The Mirror Monster Quiz 2016
Some call it one of the worst years in history, what with Brexit, Trump, demonetisation and Aleppo. Even the glitzy weren’t spared, with Brangelina announcing their divorce. It’s a year we’d certainly like to forget, but before we consign it to history, we thought we’d test how much you retain of 2016 with our Mirror Monster Quiz. Five lucky winners stand to win Rs5000 Paytm vouchers each. Because Mirror is your secret Santa, after all…
1 Which actor cited a George Orwell novel to increase one’s affection for animals?
a) Rakhi Sawant b) Shilpa Shetty c) Twinkle Khanna
2 Which domestic team did Harendra Singh coach to victory this year?
3 Who was the Prime Minister when India demonetised its currency in 1978?
a) Morarji Desai b) Indira Gandhi c) Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
4 Which iconic Bollywood film was adapted into a Broadway-style play this year?
a) Mother India b) Satyam Shivam Sundaram c) Mughal-e-Azam
5 Which socialite came under fire for belittling national Olympics on Twitter this year?
a) Parmeshwar Godrej b) Shobhaa De c) Queenie Dhody
6 Karun Nair was the third batsman to make a triple century as his maiden 100. Who are the other two?
a) Sachin Tendulkar and Donald Bradman b) Mohammad Azharrudin and Vivian Richards c) Gary Sobers and Bob Simpson
7 Which country got to name the cyclone that hit Chennai this year?
a) Maldives b) Pakistan c) Bangladesh
8 Ratan Tata’s younger brother owns 0.81 per cent of the Tata group. What is his name?
a) Jimmy Tata b) Cyrus Mistry c) Noel Tata
9 Who was the curator of the Kochi Biennale this year?
a) Chintan Upadhyay b) Krishnamachari Bose c) Sudarshan Shetty
10 How tall will be the proposed Shivaji memorial statue that will come up in 2019 off the Mumbai coast?
a) 210 metres b) 400 metres c) 150 metres
11 Which Mumbai MP was elected as the head of BJP Yuva Morcha?
a) Anurag Thakur b) Poonam Mahajan c) Milind Deora
12 Which Bollywood star launched India’s first polo league?
a) Shahrukh Khan b) Saif Ali Khan c) Akshay Kumar
13 What was Taimur’s son and successor’s name?
a) Shahrukh Mirza b) Emperor Akbar c) Genghis Khan
14 Who wrote Bihar to Tihar, released this year?
a) Charles Shobraj b) Nitish Kumar c) Kanhaiya Kumar
15 Who was appointed as the Indian ambassador to the United States this year?
a) Devyani Khobragade b) Bobby Jindal c) Navjet Sarna
16 “I’m a big fan of Hindu” – who said these words?
a) Baba Ramdev b) Madonna c) Donald Trump
17 Who was the highest-earning female entertainer from India in the year 2016?
a) Priyanka Chopra b) Deepika Padukone c) Kareena Kapoor
18 Which 1964 film is the debut of an illustrious politician who passed away this year?
a) Mother India b) Chinnada Gombe c) Chitralekha
19 What is the name of the Goa bungalow of a troubled industrialist nestled in the UK?
a) Kingfisher Villa b) Mannat c) Sea Breeze
20 Which 68-year-old millionaire is languishing in Trichy prison for antique theft?
a) Abu Salem b) Haji Mastan c) Subhash Kapoor
21 Which fashion duo was slammed by Omar Abdullah for insensitivity?
a) Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla b) Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra c) Falguni and Shane Peacock
22 Name the iconic Mumbai restaurant that socialite Parmeshwar Godrej, who passed away this year, designed in the 1980s
a) China Garden b) Samarkand c) Khyber
23 Name the Indian species of spider, discovered this year, which represents the “sorting hat” from the Harry Potter series
a) Daddy Long Legs b) Eriovixia Gryffindori c) Scorpion-tailed Spider
24 Which Goa-origin British MP was involved in a sex scandal this year?
a) Pamela Bordes b) Hasan Suroor c) Keith Vaz
25 Who was the first Indian woman to participate in Miss World?
a) Fleur Ezekiel b) Reita Faria c) Salome Roy Kapur
26 Who was the most searched-for person on Google in 2016?
a) Donald Trump b) Narendra Modi c) Sunny Leone
27 How many currency printing presses does India have?
a) 2 b) 4 c) 6
28 When did the recently demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes come into circulation?
a) 1991 and 1994 b) 1998 and 2002 c) 1987 and 2000
29 Which batsman registered the highest individual ODI score in 2016?
a) Rohit Sharma b) Quinton de Kock c) David Warner
30 The award-winning Hindi films, Rudaali and Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa, were based on the works of this author who passed away in July. Who is she?
