prelude  The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti, who sang in concert under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla, in Rome, Italy, in 1990 – on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final, where Zubin Mehta conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The three subsequently also sang together in concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for the 1994 World Cup finals, at the Champ de Mars below the Eiffel Tower in Paris during France ’98, and in Yokohama, Japan during the 2002 tournament. They also played in other cities around the world, usually performing in stadiums or other large outdoor venues. Sometimes, such concerts were held to mark specific events, such as the reopening of the thermal baths in the city of Bath, United Kingdom, after an interruption of some thirty years. The concerts were a great commercial success, and were accompanied by a series of best-selling recordings, including Carreras - Domingo - Pavarotti: the Three Tenors in Concert, which holds the Guinness World Record for the best selling classical album. The Three Tenors phenomenon was applauded by some for introducing opera to a wider public. 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: This white and rhinestone studded glove was sold at an auction in New York recently for $ 350,000, at a more than expected price and bought by the Hong Kong businessman Hoffman Maa on behalf of a hotel in Macau-China, where it will go on display. To which legendary figure does it belong to? (Pranjal Kishore Sharma, Windhoek City, Namibia)

harmonisers  From Dipankar Koushik, Guwahati – 2) Life on the Mississippi is the autobiography of which world famous author? 3) Kalhana wrote Rajtarangini, but who wrote Kadambari? 4) Childhood, My Apprenticeship and My Universities are the three autobiographical books of which world famous author? 5) Which Indian sportsperson wrote the book Gandhiji and Trusteeship?

unities  From Shaikh Md Sabah Al-Ahmed, Dispur, Guwahati – 6) It is one of Mumbai’s best known theatres, founded in 1944 as a travelling troupe. Name it, along with its founder. 7) Name the maiden (play) performance of Prithvi Theatre. 8) Who presently runs the Prithvi Theatre?

do-re-me  9) Who is the writer of the book If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is God? (Biswajit Chakdar, Ecology and Environmental Science, Assam University, Silchar) 10) “I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.” Whose famous quote is this? (Angana Sarmah, Golaghat) 11) Which famous literary work starts with the famous quote “Behind every fortune, there is a crime”? (Biman Chaliha) 12) What are Quarto, Octavo, Duodecimo and Sextodecimo? (Saroj K. Deka, Gauhati University) 13) Which movie director lent his voice to the song Mehbooba, O Mehbooba in the film Sholay? (Manjil P. Saikia, Tezpur University) 14) The name of the Roman Goddess of riches and prosperity is the same as that of the Indian name. Name her. (Gaurav Goswami, J. B. Law College, Guwahati)

crescendo  15) Who are “ambidextrous”? (Dipankar Koushik, Beltola, Guwahati)

answers  1) Michael Jackson 2) Mark Twain 3) Banabhatta 4) Maxim Gorky 5) Cricketer Vijay Merchant 6) Prithvi Theatre, founded by Prithviraj Kapoor 7) Kalidasa’s classic Shakuntala 8) Sanjana Kapoor, granddaughter of Prithviraj Kapoor 9) Vijay Santha and Shyam Balasubramanian 10) Sean Connery 11) The Godfather by Mario Puzo 12) Types of book sizes 13) R. D. Burman 14) Roma, Goddess Lakshmi’s name is also Roma 15) People who can write with either hand with equal ease.