A Quizlover's Diary

Quiz-Time Topic : ‘Aviation Pioneers’ On 16 th April, 1867, a son was born to Milton Wright and his wife Susan. They named him after a prominent American Methodist minister, educator and theologian - Wilbur Fisk. Wilbur Wright and his brother, Orville, are credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful airplane. To celebrate Wilbur’s birthday, here is a small quiz on Aviation Pioneers.   1 .         B orn in Atlanta, Texas, in 1892, she created history at the age of 30 when soared across the sky as the first African American woman pilot. One of 13 children of Susan, a maid, and George, a sharecropper, her life story was an inspiring one. Known as ‘The Only Race Aviatrix in the World’, her life ended with a tragic plane crash.   *  Who was this mercurial lady? Ans. – Bessie Coleman (In 1931, the Challenger Pilots’ Association of Chicago started ...

  Happy Birthday, Virat   On the occasion of Virat’s birthday, here comes 3 trivia for his millions of fans worldwide.    1 .        F irst contested in 1988, as the Youth World Cup, the competition was later rebranded as the ICC Under-19 World Cup. The 2008 edition was hosted by Malaysia from 17 th February to 2 nd March. During the promotional video for the tournament, Virat Kohli is seen describing himself as a ‘quick bowler’, although he didn’t have any prior experience of delivering with the new ball, nor had he shown any inclination in becoming a pacer. But as a bowler, Virat has a pretty envious record in cricket history.     It was 2011. After becoming the first country to win the ICC 50-Overs World Cup on home soil, India went to England for a tour. Humiliated by a margin of 4-0 in the Test series, India was scheduled to play just one T20I at Old Trafford, before the ODI series. Virat, not part of the Test team bac...

  A Hole in the Beard   E rnie Jones – An enigma! A legend! A folk-hero! A terror! Ernie Jones (the circled one) T here are many stories of ‘Jonah’ about his numerous on-field as well as off-field exploits. According to one such well circulated story, during a Buckingham Palace reception, the Prince of Wales had asked him whether he had attended the St Peter’s School in Adelaide. His prompt reply was - “Yes, Sir. I take the dust-cart there each Monday.” There is also another less-popular variant of this story. During a social function, Lord Hawke had once asked him whether he had been to the Adelaide University. Jones had replied, “Yes, My Lord, with a load of bloody sand.” St Peter's College, Adelaide   A former miner from Broken Hill, South Australia, Jones was a talented Australian Rules Footballer. He represented Port Adelaide, North Adelaide and South Adelaide during his Football career. But he mostly made his name as a tearaway fast bowler in the annals o...

  Happy Birthday, K..K..K..King Khan On the occasion of the birthday of Shahrukh Khan,  I am sharing 3 interesting trivia about his films. Hope you will like it.    1.         As reported during 2006, Colombian sensation Shakira expressed her desire to be a part of a hindi movie after being inspired by her Indian-themed performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Shakira and her troupe performed a hip-shaking Bollywood-inspired rendition of ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ at that  award ceremony. The routine was choreographed by our very own Farah Khan. Shakira was so impressed while working with Farah during rehearsals for the show, she asked if she could dance in her forthcoming movie. Despite lot of media reports, it ultimately turned out to be a damp squib. Instead, Farah’s directorial venture ‘Om Shanti Om’, released in 2007, had the dance number Dard-e-Disco featuring SRK.   2.          Yash...

  Quiz-Time II (Answers) Topic : ‘Films of Big B’ This set contains five questions on one of the favourite topics of the bolly-buffs. The answers are given below :--    1.         Before confirming Salil Chowdhary as the music composer for ‘Anand’, director Hrishikesh Mukherjee approached someone else (X) who had a little bit of experience of composing a few soulful numbers in the regional cinema. In fact, popular composer-singer C. Ramachandra also sang under X’s baton in one of those movies. Incidentally, X politely refused the offer which could have marked X’s debut as a music composer in the hindi film industry. Identify X.  Ans. – Lata Mangeshkar. (She used to compose music for Marathi films using a male identity – Anandghan. She wanted to keep it as a secret but was outed at an awards ceremony when one of the four Marathi films for which wrote the music ended up a multi-award winner. “No one knew I was composing ...