BOLLYWOOD

Sonakshi Sinha

In the news: Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter who had a Dabangg Bolly start and shot in Calcutta for Lootera. Making appearances in six films this year.

Score: 42/45

Identity crisis:

1. Mithun Chakraborty’s daughter hai na?

2. The Dabangg girl.

Verdict: Once Upon Ay Time no one knew who she was. Now everyone does. Almost.

Parineeti Chopra

In the news: The fun and bubbly Shuddh Desi Romance lead who played Gayatri, a jovial rebel who doesn’t believe in marriage. Cousin to Pee Cee.

Score: 38/45

Identity crisis:

1. The ‘We Chat’ girl!

2. Shuddh Desi actress.

Verdict: Parineeti ke par aane lage!

Sushant Singh Rajput

In the news: TV actor with a successful Bolly debut in Kai Po Che! followed by a decent run with Shuddh Desi Romance.

Score:34/45

Identity crisis:

1. Yo Yo Honey Singh!

2. I’ve seen him in Shuddh Desi Romance, yaar kya naam tha?

3. Ranveer Singh.

4. Sushil something?

Verdict: Cute boy. Nice body. #win

Nimrat Kaur

In the news: Her Bolly debut The Lunchbox with Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui opened to rave reviews. There was a lot of controversy surrounding this Cadbury girl’s film for not making the Oscar cut.

Score: 5/45

Identity crisis:

1. Tolly actress Subhashree.

2. Jacqueline Fernandez.

3. Salman Khan’s girfriend.

4. Raveena Tandon.

5. Twinkle Khanna.

6. That Cadbury girl... I’ve seen her in some ad...

Verdict: Nimrat kaun?

Raj Kumar Yadav

In the news: After his stellar act in Kai Po Che!, Shahid based on lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi was touted as a film of the year.

Score: 4/45

Identity crisis:

1. Was in Kai Po Che! with Sushant.

2. The Love Sex Aur Dhokha guy!

3. He was in the lawyerwallah film.

4. The Ragini MMS guy.

5. He is Rajpal Yadav (very confidently).

6. Amit Yadav.

Verdict: Mind the gap between actor and star.

HOLLYWOOD

Kim Kardashian

In the news: The American TV star is best known for her curves and couture. Recently gave birth to baby girl North West fathered by rapper fiance Kanye West.

Identity crisis:

1. Umm… Kim something!

2. Model?

3. Sandra Bullock

4. She got pregnant recently!

Score: 22/45

Verdict: Famous for being famous.

Benedict Cumberbatch

In the news: He made smart the new sexy. Shot to limelight with BBC’s Sherlock where he plays a modern iPhone-toting, blog-writing version of Sherlock Holmes.

Identity crisis:

1. Sherlock Holmes!

2. The actor, who was in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I have seen that movie!

Score: 8/45

Verdict: *passes tissue* to Cumberbitches.

Jennifer Lawrence

In the news: Won an Oscar this year for Silver Linings Playbook. Also known as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series.

Identity crisis:

1. The X-Men actress?

2. British model but not Sunny Leone.

3. Juno movie actress?

4. Paris Hilton.

5. Angelina Jolie.

Score: 8/45

Verdict: The ‘it’ girl of films and fashion is not such a hit here.

Charlie Hunnam

In the news: The Holly hot-bod who was signed up as Christian Grey in E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey but later chickened out.

Identity crisis:

1. Mr. Grey!

2. Looks like a singer.

3. Ah, Brad Pitt!

4. Leonardo DiCaprio.

5. Tom Cruise.

Score: 0/45

Verdict: Zero. That’s his score. And he can’t even take ’em into the red room of pain!

POLITICS

Narendra Modi

In the news: The present chief minister of Gujarat is the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP this year.

Identity crisis:

1. I know he is a famous politician but I can’t remember his name!

2. The BJP politician.

3. Arre, I hate this politician... the BJP guy... some Modi!

Score: 41/45

Verdict: Absolute majority!

Rahul Gandhi

In the news: The son of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi (yes, bro to Priyanka) is fast becoming the face of the Congress.

Identity crisis:

1. I know him, he is Rajiv Gandhi!

2. Rahul Mahajan.

Score: 41/45

Verdict: Is this poll the turning point for Rahul baba?

SPORT

Sachin Tendulkar

In the news:

The “God of cricket” who will play his last two Tests in Calcutta and Mumbai.

Score: 45/45

Identity crisis:

Are you kidding!

Verdict: Sachin for Prime Minister, anyone?

Sebastian Vettel

In the news: The F1 driver won his third straight Indian Grand Prix on October 27 and is fast emerging as an all-time great.

Score: 15/45

Identity crisis:

1. He is the Gladiator actor!

2. The racer who won a few days back! I saw him in The Telegraph. Shit! Can’t remember his name.

Verdict: Need some more fuel to be famous, do we say?

