Saturday, January 26, 2008

A quiz after a long time..............................................................................................................................

1. "One World, One Dream" is the slogan of which upcoming event?




2. A rectangular country whose capital is Emerald City. You can go there boarding a tornado and can get out by clicking your red shoes one against the other. Identify this imaginary nation.




3.He was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj , who were attending graduate school. His family is of Punjabi ancestry; his father left India and his ancestral family village of Khanpura in the 1970s. According to family lore, he adopted the name X after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four. He has been known by that name ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—though legally his name remains Piyush ……… .
Who is he? Identify X.




4. In the early part of the seventeenth century, in a middle class home in France, a young twelve year old boy, was busy working with mathematical diagrams, trying desperately to prove that the sum of the angles of a triangle was two right angles. As the young boy had not yet been introduced to geometry, he had created his own names for straight lines and circles, calling them "bars" and "rounds". Who was this young boy, destined to change the world of physics with his experiments on fluids?



5. X was nicknamed "The Austrian Oak" and "The Styrian Oak" during his body-building career. The name Y comes from the 1992 book Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner. In one scene, on pages 50–51, a character asks the shop assistant at a video store to have X digitally substituted for existing actors into various works, including (amongst others) Rain Man (to replace both Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman), My Fair Lady (to replace Rex Harrison), Amadeus (to replace F. Murray Abraham), The Diary of Anne Frank (as Anne Frank), Gandhi (to replace Ben Kingsley), and It's a Wonderful Life (to replace James Stewart). Y is the name that Leyner gives to this process. Only 10 years later, Y was close to being reality





6. What connects Sharon Stone, Martin Cooper, Buckminster Fuller and Scott Adams?





7. Which company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles ……….., Edward ……………., and Charles Bergstresser?





8. Who served as the acting Secretary-General of the UNO until Trygve Lie was elected in 1946?



9. What is common to American fighting man, Hungarian freedom fighter, US
scientists, Twenty-five and under, The middle Americans, The computer, The peace
makers, Endangered earth, American women and YOU?




10. This current Head of State suffered a retinal detachment after being kicked in the head during an end-of-term rugby union match at his old school. He was left blind in his left eye, despite treatment including several operations and lying in a darkened room for weeks at a time. He has since been fitted with an artificial eye.
Who ?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

answers to quiz by me

Answers:
1. Douglas Jardine, Colin Cowdrey and Nasser Hussein. English captains born in India.
2. South Park.
3."Peanuts" characters - Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, Franklin. (Linus Torvalds, Lucy B, Gerhard Schroeder, Benjamin Franklin)
4. The picture is of Camillo Golgi. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906. The Golgi Apparatus in living cells are named after him.
5. Malappropism
6. Stub
7. Bolton Wanderers. They are nicknamed TROTTERS.
8. The gate of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp.
9. Auguste Piccard was the inspiration for Prof. Cuthbert Calculus in Tintin comics, St. Cuthbert and kidney stones are also known as calculus.
10. Martin Luther King jr…….."i have a dream" speech.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

random quizzes

1. What was so special about Boby Pearce winning the Single sculls gold at the 1928 olympics??
2. What replaced the Harkness rating system in 1960??
3. Who is the youngest player ever to have defeated Garry Kasparov in a regulr game of chess??
4. Connect Giovanna Amati , Maria Teressa de Filippis, Divina Galica ,Desire Wilson and Lella Lombardi.
5. He was ranked 94 by forbes in its list of 500 richest people in the world . He made his fortune by selling financial information terminals to wall street firms.His company also began a radio network in the new york city called 1130-WBBR-AM.Who am i tlaking about??
6. Whose oficial residence is Gracie Mansion??



1. he came across a group of ducks while rowing n still managed to win d gold
2. The Elo system in chess
3. teimour radjabov
4. female f1 DRIVERS
5. michael bloomberg
6.mayor or new york

random quizzes

1. Ok... identify the company bieng advertised here...

888 CHINA- lucky number

13 MALTA - unlucky number

4 JAPAN - unlucky number

" Never underestimate the importance of _________ _________ "



2.A sitter.....
How do we better know the " Train a grande vitess "..???
Claim to fame also please......



3. This football club always stuck by it's policy of no sponserer logo on their jerseey There was a great furore when the nike "swoosh" sign was added as they were the kit manufacturers. After a lot of hue and cry it was accepted , though apart from that there is no commercial/sponsorship sign on this teams jersey, which is unique in the world of football . Name this famous club.


4.Another sitter.....

___________ was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Baptized "Alphonsus __________," he grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors.
He grew up to be.......?




1. Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge.
HSBC
2. It's France's TGV. The fastest train service in the world, that's what the name means (train with grand speed)
3. Barcelona
4.Al Capone









1)The only rule of this game is that new rules every time the game is played...which??

2)When he gets angry,a volcano erupts on jupiter...who??

3)who was a NaSA astronaut,amateur Boxer,town mayor etc....(CLUE: He has a brilliant IQ.But appears dumb coz he's got a crayon stuck in his brain!!)



1) calvinball
2)Sabu from the chacha chaudhry comics
3)Homer simpson

random quizzes

1.This European automaker’s Headquarter building is one
of the few buildings in the world that is built top to
bottom. Name the company



2.A sitter. Born Canadian, this rock singer’s also a
talented photographer, so much so that his photo of
Queen Victoria was on the postage stamp of Canada.
Name this singer. (Any other hint will be a give-away)




3.In “matrix reloaded” (part 2), when Neo, Morpheus and
Trinity visit the Merovingian, Neo sees ‘X’. ‘X’ later
makes a relatively longer appearance in Revolutions
(part 3). Name the character or actor.




