Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College Of Engineering

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Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Rotating Shield Quiz

Which company's logo consists of three tuning forks on a circular disc,

which according to the company stands for its employees, customers

and the community?

• Yamaha

• Gandalf (The look of the character was inspired from this painting).

The name (X) for this fictional ‘character’ is a spoof on the name by which a figure from a controversial event of the 1970s was known. Several years later, a supercomputer intended to take on Garry Kasparov in a two-game match in 1989 was named X. What is X?

• Deep Thought

The famous legal case of the terrified typist in 1956 attracted widespread notice. A famous lawyer, representing Duane Jefferson, made an eloquent plea but lost. He brought in a retrial citing the fact that his client was an impostor and was posing under another person's name- this did not help and he still lost the case. Why is this case unique?

• The only case lost by Perry Mason.

X was canned and given to Allied pilots flying sorties during WWII. The idea was that if shot down and stranded on a remote island, the pilots would eat X and then urinate into the sea. X contains mercaptons - powerful chemical agents - that would attract fish to the shore, whereupon the pilots could catch them for food. What is X?

• Asparagus

• The question was, what is unique about this moment. This is Al Capone, and in this panel and the subsequent ones, he became the only real-life personality to appear in a Tintin comic.

In 1998, a film X was the first film dubbed from

its language into Japanese and grossed $1.6 million. It became a cult hit and resulted in its star Y becoming, in the words of a Newsweek article, "Japan's trendiest heartthrob since Leonardo di Caprio". Some routines performed by Y became huge hits for Japanese to perform on reality TV shows. Identify X and Y.

• Rajnikanth, Muthu The Dancing Maharaja

Narrated as part tragedy part comedy, the novel is set as the memoirs of a fictional character, X. The latter is shown to be an unreliable narrator, portraying his actions as reasonable and provoking further contempt in the reader’s mind; although X does show remorse occasionally at the result of his actions on Y, the main protagonist of the story. The novel concludes on a tragic note : Y dies in childbirth, X of thrombosis. The US edition set a sales record, becoming the first book since Gone With The Wind to sell 100,000 copies in its first three weeks. Name X, Y and the book.

• Humbert Humbert, Lolita

What tradition was started by a prominent newsmagazine in 1927 in order to cover up the embarassment of not featuring Charles Lindbergh on their cover after his trans-Atlantic flight?

• TIME Man of the Year (now Person of the Year).

• Robert De Niro with the real Jake LaMotta, the character he played in Raging Bull. This is a still from the sets of the movie.

This gentleman died young in Florida in 1971 while still in his early 50s. He would become (supposedly) the 1st non-musician to get a full page obituary in Rolling Stone. Why?

[Hint : Check out the timeline]

• Max Yasgur, who owned the Woodstock farm.

According to an urban myth, it was during a Test match between the West Indies and England when X was about to bowl to Y, that the radio commentator Brian Johnston said: "The bowler's X, the batsman's Y".

While Wisden stated that there is no record of Johnston or anyone else actually saying this, Johnston's co-commentator, Henry Blofeld, recalled the incident as having taken place at The Oval in 1976.

Y refused to join the ICC Elite Umpire Panel as it meant a lot of travelling and officiates in county cricket.

• The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey!