Sunday, December 30, 2007

quizzing @ kochi quizzers

1. In 1970 a stoned hippie arrived at benares seeking nirvana.wen he asked a sadhu ,he was dragged to the top of a hillock and his head was shaved.this wierd experience led him to return to his homeland and found a now famous company.name the person and the company.

apple and steve jobs

2. This is about the Munich air disaster that killed 8 of manchester united's full squad..they where returning after a european fixture.i want you people to give the name of the club against which they had played right before the crash.

red star belgrade

3. Right. This instrument is called Mud veena or chitra veena. one of its most famous exponents is the young prodigy N Ravikiran. What am I talking about?

gottuvadyam


4. The cricketing legend Don Bradman was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales, but raised in Bowral (where the Bradman Museum and Bradman Oval are located)..Now our question goes like this. Which place in India you can find two estates’s called Cootamundra Estate and Adelaide Estate, possibly in honour of Bradman?

Wayanad

5. Which English term (two words) was borrowed into Japanese, adapted, shortened, used to name a toy product and then "returned" to English?

POKEMON. from pocket n monsters

6.This game was created by an unemployed architect, Alfred Mosher
Butts in the early 1930s. He sold the rights to James Brunot. In 1948
it was renamed _____ and was manufactured in a converted school house
in Connecticut. Brunot sold the game to Selchow and Righter, who were
bought out by Coleco in 1987, and in 1989 Milton Bradley
bought it. More than 100 million games have been sold worldwide. There
is even an official competition based on it. What are we talking about
here?

SCRABBLE

7. The initial title of which movie , released in Dec 2007 was " High Jump " before they deciding on the current title?

TZP........TARE ZAMEEN PAR

8. Connect Hendrick Van der Decken(who???) , Dennis Bergkamp and KLM.

flying dutchman....................Hendrick Van der Decken was the captain of the ship named flying dutchman. bergkamp is nicknamed the non flying dutchman. KLM has a special service called flying dutchman.

9. Connect the following :::::::::::::


Stanford University
Abercrombie & Fitch
MIT
I love Wine
Blue grass


ans: These r the first communities in Orkut


10. December 18th 2003, When Larry Ellison got married to melanie Craft, his friend was the official wedding photographer, Name the official Wedding Photographer ?

STEVE JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!

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