1. He was born on August 11, 1943 in
Daryaganj in Delhi. He is from a family of
civil servants. His grandfather, Qazi
Mohtashimuddin, bought Neharwali Haveli in
the old walled city of Delhi where he was
born. The haveli, with its high roofs and
arches, is believed to have been the home
of a "Wazir" (Minister) in the court of
Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Who is he?
GEN. MUSHARAFF
2. Stephen Anthony ………………… was a high
school mathematics teacher and sports
coach. He was a FIFA referee in the World
Cup qualifier between El Salvador and the
Netherlands Antilles in 1988. In October
2007 he was awarded the Order of Jamaica,
Commander Class, for "outstanding services
in the field of sports". Who am I talking
about?
STEVE BUCKNOR
3. "At the rehearsal for the scene in Rear
Window when I wore a sheer nightgown,
Hitchcock called for Edith Head. He came
over here and said, 'Look, the bosom is not
right, we're going to have to put something
in there.' He was very sweet about it; he
didn't want to upset me, so he spoke
quietly to Edith. When we went into my
dressing room and Edith said, 'Mr.
Hitchcock is worried because there's a
false pleat here. He wants me to put in
falsies.' Well, I said, 'You can't put
falsies in this, it's going to show and I'm
not going to wear them.' And she said,
'What are we going to do?' So we quickly
took it up here, made some adjustments
there, and I just did what I could and
stood as straight as possible - without
falsies. When I walked out onto the set
Hitchcock looked at me and at Edith and
said, 'See what a difference they make'?"
Whose words?
GRACE KELLY
4. In a letter to Ezra Pound, he describes
why bulls are better than literary critics:
"Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't
marry old women of 55 and expect to be
invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you
cited as co-respondent in Society divorce
trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are
edible after they have been killed."
Identify.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
5. CONNECT
i) "If you can meet with triumph and
disaster / And treat those two imposters
just the same"
ii) Gandhiji
iii) Winston Churchill
iv) Arthur Conan Doyle
BOER WAR
6. ………………………… is a 1974 horror-thriller
musical film written and directed by Brian
De Palma. The story is a loosely adapted
mixture of Phantom of the Opera, The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Picture of
Dorian Gray and Faust. The film was
marketed with the tagline "He sold his soul
for rock and roll," and then with "He's
been maimed and framed, beaten, robbed and
mutilated. But they still can't keep him
from the woman he loves." Initially a box
office failure and panned by some critics,
it has since gained a cult following. FILL
IN.
PHANTOM OF PARADISE
7. ……………… …. ..……... is a 1990 power
ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of
XXXX. It appeared on their 1990 album Crazy
World, but did not become a worldwide hit
single until 1991. In 2005 the viewers of
the German television network ZDF chose
this song as the song of the century. It
is widely known in Germany as the song of
German reunification (and fall of communism
in Eastern Europe generally), even though
it only rose to popularity two years later.
WIND OF CHANGE
8. But have you heard of a software company
skipping the version no 13 and 14 of its
prime product because of the perceived
issues with the unlucky number 13 in the US
and some other European countries and
unlucky 14 in some other cultures.
The company used to sponsor the third
oldest men's professional tennis tournament
in the U.S. for a few years in the last
decade. Name the company that shares its
name with its prime product.
SYBASE
9. In October, 1963 at the ceremony to
mark the dedication of this Project to the
Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru said- "This has been built with the
unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of
mankind and therefore is worthy of worship.
May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a
Mosque, it inspires our admiration and
reverence".
Which project are we talking about ?
BHAKRANANGAL
10. Which Black leader is nicknamed the
Black Pimpernel?
MANDELA
SCORES
1. limited.memory -7 (Grt work.......nd ur
memory is quite unlimited)
2. sandeep kumar -4
3.Ninad W- 1 (attempted just one)
4. Gokul- 8 (good score dude...keep up the
good work)
5.Hussain Poonawala- 3 (sorry if i got ur
spelling wrong)
6.Prateek Rath - (dint trouble me..... u
could have attempted all of them, nah?? )
7. Devadas Krishnan - 9 (thanx a lot for
attempting my quiz. Have hrd a lot abt u
from other quizzers in kerala)
8. Sukrit Vijayakar - 2
9. anubhav chatterjee - 2
10.Varun-2
11. Kamal Rathi-7
12. Ramachandran V-1
13. Prateek Vijayavargia - 1 (y don't u
attempt the non sporty questions also....)
14. Anand Shankar-4
15. Raghuram Godavarthi-8
16. Vishaka Datta S -8
17. himanshu tyagi - 4
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Answers to Neuron Asphyxia
1. “Tejasvinavadhithamastu” or “May learning illumine us both, the teacher and the taught” is the motto of which Indian university?
**2. Raphael Gray, a teenage Welsh hacker calling himself 'Saint of eCommerce'
cracked numerous computer networks and gained access to more than 2300
credit card numbers. His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own
credit card number to mail order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of
what?
