FELUWOOD QUIZ

 Final rules
 Written round 1.0
 Mixed bag 1.0 = 20 questions
 Mixed bag 2.0 = 20 questions

5 Questions
+5 for each correct answers
Extra 5 for full house

X is an Indian brand
of automobile which was
produced in Madras from
1949 to 1988. Y is a small
two-door car body design by
the Italian stylist Giovanni
Michelotti, Badged in the
Indian market as the X-Y,
Y was originally heavily
dependent on British parts,
but as these were gradually
replaced by indigenous items
as local content increased.
By 1965 engines, gearboxes,
and axles were all made in
India. In 1966 the X-Y Mark
II was introduced.
ID THE CAR BRAND X-Y ?

X was an Odawa war chief known
for his role in the war named for
him, from 1763 to 1766
leading Native Americans in a
struggle against British military
occupation of the Great Lakes
region.
A car brand owned, made, and
sold by General Motors .
Introduced as a companion
make for GM's more expensive
line of automobiles , named after
the famous Ottawa chief who had
also given his name to the city
of X in Michigan where the car
was produced.
NAME THE BRAND ?

X was an automobile built from 1909
through 1939 by the X Motor Car
Company. In 1909, Bobby X co-founded X
Motor Car Company, with Charles
Hastings, who put up the first US$8,500
toward manufacturing X's car . They were
one of the very first U.S. automakers to
equip their cars with "free wheeling" a
device that enjoyed immense, but brief,
popularity in automobiles in the 1930s.
They also pioneered fresh-air car heaters .
Name the car brand ?

Adam X was the founder of the
German automobile company .
The company was founded 1862
. In the beginning, X
produced sewing machines. In
1888. X launched a new product
in 1886 began to sell high-
wheel bicycles, also known
as penny-farthings . At the time
of X's death in 1895, he was the
leader in both markets. The first
cars were produced in 1899 after
X's wife Sophie and their two
eldest sons entered into a
partnership with Friedrich
Lutzmann .
ID X ?

X was a British engineering
group that operated during the
first half of the 20th century. It
was formed in 1919 and is
best known for the production
of luxury vehicles and aircraft
engines. The week that World
War II ended in Europe, X
introduced its first post-war
models. The names of these
models echoed the names
of aircraft produced by
the Hawker X Group during
the war. NAME THE CAR
BRAND ?

 Mixed bag 1.0
 10 marks for each question
 In case of pounce, +10 for correct and -10 for wrong
answer

The Saraswati Purashkar is an
annual award for outstanding
prose or poetry literary works , it
was given by Rustamji Poetic
Trust, In early 1970 The award
was given to X for his novel Y, X
was a amateur writer Y is his first
novel.
Identify the novel and the writer.

Feluda + Bollywood A Set by Sourav Basu

Kaliprasanna Singha was
a Bengali author. His most
famous work was the
translation of the ancient
Hindu epic Mahabharata into
Bengali , How Klaiprasanna
Singha’s Mahabharat total
page number (934 ) help to
make some extra income to
a person named Asim Sarkar
who worked in Kalighat Post
office ?

X is a 1972 Bollywood film directed
by Mohammed Hussain. The film
stars Helen and Dara Singh. This movie is
based on a person named X who fought
against British imperialists who used to
torture Indians. X ka quila is located in
Najibabad city , During British colonial rule
, the local faceless dacoit X who robbed
British trains in the night and thus held
some patriotic value for the locals.
A Pathan, takes advantage of the
mysteriousness of the faceless dacoit , by
impersonating his identity to rob British
ferry trains. The X clans eventually find out
and order the banishment of the Pathan
and his family from __________. After few
years , Pathan traveling to Varanasi for
business but instead has him murdered by
an assassin named Yadav Ji ,
What was the result of this
murder & Name the movie X ?

জল পড়ে পাতা নড়ে
সম্মুখ সমড়ে পডে, বীে-চূোমডি
বীেবাহু, চডল যড়ব গেলা যমপুড়ে
অকাড়ল...

He was an early Christian saint .
According to traditional belief, he was
killed during the Roman
emperor Diocletian's persecution of
Christians, initially being tied to a
post or tree and shot with arrows,
though this did not kill him. He was,
according to tradition, rescued and
healed by Saint Irene of Rome, which
became a popular subject in 17th-
century painting. In all versions of the
story, shortly after his recovery he
went to Diocletian to warn him about
his sins, and as a result was clubbed
to death .
In late 2000 , Something named after
this person is main destination of Four
friends , One dacoit , one police
officer & One person who was
namesake to a Former left-handed
Indian batsman .
WHO IS HE ?

