Quiz Quiz Ki Kismat

Am posting the quiz I made for the last quiz club meet. Have plagiarised 2-3 questions from quiznet archives as I was running short of time and ideas.Enjoy!


1. Rajendra Pachauri, 66 is an excellent medium-pacer , having taken more than 350 wickets in corporate cricket. The India Today reports that his statement that bikinis in Rio nowadays resemble dental floss has caused him some embarrassment. He is currently famous for holding a very important post due to which he is being taken rather seriously all over the world. Which post does he hold?

2. Although it had already celebrated its seventh birthday, _________was then asked to name it. Put on the spot slightly, he paused for a few moments, stared at the court dust, and then replied: "Juliette." Quite why remained a mystery last night. There were suggestions that the name may have recalled a former girlfriend with whom he is no longer on speaking terms. But those who were shouting "Martina! Martina!" as a suggestion were just being unkind. _________has a choice: he can either take Juliette home, or leave her in the Gstaad meadows - they will post him the cheese on a regular basis. The only condition is that _________ learns how to work her udders. They didn't teach him that in metropolitan Basle.

Fill in the blank and tell me which incident is being described.

3. Sylvester Stallone, Madonna, Kevin Costner, Bo Derek have a dubious distinction to their name. What?

4. Lintas was working on a brief for a bike to flaunt its great mileage and great power. The client brief clearly stated that no one would be interested in figures and hence figures should be avoided. They were asked to come up with a term for a `wow’ bike encompassing both great mileage and great power. What resulted?


5. Julian McMahon, Hrithik Roshan, Dominic West, Gerard Butler, Goran Visnjic, Sam Worthington, Alex O’ Loughlin, Rupert Friend, Henry Cavill… Connect.(The list is not exhaustive).

6. X made the highest score of the 2003 world cup, bludgeoning 172 of 151 balls against Namibia at Harare. Identify X.


7. Born to wealthy parents in Lithuania in 1938. His father was a count, his mother a descendant of the Visconti family in Milan. His family was killed by the Nazis, and he was the lone survivor. In 1970’s he started his psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He is described as being short with red eyes and 6 fingers on his left hand. He has the habit of tilting his head to one side while listening, and his former caretaker Barney Jackson spotted him last in Buenos Aires in 1993.

8. Can’t resist putting a Sidhuism: but as they are a bit too obvious, here goes:
Sidhu made the following comments about whom?
“___________ is as confused as a child is in a topless bar.”
“___________ is not a wicket keeper, he is a goal keeper, he should be given a free transfer to Manchester United”


9. This is a widely popular computer game which has been rewritten for nearly every platform today. The Windows version credits Robert Donner and Curt Johnson as the creators, though origins of the game can be traced back to The Cube in 1973.

10. Who rode along with Alberto Granado on a 1939 500cc bike named La Poderosa(which means “The Mighty One” and what resulted because of it?


11. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
he has trampled out the vintage where the ______ are stored,
he has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift sword,
his Truth is marching on!"
Just fill in the blank to get the name of the book, which was also made into a successful movie.

12. In the Dilbert comic strip, when Dogbert was asked to design a new company logo, he takes a piece of paper that his coffee cup was sitting on, and calls it the Brown Ring of Quality. Which telecom company’s logo is being parodied here?