The Firstpost year-end whopper quiz

As we say goodbye to 2011, let’s take stock at how much of the year’s events affected you. Here are 50 questions, almost all relating to the year gone by. Unlike the Weekly Firstpost quiz, this is not a multiple choice one. You either know the answer or you don’t.

The questions are arranged in sets of ten, followed by answers also in sets of ten.

Here we go, with the first ten. Have fun. And, lest we forget, have a great 2012!

Question 1: What was the most watched video on Youtube in 2011? (It also has the most dislikes)

Question 2: Who is Amul making fun of? In what context?

Question 3: Which of these is not a commercial partner at the London 2012 Olympic Games? Coke, Acer, Rolex, Dow, McDonald’s and Atos?

Question 4: Which English newspaper shut down two editions last month? Which were the editions?

Question 5: What is the name of the Sunday edition of The Sun newspaper in England?

Question 6: Why should this cartoonist be in the news? Name the cartoonist and say why.

Question 7: Sonu Nigam’s son has also sung Kolaveri. What is his name?

Question 8: What logo do we see on Sehwag’s bat?  Is the logo on Sehwag’s bat on the front or the back?

Question 9: What is Hindustan Times’ Sunday magazine called?

Question 10: Who is his daughter?

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Answer 1: Video of the song “Friday” by Rebecca Black.

Answer 2: SM Krishna, when he read the speech of the Portuguese Foreign Minister at the UN

Answer 3: Rolex. Omega is the time sponsor

Answer 4: Mid-Day. Delhi and Bangalore.

Answer 5: It has no Sunday edition.

Answer 6: Mario Miranda, who died earlier this month

Answer 7: Nevaan Nigam

Answer 8: Hero. On the front and the back.

Answer 9: Brunch

Answer 10: this is Bhaskar Ghose. His daughter is Sagarika Ghose of CNNIBN.

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Question 11: What was her real name?

Question 12: Newsweek said this man had “supplanted Leonardo DiCaprio as Japan’s trendiest heartthrob”. Who are we talking about?

 Question 13: In which Tintin comic do the words “Kya hai ji?” appear?

Question 14: On what day of the week does the Times of India Crest edition get published?

Question 15: Name this person’s father.

Question 16: Who are we talking about? “He did his schooling at Don Bosco, Egmore and college at Loyola. He has appeared as an  MI6 agent. He also appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as a starship captain. He was also a regular character in the NBC TV series The Last Precinct and the Yakov Smirnoff comedy What a Country, as well as a guest star on various television shows such as Hart to Hart. He has been a judge at the Miss Universe pageant.”

Question 17: You’ve heard and seen Kolaveri on Youtube. Which company has produced it?

Question 18: Who is being described here? “Completed from IIT Delhi in 2005, joined Sarnoff as a software engineer in 2005, moved to Amazon in 2007, left Amazon in 2007 to start his own company”.

Question 19: “It is said that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Nikita Khrushchev, Queen Elizabeth II are some of the dignitaries to have dined there. It has also won MTV’s award for the Most Stylish Place in Bangalore.” Name the restaurant.

Question 20: These are the first words from which book? “Mr. and Mrs. Dursely, of number 4 Privet Drive, were very proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

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Answer 11: Vijayalakshmi

Answer 12: Rajanikanth

Answer 13: Tintin in Tibet

Answer 14: Saturday

Answer 15: Aroon Purie. This is Koel Purie.

Answer 16: Vijay Amritraj

Answer 17: Sony Music

Answer 18: Flipkart’s Binny Bansal

Answer 19: Koshy’s

Answer 20: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s (or sorcerer’s) stone

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Question 21: In an ad for Kent water purifiers, what does Hema Malini claim it delivers?

Question 22: What is the full name of Aamir Khan’s new child?

Question 23: Who is this person? (he died recently).

Question 24: Name the model in this ad:

Question 25: What is the name of the new horseracing championship announced by the Times of India Group?

Question 26: Name the three.

Question 27: Name two Indians (individuals or companies) who have stakes in the English premier League teams

Question 28: Name this video. Why does it have over 6 million views?

Question 29: Who is this girl? Why was she in the news?

Question 30: You’ve all heard of TED. Now expand T, E and D.

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Answer 21: Sabse shudh paani

Answer 22: Azad Rao Khan

Answer 23: Brazilian footballer Socrates

Answer 24:  Former Miss India, Manisha Kohli

Answer 25: R1

Answer 26: Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch

Answer 27: Lakshmi Mittal and Venky’s, in QPR and Blackburn Rovers

Answer 28: Me at the zoo. This was the first video uploaded on YouTube. Watch the video here .

Answer 29: Milly Dowler, the murdered girl whose phone was hacked into by News of the World

Answer 30: Technology, Entertainment, Design

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Question 31: What is the minimum number of matches a team plays in the Barclay’s Premier League in a season?

Question 32: On what date did this Google Doodle appear?

Question 33: Who was Time magazine’s person of the year in 2010?

Question 34: Who has sued Suhel Seth for Rs. 200 crore?

Question 35: Who is Time magazine’s Person of the Year 2011?

Question 36: Who is this person?

Question 37: In what context do we know Rahul Parulekar?

Question 38: Which personality came to India to watch the F1 and had to leave early because the president of India wanted to meet him?

Question 39: Harbhajan Singh lost his passport, license, money, etc, when his car was broken into. What was the make of the car?

Question 40: Name the former minister for Information and Broadcasting who is currently in a coma

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Answer 31: 38 minimum, 38 maximum

Answer 32: January 01, 2011

Answer 33: Mark Zuckerberg

Answer 34: ITC

Answer 35: The protestor

Answer 36: Sebastian Coe

Answer 37: He was the official translator of Anna Hazare’s blog till he and Anna Hazare fell out

Answer 38: Sir Richard Branson

Answer 39: Ford Endeavour

Answer 40: Priya Ranjan Das Munsi

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Question 41: This happened earlier this month in Japan. Name four brands of cars involved in the accident. No part marks.

Question 42: What is this woman’s original name?

Question 43: We have done testing over the past two days in our office and can conclude that putting Vaseline on the side of a cricket bat has no discernible effect on our ____ _____ system.” Fill in the blanks

Question 44: On what day of the week did News of the World publish the last edition of the newspaper?

Question 45: Who is this woman?

Question 46: Google.co.in is not offered in which of these languages: Hindi Bengali Telugu Marathi Tamil Gujarati Kannada Oriya Malayalam Punjabi?

Question 47: Who is this? What program (precise name, please) does he appear in on STAR World?

Question 48: Who is Dr. Firuza Parikh?

Question 49: What is the full name of this park?

Question 50:  “It is located 881 m (2,890 ft) above mean sea level on the Cardamom Hills of Western Ghats in Thekkadi, Idukki District of Kerala, India. It was constructed between 1887 and 1895 by the British Government.” What is being described here?

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Answer 41: Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Lamborghini, Toyota

Answer 42: Karen Malhotra

Answer 43: Hot Spot

Answer 44: Sunday, obviously, since it was a Sunday newspaper

Answer 45: Anuradha Desai of Venkateshwara Hatcheries/ Venky’s/ Blackburn Rovers

Answer 46: Oriya

Answer 47: Gary Mehigan. Masterchef Australia

Answer 48: The doctor who heads Jaslok’s IVF department, the one overseeing the birth of Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s baby

Answer 49: Rashtriya Dalit Smarak

Answer 50: The Mullaperiyar dam