a) Ismat Chugtai b) Mahasweta Devi c) Kamala Suraiyya
31 Bob Dylan was the second lyricist to win the Nobel Prize. Who was the first?
a) Leonard Cohen b) Janis Joplin c) Rabindranath Tagore
32 Which Mumbai boy won the Sahitya Akademi award this year?
a) Ashok Banker b) Jerry Pinto c) Aravind Adiga
33 The ambassador of which nation was shot dead in an art gallery in Turkey this year?
a) Russia b) Syria c) Iraq
34 The most expensive painting sold at an auction this year was by artist Claude Monet? Name the painting.
a) Poppies b) Impression, Sunrise c) Meule
35 Which famous musician shot his own obituary via a music video before passing away early this year?
a) David Bowie b) Prince c) Frank Sinatra, Jr
36 How much did the year’s most expensive wedding cost?
a) $800m b) $1b c) $250m
37 Brangelina’s total net worth is greater than the 2015 GDP of this nation.
a) Belgium b) Iran c) Thailand
38 Which F1 driver retired five days after winning his first world title this year?
a) Nico Rosberg b) Max Verstappen c) Sergio Perez
39 Name the show that President-elect Trump was shooting for when he made his infamous “grab ‘em by the…” comment?
a) Big Brother b) Access Hollywood c) The Howard Stern Show
40 What’s the connection between Tesla and La La Land?
a) The movie was produced by Elon Musk b) Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s character move around in one of Tesla’s selfdriven cars. c) The lead characters cement their romance at LA’s Griffith Observatory famous for housing Nikolai Tesla’s famous coil
INSTRUCTIONS
Send in your responses to mirrormonsterquiz2016 @gmail.com
When you send in your responses, match the question number with the matching answer alphabet. For example, 44-b
1 Which actor cited a George Orwell novel to increase one’s affection for animals?
a) Rakhi Sawant b) Shilpa Shetty c) Twinkle Khanna
2 Which domestic team did Harendra Singh coach to victory this year?
a)The National Squash League b) The Indian Kabaddi Team c) The Junior Men Hockey Team
3 Who was the Prime Minister when India demonetised its currency in 1978?
a) Morarji Desai b) Indira Gandhi c) Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
4 Which iconic Bollywood film was adapted into a Broadway-style play this year?
a) Mother India b) Satyam Shivam Sundaram c) Mughal-e-Azam
5 Which socialite came under fire for belittling national Olympics on Twitter this year?
a) Parmeshwar Godrej b) Shobhaa De c) Queenie Dhody
6 Karun Nair was the third batsman to make a triple century as his maiden 100. Who are the other two?
a) Sachin Tendulkar and Donald Bradman b) Mohammad Azharrudin and Vivian Richards c) Gary Sobers and Bob Simpson
7 Which country got to name the cyclone that hit Chennai this year?
a) Maldives b) Pakistan c) Bangladesh
8 Ratan Tata’s younger brother owns 0.81 per cent of the Tata group. What is his name?
a) Jimmy Tata b) Cyrus Mistry c) Noel Tata
9 Who was the curator of the Kochi Biennale this year?
a) Chintan Upadhyay b) Krishnamachari Bose c) Sudarshan Shetty
10 How tall will be the proposed Shivaji memorial statue that will come up in 2019 off the Mumbai coast?
a) 210 metres b) 400 metres c) 150 metres
11 Which Mumbai MP was elected as the head of BJP Yuva Morcha?
a) Anurag Thakur b) Poonam Mahajan c) Milind Deora
12 Which Bollywood star launched India’s first polo league?
a) Shahrukh Khan b) Saif Ali Khan c) Akshay Kumar
13 What was Taimur’s son and successor’s name?
a) Shahrukh Mirza b) Emperor Akbar c) Genghis Khan
14 Who wrote Bihar to Tihar, released this year?
a) Charles Shobraj b) Nitish Kumar c) Kanhaiya Kumar
15 Who was appointed as the Indian ambassador to the United States this year?
a) Devyani Khobragade b) Bobby Jindal c) Navjet Sarna
16 “I’m a big fan of Hindu” – who said these words?
