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Here you have it, the Wiki Whacki kWiz right where we said it would be.
No general rules besides:
1. The Quizmasters are always right.
2. When in doubt, read Rule No.1
That’s all, folks!
And as the MTV voice, enjoy…
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Small Correction in the scoring system for Round 1 . Its extra 3 points for getting all correct and 4 points for the theme .
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Cap’n… For a moment I thought Klueless was early this year. And extremely short. But great set, nevertheless.
Round 1
2. Donno A, but B is cathay pacific and hence the water body is pacific.
4. That is paul bunyan. And if you are talking about operation paul bunya, it was in the joint security area in the Korean DMZ.
5. The caloric reflex test.
6. A: tympanum, C: Great lakes institute… donno what to make of this cryptic mess.
8. Evita Ciudad
11. Michael Dorn?? Worf??? Frow??? WTF
12. B is stuart law of course. Something do with the mongoose bat.
13. Bridge over river kwai.
14. Someone who migrated from A1 to F1, or the works.
18. The cuban missile crisis.
Round 2:
4. Michael X?
13. Rosie the riveter
15. Looks like a WWII poster using NY Giants. If so, probably the germans.
Round 3
7. Rosemary?? looks a little too simple.
8. Alexander, julius caesar, and who?
9. Elvis Presley, after being named ‘one of the ten outstanding young men of the nation’
10. Sez bob Dylan
ROUND – 1
1.nylon
2.
3.costarica /san jose/chappaquiddick incideNt
4.Paul Bunyan, Axe Murder Incident,in the Joint Security Area (JSA) located in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which forms the de facto border between North and South Korea.
5.Vestibular nystagmus in the horizontal plane showing slow phase (A—C) and fast phase (D) eye movements.
6.The famous Loktak lake in Keibul Lamjao , the only floating national park in India
7.
A-Brooke Shields
B -Iberian Lynx
8.Disneyland, Anaheim, California
9.Atilla the Hun
10.
11.Tom Lister, Jr./Tommy “Tiny” Lister
12.EB White who created Stuart Little / Stuart Law
13.The bridge over the Kwai River
14.Sébastien Loeb , Légion d’honneur
15A – Man Vs Wild?
15B – US Flag
15C – Republic
Connect – Bear Grylls
16.Djembe drums
17.
18.John F Kennedy – This cartoon refers to the failed Bay of Pigs mission, when Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Castro with the backing of Kennedy, and failed.
19.
20.Max Yasgur, best known as the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.
21.R L Stine
22.Rana Naved Ul Hasan : IHas :: Steve Woznaik : Iwoz
23.mikhail kalashinocv of AK 47
ROUND 2
1.Guernica (town)
2.george dewey
3.Angus McKinnon Young of AC/DC
4.una bomber
5.Albus Dumbledore
6.chernobyl
7.Laszlo Toth who vandalised Michelangelo’s Pietà statue & Toth is the eponymous inspiration for books of letters by Don Novello
8.tom yeboon
9.Oscar award without speaking
10.The Pulcino della Minerva, an elephant sculpture, a base supporting one of the eleven Egyptian obelisks in Rome.
11. The Eagle pub in City Road, with the rhyme on the wall
12.Indian musketers
13.Princess Leia Organa as Rosie the Riveter
14.BLACK BEARD
15.Huddersfield Giants
16.Ravan in Virgin Comic version of Ramayana
17.
18.
19.
20.Nicolas Chauvin (“chauvinism”)
ROUND 3
1.Queen Elizabeth and The members of the band YES
2.carnation flower
3.george harrison
4.Marilyn Manson
5.
6.text box icon
7.Judi Dench/Daniel Craig the M and Bond in the Casino Royale
8.Julius Ceasar / Davids / Brutus ?
9.The letter is from Elvis Presley to Richard Nixon
10.Taratula and John Lennon
ROUND 4
1.
2.NOD 32
3.All famed painters r here – Ravi Varma , Davinchi , Vangogh
4.
5.G. V. Desani the author of All About H. Hatterr
6.
7.
8.speedo lazer
9.catch 22/joseph heller
10.Ralph Bakshi
round1
5.polygraph testing
6.magic potion in asterix
8.agra?
10.alalnin
14.sebastian loeb
18.cuban misile crisis
round 2
4.malcom x
16.ravana
fantastic effort capt& hvr
Set 1
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1. Red China
2. South Pacific (Cathay Pacific etc)
3. North & South Korea
4. Operation Paul Bunyan you mean? In Korean demilitarized zone in 1976. Panmunjom, which fits the theme, is nearby though not the same place, according to Wiki.
