Oscar Awards Quiz

1. Which was the first colour movie to win the Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Who holds the record of winning the Best Director award most no.of times ?
3. Which art director designed the Oscar statuette ?
4. Who was the first to win an Oscar for Best Actress for a role in a foreign language film ?
5. Which Oscar winning movie was a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion ?
6. Who directed the Oscar winning film The Last Emperor, based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu-Yi ?
7. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 8 minutes long role in 1998 film Shakespeare in Love ?
8. Which two actors share the distinction of being nominated for Oscar 7 times without a single win ?
9. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando win his first Oscar ?
10. Who became the youngest to win a Best Actor Oscar in 2002 ?
11. The Oscar winning film Braveheart is based on the life of which English king ?
12. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta ?
13. Which film by William Wyler based on Bible won a record 11 Oscars in 1959 ?
14. In which name the Oscar winning actor Krishna Bhanji became popular ?
15. Which 1985 Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Oscars, without winning a single award ?
16. Who was the director of 1976 film Dersu Uzala that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film ?
17. Who is the only woman to have won a Best Director Oscar ?
18. Which musical won 8 Oscars in 1958 ?
19. Who was the first to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1928 ?
20. The Oscar nominated film The Miracle Worker tells the story of which famous teacher and student ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. John Ford, 4 times
3. Cedric Gibbons
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. My Fair Lady, 1964
6. Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Judi Dench
8. Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton
9. On the Waterfront, 1954
10. Adrien Brody
11. William Wallace
12. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull in 1980
13. Ben-Hur
14. Ben Kingsley
15. The Colour Purple
16. Akira Kurasowa
17. Katheryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Gigi
19. Janet Gaynor
20. Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

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Cricket Quiz 1

This is the first edition of Cricket Quiz. Only Men's Cricket has been reffered to here.

Questions

1. In which year the International Cricket Council was founded ?
2. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in Test Cricket ?
3. Who holds the record for highest individual score in the World Cup ?
4. Who was the first player to be declared out by the third umpire in an international match ?
5. Sunil Gavaskar has taken only one wicket in Test Cricket. Who was his victim ?
6. Which player was known as Black Bradman ?
7. Which player scored century in his debut match, debut match as capain and the final match in Test Cricket ?
8. Who is the only player to have hit 6 sixes in an over in ODI ?
9. 'Straight from the Heart' is the autobiography of which Cricketer ?
10. Which company sponsored the first three world cup trophies ?
11. Who was the Player of the Tournament in 1999 World Cup ?
12. Which is the largest Cricket stadium in the world ?
13. Which Cricketer was called Big Cat ?
14. Which was the first country to win by 10 wickets in a One-day match ?
15. Which English king banned Cricket in 1365 ?
16. Who is the only player to have won 4 consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs ?
17. Which country holds the record for highest team total in both Test and ODI Cricket ?
18. Who scored the fastest double hundred in Test Cricket ?
19. Which umpire is known for his 'slow death' style of indicating a batsman is out ?
20. Which stadium hosted the first international Day-Night match ?

Answers

1. 1909
2. S R Spolforth
3. Gary Kirsten, 188* v/s UAE, 1996
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan
6. George Headley
7. Greg Chappel
8. Herschelle Gibbs, v/s Netherlands
9. Kapildev
10. Prudential Insurance
11. Lance Klusner, South Africa
12. Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia
13. Clive Lloyd
14. India, in 1975 v/s East Africa
15. Edward III
16. Sourav Ganguly
17. Sri Lanka
18. Adam Gilchrist
19. Rudi Koertzen, South Africa
20. Sydney Cricket Ground