3. If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the seven basic units of measurement in the SI system, what is the seventh?
4. She was born in Copenhagen in Denmark, which is where her father was stationed at the time. They later returned to their hometown of Mangalore. She would go on to make her movie debut in the film “Aishwarya” opposite Kannada superstar Upendra. Who?
5. Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. Whose books? Her name means ‘cheerful’ in Latin.
6. The Chicxulub is a famous asteroid about which paleontologists are more interested than astronomers. Why??
7. In ancient Persia what is the combination of the King and the Castle called?
**8. What is the following, the algorithm for?
v Continue traveling in the same direction while there are remaining requests in that same direction.
v If there are no further requests in that direction, then stop and become idle, or change direction if there are requests in the opposite direction.
9. Which Australian Test Captain declared with himself 334* because he didn't think he deserved to pass Don Bradman's test high score?
**10. Which 1998 Bollywood movie was marketed with the tagline?
"0% cloth, 100% love"?
1. CUSAT
2. Viagra
3. Moles
4. Deepika Padukone
5. Hillary Rodham Clinton
6. Chicxulub is the name of the asteroid that's believed to have killed the dinosaurs some 60 million years ago.
7. Shahrukh
8. Elevator
9. Mark Taylor
10. Jeans
11. Which famous product, at its launch, was called "Stevie's little wonder"?
12. Which famous lyricist, born in 1954 January 3 to M.V. Krishnan and M.K. Kalyani in Thrissur district has penned about 100 popular Malayalam songs?
He wrote the famous lines:
Oru nimisham tharoo
Ninnilaliyan,
Oru yugam tharoo
Ninneyariyan...
13. Who created both Winamp and Gnutella?
14. Which film production company owned by Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla has produced many hits like Asoka?
15. What would you get by crossbreeding a bloodhound and a mastiff?
16. This personality was the author of the greatest work in Italian in 19th century. The work was the three-volume magnum opus ' Betrothed'. He was also considered literary figurehead of Risorgimento (a la Mayakovsky). Verdi's 'Requiem' was dedicated to him. Who?
17. Technology for Innovators is punch line of which IT company?
18. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
19. Although I conceived and designed the first electronic spreadsheet, I never made a dime from it. Who am I?
20. What is the subject of Edwin Arnold's book "Light of Asia"?
11. I POD nano
12. Sathyan Anthikkad
13. Justin Frankel
14. "Dreamz Unlimited"
15. The hound of Baskervilles.
16. Alessandro Manzoni
17. Texas Instruments
18. Santa Claus
19. Dan Bricklin
20. Buddha’s life
21. Windows 3.x versions have it Black.
Xbox has it Green.
Vista (and some versions of 98) have it Red.
NT, 2000, XP, 9x have it Blue.
What?
22. Who is the player to have played maximum matches in the Davis cup?
**23. This fretless instrument is also called chitra veena. One of its most famous exponents is the young prodigy N Ravikiran. What am I talking about?
24. Who served as the acting Secretary-General of the UNO until Trygve Lie was elected in 1946?
** 25.Which player holds the record for the lowest score in the US Masters Golf Championship?
26. According to Ian Chappell, "…………." originated from Adelaide, South Australia in the 1963-1964 or 1964-1965 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was called a …………….. from singer Percy ………… whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was popular at the time. Fill in the first blank.
27. Where can you see the families the Marshes, the Broflovskis, the Tweeks, the Cartmans, the McCormicks, and the Stotches?
28. After receiving his high school diploma at the age of 15, the home schooled _______ started planning a novel which he would enjoy reading himself.____ ____ never intended that the novel be published. However, after finishing re-drafting the story he gave it to his
parents, who decided to self-publish it. A further year was spent proofreading and editing the novel, in addition to creating a cover and map of Alagaësia.
29. In October 1963 at the ceremony to mark the dedication of this Project to the Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said- "This has been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence”. Which project are we talking about?
30. “In the announcement of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize, the Swedish Royal Academy has chosen R.J. Glauber to be awarded half of the prize. The prizewinners are chosen by the Royal Academy, but no one has the right to take my discoveries and formulations and ascribe them to someone else!”
"The correct formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics was carried out by me in my paper in 1963. In that I showed that every state can be represented in the diagonal form... This diagonal representation is valid for all fields.”
“Give unto Glauber only what is his.”
A letter written to Nobel Prize committee by an eminent India born scientist who did path-breaking research in a particular area of Physics. Name the scientist who has been nominated for Nobel Prize six times.
21. Screen of Death
22. Nicola Pietrangeli
23. Gottuvadyam
24. Gladwyn Jebb
25. Tiger Woods
26. Sledging
27. South Park
28. Christopher Paolini
29. Bhakra Nangal
30. ECG Sudarsan
31. 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 ?
32. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." "You can observe a lot by just watching." "So many unforgettable moments, you can't remember 'em all."
Whose are these words?
