FUNDAMENTALS
SENJAM RAJ SEKHAR
Say 221B Baker Street and you would immediately associate it with Sherlock Holmes. Find out about famous fictional addresses in this week's quiz.
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FICTIONAL ADDRESSES
1. Who is the most famous resident of 711 Maple Street, USA?
2. Wayne Manor is a huge stately mansion outside Gotham city under the care of Alfred Pennyworth. Who stays here?
3. Name the fictional thirty-eight year old advertising canvasser who stays in 7 Eccles Street in Dublin?
4. 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota - the address is a complete giveaway. Whose resides here?
5. He originally stayed at 344 Clinton St., Apt. 3B in Metropolis, a thriving city of 11 million people. Later he shifted to 1938 Sullivan Lane in the same city. Name him?
6. Apt. 56B, Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London is a residence of a fictional detective. Who?
7. Bikini Bottom is an average American city located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Who stays at 124 Conch Street in Bikini Bottom?
8. 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey is a thoroughly ordinary house on a thoroughly ordinary street. Who lives here with the Dursleys?
9. Susan Alexander is the second wife of a very famous movie character and also an important protagonist of the movie. She lives at 185 West, 74th Street, New York. Name her husband (Clue: Also the name of the movie?
10. Which children's literary character stayed at Oxenthorpe Road, Puddleby-on-the-marsh, Slopshire, England?
ANYTHING GOES
1. The original name of Genghis Khan's real name was Temujin. What does his title "Genghis Khan," literally mean? (G Parathasarathy, Chennai)
2. Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-duperron
inspired the founding of Ecole francaise D'extreme-orient (The French school of the Far East) in Hanoi, a century after his death in 1805. However his most valuable achievement related to India pertains to translation into as a two-volume Latin retranslation and commentary of a Persian of which religious rendition ? It also happened to be the first European language translation of a Hindu text. What?(dee Surendranath, Hyderabad)
3. What name is given to a phenomenon when huge groups of birds gather together, move in one large mass across the sky and even twist and turn into all different shapes?(philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
4. This place in the Shimoga district of Karnataka is nicknamed as "Cherrapunjee of South India". It is visited by a large number of tourists from June to October every year to enjoy and experience monsoon tourism. Name the place? (Abin KI, Ernakulam)
5. Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and K. L. Rahul were the first three Indians to achieve a
particular feat. Who is the fourth?(miracle Nivriti Varshit, Secunderabad)
6. This film personality was living out of his car
while writing a particular movie. He sold the rights for $1, on the condition that
he could direct it. Name the personality and the
movie? (P Mohan, Coimbatore)
7. What popular pizza was invented in Canada by a Greek immigrant called Sam Panopoulos? (Pranab Ghosh,
Kolkata)