Andy Murray

In the news: Won Wimbledon this year, ending the 77-year drought of a British man clinching the title.

Score: 13/45

Identity crisis:

1. Andy Djokovic!

2. Charles Williams.

3. Andy Roddick.

4. Some ‘Duke’ (huh?)

Verdict: Please don’t cry, Andy, Lendl is watching.

Gareth Bale

In the news: The 24-year-old went from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid for a record fee, beating Cristiano Ronaldo’s mark. Is yet to find his feet at Madrid but is shortlisted with the likes of Lionel Messi and Ronaldo for FIFA’s Ballon d’Or.

Score: 11/45

Identity crisis:

1. Cesc Fabregas.

2. A cricketer?

3. Looks like Beckham.

4. Cristiano Ronaldo.

Verdict: Bail him out, boys.

Rory McIlroy

In the news: This Northern Irish professional golfer from Hollywood is making a comeback after losing his world number one crown.

Score: 5/45

Identity crisis:

1. That’s Rahul Dravid playing golf.

2. Jeev Milkha Singh, maybe...

3. Mahesh Bhupathi.

4. Tiger Woods.

Verdict: Will Caroline Wozniacki dump him after seeing his score?

TV

Tanisha

In the news: The Bigg Boss 7 contestant who always “conspires” against inmates. Salman Khan took her side when TV actor Kushal Tandon called her names. Also, Kajol’s sister and Tanuja’s daughter.

Identity crisis:

1. The Bigg Boss girl who always bitches!

3. Kajol’s sister Tanuja *silence*

Score: 28/45

Verdict: It pays to be bitchy on Bigg Boss.

Raghuram Rajan

In the news: The 23rd governor of RBI who is as dishy as he is driven. Shobhaa De called him a sex symbol. The 50-year-old from Tamil Nadu has even been compared to Ranbir Kapoor!

Identity crisis:

1. Lalit Modi.

2. A chess player.

3. Who’s this uncle?

4. Some business tycoon, am sure!

Score: 9/45

Verdict: He makes economics sexy.

Rajdeep Sardesai

In the news: Editor-in-chief of IBN 18 Network.

Identity crisis:

1. Arrey, the news presenter!

2. The news channel guy.

3. Akhbar padhta hai.

4. Rajdeep Roy!

5. News anchor or CEO of a news channel.

6. Derek O’Brien.

7. NDTV newsreader.

8. Bengali journalist.

9. Kabir the reporter.

Score: 6/45

Verdict: Now, that’s news!

Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki as Sam & Dean

In the news: As the lead actors — the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean — in the American supernatural drama series Supernatural. In India, the series airs on AXN.

Identity crisis:

1. The Beatles.

2. They feature in Suits, may be...

3. They chase away ghosts! Shit, can’t remember their names, yaar!

4. Hardy Boys.

5. One Direction boys.

6. Vampires.

Score: 3/45

Verdict: And you thought they were super (natural)?!

MEME+GAME

Forever Alone

In the news: A rage comic character used to express loneliness in life.

Identity crisis:

1. This is a face? Looks like a potato!

2. A troll face.

3. Comes on Facebook”.

4. LOL pictures.

5. What’s this?!

Score: 5/45

Verdict: #Forever Alone

Candy Crush

In the news: A candy game that was first introduced on Facebook in 2012 and later for smartphones. It beat FarmVille 2 as the most popular game on Facebook with 46 million average monthly users as on March 2013.

Identity crisis:

1. The jellybean!

2. Candy something...

3. Have played this game when I was a kid.

4. Fruit Ninja.

5. That Windows7 default game.

Score: 20/45

Verdict: ‘Sweet!’ but not enough.

TOLLYWOOD

Abir Chatterjee

In the news: Anjan Dutt found his Bomkesh Bakshi in Abir Chatterjee and now Sandip Ray has found his Feluda in him. What can possibly get bigger than that?

Identity crisis:

1. That Bengali actor.

2. Arrey, eta toh Bomkesh!

3. Anupam Roy.

4. He was there in Kahaani, I know!

Score: 30/45

Verdict: Amader Abir!

Srijit Mukherji

In the news: For his latest film Mishawr Rawhoshyo, a blockbuster to follow up on Autograph and 22shey Srabon.

Identity crisis:

1. Bengali director.

2. Sujit something.

Score: 25/45

Verdict: More famous than Kim Kardashian, less than Tweety Bird.

MIMI CHAKRABORTY

In the news: Became famous with Gaaner Opaare on telly.

Identity crisis:

1. Vaani Kapoor.

2. Esha Deol.

3. Konkona Sensharma.

4. Sohini Paul.

5. Nandita Das.

Score: 19/45

Verdict: Surprise, surprise!

subhashree

In the news: Dev’s former lady love who scored big with Jeet in Boss. Will be on the dais with AB and SRK for the Calcutta Film Festival opening.