33. She received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA program at the IIM-C. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 for a master's degree in Management. Among her friends are former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who describes her as a "wild New York Yankees fan.” She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj Kishan, and their two daughters. Who is she?
34. What was named after Charles ………………, an attorney from New York? He had nothing at all to do with the carving of the monument. He was a tourist who happened to be riding by and asked the name of the mountain. A guide teased him by saying it didn't have a name, but from now on they'd call it ………………………. . The name stuck! He later donated money toward carving the mountainside.
35. Which opera by Giuseppe Verdi was premiered on this day in 1853 and literally means “The Woman Who Strayed”?
36. The Moving Pixels Company, owned by graphic designer Manish Bardia was in the news in December 2007. Besides other contributions, its biggest claim to fame was a product mass-manufactured in China by a US-based toy manufacturer, which was used to seek mass attention. What was this ‘product’?
37. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than in USA. Salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it noisier, saying, 'Good iron makes loud noise.' Mahatma Gandhi called it 'one of the few useful things ever invented'. Name the machine.
38. What is the first line of dialogue Amitabh spoke in Reshma Aur Shera?
39. This event made headlines in most of world’s newspapers except for the Soviet news agency Pravda whose main story on the day was about 25 years of Polish socialism. Which event?
40. "I was sitting writing at my text book, but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire, and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold conformations; long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all twisting and turning in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I woke;... I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth."
These are words by a famous scientist on one of his discoveries. Who is the scientist?
31.Gordon Brown
32. Yogi Berra
33. Indra Nooyi
34. Mt. Rushmore
35. La traviata
36. Modi mask
37. The Sewing Machine
38. AB played a mute person in R&S.
39. Mans Landing on moon
40. Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz discovering the structure of Benzene
the cut-off of the quiz was 12. the top score was 21.5.
**2. Raphael Gray, a teenage Welsh hacker calling himself 'Saint of eCommerce'
cracked numerous computer networks and gained access to more than 2300
credit card numbers. His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own
credit card number to mail order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of
what?
3. If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the seven basic units of measurement in the SI system, what is the seventh?
4. She was born in Copenhagen in Denmark, which is where her father was stationed at the time. They later returned to their hometown of Mangalore. She would go on to make her movie debut in the film “Aishwarya” opposite Kannada superstar Upendra. Who?
5. Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. Whose books? Her name means ‘cheerful’ in Latin.
6. The Chicxulub is a famous asteroid about which paleontologists are more interested than astronomers. Why??
7. In ancient Persia what is the combination of the King and the Castle called?
**8. What is the following, the algorithm for?
v Continue traveling in the same direction while there are remaining requests in that same direction.
v If there are no further requests in that direction, then stop and become idle, or change direction if there are requests in the opposite direction.
9. Which Australian Test Captain declared with himself 334* because he didn't think he deserved to pass Don Bradman's test high score?
**10. Which 1998 Bollywood movie was marketed with the tagline?
"0% cloth, 100% love"?
1. CUSAT
2. Viagra
3. Moles
4. Deepika Padukone
5. Hillary Rodham Clinton
6. Chicxulub is the name of the asteroid that's believed to have killed the dinosaurs some 60 million years ago.
7. Shahrukh
8. Elevator
9. Mark Taylor
10. Jeans
11. Which famous product, at its launch, was called "Stevie's little wonder"?
12. Which famous lyricist, born in 1954 January 3 to M.V. Krishnan and M.K. Kalyani in Thrissur district has penned about 100 popular Malayalam songs?
He wrote the famous lines:
Oru nimisham tharoo
Ninnilaliyan,
Oru yugam tharoo
Ninneyariyan...
13. Who created both Winamp and Gnutella?
14. Which film production company owned by Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla has produced many hits like Asoka?
15. What would you get by crossbreeding a bloodhound and a mastiff?
16. This personality was the author of the greatest work in Italian in 19th century. The work was the three-volume magnum opus ' Betrothed'. He was also considered literary figurehead of Risorgimento (a la Mayakovsky). Verdi's 'Requiem' was dedicated to him. Who?
17. Technology for Innovators is punch line of which IT company?
18. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
19. Although I conceived and designed the first electronic spreadsheet, I never made a dime from it. Who am I?
20. What is the subject of Edwin Arnold's book "Light of Asia"?
11. I POD nano
12. Sathyan Anthikkad
13. Justin Frankel
14. "Dreamz Unlimited"
15. The hound of Baskervilles.
16. Alessandro Manzoni
17. Texas Instruments
18. Santa Claus
19. Dan Bricklin
20. Buddha’s life
21. Windows 3.x versions have it Black.
Xbox has it Green.
Vista (and some versions of 98) have it Red.
NT, 2000, XP, 9x have it Blue.
What?
22. Who is the player to have played maximum matches in the Davis cup?
**23. This fretless instrument is also called chitra veena. One of its most famous exponents is the young prodigy N Ravikiran. What am I talking about?
