1 Jhabvala is the only person to win both a Booker and an Oscar. For which of her novels did she win a Booker Prize in 1975?

2 In an interview of one member of a famous partnership, he mentioned that the two of them got together after Rajesh Khanna offered them onscreen credit and good money for working on a Hindi remake of a South Indian hit in the early ’70s. Name the film and the duo?

3 In Concert 1972 is a double live album released in 1973 on Apple Records. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and was a tribute to the recently deceased guru of the two main artists. It is regarded as the first album to popularise the concept of ‘jugalbandi’ in the West. Who were the two collaborators?

4 Which prolific film-making team have made more than 15 films together, writing, directing and producing all of them, and have been nominated for 13 Oscars? They also edit their films, using the alias Rodrick Jaynes.

5 Which other famous scientist, who also has a SI unit named after him, collaborated with Lord Kelvin on the formulation of the absolute scale of temperature?

6 One Day International cricket records tend to be rewritten almost every decade, and partnership records are no exception. One partnership record though, for the 10th wicket (106 runs), has been standing since the mid-’80s. Who were the two batsmen involved?

7 Which hugely successful partnership started between a certain Mr Cohen and a Mr Greenfield in 1978 with a $12,000 investment and an outlet in Burlington, Vermont?

8 Cousins Frederic Dannay and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky from Brooklyn, New York, were prolific writers of detective fiction. Which pseudonym did they use for their writings?

9 Which legendary literary couple collaborated to start their own literary press, the Hogarth press, in 1917?

10 Which famous collaboration started with the film Flying Down to Rio in 1933 and ended with the Barkleys of Broadway in 1949?

Answers

1. Heat and Dust, which was made into a film in 1983

2. Salim and Javed, the partnership that wrote the likes of Deewaar, Sholay and Zanjeer. The original film was Haathi Mere Saathi

3. Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. It was recorded shortly after Ustad Allauddin Khan died

4. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. Films include Fargo, Miller’s Crossing and Barton Fink.

5. James Prescott Joule, after whom the SI unit of heat is named

6. Viv Richards and Michael Holding. Viv scored 189, regarded as one of the greatest innings of all time. Holding got just 12 of those runs

7. Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream.

8. Ellery Queen. Their main fictional character was also called Ellery Queen

9. Virginia and Leonard Woolf. The first UK book edition of The Wasteland was published by the press

10. Dance partners Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Their greatest hits included Top Hat and Swing Time

Joy Bhattacharjyais a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup

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