prelude  In Western Music, Blues, Country music and Reggae are three important genres. The Blues generally employ a 12-bar construction and a ‘blue’ scale is thought to be African in origin. Vocal Blues have earthy, direct lyrics. The tempo may vary, and moods range from despair to cynicism to satire. Major early Blues artistes were Blend Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainy, and Bessie Smith. While Country music has directly descended from the folk music of the English, Scottish, and Irish settlers of the South East US, it tends towards simpler forms and depicts the life experience of poor rural (and recently) urban whites. Noted performers are Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn. The Reggae is Jamaican popular music, that developed in the 1960s among Kingston’s poor blacks, drawing on American ‘soul’ music. Bob Marley and his group, the Wailers, and Toots and the Maytals are among the best known performers. The Assam Institute of Management (AIM) organised the Business Quiz – The Big Q as a part of their Annual AIM Quest Business Meet on February 24, 2009 among the business schools in the Northeastern region at Shilpgram, Guwahati. The teams from NERIM (Mustafa Moosaddeque and Padma Bikash Deka), NERIST (Kumar Dipendra Madanpuri and Barithe Kathar) and ICFAI (Angushuman Bora and Manash Saharia) won the first, second and third prize respectively. The quiz was conducted by the quiz columnist of THE COLOSSEUM. 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: He is a Russian fiction writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works include Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Identify. (Himjyoti Talukdar, Cosmic Business School, New Delhi)

harmonisers  From Sadiq Hussain Laskar, Pune – 2) Which famous temple of Assam is situated on a hill named Chitrasala? 3) Which temple was bulit by the ruler Rajeswar Singha in late 18th century and has nine Shivalingams enshrined, depicting the nine celestial bodies? 4) Which temple in Assam is located on a hillock called Manikoota Parvata? 5) Legend has it that Brahma and Vishnu had taken this form to recover the Vedas from the demons Madhu and Kavitabha. Which form?

unities  From Banashree Baruah, Cotton College, Guwahati – 6) Who wrote music for the movie Gone with the Wind? 7) Which 1999 Disney film was described in publicity handouts as An Epic of Miniature Proportions? 8) Which 1998 computer-generated animated film featured the voices of several Hollywood stars including Woody Allen, Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone?

do-re-me  9) Priyotomar Chithi by Hemchandra Goswami is a famous poem. Why is it famous? (Jumi Das, Uzanbazar, Guwahati) 10) He was 13 years old when he sang the songs of Jyoti Prasad’s Indramalati, including the soul stirring Biswa Bijoy Naujawan. Who is he? (S. K. Medhi, Advocate, Guwahati) 11) The trio William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are collectively known as what? (Maharnav Gogoi, Deptt. of Electrical Engg., AEC, Guwahati) 12) Whom do Italian devotees better know as “II Divine”? (Prosenjit ‘Piklu’ Dutta, Tezpur) 13) What is Kamikaze? (Mainu Teronpi Diphu, Karbi Anglong) 14) Which famous picturesque hill station in India has its name derived from the local word for “Village of Shepherds”? (Anupom Bora, Mazgaon, Tezpur)

crescendo  15) Johann Valer designed it in 1899 and patented it in 1901. Several designs like Ideal, Non-Skid, Owl and Gem exist today. What is it? (Diksharani Baruah, BCA, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati)

answers  1) Fyodor Dostoevsky 2) Navagraha temple 3) Navagraha temple 4) Hyagriva Temple 5) Hyagriva 6) Max Steiner 7) A Bug’s Life 8) Antz 9) It is the first Assamese sonnet 10) Dr. Bhupen Hazarika 11) The Lake Poets. They all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the 19th century 12) Michelangelo 13) Kamikaze is a word of Japanese origin, which means divine wind 14) Pahalgam, in J&K 15) The paper clip