4.Another one inspired from matrix. Give me the
country/city of birth of Keanu reeves.




5.This is a part of an ad, which used to come long time
back in India. “Life is tough. So I carry my office
with me. Makes sense to buy _____. After all they’ve
invented it”. The blank is the company name. A hint,
this ad was made when the company in picture wanted to
promote their product in India. Give me the company
and/or product


answers

1. BMW
2.is BRYAN ADAMS!!!
3.monica belluci
4. beirut, lebanon
5. Motorola

Friday, January 04, 2008

QUIZ BY ARUN GEORGE

1. A cricketing connect to begin with.
















2. Where can you see the families the Marshes, the Broflovskis, the Tweeks, the Cartmans, the McCormicks, and the Stotches?




3.Connect:





































4. What apparatus would you associate this Nobel Laureate with?











5. What commonly used word, meaning ‘a humorous misuse of a word’ is named after Mrs. M………p, a character in ‘The Rivals’, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ?




6. Another etymology (dedicating this to all wiki addicts like me): Which word, used in wikipedia for ‘a short article in need of expansion’ originally means ‘a mature tree cut above a height of 3-5 metres and retained as a standing stem or pollard following timber harvest, usually for wildlife or archaeological purposes’ ?




7. This english football club was nicknamed .…………. because in the 19th century, one of their pitches was adjacent to a piggery and clearances often end up in there. Players had to 'trot' through the pig-pens to retrieve the balls. Which club?






8. This is the main entrance in to what?? The lines at the gate means " Work will set you
free”.
















9. Connect the following visuals.



























10. This google doodle, that appeared on January 15, 2007 was in memory of a great American known for his dream. Who?





some sports trivia

1. Name 2 players who have represented their country in both rugby and cricket ?

rudi van vuuren of namibia and jeff wilson of new zealand

2. Name the only cricket stadium in india which is named after a hockey player?name the place also?

Dhyanchand stadium,Jhansi

3. What unenviable feat connects Malcolm Nash and Tilak Raj?

They were the bowlers who were hit for 6 sixes in an over by gary sobers and ravi shastri

4. who is the first asian batsman to score 100 first class centuries ???

k.s ranjitsinghji

5. Against which country india registered its first win in a WC match?

East Africa

6. Name the famous cricket stadium in world which is named after a famous millitiary dictator,the dictator is still present in the country and ruling.

Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore named after the libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

some trivia questions

1.ROGER DANET Trophy associated with which sport????????
2.In which famous movie did LEORNADO-DI-CAPRIO act as a child artist?? ??????????
3.The governor whose daughter was governor too???????????
4.Actress FATIMA RASHID is known to us as............
5.Ful form of SEARO??????and headquarter of SEARO???????
6.STEPHEN HAWKINGS is suffering from which debilitating paralytic disorder?
7.Who wrote the famous "Urdu novel UMRAO JAN ADA"????



1.hockey
2. "This Boy's Life"? (Leonardo di Caprio playing Robert De Niro's stepson)
3.its sarojini naidu and her daughter padmaju naidu mukharji
4.nargis
5.south east asia regional office ( WHO ) ,New Delhi.
6.amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (a type of motor neurone disease);
7. Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa

TRIVIA CHALLENGE --- QUIZ MASTER ARIJIT

Look at Sport Trivia Questions and Answers,


SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT SPORT?....?

1. How many players make up a team in Ice Hockey?
2. Who won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title in 1994?
3. For what is the Foss Williams Medal awarded in Australian Rules Football?
4. How many times have Oxford and Cambridge deadheated in the famous University boatrace?
5. What sporting facilities are the most common in Australiat?
6. What was the heaviest-weighted horse to win the Melbourne Cup?
7. What nationality is Juan Manuel Fangio, Of Formula One fame?
8. And how many world titles did he win??
9. What participation sport had the highest number of devotees in Australia in 1997?
10. How many forwards are there in a Rugby Union team?
11. What player holds the record for the lowest score in the US Masters Golf Championship?
12. Which international Test team scored 952 runs in 1967-68 to gain the world record for the highest team total in Test cricket ?
13. With what sport do you associate Shaquin O"Neal?
14. In what year did the AFL/VFL introudce the salary cap?
15. At which Olympics did Nadia Comaneci win the hearts of spectators with her perfect performance in gymnastics?
16. In what sport do the competitors use the outhandle to grasp the apparatus?
17. How many colored balls are used by each team or competitor in a game of croquet?
18. What three movements are requirred for an athlete to successfully complete a triple jump??
19. How many points do you score if you hit the black ring in archery?
20. What four-letter title is given to the captain and last player in a game of lawn bowls?
21. In which sport would herringboning be used?
22. How many shooting stations are generally used in clay-pigeon shooting ?
23. How many sails does a Bermudian Cutter raise?
24. Where were the 1932 Winter Olympics held?
25. Who was the first female tennis player to win the Grand Slam?



1. Six
2. Cinchita Martinez
3. The best player for South Australia in State Of Origin matches
4. Once
5. Bowling Greens
6. Carbine (66.5Kg)
7. Argentina
8. Five
9. Aerobics
10. Eight
11. Tiger Woods
12. Sri Lanka, declared 6-52
13. Basketball
14. 1985
15. Montreal Olympics
16. Curling)
17. Four
18. Hop, Step and Jump
19. Three
20. Skip
21. Snow skiing
22. Eight
23. Three
24. Lake Placid, United States
25. Maureen Connolly