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2011-09-08T08:44:00.002-07:00

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2011-09-06T09:32:00.005-07:00

Neville Cardus on ? :

"Entirely original..his style was a remarkable instance of the way a man can express personal genius in a game ,nay not only a personal genius but the genius of a whole race....When he batted a strange light was seen for the first time on English fields , a light out of the East " .

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

Daily Quiz

2010-07-17T21:23:00.002-07:00

Daily Quiz

2010-07-13T22:06:00.003-07:00

Explain the peak in NASDAQ Composite ..

The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaked at 5,048 in March 2000, reflecting the high point of the dot-com bubble.

Daily Quiz

2010-07-11T21:34:00.003-07:00

The map shows ......

Map showing the districts where the Naxalite movement is active or The Red Corridor

Daily Quiz"Are you watching closely"

2009-04-22T12:18:00.003-07:00

Expand..

China Export

Some products have a CE symbol that has been alleged to stand for China Export and is confusingly very similar to the E.U.'s CE mark. The two letters are close together, not spaced as in the European conformance mark. Link

2009-04-21T13:50:00.003-07:00

Identify the person in the pic . Click Read More for a hint.

The person is Norman Borlaug .
The person shown as a hint is M.S. Swaminathan .

Daily Quiz

2009-04-20T04:46:00.002-07:00

.Identify the LOGO.

Gatorade

Daily Quiz

2009-04-15T09:27:00.002-07:00

Identify this young sensation from the world of football

Federico Macheda

Daily Quiz

2009-04-14T06:51:00.002-07:00

Identify him ..

Shakti Samanta the famous Indian movie director who passed away recently.

Jaago Re..!!

2009-04-13T14:28:00.005-07:00

Hey,

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Go to www.jaagore.com to learn more and register to vote right now..

If you have already registered to vote, you can still register with Jaago re! One Billion Votes movement and get periodic confirmation of your voter status, and election related news and reminders. Believe it or not, even registered voters sometimes do not figure in voter lists!

Go to www.jaagore.com for more information, and to learn about voting related rules and procedures.

Thanks,

I would request the Quizzing fraternity to please spread the above message and support this great initiative .

Daily Quiz

2009-04-13T07:02:00.002-07:00

Which event is being depicted by the painting..??

The event is The Great Fire of London .

Daily Quiz

2008-12-02T11:40:00.003-08:00

Where would you find the art works shown below

Click ReadMore for a Hint

pic 1 : The School of Athens
pic 2 : Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
the pic in the hint: Ariel view of the Apostolic Palace
the connection is Raphael Rooms

Daily Quiz

2008-12-01T10:55:00.006-08:00

Connect the pictures to a personality.Please explain your connection

The connect is Adolf Hitler
pic 2 : Rudyard Kipling - Swastika connection
pic 1 : Roman Salute - Nazi Salute inspired from roman salute
pic 3 : Eva Braun - Wife

Daily Quiz"Controversies"

2008-11-30T11:48:00.003-08:00

Identify the personalities shown and connect the pictures.

Daily Quiz

2008-11-29T07:39:00.005-08:00

1 : Identify him

2 : Which organization

1: He is Mr. V P Singh - Former Indian PM who passed away two days before.
2:The organisation is InterPol - The International Police

Daily Quiz" We The People

2008-11-26T04:34:00.005-08:00

Lets see who answers today's questions without pressing the search button..

1. Onges,Jarawas,Sentinatese,Shompens,Nicobarese ...Who are they ...

2. "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy"...
Its a small text from a very famous speech by someone.Identify the person and the speech.
See these left out questions question 1 question 2

1:
Tribes living in Andaman and Nicobar islands
2:
See Swagat's Answer

Daily Quiz

2008-11-23T03:50:00.002-08:00

You can attempt the Daily Quizzes for 23,22,21 Nov. by following the links given below.
Nov 23
Nov 22
N ov 21

KIIT University is organising an Autonomous Robotic Workshop -A must attend for allthe Robo Freaks.
Last date of Registration : 25 th November 2008
For Registration Log On to :http://www.roboticwares.com/RW/ (Official Website)
Contact : Gautam : 9861229161,9861246192
See RoboticWares for more Details

Daily Quiz

2008-11-20T06:32:00.005-08:00

The questions are from Sameer Agrawal

1.