This wrong sequence of food
helped Feluda to get the first
clue in a particular case.
How?

The historic overseas bank was
established in London in 1828
as Leslie & Grindlay, agents and
bankers to the British army and
business community in India.
Banking operations expanded to
include the Indian subcontinent &
the Middle East . It was
styled Grindlay, Christian &
Matthews in 1839, Grindlay &
Co from 1843, Grindlay & Co
Ltd from 1924 and Grindlays Bank
Ltd in 1947 until its merger with
the National Bank of India,
A chemical company owner bought
something behalf of this company
cheque with 1000 Rs from a person
who lived in Darjeling
What did he buy ?

Name the poem by Dilip Purushottam Chitre , who was one of
the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post
Independence India.

William Godwin was an English
journalist, and novelist. Godwin is most
famous for two books that he published
within the space of a year: An Enquiry
Concerning Political Justice, an attack
on political institutions, and The
Adventures of Caleb Williams, an early
mystery novel which
attacks aristocratic privilege.
He was Father in law of X, who was one of
the major Romantic poet, who is regarded
by some as among the
finest lyric and philosophical poet. X
drowned in a sudden storm on the Gulf of
Spezia while returning from Leghorn
to Lerici in his sailing boat, The Don Juan .
When Feluda asked Sidhu jetha about
Godwin Family Sidhu Jetha first said when
someone talk about Godwin he remembered
first X’s Father in law name .
WHO IS X ?
William Godwin

X's role in Y movie was based on a real life
character. Abrar Alvi and his friends were
visiting Bombay and they decided to visit the red
light area. Alvi got talking to a girl who called
herself Gulabo . According to Alvi "As I left, she
thanked me in a broken voice, saying that it was
the first time that she had been treated with
respect, in a place where she heard only abuses.
I used her exact words in the film. This was X’s
first major leading role in Hindi cinema, where
the character name was very close to Gulabo.
X made her debut in Raj khosla movie and has a
unique record in Bollywood history,
In early 2000 a same name movie released
where a MISS WORLD made her debut in
bollywood .
ID X & Y ?

It is a string instrument
constructed out of a piece
of mango wood, featuring a
round resonator covered
in goat leather. Three of its
strings are made of
goat intestine, while the
other fourteen are made of
steel. It is one of the oldest
string instruments in the
world played with a bow . It
is a key presence in
Rajasthani folk music.
ID The Music Instrument ?

In 1957, the Asahi Optical Company introduced
the X , a 35 mm Single-lens reflex
camera (SLR) camera which was so well received
that it influenced the design of 35 mm SLRs
worldwide for years to come. The X and its later
development and likewise classic 1964 X
Spotmatic allowed Asahi Optical Company to
develop into a photographic multinational company,
eventually leading the company to rename itself “X"
after its seminal product. The two photographic
giants, Canon and Nikon did not introduce their own
SLR cameras until 1959 with the Canonflex and
the F-series respectively. By contrast, The X offered
these features at a relatively low price.
ID THE CAMERA BRAND ?

an eminent Indian physician and politician who served as
the Chief Minister of West Bengal . He is often considered the
Maker of Modern West Bengal due to his key role in the
founding of five eminent
cities, Durgapur, Kalyani, Bidhannagar, Ashokenagar & Habra.
an Indian politician who served as Chief
Minister of Maharashtra from 1963 until 1975. To this
date, he remains as the longest-serving Chief Minister
of Maharashtra.
He is the one who played a pivotal role to give
travel a 'literature form', was one of the most widely
travelled scholars of India.
He toured Europe in 1933 and became one of the
first Indian musicians to perform in Europe.
During this tour, he performed privately for Benito
Mussolini.
These are some famous personalities for whom a
certain person named Raghu used to do a certain
work ,,,WHAT WAS THAT JOB ?

Film: Mome Ki Gudiya
(1972)
Music : Laxmikant
Pyarelal
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Singers : X , Lata
Mangeshkar
Director: Mohan Kumar

George Bogle (1746–1781), diplomat
Augustus Cleveland , colonial administrator
Captain Edward Cooke, (1772-1799), Royal Navy officer
X (1809–1831), teacher and poet
Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809), judge
Y (1746–1794), Indologist,
Colonel Robert Kyd (1746–1793), botanist
Walter Landor Dickens , son of English
novelist Charles Dickens

Jalal Agha was an Indian actor . He
was the son of the popular comedian
actor Agha. His most famous role was
in the blockbuster hit Sholay, where
he played the Rubab player in the
popular song Mehbooba O' Mehbooba.
He made his debut in one of the
biggest epic movie of bollywood
where he played the roll of X .
X was made a Mansabdar of ten
thousand , the highest military rank of
the empire . He independently
commanded a regiment in the Kabul
campaign when he was barely twelve.
His Mansab was raised to Twelve
Thousand, at the time of his betrothal
to his cousin Rajkumari Man Bai,
daughter of Bhagwant Das of Amer.
ID X ?

Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim or Jahangir

X is a central figure in the legends of
the Hindu God Vithoba, generally
considered a Vaishnava deity identified
with the deities Vishnu and Krishna. He is
credited to have brought Vithoba
to Pandharpur, where Vithoba's central
shrine stands today., X was one of the
earliest Kundalini Yoga practitioners. As
He was the master of Kundalini Yoga,
people used to call him "Kundalik". Later,
after several years, Kundalik become X. .
The movie X is based on the God, is
recognised as the first feature-
length Indian film. Some have argued
that X does not deserve the honour of
being called the first Indian film because
it was a photographic recording of a
popular Marathi play, and because the
cameraman—a man named Johnson—was
a British national and the film was
processed in London. ID X /

Anita Guha was an Indian Bengali
actress. She came to Mumbai in the
1950s as a beauty contestant when
she was 15 years old . She became an
actress there and made her film debut
in Tonga-wali (1955). She moved on to
hit films such as Dekh Kabira Roya
, Sharada , and Goonj Uthi Shehnai .
But it was her title role in X that
brought her the most fame , It was
only a guest appearance, and her
scenes were shot in 10–12 days, The
low-budget movie was a surprise hit,
and broke box office records while
becoming a cultural phenomenon .
This movie X was responsible for
changing the taste in films of a
Mumbai based director and that was a
problem for an unmarried Bengali
gentleman.
Name the movie & what change am I
talking about ?

 Extra 5 for full house
 6 R.K. Laxman cartoons. You have to identify the
person.

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Exchange your papers

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Jeevan

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Geeta Bali

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Padmini

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Durga Khote

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Nalini Jaywant

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Meena Shorey

 Mixed bag 2.0
 In case of pounce, +10 for correct and -10 for wrong
answer

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 X is a novel first published in 1892. It is possible that
Bram Stoker took inspiration from this for
his 1897 novel Dracula. Due to the local
toponomy, it is assumed that a certain building in
hunedoara County of Romania inspired the author.
Topse was seen reading this book and
praising it in 'Gangtok e gondogol'.
 Name the novel.
 Name the author.

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 'Best female singer award' at a certain award
ceremony. After an intense competition,
Monali Thakur won the award that year.
But after going on to stage, she refused to
accept the award. Rather she hands over the
award to X, who according to Thakur is more
deserving.
 So identify this extra ordinary talent (X)

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 Feluda - a military moustache and a small haired
wig.
 Topse - moustache, beard and park Street like
curly hair.
 Jatayu - French cut beard and curly hair.
 So in a fine evening of a Saturday, this trio
took this disguise to go somewhere in Kolkata.
Just tell me what was their destination.

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Kolkata Race Ground

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 'Blow up' is a 1966 mystery thriller film directed by
Michelangelo ________. It follows a London based
fashion photographer, who believes he has
unwittingly witnessed a murder and takes
photographs of this killing.
So something was done more than one and a half
decade later to pay homage to that incident through
another film.
What?

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 In the film ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro', the park in
which the murder took place was named as
‘Antonioni Park'

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 In 'Ebar Kando Kedarnath e', when Umashankar
Puri came to meet Feluda and co, Topse felt
uncomfortable seeing Mr Puri for the first time.
He expressed his doubt that Mr Puri has done
something that one out of hundred male
does.
 What did Mr Puri do?

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 চুড়লে ডান ডিড়ক ডসিঁডি

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 'Andhadhun' director Shiram Raghavan wanted
to write the script of Andhadhun in the latter
part of 2016. But after reading about another
film (X), Raghavan stopped writing : "it would
be a bit crazy to have two movies about visually
impaired people".
 Which film was he referring to?

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 X is the main character of a renowned novel
which was published in 1884 and written by
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
 Y II was the Mughal emperor from 1754-1759. He
was the son of Jahander Shah. Though his actual
name was Aziz ud din, he took the title Y after
ascending the throne.
 Now in a certain institution, X was about to end
and Y was about to start. In between a kidnap
and a murder took place.
 So identify X, Y and the institution.

