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1)
Identify this popular British playwright, actor, director and composer. His father was a piano salesman, and his maternal grandfather Henry Veitch was a surveyor in Royal Navy. His 1924 play Vortex earned him lot of fame and acclaim. Also famous for his plays Hay Fever, Private Lives many of which have been adapted to screen. He worked with the British Secret Service during WW2, and also acted in movies like The Italian Job(1969).
NOEL COWARD
2) This Graham Greene novel is a murder thriller, and is centered around Pinkie Brown, a teen sociopath and anti hero character. Like most of the other Graham Greene novels, this also explores themes of sin, morality and Catholic sensibilities.
BRIGHTON ROCK
3) Connect "Cooler King", "Scrounger", " Tunnel King", "Forger", "Mole".
NICKNAMES OF CHARACTERS IN THE GREAT ESCAPE.
4) The only fiction novel to be written by him was Savrola, set in the fictional land of Laurania, and deals with the revolution against its despotic ruler Antonia Molara. The author later won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. Name him.
WINSTON CHURCHILL.
5) Identify this person during his much younger days.
This is of course SATYAJIT RAY, taken during his Shantiniketan days.
6) The book dealing with a well known WW2 operation takes it's name from a comment made by Gen . Frederick Browning to Gen. Bernard Montogomery-"I think we may be going ____________".
A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
7)
Identify the person in the picture.
MAHATMA GANDHI, as a volunteer during the Boer War.
8)
Identify this anti apartheid activist, a student leader and founder of Black Consciousness Movement. He was famous for his slogan "Black is Beautiful". Arrested by the cops in 1977 under Anti terrorism act, he died in prison of torture. He is also the author of the book "I write what i like".
STEVE BIKO
9) He died on 25th Dec, 1977 in Vevey, Switzerland. On March 1,1978 his corpse was stolen by some Swiss mechanics, who wanted to extort money from his family. The robbers were arrested later, and his retrieved corpse was reburried under 2 m of concrete to prevent further attempts.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
10) The name of this fictional island means "Cloudy Island" in Spanish. It is located 120 miles away from coast of Costa Rica. It measures 8 miles long and 3 miles wide.
ISLA NULBAR. which became famous in JURASSIC PARK.( Pls note that Jurassic Park does not get points, i was looking for the name of the Island specifically).
The theme was of course SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH.
He made his debut with NOEL COWARD's In Which we Serve. He acted in the movie version of BRIGHTON ROCK, and was "Mr. Big" in THE GREAT ESCAPE. He of course directed biopics on WINSTON CHURCHILL( Young Winston), MAHATMA GANDHI( Gandhi), STEVE BIKO( Cry Freedom) and CHARLIE CHAPLIN( Chaplin). He also directed the movie A BRIDGE TOO FAR, based on the disastrous Operation Market Garden. And yes who could ever forget him as Sir John Hammond in JURASSIC PARK. He also acted as Gen Outram in SATYAJIT RAY's Shatranj Ke Khilari.
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