Quiz by Raghu Kainkaryam

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1.1.1) He is the ex-husband of Exene Cervenka, the singer of the punk band X.
Had a book of poetry printed before he was known. The title: "Ten Last Night."
Worked as a translator for the Swedish hockey team during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and was at the 'miracle' game between the Soviet Union and United States.
Is also a jazz musician - he has released three CDs so far.
Worked as a truck driver while living in Denmark.

1.1.2) Since his screen debut as a young Amish Farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), X’s career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances. Critics have continually recognized his work in over thirty movies, including such diverse projects as Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Sean Penn's The Indian Runner (1991), Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way (1993), Ridley Scott's G.I. Jane (1997), Tony Scott's Crimson Tide (1995),
Andrew Davis's A Perfect Murder (1998), Ray Loriga's La Pistola de mi hermano (1997), and Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon (1999). --- as per IMDB

1.1.3> The man in the picture

A1.1) Viggo Mortensen
1.2.1) This novel by General Lew Wallace was published on November 12, 1880, by Harper and Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. In 1912, Sears Roebuck published one million copies to sell for 39 cents apiece: the largest single year print edition in American history.

1.2.2) The book begins with …

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white cliffs, and looking off under the path of the rising sun, one sees only the Desert of Arabia, where the east winds, so hateful to vinegrowers of Jericho, have kept their playgrounds since the beginning.

1.2.3) For the movie version of this novel

Burt Lancaster claimed he turned down the role because he "didn't like the violent morals in the story".

Paul Newman turned it down because he said he didn't have the legs to wear a tunic.

Besides Burt Lancaster and Paul Newman, Rock Hudson was also offered the role.

A1.2) Ben Hur
1.3.1) Connect : 1949 - No.501
Resale value $1

1.3.2) R.S Owens, Chicago
Margaret Herrick

1.3.3) Dudley Nichols
Marlon Brando
George C. Scott
Woody Allen

A1.3) The Oscars

Explanation : Each oscar got a number starting in year 1949 from number 501.
If anyone wants to get rid of hi/her oscar they hv to resell it to the academy at $1.
R.S Owens, Chicago manufactures the statue.
Margaret Herrick gave the term "oscar".
Dudley Nichols, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Woody Allen all did not acceot their oscar award for one reason or another.
Q 1. Local Connect of the above

Viggo Mortensen
Ben Hur
Oscars

A 1 ) Return of the King

Funda : You have to connect Ben Hur with Viggo through Oscars. ROTK and Ben Hur got 11 each. (I know its kinda cheesy, but need this very "term" for meta-connect)
2.1.1) Connect : Asteroid 5020
Honda
"Its been a good life"

2.1.2) X was born on January 2, 1920, to middle-class Jewish parents in Petrovichi, Russia, then part of the Smolensk district in the Soviet Union. His family immigrated to the United States in 1923, settling in Brooklyn, New York, where they owned and operated a candy store. In 1934, while attending Boys High School of Brooklyn, he published his first story, "Little Brothers," in the school newspaper. A year later he entered Seth Low Junior College, an undergraduate college of Columbia University. He transferred to the main campus in 1936, where he switched his major from biology to chemistry. Got his PhD in 1948. Who ?

2.1.3) 3 Laws of Robotics

A 2.1) Issac Asimov

Explain : Asteriod5020 is named Asimov. Hondo robot is 'Asimo', in his honor and the third is his biography.
He proposed the 3 laws of robotics.
2.2.1) Connect :
Wanniyala-Aetto ( more commonly known as Veddahs)
Mahavamsa
Anuradhagamma (later Anuradhapura)
Mahinda Thero

2.2.2) PA de Silva 107* (124)
A Ranatunga 47* (37)
G McGrath 8.2 1 28 0

2.3.3) Emareld Isle

A 2.2) Sri Lanka

Wanniyala-Aetto - pre-historic human inhabitants
Mahavamsa - 1st king or sth (See Wikipedia)
Anuradhagamma (later Anuradhapura) - 1st Capital
Mahinda Thero - Brought Buddhism

SL world Cup'96 win scoreboard

Emerald isle = SL
2.3.1) Connect :
"Add four to one hundred, multiply by eight and then add sixty-two thousand. the result is approximately the circumference of a circle of diameter twenty thousand. By this rule the relation of the circumference to diameter is given.” - late 4th c AD

DFH

"Extra-terrestrial Relays" in the magazine “Wireless World” - 1945

2.3.2) Fellow Traveller
Explorer

2.3.3) Io , Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, Titan, Rhea, Pandora, Janus etc.

A 2.3 ) Satellites

Aryabhata's definition of Pie (the 3.14159..thingy) --> Aryabhata was India's 1st Satellite
DFH -The 1st chinese satellite
A.C.Clarke’s artiicle which made satellites non-patentable.
2.3.2 Fellow Traveller - English for "Sputnik"
Explorer- USA’s 1st sat.
2.3.3 All names of Natural Satellites of planets.
Q 2 ) Local Connect of above.

Issac Asimov
Sri Lanka
Satellites

A 2) Arthur C Clarke

Issac Asimov - ‘treaty of park avenue’ ACC and IS decided in a taxi in park avenue that each would say that the other is the greatest sci-fi writer ever.
(alternately just Sci-Fi also connects them :-)
Sri Lanka - ACC lives in SL
Satellites - ACC’s article was why concept of satellites was not patentable.
3.1) Mira Nair’s next venture (for 20th c Fox) is going to be a remake of which hit Indian movie?

A 3.1) Munnabhai MBBS
3.2) What is this ? (Click to enlargen)

A 3.2) The PadmaShri
3.3) Was voted "Least Likely to Succeed" by his fellow graduates at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California,

Studied acting briefly at Julliard Acting School along with Christopher Reeve.

Winner Of The Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Comedy Album" in 2003.

Screen debut as ‘Popeye’.

A 3.3) Robin Williams
Q 3) Local Connect :

Munnabhai MBBS
Padmashri
Robin Williams

A 3) Kamalahasan (slightly vague)

Munnabhai --> replayed in tamil by KH
His moniker is "Padmashri Kamalahasan" in movie credits
Robin Williams --> Mrs. Doubtfire --> Chachi 420
4.1 ) Born in Chicago, in 1942
Graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1969
Creator and Executive Producer of the television series ER
1994, won an Oscar for Technical Achievement (Scientific and Technical Award).

A 4.1) Michael Crichton
4.2) Who is she? (click to enlargen)

A 4.2) Jane Godall , the famous anthropologist.
4.3) X a child born of Odin and Rind, a giantess. He was birthed for the sole purpose of killing Hod as revenge for Hod's accidental murder of his brother, Baldur. Who ?

A 4.3) Vali

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