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Who said, "Shakira’s music has a personal stamp that doesn't look like anyone else's and no one can sing or dance like her, at whatever age, with such an innocent sensuality, one that seems to be of her own invention." about the pop star Shakira?
HINT: Colombia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Name the author of "The Art of War" and 'Discourses on Livy'.
HINT: His name has become part of the English language.
Niccolo Machiavelli (Author of 'The Prince').
At the beginning of his career, this playwright submitted a manuscript to a well-known producer, who rejected it.Later, after the playwright had made a name for himself, the same producer evinced interest in producing that work, and received the following reply:
‘Better never than late’. Who was the playwright?
George Bernard Shaw. The line is an example of Chiasmatic repartee. One of Shaw's oft-used tricks was ‘Chiasmus’ i.e. ‘Reversal of key words in otherwise parallel phrases’.
This acclaimed Indian poetess recently converted to Islam, saying,"Islam is the only religion in the world that gives love and protection to women."
HINT: Kerala.
Kamala Das, now Kamala Surayya.
Connect: The Nigerian Civil War, The Gulf War of 1991 and Nazi war criminals.
HINT: Quote from Julius Caesar: "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!"
Subjects of novels by Frederick Forsyth. (The Dogs of War, The Fist of God, The Odessa File).
Norman Sherry has written a three part biography of this popular British author. Name him.
Graham Greene.
Here is an excerpt from an article challenging the veracity of Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Bandit Queen’.
On the one hand the concerned cowboys Messrs Bedi & Kapur are so eager to share with us the abject humiliation and the domination of Phoolan Devi's "soul", and on the other they seem to be so totally uninterested in her, in what she thinks of the film, or what their film will do to her life and future.
Who wrote this article, titled ‘The Great Indian Rape Trick’?
HINT: Narmada Bachao Andolan.
Arundhati Roy.
This playwright was a contemporary of Shakespeare and a government secret agent. He died in a tavern brawl at age 29. Name him.
HINT: Doctor Faustus/Rupert Everett.
Christopher Marlowe.
Who were Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell?
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.
Connect: Mohammed Bouyeri and Paul Gauguin.
M.B. killed Theo Van Gogh, descendant of Vincent Van Gogh, who was driven to mutilate his ear by an argument with Paul Gauguin.
Who was the first person ever to receive a Grammy, an Emmy, an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Tony?
HINT: Elliot Gould.
Barbra Streisand. She won her first Grammy in 1963, her first Emmy in 1965, her first Oscar (Funny Girl) in 1968, and her one Tony in 1970.
What was special about the diaper of the baby Kal-el in Superman?
Marlon Brando (Jor-El)’s lines were written on it. He refused to memorise his dialogues.
MB Trivia:
During an acting class when the students were told to act out "a chicken hearing an air-raid siren," most of the students clucked and flapped their arms in a panic, while Brando stood stock-still, staring up at the ceiling. When asked to explain himself, Brando replied "I'm a chicken - I don't know what an air-raid siren is."
What is the claim to fame of the Pont de l'Alma bridge, across the Seine river?
Scene of Princess Diana’s fatal car crash on 31st July, 1997.
Who wrote, ‘The Pride of India’, a coffee-table book on Indian beauty queens?
HINT: Star Trek.
Persis Khambatta, Miss India 1965.
Connect: Marlon Brando, Vyjanthimala, Boris Pasternak and George C.Scott.
Award refusals (Oscar, Filmfare, Nobel, Oscar).