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To begin with…. Gerrrrrrrrrrrrronimo !. What’s going on ?. Q1 - wedding. ANSWER. A1. T-Mobile spoof ad based on the Royal wedding. Q2. The actual and official name of this area in Bangalore is Subhash Nagar .
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To begin with…. • Gerrrrrrrrrrrrronimo !
What’s going on ? Q1 - wedding
A1 • T-Mobile spoof ad based on the Royal wedding.
Q2 • The actual and official name of this area in Bangalore is Subhash Nagar. • However this area is most commonly referred to by the name of an old and famous theatre near this area which has also lent its name to various other landmarks in the vicinity. • Which locality?
Majestic A2
Q3 • A is often confused with B. • C is where the original B is now. • A,B and C?
A3 • A • Tower Bridge,a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London over the River Thames. • It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. • Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge,which is actually the next bridge upstream. • B • London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, connecting the City of London and Southwark, in central London. • C • London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, United States. • It is based on the 1831 London Bridge that spanned the River Thames in London, England until it was dismantled in 1967. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge, that was bought by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of London. • McCulloch had exterior granite blocks from the original bridge numbered and transported to America.
Q4 • The Cubbon park police station on Kasturba Gandhi road just outside Cubbon Park, next to the fish aquarium, was originally a guard post built by the British in the early 20th century. • For what purpose was it built?
A4 • To protect the statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1906,which still stands outside Cubbon Park. • The UB group has recently restored the police station. • A board outside the PS has these facts listed on it.
Q5 • Who?
A5 • Detail of the Fountain of the Four Rivers, showing the river-god Ganges. • The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome and located in the urban square of the Piazza Navona. • It was designed in 1651 by Gianlorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X. • The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, an ancient Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a dove with an olive twig. • Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Plate representing the Americas.
Q6 • What controversy did this book stir up when published in 2009?
A6 • Mallory v/s Hillary! • In the book,Jeffrey Archer claims that George Mallory,an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest,way back in 1924 much before Sir Edmund Hillary. • During the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during their attempt to make the first ascent. • Their last known sighting was only a few hundred metres from the summit. • Mallory's ultimate fate was unknown for 75 years, until his body was finally discovered in 1999 by an expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains.Whether or not they reached the summit before they died remains a subject of speculation and continuing research. • Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to the question "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" with the retort: "Because it's there", which has been called "the most famous three words in mountaineering".
Q7 • Spin a whole yarn around all the following photos and the audio. • Full fundae please!
A7 • In August 1969,in LA,Charles Manson along with his gang The Manson family,murdered movie actress Sharon Tate,who was eight and a half months pregnant at the time. • The song is "Helter Skelter," by TheBeatles. • Manson misconstrued the lyrics to be about an apocalyptic race war he believed the murders were intended to precipitate. • Sharon Tate was the wife of famed Polish-French film director Roman Polanski. • In 1968,Polanski directed the Oscar winning horror film Rosemary's Baby,starring Mia Farrow. • The film's plot is about a couple that move into a Gothic, 19th century New York City apartment building with a history of unsavory tenants and mysterious events. • The Dakota,an Upper West Side apartment building known for its famous tenants,was used for the exterior shots in the movie. • The building was the home of John Lennon from 1973 onwards. • On 8 December 1980,as Lennon and Yoko Ono returned to The Dakota,Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. • One of the influences for Chapman to murder Lenon was the JD Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye. • On the morning of December 8, 1980,Chapman bought a copy of The Catcher in the Rye from a New York book store, in which he wrote "This is my statement" and signed it "Holden Caulfield", who is the protagonist of the novel.He also re-enacted some scenes from the novel. • After Lenon's murder,Chapman remained at the scene, took out his copy of the book and read it until the police arrived.
Q8 • What is this picture depicting?
A8 • In 1998, Titanic topped Star Wars as the #1 box office movie of all time. • George Lucas bought this full-page ad in Variety congratulating James Cameron, in which the Star Wars crew jumps out of the sinking ship and into the ocean of second place. • Apparently, it is a Hollywood tradition for directors who have their #1 records smashed to take out full page ads congratulating the new record-holders. • When Star Wars broke Jaws‘ record, Steven Spielberg congratulated George Lucas by taking out a full-page ad with a picture of R2-D2 snagging Jaws on a fishing line.
Q9 Print ad showing a shoe and lace for which Marathon?
A9 • The Loch Ness Marathon! • The Loch Ness Marathon is an annual marathon race held along the famous Scottish loch,Loch Ness, ending in Inverness. • The event is part of the Festival of Running usually held in October and attracts over 8,600 participants for the main event.
Q10 What’s so special about this cover of the New Yorker?
A10 • It was ‘generated’ using an iphone app called Brushes by artist Jorge Colombo .
Q11 • Who was Time magazine’s person of the year for 2006?