24. Who served as the acting Secretary-General of the UNO until Trygve Lie was elected in 1946?
** 25.Which player holds the record for the lowest score in the US Masters Golf Championship?
26. According to Ian Chappell, "…………." originated from Adelaide, South Australia in the 1963-1964 or 1964-1965 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was called a …………….. from singer Percy ………… whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was popular at the time. Fill in the first blank.
27. Where can you see the families the Marshes, the Broflovskis, the Tweeks, the Cartmans, the McCormicks, and the Stotches?
28. After receiving his high school diploma at the age of 15, the home schooled _______ started planning a novel which he would enjoy reading himself.____ ____ never intended that the novel be published. However, after finishing re-drafting the story he gave it to his
parents, who decided to self-publish it. A further year was spent proofreading and editing the novel, in addition to creating a cover and map of Alagaësia.
29. In October 1963 at the ceremony to mark the dedication of this Project to the Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said- "This has been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence”. Which project are we talking about?
30. “In the announcement of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize, the Swedish Royal Academy has chosen R.J. Glauber to be awarded half of the prize. The prizewinners are chosen by the Royal Academy, but no one has the right to take my discoveries and formulations and ascribe them to someone else!”
"The correct formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics was carried out by me in my paper in 1963. In that I showed that every state can be represented in the diagonal form... This diagonal representation is valid for all fields.”
“Give unto Glauber only what is his.”
A letter written to Nobel Prize committee by an eminent India born scientist who did path-breaking research in a particular area of Physics. Name the scientist who has been nominated for Nobel Prize six times.
21. Screen of Death
22. Nicola Pietrangeli
23. Gottuvadyam
24. Gladwyn Jebb
25. Tiger Woods
26. Sledging
27. South Park
28. Christopher Paolini
29. Bhakra Nangal
30. ECG Sudarsan
31. 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 ?
32. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." "You can observe a lot by just watching." "So many unforgettable moments, you can't remember 'em all."
Whose are these words?
33. She received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA program at the IIM-C. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 for a master's degree in Management. Among her friends are former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who describes her as a "wild New York Yankees fan.” She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj Kishan, and their two daughters. Who is she?
34. What was named after Charles ………………, an attorney from New York? He had nothing at all to do with the carving of the monument. He was a tourist who happened to be riding by and asked the name of the mountain. A guide teased him by saying it didn't have a name, but from now on they'd call it ………………………. . The name stuck! He later donated money toward carving the mountainside.
35. Which opera by Giuseppe Verdi was premiered on this day in 1853 and literally means “The Woman Who Strayed”?
36. The Moving Pixels Company, owned by graphic designer Manish Bardia was in the news in December 2007. Besides other contributions, its biggest claim to fame was a product mass-manufactured in China by a US-based toy manufacturer, which was used to seek mass attention. What was this ‘product’?
37. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than in USA. Salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it noisier, saying, 'Good iron makes loud noise.' Mahatma Gandhi called it 'one of the few useful things ever invented'. Name the machine.
38. What is the first line of dialogue Amitabh spoke in Reshma Aur Shera?
39. This event made headlines in most of world’s newspapers except for the Soviet news agency Pravda whose main story on the day was about 25 years of Polish socialism. Which event?
40. "I was sitting writing at my text book, but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire, and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold conformations; long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all twisting and turning in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I woke;... I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth."
These are words by a famous scientist on one of his discoveries. Who is the scientist?
31.Gordon Brown
32. Yogi Berra
33. Indra Nooyi
34. Mt. Rushmore
35. La traviata
36. Modi mask
37. The Sewing Machine
38. AB played a mute person in R&S.
39. Mans Landing on moon
40. Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz discovering the structure of Benzene
the cut-off of the quiz was 12. the top score was 21.5.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
EQL CURTAIN RAISER QUIZ PRELIMS
PRELIMS
1. The name X comes from Old High German for "noble wolf". Hence, one of his self-given nicknames was Wolf or Herr Wolf. Identify the person.
Adolf hitler
2. What is scoville the unit of?
Hotness of chilli.
3. Who won the Presidential elections in Russia by a record margin this Monday?
Dmitry Medvedev.
4. This language was developed by L L Zamenhof as a global second language to enable communication between speakers of various native languages although it didn’t attain the intended popularity. Name it.
Esperanto.
5. He is said to be tall and thin, being 6' 4" to 6' 5" tall and weighing about 165 pounds. He has an olive complexion, is left-handed, and usually walks with a cane. In terms of personality, he is described as a charming, polite, respectful, soft-spoken, mild mannered man. His nicknames, include the Prince, the Sheikh, Al-Amir, Abu Abdallah, Sheikh Al-Mujahid, the Director, and Samaritan.
Osama- Bin- Laden.
6. This cathedral city in Italy has the river Arno flowing through it and obtains its name from the local term for flower. Name the city.
Florence
7. The three syllables of the name of this sage are said to represent the three basic elements of Indian Classical music and dance. Name the sage and what are the elements?