Identity crisis:

1. Vaani Kapoor.

2. Esha Deol.

3. Dev’s girlfriend.

4. Shruti Haasan.

Score: 18/45

Verdict: Challenge accepted.

ARYANN

In the news: Debuted as Prosenjit’s son in Chalo Paltai and shot into the limelight as Santu in Mishawr Rawhoshyo.

Identity crisis:

1. The Mishawr guy!

2. Aftab Shivdasani.

3. The character Santu in Mishawr Rawhoshyo.

Score: 5/45

Verdict: Doesn’t pay to be a sidekick, right?

MUSIC

Yo Yo Honey Singh

In the news: Rapper-singer with superhit tracks from Chennai Express to Boss. Dragged to court for his “offensive” song Main hoon balatkari.

Identity crisis:

1. I have no clue but looks like an actor.

2. Yo Yo!

3. Ash King.

Score: 36/45

Verdict: He sure can Lungi dance and Party all night to Angrezi beat.

Arijit Singh

In the news: The Murshidabad-born singer is the melodious voice behind Raabta, Phir le aya dil, Kabira and Tum hi ho .

Identity crisis:

1. Honey Singh.

2. Band member of Strings.

3. Some cricketer.

Score: 24/45

Verdict: Is Singh the new Bong King?

Miley Cyrus

In the news: For twerking. She also sings.

Identity crisis:

1. She is Marilyn Monroe (very confidently)

2. No idea, have never seen her!

3. Lady Gaga.

4. Sunny Leone.

5. Karisma Kapoor.

Score: 22/45

Verdict: Twerk or tongue, We Can’t Stop!

Katy Perry

In the news: American singer whose recent single Roar was No.1 on the Billboard chart. Currently dating singer John Mayer.

Identity crisis:

1. A beautiful wrestler!

2. WWE Wrestler.

3. I like her tattoo!

4. Elli Avram of Bigg Boss.

Score: 13/45

Verdict: Roarrrr!! Louder, girl.

zayn malik

In the news: The hottie from teenage rage British boy band One Direction.

Identity crisis:

1. I have seen him in t2, the One Direction guy!

2. Zayn Ahmed?

3. Justin Bieber.

4. Er… I think Liam Payne.

5. The anchor on Zoom TV.

6. He is a famous cricketer.

Score: 13/45

Verdict: Directioners, take note.

SMARTSET

Nandini Roy Choudhury, third-year student of Presidency University, was one sharp girl! From cartoons to Bolly, Tolly and even politics, the history student was bang on. Except for sports where she mulled over Andy Murray’s picture for a while and then identified him as Andy Djokovic! Nonetheless, the avid t2 reader was most happy once she spotted the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean in the TV category!

Score: 30/40

Shreshtha Bhattacharyya began confidently with Raj Kumar Yadav but stopped at Arijit Singh’s picture. No, she wasn’t fumbling for a name but had forgotten to proceed! “Oh my god, it’s Arijit Singh… I just love him!” she screamed. And Zayn Malik was “that One Direction guy” for her. We joined her in the giggling when the B.P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology student said that Paulo Coelho “looks like our teacher”. A few prompts from her friends at City Centre Salt Lake and her GK test score shot up to 30!

Score: 30/40

Shion Hossain, second-year student of English at Presidency University, was excited to take the quiz as he aspires to be a journalist. His love for the Supernatural guys proved handy and he rattled off the names “Winchesters — Dean and Sam” in a jiffy. Tanisha was familiar but “she looks scary; I don’t know who she is”. When it came to Sachin, he said: “I am not even going to answer this!” and beamed as he got “the Mishawr Rawhoshyo guy Aryann who came to our college” right!

Score: 27/40

BOOKS

Paulo Coelho

In the news: Brazilian novelist and philosophical writer best known for The Alchemist.

Identity crisis:

1. He is the Tolly guy!

2. A director?

3. Salman Rushdie.

Score: 9/45

Verdict: Read on to know that philosophy scores better than “mommy porn”!

E.L. James

In the news: Multi-millionaire British author of the “mommy porn” trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey.

Identity crisis:

1. Booker Prize winner?

3. Hollywood actress.

4. Cecelia Ahern.

5. Some entrepreneur.

Score: 4/45

Verdict: Book porn #fail

Jeffrey Archer

In the news: Master storyteller; sold over 250 million books. Also famous for going to jail and then writing three bestselling prison diaries.

Identity crisis:

1. I have no idea at all. Who is he?

2. J.K. Rowling?

3. Amartya Sen.

4. Buro Ruskin Bond.

Score: 4/45

Verdict: A matter of honour?