2 Identify and Connect

3.Connect the pics
3

Daily Quiz

2008-11-20T06:31:00.006-08:00

The question is from Sameer Agrawal

Connect to a movie

KIIT University is organising an Autonomous Robotic Workshop -A must attend for all
the Robo Freaks.Last date of Registration : 25 th November 2008
For Registration Log On to :
http://www.roboticwares.com/RW/ (Official Website)
Contact : Gautam : 9861229161,9861246192
See RoboticWares for more Details

The movie is Schindler's List
pics shown are Ben Kingsley,Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes

Daily Quiz"Twisted Identities"

2008-11-20T04:32:00.004-08:00

The question is from Mirza Khalid Baig
Identify the pics and connect

RoboticWares

2008-11-20T02:33:00.005-08:00

KIIT University is organising an Autonomous Robotic Workshop - A must attend for all the Robo Freaks.
The Details are as under :

Detailed description of the topics to be dealt in the Workshop

Topics	Description	Duration (in hours)	Student handling the session
Digital Electronics	1. Digital Logic 2. Logic Gates, counters, Flip-flops and comparators.	2	Gaurav Srivastava (4^th year B Tech)
Power Supply	Lead-acid batteries Ni-Cd Li-ion Battery Eliminator	1	Gautam Kumar (4^th year B Tech)
Sensors	1. Light: IR LEDs, LDRs, IR photodiodes and phototransistorsTSOP1738 2. Sound: Ultra-Sonics 3. Mechanical touch sensors	2	Kushal Nahata (4^th year B Tech)
Motors	Geared DC motors Servo motors Stepper motors	1	Jay Krishna Kashyap (4^th year B Tech)
Motor Drivers	Electromechanical: Relays Solid-state drivers: H-bridge, IC drivers (L293d, L298).	2	Gautam Kumar (4^th year B Tech)
Microcontrollers	1. Different between Microcontrollers and Microprocessors. 2. Overview of available microcontrollers (8051, 8251, Atmega Series) 3. Features of Atmega 16L (Microcontroller to be used).	2	Kushal Nahata (4^th year B Tech)
Microcontroller Programming	Embedded C programming(I/O operations, ADC, Interrupts, PWM).	5	Kushal Nahata & Gaurav Srivastava
Concluding Session	1. Application of Autonomous Robotics (Line Follower, Edge & Obstacle Detector) 2. Doubts of the Students	1	Gautam Kumar & Jay Krishna Kashyap
Total Duration of the Workshop:		16 hours

28 th to 30 th November 2008
Last date of Registration : 25 th November 2008
For Registration Log On to : http://www.roboticwares.com/RW/
Contact : Gautam 9861229161,9861246192

Daily Quiz"Its me...."

2008-11-20T02:02:00.014-08:00

Identify the Gentleman in the middle..Nice photograph isn't it.
Click Read More for a Hint

He is Mr. Gregory David Roberts popularly known as Shantaram
Mira Nair is going to make a film based on his life ( her pic is shown as a hint)

Daily Quiz"Music"

2008-11-19T07:42:00.005-08:00

Connect to a very famous song.
Also see The Cricket Quiz
You can contribute to QUIZ . Mail your questions to
manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com
Please don't forget to mention the following in your mail :
1. Your Name .
2. Your Website/Blog URL (if any)
3. Your Question + Answer With Proper Explanation .

The song is Candle in the Wind sung by Elton John
Pic 1 is Princess Diana
Pic 3 is Elton John
The song was released as a tribute single to Princess Diana .

Daily Quiz"Be Game"

2008-11-17T17:59:00.007-08:00

See the The Cricket Quiz
Here is the daily dose

Connect the pics :
Click Read More for Hint
You can contribute to QUIZ . Mail your questions to
manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com
Please don't forget to mention the following in your mail :
1. Your Name .
2. Your Website/Blog URL (if any)
3. Your Question + Answer With Proper Explanation .

Its a Game of a different kind.

The Game is Russian Roulette .
pic 1 Flag of Russia
pic 3 Game of Roulette
Revolver,as used in RR

Daily Quiz

2008-11-16T16:22:00.004-08:00

Could be a toughie..Identify them .

Also see The Cricket Quiz

You can contribute to QUIZ . Mail your questions to
manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com
Please don't forget to mention the following in your mail :
1. Your Name .
2. Your Website/Blog URL (if any)
3. Question + Answer With Proper Explanation .

Marx,Engels,Lenin

Daily Quiz"Place"

2008-11-15T08:43:00.007-08:00

Today's Question is a repeat :

What place is this :

Also see The Cricket Quiz

You can contribute to QUIZ . Mail your questions to
manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com
Please don't forget to mention the following in your mail :
1. Your Name .
2. Your Website/Blog URL (if any)
3. Question + Answer With Proper Explanation .

Lorraine Motel - The place where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.

Cracked by : Chandan,Johny Walker and Dear Mr. Anonymous

Daily Quiz

2008-11-14T12:11:00.004-08:00

Who is next

The Cricket Quiz is open.

The next in the list is Michelle Obama . The list is showing the last five First Ladies of USA .
Cracked by : All

Daily Quiz"Identify"

2008-11-13T11:24:00.008-08:00

Identify the person with Di Caprio.
Click Read More for Hint.
The Cricket Quiz is open for a week.

