Answers to A quiz after a long time

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


2008 beijing olympics




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.



Oz.



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.


Bobby Jindal



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?


Pascal


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


X- Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Y – Schwarzeneggerization






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

All members of Mensa.


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


A: Dow Jones





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

A: Gladwyn Jebb


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?


A: All are non-personality Times Man of Year.
AMERICAN FIGHTING MAN (1950)
HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER (1956)
US SCIENTISTS (1960)
TWENTY FIVE AND UNDER (1966)
THE MIDDLE AMERICANS (1968)
THE COMPUTER (1982)
THE PEACE MAKERS (1988)
ENDANGERED EARTH (1993)
AMERICAN WOMEN (1975)



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 ?

Gordon Brown



SCORES
1. snehaj – 5 (thanxxx a lot chetta 4 da comments)
2. suraj menon – 3 (good attempts. Btw, u guessed it as terminator, so no points for that)
3. prahlad srihari – 7 (grt answers dude, but why don’t u give ur opinions abt the questions………..atleast say that it sucked!!!)
4. nishanth jayarajan – 7 (nice to hear that I brought someone out of hibernation)
5. Aditya Modi- 3 (nice remarks).
6. Anand Shankar – 6 (yup, Arnold is called Aryanaad Shivashankaran in kerala. J)
7. Rajiv D'Silva – 7 (thanxxx buddy for the remarks)
8. Deepak Gopinath – 5 (nice attempts. Sorry for the q5. many ppl also had the same problem. It was coz I was too lazy to rephrase it from Wikipedia)
9. Nikhil Narayanan – 2 (are u from Kerala???)
10. anubhav chatterjee – 3 (why don’t u guess more?? I’ll give .25 for grt guesses)
11. Murali Duggineni – 5 (happy to see that grt quizzers like u liked my quiz)
12. K Manjith – 6 (u r one of my heroes, though u don’t wear red underwears. J anyways, thanxxxx a lot for ur kind message. Btw, I didn’t recycle questions from quiznet. Its all from wiki. The problem is that all question setters set questions from wikipedia and hence the same trivia appear many times)
13. Arun A – 4
14. Santanu Dey-6
15. Guru Rajan – 6 (am really sorry for the mistake. Thanx for bringing it to notice. Sharon Stone is not a member of Mensa)
16. srinwantu dey – A PERFECT SCORE!!!!!!!!
17. Mr vikram venkateswaran - 5
18. ajay joy – 5 (nice to hear from you after a long time…….so hows life @ bengalooru?)
19. Anand Babu – 3 (good guesses)
20. hari s nair – (no answers but very nice tips n advices….thanx a loooot)