Jeet Thayil

In the news: Rockstar-writer shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel Narcopolis and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry.

Identity crisis:

1. A designer or what?

2. Uff! Who is this man?

3. Fashion designer.

4. Aravind Adiga.

5. He’s a gay director.

Score: 0/45

Verdict: Loss of Jeet.

CARTOONS

Chhota Bheem

In the news: A nine-year-old boy loves gorging on laddoos and rescues Dholakpur with his gang of friends — Pyaari Chutki, Raju and Jaggu Bandar.

Identity crisis:

1. Laddoo-eating guy.

Score: 44/45

Verdict: After the Little Master, the Little Bheem!

Tweety Bird

In the news: The sweet little yellow canary featured in Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes. Also featured in movies like Space Jam.

Identity crisis:

1. Minnie Mouse!

2. The talkative birdie.

3. Donald Duck.

Score: 37/45

Verdict: Time to join Twitter, you ‘bad ol’ putty tat’, ‘I tought I taw a putty tat’!

Pingu

In the news: The protagonist of a series of children’s stop motion comedy set in Antarctica. The series became popular mainly because of the “penguin language” (which makes no sense).

Identity crisis:

1. Something with P!

2. Oh my God! This is a penguin, toh!

3. The penguin on Pogo channel!

4. I used to watch this cartoon… can’t recall the name now :(

Score: 25/45

Verdict: The penguin from Antarctica with fans in Calcutta!

Oggy

In the news: The blue fat cat in the series Oggy and the Cockroaches. Besides watching TV, he spends most of his time chasing three cockroaches Joey, Marky and Dee Dee!

Identity crisis:

1. It’s that cat who is always hungry!

2. He is that cockroach!

3. It’s a dog.

Score: 19/45

Verdict: Calcutta can be catty.

what they said!

English honours first-year student of Bhawanipur Education Society College Dibyanjana Ghosh (left) was a riot! “Isshh... aami jani toh... but bhule gechhi! This is not fair. You have kept all difficult pictures for me. Tomra ki shob chhobi enechho dakho... adha chinio naa... Ohh god... his name is on the tip of my tongue but just can’t remember it! Who is this now? Ke eta?? Eta Santu. Santu’r naam ki? Santu’r naam I don’t know…”

Score: 24/40

t2 spotted Ranjika Banerjee at City Centre Salt Lake. The second-year Techno India student was an inch away from identifying Sebastian Vettel. She knew that he hadwon the Grand Prix and remembered seeing him in The Telegraph and could even recall his initials but alas, she couldn’t get his name correct! Her parting quote? “Oh god, all my funny answers will get printed... I had read the last edition of the CQ Quiz in t2!”

Score: 20/40

Saptarshi Bhattacharjee proved how characters become more famous than the person. For the 25-year-old marine engineer, Raj Kumar Yadav was the “Love Sex Aur Dhokha guy”, Paulo Coelho was “that famous author who has written a very famous book” and Zayn Malik was “the One Direction guy I keep seeing in t2!” His funniest answer was identifying Jeet Thayil as “Anurag Kashyap, the director!” “Baapre, ki tough questions, uff,” he signed off!

Score: 19/40

Birthday girl Arundhati Bhattacharya (right) had us go ROFL! “This is the Kai Po Che! guy... doesn’t that count? And this is the Lunchbox woman,” she said, persuading t2 to give her full marks. “This is not fair... shob kota uncommon name... prochur Punjabi lokjon... is this Brad Pitt? Beard-ta khub look ke confuse korchhe... Brad Pitt with beard… Buro Ruskin Bond (pointing at Jeffrey Archer’s pic)?” she went on as friend Sampurna Seal giggled. “I hate this politician... aare dudin dhore headlines-e ashchhe... I have an issue with names... I can’t remember names...”

Score: 21/40

Between sips of nimbu paani on College Street with friend Rumki for company, Ashmita Ganguly (right) was very quick to recognise Arijit Singh. “He is my favourite singer. I really like the title track of Bojhena Shey Bojhena that he has sung,” said the South City College student. But she was even quicker in identifying Sushant Singh Rajput. “I have been his fan for a long time... since his Pavitra Rishta days. I also liked his debut film Kai Po Che!”

Score: 19/40

Ayush Bagla was ecstatic to find his idol Sachin Tendulkar’s picture in the quiz. “He is the GOD of cricket! I am a great fan. I am sad about his decision to retire but at the same time I am happy he is retiring at his peak. Even God needs rest,” said the second-year BBA student of JD Birla Institute.

Score: 15/40

Who in this CQ Test would you not have recognised? Tell t2@abp.in
Quizmasters: Pramita Ghosh, Sibendu Das and Shweta Keshri
Pictures: B. Halder and Sayantan Ghosh