Di Caprio has portrayed him in a movie.Anything else would be a give away.
Answer : He is the real Frank Abagnale . Di Caprio portrayed him in the movie Catch Me If You Can

Cracked by : Nick,Johnny Walker,Chandan,Ignoramus Scribbler,Leonidas,Ashwin,Simple Guy

The Cricket Quiz

2008-11-13T07:12:00.004-08:00

The QUIZ is from Roshan Jha . When it comes to Cricket...hez the daddy of all.
Cheers ma-yy-ttee.

The quiz is open for a week.Post your answers in the Comments Box.

1. The story goes that watching X's marathon innings one spectator watching him bat fell from one of the branches of the tree outside and broke his arm. He was later invited in the ground by the team manager because the young man could not afford to buy a ticket.
When asked later, how did he fell from the tree ??
The person complained of getting to sleep watching his innings.

Name the player and the innings that we are talking about??

2.

3 . Mr. X not only being as true great batsman of his time but was a wizard with the soccer ball as well. He represented his city clubs both in cricket and soccer.As with many other sportsman of his generation he lost some of his best years to the Second World War, during which he served in the army in India.Had a close friendship with Aussie cricketer, footballer and national hero, keith miller.

Name the cricketer.

4.

What connects them.

Daily Quiz"Life Here and Beyond"

2008-11-12T07:07:00.005-08:00

Now this one is a favorite among the recent ones...Please give me the connection

pic 1 : Phoenix bird
pic 2 : NASA
pic 3 : Twitter
The connect is Phoenix Mars Lander . A NASA project .NASA used twitter to send the updates of the Phoenix Mars Lander .

Cracked by :Rishi,Rockoholic,Nakul,Chandan,Johny Walker,Gaurav,Shocky

Daily Quiz"Movies"

2008-11-10T11:36:00.002-08:00

Identify and Connect the Pics shown

pic 1 : Jennifer Connelly
pic 2 : Princeton University
pic 3 : Russel Crowe
The connection is the movie A Beautiful Mind.

Cracked by : Nikhil.Chandan.Apurv,Lone Ranger,Johny Walker

Daily Quiz

2008-11-09T09:18:00.003-08:00

The question is from Abhishek Peeyush

Connect. Click Read More for Hint

All of them are the flags of countries.See they are six of them
Answer :
The countries in which Yugoslavia broke :
First Row : Macedonia,Serbia,Bosnia
Second Row: Croatia,Montenegro,Slovenia

Cracked By : DJ,Chandan,Rishi,Gaurav

For Answers

2008-11-08T04:52:00.000-08:00

Hey Quizzers..
As you can see that the blog has undergone changes in ways more than one.
One very important thing which you should note is that you will have to press Read More to see the Answers.

Daily Quiz"In News"

2008-11-06T09:05:00.000-08:00

Connect the Pictures...
The person in pic 1 was in today's news.

Pic 1 : Michale Crichton
Pic 2 : Universal Studios
Pic 3 : Steven Speilberg
The connect is Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton is the author of the book JP . A movie with the same name was directed by Steven Spielberg under the banner of Universal.Michael Crichton died on 4th Nov. 2008.

Daily Quiz "Notorious"

2008-11-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

The question is from Saquib Akhter - wishing you a very Happy B'day.

The person in the pic . is known for something which made the US authorities bite their fingers.
Just identify him.

He is John Draper( popularly known as Captain Crunch ) a former phone phreak.The interestin part is that he taught his phone phreaking skills to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.He developed a telephone interface for Apple 2 pc.

Daily Quiz"Music"

2008-11-03T11:17:00.000-08:00

The questions have been contributed by Sameer Agrawal ,the biggest music aficionado I have ever known.Cheers to him.

Connect the Pics.

1.

2.

Hint : The Band shown is Rage Against the Machine
Click on the image for a bigger view

Answer
1. The connect is Club 27. Club 27 refers to the group of influential Rock and Blue musicians who died at the age of twenty seven.
left up : Brian Jones-Rolling Stones
left down:Kurt Cobain-Nirvana
Middle :Janis Joplin
Right Up : Jimmi Hendrix
Right Down:Jim Morrison-The Doors
2.The Band is RATM.Their album with the same name,Rage Against The Machines,had a pulitzer prize winning photograph ,of a buddhist monk burning himself to death in the protest for the murder of Buddhists, as their album cover.

Daily Quiz"Business"

2008-11-02T10:59:00.002-08:00

The question has been contributed by Gaurav Singh

Connect

The connect is Hindustan Motors (Founded by BM Birla)
Oxford Morris - on which the model of our very own Ambassador Car is based on.(Produced by HM)
BITS Pilani - Started by Shri G.D.Birla
Mitsubishi - It has a joint venture with HM in India

Daily Quiz "Sports"

2008-11-01T22:22:00.000-07:00

The QUIZ today has been contributed by Gaurav Singh . Identify and Connect.

