Answers and Scores

Here are the answers & scores for the Monthly IV . Sorry for the delay!  The set more or less lived upto the expectation of being “easy”. Zizzyphus a scored a perfect 15 and proved him the best.Take a bow ! And in come week we are going to have something special. Sharp Shooter of the week – The person who scores most of no of rite ans in a single week will be the winner. No prizes ! Just intresting trivias and fundas ! We are also planning for a Guest question series ! Do mail me your question to shootersharp731@gmail.com

Now the Answers for Monthly -IV

CTRL C & CTRL V Zizzyphus ‘s ans !

PART A

1.Sir Walter Scott Monument

2.A – Pigasus Award  B – James Randi  C – Uri Geller

3.The word Malaprop(ism) comes from Richard Sheridan ’s The Rivals and
Noam Crosby is known as “Master of the Malaprop”.

4.God’s Eye (Nebula)

5.Alph River(A) and Xanadu Hills(B) mentioned in Coleridge’s poem
Kubla Khan which itself takes its name from Kublai Khan(C)

6.A – Graham Bartram design B – Whitney Smith design C – Tierra del Fuego flag D- Magallanes Region flag
Flags of Antarctica.First two are the proposed and next two territorial flags of Antartica under
Argentina and Chile.

7.The Five or Mighty Five or the Mighty Handful refers to
Mily Balakirev,Cesar Cui,Modest Mussorgsky,Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin

8.Huey,Dewey and Louie – the trio of Disney ducks
named after Huey Long ,George Dewey and Louie Schmitt

9.John Ford point in Monument Valley named after John Ford.

10.Amulet of ‘Samarkand(A)’+ Golem(B)’s Eye+ Ptolemy’s(C) Gate = Bartimaeus Trilogy(D) by Jonathan Stroud(E)

PART B

11.Al Martina => John Fontane => Vic Fontaine => ‘James Darren’
Frank Sinatra Jr. turned the role of Vic Fontaine in Star Tek:Deep Space 9

12.Marilyn Monroe – A , Albert Einstein – B , Joseph McCarthy – C , Joe Dimaggio – D ; The connect – Insignificance The character of The Senator is played by ‘Tony Curtis’

13.’Hamilton Burger’ named by Elle Stanley Gardner after the Hamburger

14.Henry Fielding(A) – Bow Street Runners(B)-London’s first police force. Ann-Margret played Lady Booby in the film Joseph
Andrews adapted from the novel of the same name by Henry Fielding.

15.’Rock Hudson’ = ‘Rock’ of Gibraltar + ‘Hudson’ River

16.Muddy Waters(A) used the lyrics of Robert Petway(B)’s Catfish Blues for his single Rollin’ Stone
which the ‘Rolling Stones’ used it as their band name.

17.Dean Martin(A) and Jerry Lewis(B) were first guests and Melanie(C) and
Danny Davis and Nashville Brass(D) were the last guests on the ‘Ed Sullivan’ show

18.A – Dr. E. Lee Spence B – Margaret Mitchell C – George Alfred Trenholm X – Rhett Butler(’Clark Gable’)

19.National Anthem of Vatican City + Ave Maria + Romeo and Juliet = Charles Gounod
His Funeral March of a Marionette,is the theme of ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’.

20.A ‘Rock’ Paronomasia on the character names in Flinstones.

Quoting Wiki
“Jimmy Darrock” (James Darren)
“Stony Curtis” (Tony Curtis)
“Bronto Burger” (Hamilton Burger, Mason’s courtroom adversary)
“Ann-Margrock” (Ann-Margret)
“Rock Quarry/Hudstone” (Rock Hudson)
“The Rolling Boulders” (The Rolling Stones)
“Ed Sulleyrock/Sulleystone” (Ed Sullivan)
“Clark Gravel” (Clark Gable)
“Alvin Brickrock” (Alfred Hitchcock)

SCORES

1. Zizzyphus – 15

2. Captain – 9

3. Kamal Rathi – 9

4. RakoldramA – 8.5

5. Johny Walker – 7

6. Abhi -5

7. The Editor – 4.5

8. Vijay Kannan – 4

9. D-Day – 3

10. Sumit – 2.5

11. Varun – 2.5

12. Anubhav – 2

13.  Swaroon Krishna – 1

( If any mistake in the scores just drop a comment & thankz for all for attempting the set ………..)