Bharata. (Bhavam, Ragam, Talam)
8. This phrase was popularized(if not coined as is popular belief) by Sir Winston Churchill who used it in his "Sinews of Peace" address March 5, 1946 at Westminister College in Fulton, Missouri. Which phrase?
Iron Curtain
9. How do we better know ‘Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division’?
Band of Brothers.
10. The Czechs call it Famfrpál, the Dutch call it Zwerkbal, the Norwegians call it Rumpeldunk. What is the
English name of this seven-a-side sport?
Quidditch .
11. Identify.
12. What is the claim to fame of librarian Margaret Herrick's uncle?
Oscar statuette is supposedly named after him.
13. Described by one of its stars as "Four hours long, with no stars, and no women, and no lovestory, and not much action either", this film nevertheless took 7 Oscars at the 1963 Awards, including the ones for Best Film and Best Director. Just name the film
Lawrence of Arabia.
14. The prize is awarded annually at Oslo, the capital of Norway on December 10. For the past
decade, the Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall has been followed the next day by the _________
Prize Concert, which is broadcast to over 150 countries and more than 450 million households
around the world. Identify the award
Nobel peace prize.
15. In the year 2005, the sale of pencils in airports and railway stations went up to 300-700%.
What was behind this phenomenal increase?
Popularity of SUDOKU.
16. This is the only sport with faster action replays. It is forbidden to women. The participants
ward off evil spirits before the game by slapping their thighs. Which is it?
SUMO Wrestling.
1. The name X comes from Old High German for "noble wolf". Hence, one of his self-given nicknames was Wolf or Herr Wolf. Identify the person.
Adolf hitler
2. What is scoville the unit of?
Hotness of chilli.
3. Who won the Presidential elections in Russia by a record margin this Monday?
Dmitry Medvedev.
4. This language was developed by L L Zamenhof as a global second language to enable communication between speakers of various native languages although it didn’t attain the intended popularity. Name it.
Esperanto.
5. He is said to be tall and thin, being 6' 4" to 6' 5" tall and weighing about 165 pounds. He has an olive complexion, is left-handed, and usually walks with a cane. In terms of personality, he is described as a charming, polite, respectful, soft-spoken, mild mannered man. His nicknames, include the Prince, the Sheikh, Al-Amir, Abu Abdallah, Sheikh Al-Mujahid, the Director, and Samaritan.
Osama- Bin- Laden.
6. This cathedral city in Italy has the river Arno flowing through it and obtains its name from the local term for flower. Name the city.
Florence
7. The three syllables of the name of this sage are said to represent the three basic elements of Indian Classical music and dance. Name the sage and what are the elements?
Bharata. (Bhavam, Ragam, Talam)
8. This phrase was popularized(if not coined as is popular belief) by Sir Winston Churchill who used it in his "Sinews of Peace" address March 5, 1946 at Westminister College in Fulton, Missouri. Which phrase?
Iron Curtain
9. How do we better know ‘Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division’?
Band of Brothers.
10. The Czechs call it Famfrpál, the Dutch call it Zwerkbal, the Norwegians call it Rumpeldunk. What is the
English name of this seven-a-side sport?
Quidditch .
11. Identify.
12. What is the claim to fame of librarian Margaret Herrick's uncle?
Oscar statuette is supposedly named after him.
13. Described by one of its stars as "Four hours long, with no stars, and no women, and no lovestory, and not much action either", this film nevertheless took 7 Oscars at the 1963 Awards, including the ones for Best Film and Best Director. Just name the film
Lawrence of Arabia.
14. The prize is awarded annually at Oslo, the capital of Norway on December 10. For the past
decade, the Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall has been followed the next day by the _________
Prize Concert, which is broadcast to over 150 countries and more than 450 million households
around the world. Identify the award
Nobel peace prize.
15. In the year 2005, the sale of pencils in airports and railway stations went up to 300-700%.
What was behind this phenomenal increase?
Popularity of SUDOKU.
16. This is the only sport with faster action replays. It is forbidden to women. The participants
ward off evil spirits before the game by slapping their thighs. Which is it?
SUMO Wrestling.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
NEURON ASPHYXIA PRELIMS
QM : ARUN GEORGE, THE OWNER OF THIS BLOG!!!!
OPEN QUIZ AT CUSAT
1ST - VIPIN FROM B'LORE AND KRISHNAKUMAR FROM BHAVAN'S ADARSHA VIDYALAYA
2ND- vishnu vijay(CET)
noufel(GEC)
3RD - anirudh
joyce (MEC)
1. “Tejasvinavadhithamastu” or “May learning illumine us both, the teacher and the taught” is the motto of which Indian university?
**2. Raphael Gray, a teenage Welsh hacker calling himself 'Saint of eCommerce'
cracked numerous computer networks and gained access to more than 2300
credit card numbers. His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own
credit card number to mail order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of
what?
3. If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the seven basic units of measurement in the SI system, what is the seventh?