a) Baba Ramdev b) Madonna c) Donald Trump
17 Who was the highest-earning female entertainer from India in the year 2016?
a) Priyanka Chopra b) Deepika Padukone c) Kareena Kapoor
18 Which 1964 film is the debut of an illustrious politician who passed away this year?
a) Mother India b) Chinnada Gombe c) Chitralekha
19 What is the name of the Goa bungalow of a troubled industrialist nestled in the UK?
a) Kingfisher Villa b) Mannat c) Sea Breeze
20 Which 68-year-old millionaire is languishing in Trichy prison for antique theft?
a) Abu Salem b) Haji Mastan c) Subhash Kapoor
21 Which fashion duo was slammed by Omar Abdullah for insensitivity?
a) Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla b) Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra c) Falguni and Shane Peacock
22 Name the iconic Mumbai restaurant that socialite Parmeshwar Godrej, who passed away this year, designed in the 1980s
a) China Garden b) Samarkand c) Khyber
23 Name the Indian species of spider, discovered this year, which represents the “sorting hat” from the Harry Potter series
a) Daddy Long Legs b) Eriovixia Gryffindori c) Scorpion-tailed Spider
24 Which Goa-origin British MP was involved in a sex scandal this year?
a) Pamela Bordes b) Hasan Suroor c) Keith Vaz
25 Who was the first Indian woman to participate in Miss World?
a) Fleur Ezekiel b) Reita Faria c) Salome Roy Kapur
26 Who was the most searched-for person on Google in 2016?
a) Donald Trump b) Narendra Modi c) Sunny Leone
27 How many currency printing presses does India have?
a) 2 b) 4 c) 6
28 When did the recently demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes come into circulation?
a) 1991 and 1994 b) 1998 and 2002 c) 1987 and 2000
29 Which batsman registered the highest individual ODI score in 2016?
a) Rohit Sharma b) Quinton de Kock c) David Warner
30 The award-winning Hindi films, Rudaali and Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa, were based on the works of this author who passed away in July. Who is she?
a) Ismat Chugtai b) Mahasweta Devi c) Kamala Suraiyya
31 Bob Dylan was the second lyricist to win the Nobel Prize. Who was the first?
a) Leonard Cohen b) Janis Joplin c) Rabindranath Tagore
32 Which Mumbai boy won the Sahitya Akademi award this year?
a) Ashok Banker b) Jerry Pinto c) Aravind Adiga
33 The ambassador of which nation was shot dead in an art gallery in Turkey this year?
a) Russia b) Syria c) Iraq
34 The most expensive painting sold at an auction this year was by artist Claude Monet? Name the painting.
a) Poppies b) Impression, Sunrise c) Meule
35 Which famous musician shot his own obituary via a music video before passing away early this year?
a) David Bowie b) Prince c) Frank Sinatra, Jr
36 How much did the year’s most expensive wedding cost?
a) $800m b) $1b c) $250m
37 Brangelina’s total net worth is greater than the 2015 GDP of this nation.
a) Belgium b) Iran c) Thailand
38 Which F1 driver retired five days after winning his first world title this year?
a) Nico Rosberg b) Max Verstappen c) Sergio Perez
39 Name the show that President-elect Trump was shooting for when he made his infamous “grab ‘em by the…” comment?
a) Big Brother b) Access Hollywood c) The Howard Stern Show
40 What’s the connection between Tesla and La La Land?
a) The movie was produced by Elon Musk b) Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s character move around in one of Tesla’s selfdriven cars. c) The lead characters cement their romance at LA’s Griffith Observatory famous for housing Nikolai Tesla’s famous coil
INSTRUCTIONS
Send in your responses to mirrormonsterquiz2016 @gmail.com
When you send in your responses, match the question number with the matching answer alphabet. For example, 44-b