5. England (but I dont know how)
6. Dien bien phu (Diencephalon – cephalon (head), biennial – nail, ?)
7. Brooklyn (Brook(e) + Lyn(x))
8. Disneyland
9. Budapest
10. Alabama (Ala(nine) + Bama(ko))
11. Suez (reverse of Zeus)
12. Little Rock (EB White’s Stuart Little – Stuart Law + Kid Rock)
13. Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Lebanon (Sebastian Loeb -o + anon)
15. California (but I dont know how)
16. Congo (Conga -a +o)
17. Berlin (Berliner – er)
18. Bay of Pigs invasion
19. Arabia (Assam Rifles, Antigen Binding, Indian Airlines)
20. Max Yasgur / Woodstock
21. palestine (Pale + RL Stine)
22. iRan (like iWoz)
23. Russians in Afghanistan
Theme: Places mentioned in Billy Joel’s We Didnt Start the Fire (in order)
Set 2
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1. Guernica
2.
3. Angus Young of AC/DC. Money Talks promotion.
4.
5. Albus (white) Dumbledore (bumblebee)
6.
7. Don Novello used to write under the pen name of Laszlo Toth (who vandalized the Pieta) and played Father Guido Sarducci on SNL
8. Jenson Button
9. Omar Sharif & ??
10. Pulcino della Minerva in front of Basilica of Saint Mary Above Minerva in Rome, I presume by offspring you mean chick (pulcino)?
11. From The Eagle’s website: “Up and down the city road, in and out of the Eagle. That’s where the money goes, pop goes the weasel!” How many other pubs have a famous nursery rythme about them…….none, except us! We are the world famous Eagle pub, one of London’s oldest and most famous taverns.
12.
13. Carrie Fisher / Princess Leia as Rosie the Rivetter
14.
15. US Army or Marines
16. Ravana from Ramayan 3392AD
17.
18. Brick Lane
19. Somehow reminds me of a Bacardi ad, based in Tahiti maybe.
20. Nicolas Chauvin
Set 3
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Bombed in these two sets!
I wish the points were not so lopsided: first 50 over 43 questions and next 50 over just 20.
1. Karodame (German for Queen of Diamonds), ??, Yes->No->On.
2. White Jacket and Pink Carnation. Lots of people come to mind: James Bond, Bertie Wooster, …
3. Howard Hughes and perhaps Jack Kerouac
4. Marilyn Manson (Brian Hugh Warner), takes name from Marilyn Monroe
5.
6.
7. Rose & Judi Dench
8. Alexander, Caesar, David. So Charlemagne is the guy who quit from the pack of cards?
9. Elvis Presley was made a “Federal Agent-at-Large” by Nixon in the fight against drugs
10. Bob Dylan equated his book Tarantula to John Lennon’s nonsensical work In His Own Write
=> Voted top entertainment/pop culture icons of 20th century
Set 4
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1. Rock Star, ??, ??, Lithium (Li) by Nirvana
2. NOD32 Antivirus, ??
3.
4.
5. GV Desani translated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as “Action – Slave Fascination – Moon Grocer”
6. Michael Jordan? Though this guy somehow reminds me of a murderer/assassin, I dunno why.
7.
8.
9.
10. Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings. Earlier by Ralph Bakshi.
Round 1
1 Uranium dioxide
4 Operation Paul Bunyan -JSA in Korean Demilitarized zone
5.nystagmus
11.Klaang, played by Tom Lister Jr
14.Sebastien L(o)eb
15.A- Bear grylls + B us flag…?
16.Conga drum = congo (A being indefinite article?)
18 Bay of Pigs’ failure
19 Gurkhas?+antigens?+ airlines =gorkha airlines?
21 R.L.Stine
22.Naved ul Hassan….
Round 2
10.Piazza della Minerva..Bernini statue..elephant carrying obelisk..referred toa s Minerva’s pig?
13.Someone as rosie the riveter (geraldine doyle) image -We can do it!
Round 3
9.Elvis Presley asking to be made Federal Agent at Large? letter to Nixon
Guess thats all.:P
Great qs
round 1
2-panama canal
4-paul bunyan
13-bridge on the river kwai
14-sebastian loeb
18-cuban missile crisis
23-afghanistan war monument in moscow
round 2
3-mick jagger
6-the day the music died – clear lake, iowa
8-jenson button
9-Tarek El-Sharif(son of Omar Sharif) played young Yuri in Dr. Zhivago
10-The Obelisk of Luxor in Paris
13-Princess Leia Organa as Rosie the Riveter
14-Calico Jack a.k.a Red Rackham
round 3
8-steely dan
9-elvis presley was made Federal Agent at Large
10-bob dylan
round 4
3-Live Earth 2007
7-Second Battle of El Alamein
10-amitabh bachhan
round1
1)silicon carbide
2)western pacific
3)india/burma
4)paul bunyan/bangor
5)test in bladerunner for replicants
6)loktak
7)brooklyn
9)bubonic plague
10)malaria/bamako
110nacluv
12)e.b.white/stuart little(stuart law?/kid rock
13)bridge on the river kwai
14)leb
16)congo
18)cuban missile crisis
20)yasgur/woodstock 69
21)r.l.stine
23)stalingrad
theme guess is michael crichton
part2
3)angus young
4)haddock
6)aircrash in which buddy holly etal died
7)pieta/lazlo toth/don novello,the latter used to write in toth’s name who tried to destroy pieta
8)aamir khan9)omar sharif&son tareq played the part of yuri in dr.zhivago perhaps first time same charecter,difft stage played by father&son
11)j.k.rawling
13)pricess leia/yes we can/carrie fisher
16)los angels dodgers
17)arihant/nuclear submaerines
18)downing st
19)andamans
20)nicolas chauvin
Round I
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1. China
2. South Pacific
3. Bridge of No Return connecting north and south korea
4. Panmunjaon
5. England
6. Dien Bien Phu Falls
7. Brooklyn
8. Disney Land
9. Budapest
10.Alabama
11.Suez
12.Little Rock
13.Bridge on river Kwai
14.Lebanon
15.California
16.Congo
17.Berlin
18.Bay of Pigs invasion
19.Something to do with Chandrayan – Moonshot connection
20.Woodstock
21.Palestine
22.Iran
23.Russians in Afghanistan. Afghan War
Connect – Names of Places mentioned in “We didn’t start the fire”
Round II
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1.Bombing of Guernica
2.Archduke Franz Ferdinand marrying Sophie Chotek – supporting this was considered Kaiser Wilhelm II’s only diplomatic gesture
3.Angus Young
4.