4. She was born in Copenhagen in Denmark, which is where her father was stationed at the time. They later returned to their hometown of Mangalore. She would go on to make her movie debut in the film “Aishwarya” opposite Kannada superstar Upendra. Who?
5. Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. Whose books? Her name means ‘cheerful in Latin’
6. The Chicxulub is a famous asteroid about which paleontologists are more interested than astronomers. Why??
7. In ancient Persia what is the combination of the King and the Castle called?
**8. What is the following, the algorithm for?
v Continue traveling in the same direction while there are remaining requests in that same direction.
v If there are no further requests in that direction, then stop and become idle, or change direction if there are requests in the opposite direction.
9. Which Australian Test Captain declared with himself 334* because he didn't think he deserved to pass Don Bradman's test high score?
**10. Which 1998 Bollywood movie was marketed with the tagline?
"0% cloth, 100% love"?
11. Which famous product, at its launch, was called "Stevie's little wonder"?
12. Which famous lyricist, born in 1954 January 3 to M.V. Krishnan and M.K. Kalyani in Thrissur district has penned about 100 popular Malayalam songs?
He wrote the famous lines:
Oru nimisham tharoo
Ninnilaliyan,
Oru yugam tharoo
Ninneyariyan...
13. Who created both Winamp and Gnutella?
14. Which film production company owned by Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla has produced many hits like Asoka?
15. What would you get by crossbreeding a bloodhound and a mastiff?
16. This personality was the author of the greatest work in Italian in 19th century. The work was the three-volume magnum opus ' Betrothed'. He was also considered literary figurehead of Risorgimento (a la Mayakovsky). Verdi's 'Requiem' was dedicated to him. Who?
17. Technology for Innovators is punch line of which IT company?
18. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
19. Although I conceived and designed the first electronic spreadsheet, I never made a dime from it. Who am I?
20. What is the subject of Edwin Arnold's book "Light of Asia"?
21. Windows 3.x versions have it Black.
Xbox has it Green.
Vista (and some versions of 98) have it Red.
NT, 2000, XP, 9x have it Blue.
What?
22. Who is the player to have played maximum matches in the Davis cup?
**23. This fretless instrument is also called chitra veena. One of its most famous exponents is the young prodigy N Ravikiran. What am I talking about?
24. Who served as the acting Secretary-General of the UNO until Trygve Lie was elected in 1946?
** 25.Which player holds the record for the lowest score in the US Masters Golf Championship?
26. According to Ian Chappell, "…………." originated from Adelaide, South Australia in the 1963-1964 or 1964-1965 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was called a …………….. from singer Percy ………… whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was popular at the time. Fill in the first blank.
27. Where can you see the families the Marshes, the Broflovskis, the Tweeks, the Cartmans, the McCormicks, and the Stotches?
28. After receiving his high school diploma at the age of 15, the home schooled _______ started planning a novel which he would enjoy reading himself.____ ____ never intended that the novel be published. However, after finishing re-drafting the story he gave it to his
parents, who decided to self-publish it. A further year was spent proofreading and editing the novel, in addition to creating a cover and map of Alagaësia.
29. In October 1963 at the ceremony to mark the dedication of this Project to the Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said- "This has been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence”. Which project are we talking about?
30. “In the announcement of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize, the Swedish Royal Academy has chosen R.J. Glauber to be awarded half of the prize. The prizewinners are chosen by the Royal Academy, but no one has the right to take my discoveries and formulations and ascribe them to someone else!”
"The correct formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics was carried out by me in my paper in 1963. In that I showed that every state can be represented in the diagonal form... This diagonal representation is valid for all fields.”
“Give unto Glauber only what is his.”
A letter written to Nobel Prize committee by an eminent India born scientist who did path-breaking research in a particular area of Physics. Name the scientist who has been nominated for Nobel Prize six times.
31. 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 ?
32. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." "You can observe a lot by just watching." "So many unforgettable moments, you can't remember 'em all."
Whose are these words?
33. She received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA program at the IIM-C. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 for a master's degree in Management. Among her friends are former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who describes her as a "wild New York Yankees fan.” She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj Kishan, and their two daughters. Who is she?
34. What was named after Charles ………………, an attorney from New York? He had nothing at all to do with the carving of the monument. He was a tourist who happened to be riding by and asked the name of the mountain. A guide teased him by saying it didn't have a name, but from now on they'd call it ………………………. . The name stuck! He later donated money toward carving the mountainside.
35. Which opera by Giuseppe Verdi was premiered on this day in 1853 and literally means “The Woman Who Strayed”?
36. The Moving Pixels Company, owned by graphic designer Manish Bardia was in the news in December 2007. Besides other contributions, its biggest claim to fame was a product mass-manufactured in China by a US-based toy manufacturer, which was used to seek mass attention. What was this ‘product’?
37. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than in USA. Salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it noisier, saying, 'Good iron makes loud noise.' Mahatma Gandhi called it 'one of the few useful things ever invented'. Name the machine.