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 X - Prafulla
 Y - Alamgir
 Apsara theatre er mamla

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 In the year 1967, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi's
mother Sajida Sultana was coming to Mumbai to
meet Sharmila Tagore. This news worried Tagore for
a certain reason. Poster of one of Tagore's acted films
(X) was all over the Mumbai streets then. She
immediately spoke to the producers of the film and
got all the posters removed from the streets
of Mumbai.
 What was in those posters?
 Also identify the film that a huge hit that time.

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 Sharmila Tagore was wearing bikini ( probably
1st bikini in Bollywood films)
 An evening in Paris

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 X is a genus of 1024 species of woody plants in
the heath family. It is the national flower of
Nepal, as well as the state flower of West
Virginia and Washington. It is also the state
tree of Sikkim.
 So what is X and how did it help Feluda in a very
critical situation? Feluda admitted that his
bones would be fractured if X was not
there.

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 Rhododendron. In 'Darjeeling jomjomat', when
Feluda was thrown in the mountain dip, he was
stuck in the rhododendron tree and thus saved
his life

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 While giving review of a Bollywood movie (X), critic
Mayank Sekhar of the W14.com says, "most movies have
definite beginning, middle and end, or what playwrights
call the three-act structure in a script. There doesn't seem
to be one here. The genre it comes closest to is an epic,
spelt with a capital E, along the lines of say Francis
Coppola's Godfather trilogy, or this film's
immediate inspiration Martin Scorsese's Y. Now
the two movies X and Y have two places in their
names, which are miles apart from each other,
both in distance and glamour.
 Name both the movies.

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 In the story 'Nayan Rahasya', when Feluda and
co went to Madras, they decided to go to a tourist
attraction on the first day. There Jatayu saw
something and whispered to Nayan, he would gift
a book written by him to Nayan when he grows
up.
 Which book did Jatayu promise to give? Name
of the book is very much relevant with
what they saw in that tourist attraction.

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 Karal Kumbhir (they saw crocodile in the
Snake Park)

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Dilip Dhawan
Naseeruddin Shah
Bhisham Sahni
Pavan Malhotra
Connect this four with a National award winning person.

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 Played titular characters in Saeed Akhtar Mirza
movies
 Arvind Desai ki Ajeeb Dastaan
 Albert Pinto ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hain
 Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho
 Salim Langde pe Maat Ro

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 X is a mineral with the chemical formula
Be3Al2Si6O18. Pure X is colourless. But it is
frequently tinted by impurities. Possible colours
are green, blue, yellow, red and white. The blue
one can be found in a Latin American
country.
 I don't want X. Just tell me how do we better
know X in context of Feluda stories.

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 Name the original film and music director.

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 In the story 'Shakuntolar Konthohar', it is seen that
everyone in Shakuntala Devi's family has a Christian
name and a Hindu name. One of the main characters
in the story Hector Jayanta Biswas, the son-in-law of
Shakuntala Devi, has a son and a daughter. Now the
son leads a bohemian lifestyle, however his two
word name (one Christian, one Hindu) can
remind you of two actors of Tollywood film
industry.
 Just name him.

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 Victor Prosenjit Biswas

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 X is a 1960 Bollywood film starring Balraj Sahni and
Leela Naidu in lead roles. The film was based on a
short story written by Sachin Bhowmik, first
published in Desh magazine.
 Y is a 1993 Bollywood film directed by Ketan Mehta
starring Deepa Sahi in lead role.
 Both the movies are based on a 1856 critically
acclaimed French novel. Name both the movies
and the novel.

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 Anuradha
 Maya memsaab
 Madame Bovary

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 Nymphaeaccae, commonly known as ____ __ is a flower that
are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and
flowers flooding.
 __________ is a woody perennial herb with white, pink,
purple or blue flowers, native to Mediterranean region.
 The Rose _____ is a member of the 'David Austin Roses'
collection. This flower also shares its name with a
character from Shakespearean drama.
 So apart from being flowers or plants, what connects these
three, which can be kept in today's quiz?

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 Water lily
 Rosemary
 Miranda
 The three houseboats in 'Bhusworgo
Bhoyonkor'

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 ‘Saraswatichandra’ is a 1968 film starring
Nutan in the lead role. A very melodious
song from the film sung by Mukesh, was
given tribute by a 2019 hit TVF web
series. The main characters (siblings) of
the series were named after three words
used in the mukhra of the song.
 Name the song and the web series.

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 Statesman - Kolkata edition
 Statesman - Delhi edition
 X
 In a series of event, if the above
mentioned two newspapers are the first
two, then name the third one.

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 Times newspaper of London
 Feluda gave advertisement in these three
newspaper in search of Peter Dexter in 'London
e Feluda'

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 Name the movie

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