1.
2.
1. First pic shows a Yamaha bike(it's having a Yamaha logo)
Second pic is the flag of Italy.
"46" is the no. of the racing gear and bike of this moto gp rider
"The Doctor" is his nicname
He is none other than Valentino Rossi Country - Italy Bike Constructor - Yamaha.

2. George Best
He was a player of Manchester United F. C.(referred as red devils).
His first manager was Matt Busby(the statue)
He was often referred to as the "Fifth Beatle"
He was an alcoholic which eventually led to his death.

Daily Quiz"Identify and Connect"

2008-10-31T11:29:00.000-07:00

The questions are contributed by Mirza Khalid Baig

1. Identify him

2. Identify and Connect

1.Bill Gates
2. Pic on the left: Sherlock Holmes Pic on the right:Prof. Challenger
The Connect is Arthur C. Doyle - Both are fictional characters created by him

Daily Quiz"Mythology"

2008-10-30T12:16:00.000-07:00

What connects them ?
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Pic 1 : Kamdeva
Pic 2 : Cupid
Both are Gods of Love in Hindu and Roman Mythologies resp.

Daily Quiz

2008-10-29T12:06:00.000-07:00

The question has been contributed by Abhishek Peeyush

Literally meaning "God-wind", "god speed", "light wind", "spirit-wind" or "divinity-wind" in japanese ; common translation(in english): "divine wind", it refers to something destructive according to english dictionaries now and dates back to memories of closing stage of the pacific campaign of the Empire of Japan against Allied shipping in World War 2..
Which word??

The word is Kamikaze -

Daily Quiz

2008-10-28T10:37:00.000-07:00

Identify and Connect to an event.

Pic 1 : Division of Germany by the allies after WW2
Pic 2 : Berlin Wall (aerial view)
Pic 3 : Albert Einstein ( German)
The event is The Berlin Wall or The Construction of the Berlin Wall .

Daily Quiz"Connect"

2008-10-27T11:00:00.001-07:00

Connect the three Pics.

pic 1 : Philippe Halsman
pic 2 : Marilyn Monroe
pic 3 : Albert Einstein

The pic 2 and 3 are photographs taken by Philippe Halsman. Pic 1 is his self portrait

Daily Quiz"26 th October"

2008-10-25T12:57:00.000-07:00

X

Y

Y is used in place of X somewhere.Identify Y and X .

X is the Spirit of Ecstasy - The mascot on Rolls Royce cars
Y is St George on horseback - The British Queen's mascot which appears on the Rolls Royce used by her.

Daily Quiz "Connect"

2008-10-24T07:26:00.000-07:00

Harvey Keitel
Tim Roth
Steve Buscemi
Chris Penn
Michael Madsen
Lawrence Tierney

Reservoir Dogs.

Daily Quiz"Place"

2008-10-22T11:12:00.000-07:00

Identify this famous site.(It has a unique first to it)

The pic. shown is the Trinity site where the world's first test of technology for a nuclear weapon took place.

Daily Quiz"Brand"

2008-10-21T10:11:00.001-07:00

The question is contributed by Abhishek Peeyush.

Started in 1822,by siblings Joseph and Edward who originally sold salt from a pack horse somewhere in england,this company is now owned by a famous Indian company which is world's 2nd largest manufacturer and distributor of the product it sells.
Name the company..

Note: The answers to previous Daily Quizzes are now up.Just click Show full Post in their respective posts.

The brand is Tetley Tea.It is now owned by Tata Tea Group

Daily Quiz"Mixed Bag"

2008-10-20T10:41:00.001-07:00

1. Identify her (Time Frame : World War 1)

2.What is being referred to

Post your answers in the Comments Box.
1.The pic shown is of Mata Hari. She achieved fame as an exotic dancer in the WW1 period.She was accused of espionage .She was tried and executed by French Govt.

2.The route of Suez Canal.(the shorter path).

Daily Quiz "India"

2008-10-18T05:47:00.001-07:00

Some India Gyan for Today ....

1.
Sare jahan se achcha hindosda hamara
Hum bulbulen hain iski yeh gulsitan hamara...

The lines are from the poem of the same name(Sare jahan se achcha) written by Muhammad
Iqbal.

Here is a text from some other poem.

chin o arab hamara, hindostan hamara
muslim hain ham, vatan hai sara jahan hamara

Can you give me the composer of this poem.(Think-its not that tough)

2.What is so special about this photograph?

3.Connect the three personalities.

