Anonymous
9. Square Root Day -- 4/4/16, 5/5/25, etc (and root vegetable cut into squares, get it?)
10. This one.
'Mamma Mia!'
It is the brainchild of ex-ABBA member Benny Ulvaes, who's the guy in the picture.
1. X - Pad Man, Twinkle Khanna
ReplyDelete2. They're nuns
3.
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5.
6. Only star to be given posthumously?
7. A Hundred Miles, or something like that. Movie is 'An American in Berlin'. Hindi song is Woh Chali Manchali.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous
9.
10. Mamma Mia
1. Padman, akshay kumar
ReplyDelete2. Nun
3. Dali
4.singer rahat fateh ali khan
6. He's the only person with a star who hasn't actually been to hollywood and didn't physically put hand prints
7. Hindi song; dekha na hai re socha na
10. Mamma mia
1) X is the Padman challenge.
ReplyDeleteThat is all I know. 😅
Deepsee Salgaonkar
1. X is Pad Man. Tweeter is Kohli, posted with Anushka?
ReplyDelete2. Prostitutes?
3. Kandinsky?
4. Music director Adnan Sami? No idea who the singer is.
5, 6, 7. Pass
8. Alcoholics Anonymous
9. Square Root Day
10. Mamma Mia?
- Aditya Mallya
Addendee & Addendum:
ReplyDelete3. Marcel Duchamp
5. Rumble strips? And Tarmac.
9. Square Root Day
2. They are all maids.
ReplyDelete4. Adnan Sami
5. Qwerty keyboard
8. Alcoholics Anonymous
Thought you'd keep it open for longer. Didn't submit because I hadn't yet listened to any of the audios. Would have gotten 5
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