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Music Quiz 1

1. Who is considered the father of Orchestra ?
   
2. Which music band has won the most number of Grammy awards till date ?


3. Who was the first Indian musician to do a symphony ?


4. Who composed the ballet Swans in the Lake ?


5. Who edited the book The Pelican History of Music ?


6. Which musical instrument was invented by Italian Bartolommeo Christofori ?


7. Which musician scored for the film Chariots of Fire to win an Oscar ?


8. Who are known as the trinity of Carnatic Music ?


9. Singer Harry Rodger Webb became popular in what name ?


10. Bouzouki is a string instrument from where ?


11. The song "Horst-Wessel-Lied" was the anthem of which infamous political party ?


12. Which instrument is known as the King of Orchestra ?


13. The word Music was formed from the Greek for Muses' Art. Who are the Muses ?


14. Whom did Ringo Starr replace to join the Beatles ?


15. Which jazz trumpeter was called the 'Prince of Darkness' ?


16. Which Beethoven symphony was a tribute to Nepoleon Bonaparte ?


17. Graceland was the home of which Rock N Roll legend ?


18. Which Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government during apartheid ?


19. Who composed the background score of the Satyajit Ray film Pather Panchali ?


20. The Salzburg Music Festival commommorates which music legend ?

Answers

1. Joseph Haydn
2. U2
3. Ilaiyaraja
4. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens
6. Piano
7. Vangelis
8. Thyagaraja Swamikal, Mutthuswami Dikshithar and Shyama Shastrikal
9. Cliff Richard
10. Greece
11. Nazi Party
12. Violin
13. Muses are the 9 sons of Greek god Zeus
14. Pete Best
15. Miles Davis
16. Eroica
17. Elvis Presley
18. Another Brick in the Wall
19. Pandit Ravishankar
20. Wolfgang Mozart

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United Nations Specialised Agencies

Agency, Founding Year and Headquarters

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO] - 1946 - Paris

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund [UNICEF] - 1946 - New York

United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] - 1972 - New York

United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP] - 1972 - Nairobi

United Nations Fund for Population Activities [UNFPA] - 1969 - New York

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] - 1950 - Geneva

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation [UNIDO] - 1967 - Vienna

United Nations Institute for Training and Research [UNITAR] - 1965 - New York

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD] - 1964 - Geneva

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [UNRWA] - 1949 - New York

International Labour Organisation [ILO] - 1919 - Geneva

International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] - 1957 - Vienna

Food and Agriculture Organisation [FAO] - 1945 - Rome

World Health Organisation [WHO] - 1948 - Geneva

World Meteorological Organisation [WMO] - 1950 - Geneva

International Maritime Organisation [IMO] - 1948 - London

International Development Association [IDA] - 1960 - Washington DC

International Finance Corporation [IFC] - 1956 - Washington DC

International Civil Aviation Organisation [ICAO] - 1947 - Montreal

Universal Postal Union [UPU] - 1875 - Berne

International Telecommunication Union [ITU] - 1932 - Geneva

International Fund for Agricultural Development [IFAD] - 1977 - Rome

World Intellectual Property Organisation [WIPO] - 1970 - Geneva

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International Mother Language Day: History and Facts

The International Mother Language Day is observed annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The observation was first announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999.
International Mother Language Day observation was inspired from the Language Movement Day commemorated in Bangladesh since 1952.

History

On 21 March 1948, Pakistan Governor General Mohammed Ali Jinnah declared Urdu as the only official language for both West and East Pakistan. The people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh ) started to protest against this as Bangla was their mother tongue. As a part of protest, students in Dhaka called for a provincial strike on 21 February 1952. The government declared a curfew at the place. But the students did not withdraw the strike but continued peacefully. The Pakistani police fired on the students despite these peaceful protests and 4 students were killed. The Mother Language Day commommorates this incident.

Other Facts

United Nations declared 2008 as the International Year of Languages to recognise the Mother Language Day movement.

The Linguapax Institute of Spain awards Linguapax Prize on every Mother Language Day to linguists, researchers, professors and members of the civil society 'in acknowledgement of their outstanding work in the field linguistic diversity or multilingual education'. The award was instituted in 2002.

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