) Dostovyesky called this the saddest book ever written.

The book also had a sty listic first, exhibiting the first example of a novel in a novel. Freud is said to have derived his Theory of Psycho-analysis from this book. Dostovyesky also c alled the principle character, one of the two most beautiful people in the world , the other being Jesus Christ. Which book? # Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Ujjwal Deb got this one. 2) When ships of Strongbow were entering Waterford harbour, he noticed a church on one side, and a tower on another. On inquiring, he was told that they were th e Tower of ___, and the Church of ___. Then, he said that they must take the tow n by ____. Fill in the last blank. # Hook or by Crook, it was the Church of Hook and the Tower of Crook, pretty wo rkable I think, a good try was 'Hell and High Water' 3) What is common to the books, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, by Dorothy L. Sayers Gone to Earth, by Mary Webb Carnival, by Compton McKenzie William, by E.H. Young Twenty-Five, by E.H. Nichols Poet's Pub, by Eric Linklater A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway Madame Claire, by Susan Ertz and finally, Ariel, by Andre Maurois ? # These were the first Penguin paperbacks, pretty tough, I guess. 4) Brother Fountain, the son of Robert and Elizabeth, was such a remarkable char acter, that somebody scribbled in his baptism book, 'England's plague for 5 year s'. Who am I referring to? # Brother Fountain is a pseudonym of Oliver Cromwell 5) A.A Milne wrote Winnie The Pooh at Cotchford Farm, in Sussex. Something of pe rhaps greater importance, especially in the music world happenned there on July 3, 1969 there. What? # Brian Jones, perhaps the most gifted of the Stones died in his pool. 6) Music again, which band got its name from the book, Primal Scream by Arthur J anov? # Tears for Fears. 7) 'Outsiders', made in 1983, had a cast comprising Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emi lio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe etc. It also had a cameo by another actor, who played his namesake in the movie. Who? # Nicolas Cage, who starred as Nicolas Coppola. 8) A young expatriate American living in Canada, was wandering past the video ar cades on Vancouver's Granville Street when something about the way the players w ere hunched over their glowing screens struck him as odd. He said,'I could see i t in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were....'. This image haunted the man and he got inspired to do something. Now, either tell me w ho the man was or what did he do? # William Gibson, wrote Neuromancer which had the word 'cyberspace' in it. Inci dentally, the next sentence in his quote mentioned the physical space behind the screen. I guess I should have mentioned that too. 9) What is the biggest claim to fame of Joseph G. Cannon, the Speaker of the Hou se of Representatives, in the 1920s? # The first man to grace the Time magazine cover, in 1923.

10) The 1987 Cricket World Cup motto was changed in India from Cricket for Peace to something, due to the occurence of something. What was the new motto? # Cricket for Drought relief, after the failure of the monsoons. 11) Very topical, what common theme binds Jules Verne 'An Ideal City', 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy, 'A Journey to Other Worlds', by John Jacob Astor, a nd the film 'Metropolis' by Fritz Lang? # All based in the year 2000. 12) What is 'Tiger Country' in golf? # The furrowed roughs between the fairways and the woods. (nothing to do with T iger Woods) 13) I was impressed by Delacroix and 'Liberty leads the people' and his writing on aesthetics and the colour theories. I was also influenced by the chemist Mich el-Eugene Chevreul. This lead to my creation which was based on scientific study of static compositions. I just created seven of this kind in my life. Who am I? # Georges Seurat, who devised pointillism. I thought this was a easy question w ith too many clues. 14) Whose last words were 'Lunch Tuesday wet fine cottage one mile Bovington Cam p Shaw'? # Pretty obvious, this one, T.E.Lawrence or Lawrence of Arabia 15) 13 April 1360, during one of Edward 3's French campaigns, darkness, mist and hail, killed men and cattle. More knights died from lightning strikes than from battle. This led to a term being introduced into English language. Which one? # Black Monday, a very good try was bolt from the blue, some of you tried that, i guess many got misled by my emphasis on the lightning. 16) Now my favourite question, what comes in versions of striped, smooth and war ty? # The correct answer is Sea-shells, and not condoms or frogs, or .... 17) How do we know Newton Heath, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway better as? # Manchester United 18) Soldiers demobbed from the British army were given a complete ceremonial suit of clothes from the tailors - Montague Burton's. This led to a term being introduced into the English language. Which term? # Full Monty 19) Connect the movies 'Bobby', 'Sparsh' and 'Himalayaputra'. # St. Stephen's College, Bobby's Delhi premiere was in the college audi, Sparsh was shot in one of the teacher's residences next to the college, and one song o f Himalayaputra was also shot there, a fact one of my friends would never let me forget. 20) Jaidratha Singh, was a member of the 1932 Olympic gold winning team. Yet, hi s exploits as a sportsperson are overshadowed by some organisation that he forme d in 1944. Which one? # Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. Gurjit Singh got this one.