| prelude Quiz is a happening entertainment item in Guwahati in recent days. After the Brain Jam, The Colosseum Quiz Fest and the Cop Quest, there are lots of quiz competitions conducted by different quiz masters in Guwahati, and also in different places in Assam. Along with general quiz competitions, Business Quiz also seems to be very much an in thing. The Assam Quiz Association was also formed recently, which is another welcome development in the quizzing scenario in Assam. To commemorate the first anniversary of the organisation on X-Mas Day, 2009, it is organising Quizville (School Quiz) and Just-Quiz-it (Open Quiz), which are part of the quiz fest called Aquizzation’09 at the Vivekananda Kendra. The efforts of the organisation are laudable. Among the other quiz news, the Howajan Quiz Forum, Howajan, Lakhimpur is organising an All Assam State Level Inter Institutional (School/College/University) Quiz Competition on Saturday, December 26, 2009, stated a Press Release of the Howajan Quiz Forum. The quiz is open for all educational institutions. The first, second and third prize winners of the quiz competition will get Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.2000/- respectively, along with the winning trophies. There is a Best Audience Prize, who will get a one year subscription to the Prantik magazine. The Quiz Master of the event is Neelotpal Deka. The venue is Howajan Higher Secondary School. The quiz starts at 10:00 a.m. For more information contact at 9854324577. E-mail your questions with answers at: only4_pol@yahoo.co.uk or post at: THE COLOSSEUM, Mosaic, Friday Supplement, The Assam Tribune, Guwahati-781003 or SMS at: 9864102417. Send your name in each SMS. |
| side screen 1) Picture Clue: Identify this  Assamese ornament for women. (Prosenjit ‘Piklu’ Dutta, Tezpur) |
| harmonisers 2) The name of which rock music was obtained from a William Burroughs novel? 3) Sultans of Swing (1979), and On Every Street (1992) were by which group? 4) Who played Tulsa McCauley in the 1960 movie Flaming Star? 5) The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a gigantic sculpture of the heads of four US Presidents. They are Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and which other? |
| unities 6) When You Wish Upon a Star is from which Disney film? 7) Bob Hope and Bing Crosby appeared in seven Road to... films. Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco, Rio, Bali and Hong Kong were the destinations in six of them, what was the title of the fourth in the series, released in 1946? 8) Published in 1898, which George Bernard Shaw play was not performed until 1902? |
| do-re-me 9) The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre is popularly known by what name? (Pranjal Kishore Sharmah, Windhoek City (Central), Auasblick, Namibia) 10) Which famous modern day epic poem is called ‘the Bible of democracy’? (Pranjal Dey, Hatigarh Chariali, Guwahati) 11) The British Royal Family adopted a name in the year 1917. What name? (Mamoni Barman, Miles Bronson Residential School, Giwahati) 12) Which famous novel by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe is directed against the system of slavery in America? (Manash Duarah, GATE Institute, Chandmari, Guwahati) 13) ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ – whose words are these in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night? (Mriganka Neog, 4th A.P. Btn. Road, Santinagar, Guwahati) 14) Which famous publisher was rejected by the Austrian Army due to his weak eyesight and frail health? (Saroj K. Deka, Maligaon, Guwahati) |
| crescendo 15) According to the Greeks, the Muses were Goddesses of the arts. Now, which English word came from the Greek word mousion, meaning ‘Temple of the Muses’? (Maharnav Gogoi, AEC, Guwahati) |
| answers 1) Muthi Gaam Kharu 2) Heavy metal 3) Dire Straits 4) Elvis Presley 5) Theodore Roosevelt 6) Pinocchio 7) Road to Utopia 8) Mrs. Warren’s Profession 9) Tony Award 10) Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass 11) Windsor 12) Uncle Tom’s Cabin 13) Duke Orinso 14) Joseph Pulitzer 15) Museum |