38. What is the first line of dialogue Amitabh spoke in Reshma Aur Shera?
39. This event made headlines in most of world’s newspapers except for the Soviet news agency Pravda whose main story on the day was about 25 years of Polish socialism. Which event?
40. "I was sitting writing at my text book, but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire, and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold conformations; long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all twisting and turning in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I woke;... I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth."
These are words by a famous scientist on one of his discoveries. Who is the scientist?
OPEN QUIZ AT CUSAT
1ST - VIPIN FROM B'LORE AND KRISHNAKUMAR FROM BHAVAN'S ADARSHA VIDYALAYA
2ND- vishnu vijay(CET)
noufel(GEC)
3RD - anirudh
joyce (MEC)
1. “Tejasvinavadhithamastu” or “May learning illumine us both, the teacher and the taught” is the motto of which Indian university?
**2. Raphael Gray, a teenage Welsh hacker calling himself 'Saint of eCommerce'
cracked numerous computer networks and gained access to more than 2300
credit card numbers. His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own
credit card number to mail order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of
what?
3. If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the seven basic units of measurement in the SI system, what is the seventh?
4. She was born in Copenhagen in Denmark, which is where her father was stationed at the time. They later returned to their hometown of Mangalore. She would go on to make her movie debut in the film “Aishwarya” opposite Kannada superstar Upendra. Who?
5. Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. Whose books? Her name means ‘cheerful in Latin’
6. The Chicxulub is a famous asteroid about which paleontologists are more interested than astronomers. Why??
7. In ancient Persia what is the combination of the King and the Castle called?
**8. What is the following, the algorithm for?
v Continue traveling in the same direction while there are remaining requests in that same direction.
v If there are no further requests in that direction, then stop and become idle, or change direction if there are requests in the opposite direction.
9. Which Australian Test Captain declared with himself 334* because he didn't think he deserved to pass Don Bradman's test high score?
**10. Which 1998 Bollywood movie was marketed with the tagline?
"0% cloth, 100% love"?
11. Which famous product, at its launch, was called "Stevie's little wonder"?
12. Which famous lyricist, born in 1954 January 3 to M.V. Krishnan and M.K. Kalyani in Thrissur district has penned about 100 popular Malayalam songs?
He wrote the famous lines:
Oru nimisham tharoo
Ninnilaliyan,
Oru yugam tharoo
Ninneyariyan...
13. Who created both Winamp and Gnutella?
14. Which film production company owned by Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla has produced many hits like Asoka?
15. What would you get by crossbreeding a bloodhound and a mastiff?
16. This personality was the author of the greatest work in Italian in 19th century. The work was the three-volume magnum opus ' Betrothed'. He was also considered literary figurehead of Risorgimento (a la Mayakovsky). Verdi's 'Requiem' was dedicated to him. Who?
17. Technology for Innovators is punch line of which IT company?
18. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
19. Although I conceived and designed the first electronic spreadsheet, I never made a dime from it. Who am I?
20. What is the subject of Edwin Arnold's book "Light of Asia"?
21. Windows 3.x versions have it Black.
Xbox has it Green.
Vista (and some versions of 98) have it Red.
NT, 2000, XP, 9x have it Blue.
What?
22. Who is the player to have played maximum matches in the Davis cup?
**23. This fretless instrument is also called chitra veena. One of its most famous exponents is the young prodigy N Ravikiran. What am I talking about?
24. Who served as the acting Secretary-General of the UNO until Trygve Lie was elected in 1946?
** 25.Which player holds the record for the lowest score in the US Masters Golf Championship?
26. According to Ian Chappell, "…………." originated from Adelaide, South Australia in the 1963-1964 or 1964-1965 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was called a …………….. from singer Percy ………… whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was popular at the time. Fill in the first blank.
27. Where can you see the families the Marshes, the Broflovskis, the Tweeks, the Cartmans, the McCormicks, and the Stotches?
28. After receiving his high school diploma at the age of 15, the home schooled _______ started planning a novel which he would enjoy reading himself.____ ____ never intended that the novel be published. However, after finishing re-drafting the story he gave it to his
parents, who decided to self-publish it. A further year was spent proofreading and editing the novel, in addition to creating a cover and map of Alagaësia.
29. In October 1963 at the ceremony to mark the dedication of this Project to the Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said- "This has been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence”. Which project are we talking about?
30. “In the announcement of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize, the Swedish Royal Academy has chosen R.J. Glauber to be awarded half of the prize. The prizewinners are chosen by the Royal Academy, but no one has the right to take my discoveries and formulations and ascribe them to someone else!”
"The correct formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics was carried out by me in my paper in 1963. In that I showed that every state can be represented in the diagonal form... This diagonal representation is valid for all fields.”
“Give unto Glauber only what is his.”
A letter written to Nobel Prize committee by an eminent India born scientist who did path-breaking research in a particular area of Physics. Name the scientist who has been nominated for Nobel Prize six times.