Answers

1: The second poem is also written by Muhammad Iqbal . Its named Tarana-e-Milli (After a stay of about 3 years in Europe his views started changing and he became an advocate and visionary of an Islamic society)

2:The pic shown is of Bahadur Shah - the second.He was the last Moghul Emperor and this is probably his only photograph taken.Thus making him the only Moghul Emperor to be photographed ever.3:pic 1: Amitabh Bachchan
pic 2: Munshi Premchanda
pic 3: Satyajit Ray
The connect is Shataranj Ke Khiladi
Premchanda wrote a story named shataranj ke khiladi.S. Ray made a movie of the same name inspired by the above story which was narrated by Mr AB.

Daily Quiz "Photograph"

2008-10-17T09:17:00.000-07:00

Who has taken this Pulitzer Prize winning iconic photograph ?

Answer:

The photographer is Kevin Carter. Cracked by 4.

Daily Quiz"Mixed Bag"

2008-10-16T03:08:00.000-07:00

So here we go ( Post your Answers in the Comments Box)

1.The above pic. shows a comparison chart. Keeping in mind that the figures are in Billion Dollars find out what could be it for.

2.
What association does the above pic. represents. (If you get the flags you get the answer)

3.

Connect the above personalities.Think Movie.................series.

1. The graph shows the annual military spending for the countries (mentioned above) in the year 2007.

2.The pic is for NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement.

3.All the persons have been the directors of the movie series Batman.

pic1:Tim Burton

pic2:Joel Schumacher

pic3:Chris Nolan

Scores:

Chandan Shahi 1
Iv 1
Nishansolo 2

Daily Quiz "Identify"

2008-10-15T00:35:00.000-07:00

Here is a set of 3 questions
Post your answers in the Comment Box. Answers and Scores will be published tomorrow.

1.

Identify and Connect the two pics shown.

2.

Identify her.

3. X said " I did not have sexual relationship with that woman ".
Later X said " I had a sexual relationship with Y ,which was inappropriate ,in fact it was wrong".

1. First pic is of Richard Nixon and the second pic is the Watergate complex.
connection is Watergate scandal - in which some persons were caught in an act of burglary when they broke into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate complex .No need to tell who was the pres. at that time. Richard Nixon is the only US pres. to have resigned from the post.

2.The pic. shown is NOT of Sonia Gandhi .She is Reese Witherspoon.

3.X is Bill Clinton Y is Ms. Lewinsky.

Scores

Abhinav Mouli 2
Nishit Ganatra 2
Kamal Rathi 3
Abhishek Mania 1
Scipio3
D. Sudhakar3
Rishiraj Nanda1
Pure Schizophrenia2

Answers to MOSTLY TRIVIA QUIZ

2008-10-07T12:34:00.000-07:00

UDGHOSH '08 - The Annual Quiz Open at KIIT University

The answers are:

1.Asaf Jah VII (Osman Ali Khan Bahadur) the last Nizam of the Princely state of Hyderabad.The university is Osmaina University.

2.Sher Shah Suri .He defeated the Moghul Emperor Humayun in the Battle of Chausa and established the famous Suri dynasty which ruled the Delhi Sultanate for 15 Years.

3.X is Lamborghini Y is Audi A.G.and Z is Volkswagen

4.Siraj ud-Daulah the last independent Nawab of Bengal,Bihar and Orissa.

5. She is Anu Aga who led the engineering giant Thermax Ltd. as its chairperson.

6.The Band shown is Metallica in its early days.

7.The pic./statue on the left is also David (David by Donatello).

8.Plant More Trees.

9.They are the youngest and oldest persons to take part in olympics. The youngest ever
Olympian is Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, who competed in the 1896 Athens Olympics.
He was 10 years old.Oscar Swahn was 72 years old when he competed in the 1920 Olympic games and he won a silver medal in shooting. He was from Sweden.

Scores:
D . Sudhakar 5
Ashish Jain 2
Ritika S 3
Taneja Deepak 3
Anubhav Chaterjee 2
Deepanshu Berry 4
RishiRaj Nanda 5
Anirudh Patil 1
Abhishek 3
Loneranger 4
Abhishek Peeyush 6

Will be Uploading a Quiz Tomorrow..So please ..do check back..

Till then...
Hail Quizzing
Manvendra Singh (manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com)

MOSTLY TRIVIA QUIZ

2008-10-04T09:56:00.000-07:00

hey quizzers..!! Good to see you back.Before getting down to work here is something I want to share with you.I received it as a forwarded mail and couldn't resist publishing it on the blog.

Hope .... that brought a smile on your face...

So here we go.. (mail the answers at manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com)

1.I have university named after me.At some position in my life I was reputed to be the richest man in the world, having a fortune estimated at $2 billion in the early 1940s.Adjusting for inflation, however,I today ranks as the 5th richest person in the history of the world, the wealthiest-ever Asian, the wealthiest-ever Indian and the second-wealthiest monarch in world history, with a fortune that at its high point was $210 billion (in 2008 US dollars).Who am I ?

