Maximus Indiucs Quiz -Mixed Bag-III

Giving results and scores. Thanks again for response.

1) In his 1510 book The Exploits of Esplandian, Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, wrote about a mythical island, west of the Indies:
Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called X very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.
Name X.

X was California.

2) This song was a big-band/swing song which was featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, which starred amongst others Sonja Henie, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle and Joan Davis. It was performed in the film as an extended production number, featuring vocals by Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly, and the Modernaires followed by a production number showcasing Dorothy Dandridge and an acrobatic dance sequence by The Nicholas Brothers. This was the #1 song across the United States on December 7, 1941. Which song am i referring to?

Chattanooga Choo Choo

3)
Identify this famous 20th century statesman and political leader, whose masoleum is located at Anitkabir.

The statesman was Mustafa Kemal Attaturk., the Turkish leader.

4)
Born to a police commander in Panjshir, he was of Tajik origin. Though his native tongue was Persian, he was equally fluent in French, Pashto, Hindi and Urdu. He led the rebellion against the Mohd Daoud Khan's government in 1975 from the Panjshir valley. He played an active part in the revolt against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, inflicting heavy losses on the Russian troops. He was famous for his effective guerilla attacks. One of the important leaders in the Northern Alliance, he was assasinated in a suicide bombing at Khwaja Bahauddin by Arab militants. In 2001, after the fall of the Taliban, he was named as the "Hero of the Afghan Nation" and he is also nicknamed as "Lion of Panjshir".

The person was Ahmad Shah Masood.

5)Born in 1737 in Bologna, he attended the famous medical school there and became a doctor. His celebrated theory of animal electricity he enunciated in a treatise, De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius published in the 7th volume of the memoirs of the Institute of Sciences at Bologna in 1791, and separately at Modena in the following year, and elsewhere subsequently. He is noted for his famous experiments on a frog, when he saw it twitching its legs after charge was applied to it. This phenomenon was later renamed after him. Name the scientist.

The scientist was Luigi Galvani and of course the phenomenon being Galvanism.


6)

In 1776 he was was selected by Captain James Cook for the position of Sailing Master on the Resolution and accompanied Captain Cook in July 1776 on Cook's third and fatal voyage to the Pacific. He reached England again at the end of 1780 and was able to give further details of Cook's last voyage.He also went on to serve under Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, in command of HMS Glatton, a 56-gun ship of the line, which was experimentally fitted exclusively with carronades. After the battle, he was personally praised by Nelson for his contribution to the victory. He also served as the Governor of New South Wales. He would however be remembered for a very controversial incident in history, which later became the subject of a book and movies too. Name this person, and also the incident. ( 2 points).

It was William Bligh, of The Mutiny on The Bounty fame.

7)

Identify the man in the picture, and what was founded by him.( 2 points).

Cracked by many, Col Harlan Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken.

8) This word comes from a Tibetan word meaning a Mountain Pass. It was mentioned by James Hilton for the first time in his book The Lost Horizon in 1933. In the book, it is a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.The people who live there are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan.

The place is Shangri La.


9) With which controversial decision, in the history of soccer, would you associate Swiss referee Gottfried Diens and Azerbajani linesman Tofik Bakhramov with?

The 3rd Goal in the 1966 FIFA cup final between England and Germany.

10) Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1968 movie Charly as a mentally retarded baker. He is famous for a cameo in a recent superhero movie series, and one of his quotes in the movie has become very famous. Name the movie and the character he played.

Universally cracked again, Spiderman and of course Uncle Ben.

The scores

Sujatha-5
Siddartha- 4
Kamal- 10
Abinaya-4
Cintom-11
Sayantan-11
Aishwarya-10
Sukrit-9
Anand Shankar-6
Sijut-11
Sandip & Jaya-13
Anand Sivakumar-11
Hussain-4