5. Queen Elizabeth
6. The day the music died, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valence’s plane crash site
7
8.Brad Pitt
9.Only actors to have represented their countries in contract bridge?
10
11
12.Pop goes the weasle nursery rhyme
13 Princess Leia/Carrie Fisher as Rosie the Riveter
14.Blackbeard
15
16.Ravana
17
18
19
20 Nicholas chauvin
Round III
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1.Tim Burton (Just went with first name that popped that ends with ‘on’)
2
3 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (The first guy is Hunter Thompson. No idea after that)
4.Charles Manson (Marylin Manson is the boy)
5.Rolling Stones(Guy in the picture is Jann Wenner)
6.
7.Rosemary
8.Van Halen
9.Elvis Presley
10.Bob Dylan
Connect : Roman Polanski (Wife murdered by Manson, named his kid elvis, directed rosemary’s baby..)
Round IV
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1
2
3
4
5. Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi – G V Desani translated his name into english as shown in the pics
6.
7.
8.
9. On the moon ( I know buzz aldrin has a little less hair. But, worth a shot)
10.Peter Jackson
Set 1:
4. The guy is the mythological lumberjack Paul Bunyan. There was a US military operation in
N Korea named “Paul Bunyan Operation”. Hope thats what the question meant!
7. Brooke shields, lynx.
Brook+lyn=brooklyn.
8. disney land in 1956.
9. Budapest. The pic is of Attila, who’s brother was Bleda or Buda.
10. The capital is Timbuktu (Mali). dont know the answer.
11. Hellboy?
12.A is E B White who created Stuart Little B= Stuart Law C = Kid Rock. dont know the answer
13. Bridge on the river kwai
14. The guy is Sebastien Loeb. Giving up the first bloodgroup wud make him Sebastien Leb. ??
15. Bear Grylls of” Man vs Wild” + USA + Republic by Plato.
16. Conga drums –> Congo ?
17.
18. Bay of Pigs..cigar with cuba and castro written on it, exploding in Kennedy’s face.. Hopefully not the Missile Crisis
19. Max Yasgur, Woodstock
21. the author is R L Stine. pallor is some pale skin disease.
22. B is Wonziak who’s bio was iWoz. A is Rana Naved Ul Hassan. Hopefully his bio is iRana ?
Round II:
1. Guernica
3. Angus Young of AC/DC .
8. Floyd Landis ?
9. Omar Sharif and Tarek Sharif (his son) who played the role of Dr. Zhivago (grown up and child). Not sure whats the achivement..they havent won any awards.
13. Carrie Fischer (of Princess Leia fame) as Rosie the Riveter.
16. Ravana? this is a character from the Ramayana game by Sony.
20. Nicolas Chauvin
Round III:
1. Bill Clinton
2. the flower is carnation flower.
4. Marlyn Manson
7. Young and holy – Virgin + M -Madonna? she has written a book called english roses
8. Charles is the one missing. no idea about music connection
9. Nixon making Elvis “Federal Agent at Large” in the war against drugs
10. Bob Dylan. Wrote Tarantula which he compared with Lennon’s book.
Theme: Michael Jackson?
Round IV:
1 video game Rock Band.
2. Slipknot, a band whose members wear masks. ?
3. a is painters.
4. The statue is Richard the Lionheart. The number seems to have
something to the number of heartbeats in a person’s life.
5. The man is GV Desani. He translated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to
“Action – Slave Fascination – Moon Grocer. The other pictures refer to
each of those.
6.
7. looks like Sergeant York
8. Mihir Sen ?
9.
10. Peter Jackson made a new version of Lord of the Rings
round 4 -3-self portrait