2.X has his tomb in a district of Bihar. X was a visionary ruler and introduced many military and civil reforms. One of his important innovations was the introduction of the Rupayya or rupee coin; the very name is still used for official coinage in India,Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka among other countries. X was the first in sub-continent to introduce custom duties, which are still followed up to this day.Identify X.

3.Brand X has its logo after its owner's Zodiac sign.X is a subsidiary of Y which is inturn a subsidiary of Z.Identify X,Y and Z.

4.Britishers called me Sir Roger Dowlett due to the difficulty in the pronunciation of my real name.Who am I....Read and Read again.

5. Identify.

6. Identify the Band

7 If the pic on right is that of David..Whats there on the left 8.Ad/describing what. 9. The boy in the first pic and the old man in the second have a unique claim to fame... What.. Hint: Think Olympics

Happy Quizzing

Manvendra

Answers to MASALA QUIZ

2008-09-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

The response was pretty good.So lets check out the answers ..

1. The connect is Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist author)
-Statue shown is Christ the Redeemer. It is one of the modern 7 wonders of the world and is located in Rio de Janeiro
-The dialogue "Agar kisi ko dil se chaho to use....." was a direct lift from the book The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho.
-Harper Collins is the publisher of the book The Alchemist.

3. The person in pic. is the legendary Indian artist Raja Ravi Verma
- The paintings show "The Abduction of Sita by Ravana" and "Shakuntala waiting for Dushyanta".

4.The person in the question is LNM

5. LUX - a soap brand which was launched in the US in 1916, and marketed as a laundry soap It is a brand owned by Unilever.

6.The connect is Head and Shoulders shampoo

- The person shown in the pic is F Scott Fitzgerald . His father worked at P&G(which owns H&S)
- Head and Shoulders was one of the earliest stories of F Scott Fitzgerald.

7.The place is Khooni Darwaza located on the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in Delhi.

8.Browser Wars.

Scores:

D Sudhakar 6
Nirad 1
Ashish Jain 1
Bharath 1
Varadharajan Ragunathan 1
Deepanshu Berry 4
Jaya Mukherjee 5
SriRam Gopalaswami 5
Kamal 5

Happy Quizzing

Manvendra

MASALA QUIZ

2008-09-23T03:39:00.000-07:00

Hey quizzers..!!
Posting a new set of questions :
Expecting a huge response : manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com
Answers in about 7 days

1. Starting of with an easy one : Connect to a personality :

3. Identify and Connect :

4.

X (an India-born business tycoon)has been honoured with Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award, which honours heroes of entrepreneurial capitalism and free enterprise and is the third person to receive it . Identify X.

5. Ad. for a Soap in 1916. Identify the brand

6. Connect to a brand(product)

7. This place 0r darwaza has seen the assasination of
-Mirza Mughal and Kizr Sultan son's of Bahadur Shah Zafar
-Two sons of Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana a.k.a Rahim
-Dara Shikoh(Brother of Aurangzeb)

What Place.?

8.

Mozilla foundation(an open source orgn) which was set up when its predecessor NETSCAPE surrendered to the harsh business and marketting tactics of MICROSOFT such as the bundling of their web-browser (IE) with the copy of Windows.This rivalry between browsers which existed and is still on is known by a specific name...X Give me X. Can be worked out.

Happy Quizzing

Manvendra

Answers to Identify

2008-09-14T23:26:00.000-07:00

hey quizzers..!!
The response to Identify was overwhelming.Uploading the Answers and Scores.Hope you enjoyed working on it.Your feedback will be appreciated (manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com)

1. The person in the picture shown is Haley Joel Osment of The Sixth Sense and A.I. fame.
Many of you may not be knowing that he was the first choice to play the role of the famous boy wizard Harry Potter which was to be directed by Steven Spielberg.

2. Secretary General of IAEA Mohammad El Baradei

3. The famous Georgio Armani.

4. John Nash -played exceptionally by Russel Crowe in the movie A Beautiful Mind.

5. Sarah Palin the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republicans and the current governor of Alaska.

6.From l to r : Sanjay Gandhi, Dara Singh's Brother,Rajeev Gandhi,Indira Gandhi,Dara Singh and the right most person is Amitabh Bachchan.

7. Sharbat Gula of the Search of the Afgan Girl fame.

Scores:

Sameer Agrawal 6
Debojyoti De 6
Pradeep Kumar 6
Sudhakar 5
Aishwarya Raj 5
deepanshu berry 5
Anubhav Chatterjee 5
swarun krishna 4
S Anand 4

Happy Quizzing..

