IN-FAQ. Quiz on variety

This week’s set is a mixed bag across a variety of subjects. Enjoy!

Variety show

1 This man appeared in a Lanvin chocolate commercial in 1970. He was known by many of his contemporaries as Avida Dollars, for his love for the lucre. Name him.

2 Which place in Europe is known as ‘the town of bent necks’? And why?

3 Which American basketball superstar also played professional volleyball, apart from appearing in the film Conan The Barbarian ?

4 Which is the only country to have this specific mix of fauna — capuchin monkey, spectacled bear, penguin, fox, giant tortoise, ocelot and capybara?

5 Sir William Sleeman is mostly remembered for eradicating the Thugs from India. But with which discovery was he associated when he was a captain in the Narmada Valley region in 1828?

6 You’ve all heard of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Who or what was the Non-Flying Dutchman?

7 Manatees and dugongs are aquatic herbivorous animals, close relatives of the elephant and the hyrax. To which piquantly named order of mammals do they belong?

8 Between 1979 and 1989, an international celebrity used to refer to another star as his “husband-in-law”. Name both the people in question.

9 Two of the three well-known people buried in this particular complex are the peerless musician Amir Khusro and the Mughal princess Jahanara. Which other famous medieval personality’s tomb, within the main complex, lends its name to the area?

10 Which Australian professional rules footballer and Test cricketer was nicknamed ‘Tangles’ or ‘Tanglefoot’ because of his awkward action, bowling right arm over his right leg?

Answers

1 Artist Salvador Dali

2 Herzogenaurach in Germany, where bitter rivals Puma and Adidas have their original factories. The rivalry is so intense that everyone looks down to check which brand of shoes you are wearing before even talking

3 Wilt Chamberlain

4 Ecuador, as the Galapagos Islands also belong to it

5 He discovered the first dinosaur bones in Asia

6 Dennis Bergkamp, the star footballer who is terrified of planes

7 Sirenia, from the Sirens in Homer’s Ulysses who sat on rocks and tempted passing sailors

8 George Harrison, the former Beatle, called his friend Eric Clapton by this moniker. Clapton’s former wife Patti Boyd, who inspired the songs Layla and Wonderful Tonight was formerly married to Harrison. She was also the inspiration behind the Harrison song Something

9 Nizamuddin Auliya, who is buried in the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi. Also, Mirza Ghalib’s grave is near the complex

10 Max Walker, also an extremely successful public speaker, television anchor and writer

Joy Bhattacharjya is a quizmaster;

Twitter: @joybhattacharj

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