Identify.

2008-09-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

Hey..!!
Uploading the next set of Questions.Hope you crack all.Mail me the answers at manvendra_singh74@yahoo.com

1.Identify him from the world of entertaintment..

hint:.Seen him in one of the greatest movies of all time.

2.Identify him.. Easy one.

3.Identify the old man with julia roberts and george clooney...Nice Suit.

4.Identify him. If you know schizophrenia...you know him

5.Identify her. In news these days.
6.Identify All and most importantly the person indicated

7.Identify her. Hint: you will probably find who is she if you search for an Afgan Girl

Confused

2008-07-22T13:47:00.001-07:00

Hey friends..
Just an hour back I was sitting in the Reading Room(ya sometimes this happens) and this question came to my mind : "What makes a good Quiz Master?".Several thoughts started hitting my mind immediately but none of them was as satisfying as this one..."Why Not Pass The Ball To You Folks.".So I am doing the same.
Take the Poll and Help me get out of this twisted state
Post your suggestions in the Comment Box of this Post.

Answers to Quizoholic-1

2008-07-18T10:25:00.000-07:00

1.) The connecct is M. Night Shyamalan.............he directed the movie "lady in the water"........he did the screenplay for "stuart little" and he also recieved the padma shri this year

2.) The building in the pic. is named "BUBBLES"

3.) This couch is in Central Perk in the sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S

4.) This is Oscar Pistorious a double amputee .

5.) Jim Corrbet told this when he ws there at the "Tree Top Hotel" in kenya .Princess Elizabeth ws there when her father king George VI died.......the "tree" referred to the hotel.So she climbed up a princess and climbed down a queen

6.) The connect is NAPSTER ......roxio bought the bankrupt napster company...in the movie the italian job "seth green" wrote the napster program which shawn fanning steals frm him.... Musical parodist Johnny Crass satirised the 2000 Metallica v Napster conflict in his song "Internet Sandman"

quizoholic-1

2008-07-14T07:57:00.001-07:00

1.) Give the connect between the three pics.

2.) Name this building in china where the swimming events are to be held ?

3.) Identify this iconic couch!!!!!!

4.) Identify this gr88 person

5.) For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a princess and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience she climbed down from the tree as a queen - God bless her

Who said this and on what context????

6.) Connect

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answers to quizoholic

2008-07-11T11:07:00.000-07:00

1.) The CLAY mathematics institute

2.) The "BUTTERFLY EFFECT"

3.) Mind your language

4.) Joga Bonito

5.) These are all the parodies of the harry potter books

6.) The Philadelphia Experiment

7.) Don't be evil

8.) Joe Satriani

9.) Peter James Petheric

10.) Sachin ramesh tendulkar given out by K.E.Libenberg

quizzoholic

2008-07-01T10:39:00.001-07:00

1.)In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The ___________ has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of ________ selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years. The Board of Directors of _______ designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each.

During the Millennium Meeting held on May 24, 2000 at the Collège de France, Timothy Gowers presented a lecture entitled The Importance of Mathematics, aimed for the general public, while John Tate and Michael Atiyah spoke on the problems. The ________ invited specialists to formulate each problem.

name the institute that gives the prize??????

2.)The _______________ is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. So this is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

A famous movie has also been made on this theory starring ashton kutcher.

3.)_________ _______ _______ is a British comedy television series that was originally aired on ITV between 1977 and 1979. Produced by LWT and directed by Stuart Allen, it is set in a school for adult students in London, focusing on the English as a Foreign Language class taught by Mr. Jeremy Brown, portrayed byBarry Evans, who had to deal with a motley crew of foreigners. A new version of the show with some of the original cast aired in 1986.

The series focuses on the adult students of the English as a Foreign Language class in a London school. The class consists of foreigners with varying degrees of English proficiency. The humour of the show is derived from the students misunderstanding English words.

The series was sold to other countries, including Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Singapore

4.)"Play Beautifully" in Portuguese is a football-oriented social network service created by Nike and Google, based upon Google's orkut. _________ commercial advertisements are shown on the nikefootball.com website and the default Google Personalized Homepage as well as appearing on television. It is portrayed as an underground broadcast channel that taps into other television stations' live feeds, filmed "live from the heart of Germany"[1]. Its motto is “play from the heart”.

5.)What are these
a)the unnessesary sequel
b)the dead horse
c)the marijuana stone
d)the underwear of justice
e)the pet rock
f)the seamy side of magic ??????

6.)Operation Ghost was an alleged naval military experiment at the Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania, sometime around October 28, 1943, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period. It is also referred to as ________________.
The story is widely regarded as a hoax.The U.S. Navy maintains that no such experiment occurred, and furthermore, details of the story contradict facts about the Eldridge.[4] It has nonetheless caused ripples in conspiracy theory circles, and elements of the __________________ are featured in other government conspiracy theories.

7.)"____ __ ____ is said to recognize that large corporations can often maximize short-term profits with actions that destroy long-term brand image and competitive position. By instilling a ____ __ ____ culture, the corporation establishes a baseline for decision making that can enhance the trust and image of the corporation that outweighs short-term gains from violating the ____ __ ____ principles
This is a policy that is widely used by GOOGLE....

8.)_________________(born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York, U.S.) is an American guitarist and former guitar instructor. He is heavily influenced by Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.[2] Since 1990 he has used his own signature guitar, the Ibanez Series, which is widely sold in stores.[3] He also has a signature series amplifier, the Peavey JSX.
He also performed for Rolling Stones. In 1994, he was also the lead guitarist for Deep Purple.[2] He has also worked with a wide range of guitarists from many styles, including Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Patrick Rondat, Paul Gilbert, and Robert Fripp through the annual G3 Jam Concerts.[1]
He is widely recognized as a highly advanced, technical rock guitarist, and has been described as a virtuoso[9][10]. He has mastered many performance techniques on the instrument, including Legato, two-handed tapping, sweep-picking, volume swells, harmonics, and extreme whammy bar effects. One of his trademark compositional traits is the use of Pitch Axis Theory, which he applies with a variety of modes.

He also has the most Grammy Award (14) without winning

9.)______ ______ ________ (born 25 September 1942 in Ranfurly) was an off-spinner who represented New Zealand in cricket. He is one of two New Zealand bowlers to achieve a hat-trick in Test matches. He is one of only three players, along with Maurice Allom and Damien Fleming, to have taken a hat-trick on Test debut

10.)The first person to be given out by the third umpire is......

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Answers to Conundrums

2008-07-01T07:27:00.000-07:00

1.Connect is:
All of them feature on the list of 50 Most Influential Indian-Americans
Hit http://www.rediff.com/us/top50.html
for more information.

2.Charlie Chaplin

3.Connect is :
Zakir Hussain (musician)
He did many fusions with The Beatles,played tabla for Francis Capolla's movie Apocalypse Now and appeared on the add of Taj Mahal tea.

4. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

5.The incident connects to the demise of Cliff Burton the Bassist of Metallica at that time
They all were in Sweden to promote their album Master Of Puppets. While travelling,the bus driver lost control and the bus slipped and Cliff fell out of it and came under the bus while the other members got out safe with minor injuries.

6.Phishing

7.The movie Gandhi is the connect.
Alyque Padamsee-Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Ravi Shankar-Music Director of the movie
Ben Kingsley-Born Krishna Bhanji

8.Guinness Book Of World Records

9.Lajja by Taslima Nasrin

10. The beginning of the World War 1.

11. X-Krishna Bharat
Y-Google News

12. Magnetic North-It is different from Geographic North
Magnetic north tends to shift and refers to the pole
of the Earth's magnetic field which is generated due to the
convection currents flowing in the outer core. In mid 2002,
true north and magnetic north were approximately 590
miles apart.

13.Lorraine Motel-The assasination of Martin Luther King took place at this place

Thanx for the visits

Anubhav-3

Conundrums..

2008-06-28T10:05:00.000-07:00

1. -> Connect the above personalities

2.
->On March 1, 1978, his corpse was stolen by a small group of Polish and Bulgarian mechanics in an attempt to extort money from his family.The plot failed, the robbers were captured, and the corpse was recovered eleven weeks later near Lake Geneva. His body was reburied under two metres of concrete to prevent further attempts .Which famous personality is being talked about..??

3. Hint:Think Indian

4.
-> In the dark blue sky you keep
And often through my curtains peep
For you never shut your eyes
Till the sun is in the sky.
This is the second stanza of a poem.
What are the first two lines....??

5.

-> Connect to an incident..

->To send a fake explorer page screen to the targeted user with the information that his previous page has expired due to time out and that the user is required to enter his/her username and password again and in this way the intruder gets access to the valuable information of the user. This term used to describe it is...

7. Connect the above pics.

8.
-> X holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries Name X
9. ->Identify the Book

10.

->The June 28, 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavri Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand. This led to..

11.
->X is a Principal Scientist at Google who is famous for
creating Google Y . This service can automatically index
about 4500 Y websites around the world and provide a
summary of the Y resources. Officially his title is
"Principal Research Scientist".X created Google Y in the
aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks to keep him
abreast of the developments. Since then, it has been a huge
hit and a popular offering from Google's services. It is
interesting to note that Google Y was one of Google's first
endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its
page.

12.

->A Magnetic Compass' needle points towards X. Name X. Its a two word answer.

13.
-> This place has a place reserved in the pages of American History.Identify it

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