31. 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 ?
32. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." "You can observe a lot by just watching." "So many unforgettable moments, you can't remember 'em all."
Whose are these words?
33. She received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA program at the IIM-C. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 for a master's degree in Management. Among her friends are former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who describes her as a "wild New York Yankees fan.” She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj Kishan, and their two daughters. Who is she?
34. What was named after Charles ………………, an attorney from New York? He had nothing at all to do with the carving of the monument. He was a tourist who happened to be riding by and asked the name of the mountain. A guide teased him by saying it didn't have a name, but from now on they'd call it ………………………. . The name stuck! He later donated money toward carving the mountainside.
35. Which opera by Giuseppe Verdi was premiered on this day in 1853 and literally means “The Woman Who Strayed”?
36. The Moving Pixels Company, owned by graphic designer Manish Bardia was in the news in December 2007. Besides other contributions, its biggest claim to fame was a product mass-manufactured in China by a US-based toy manufacturer, which was used to seek mass attention. What was this ‘product’?
37. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than in USA. Salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it noisier, saying, 'Good iron makes loud noise.' Mahatma Gandhi called it 'one of the few useful things ever invented'. Name the machine.
38. What is the first line of dialogue Amitabh spoke in Reshma Aur Shera?
39. This event made headlines in most of world’s newspapers except for the Soviet news agency Pravda whose main story on the day was about 25 years of Polish socialism. Which event?
40. "I was sitting writing at my text book, but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire, and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold conformations; long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all twisting and turning in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I woke;... I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth."
These are words by a famous scientist on one of his discoveries. Who is the scientist?
EQL CURTAIN RAISER QUIZ
EQL Curtain Raiser finals
THESE ARE QUESTIONS FROM THE FINALS OF THE QUIZ. THANXX TO JOBIN TOM OF JYOTHI NIVAS PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR SENDING ME THIS SET.
anagrammania(clues wer given accordingly.. not part of the qs though)
1. genuine class-alec guiness
2. the great charmer-margaret thatcher
3. richly ill no tan-hillary clinton
4. fine in torn jeans-jennifer anniston
5. a major held icon-michael jordan
6. only man in mars-marilyn mason
7. he bugs gore-george bush
basic qs
1. name the film with angelina jolie in the lead as mariane paul,wife of daniel paul,the
journalist who was slained?
a mighty heart
2. ”though it was i who invented it,bill gates made it famous..”..what was mr. david
Bradley refferin to here??
Ctrl+alt+del
3. in 19th century.due to short supply of wood n coal,wat did d Egyptians use as fuel for
their locomotives???
Mummies
4. X, ‘night of sevens’,’white day’ r three of the same genre with X most famous.watz X?
valentine’s day
5. ‘I create as I speak…” which aramic word/phrase translates into eng thus??
Abracadabra
6. citation for wich particular prize read “ for adopting the mathematical concept of
imaginary nos. in the biz world”.it was awarded to the CEOs of Enron,Worldcome,
Sunbeam etc..
ignobel prize for economics.. all comp. involved in scandals..
sights n sounds(a/v)
1. portrait of Vincent van gogh
2. audio of ndtv 24x7 composed by a r rehman
3. underarm bowl by Trevor chapel, against kiwis, playin under greg chappel..
4. kill bill title song(bang bang..)
5. summer of 69,bryan adams
6. bill gates(under bars.. an old pic)
missing link
1. Jordan,midland,spyker,_________
force India f1..under diff names d same team…
2. scwarzennegar,tomy lee jones,jack nickolson,heath ledger,jim carrey..connect
villains in d batman movies
3. oru vadakkan veeragatha,mathilukal,vidheyan,ponthanmada,_______
baba sahib ambedkar..films that won mammootty the bharat awards..
4. trinity,rds-1,hurricane,geboise blue,596,the beginning,chagai-1,_________
smiling Buddha..code names of first nuclear test of various countries
5. mike myers,cameroon diaz,eddie murphie,antonio banderas.. connect
voices in shrek movie
6. connect george orwell; a british PM;head of state visitin Washington…
blair..original name of orwell was _____ blair(J)..a british pm-tony blair .. head
of state visitin Washington stays at blair house..
basic qs 2
1. ”it reminds me of a wasp”,xclaimed enrico piaggio wen he first laid eyes on this.wat
name was given to it as a result of this?
Vespa
2. ’akebono’ n ‘kanishki’ r legendary sumo wrestlers.in the internet history,wat was
started in 2 comp named after them??
Yahoo!
3. At about the same time as Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, a strikingly similar play
in plot was written by a famous author.Name the author n work..
Jew in Malta, Christopher Marlowe
4. Whose famous last words wer “Last words are for fools who havnt said enough”..?
Karl Marx
5. Samuel Wilso, of Troy, NewYork was the meat supplier for the soldiers stationed in
upstate NewYork. A monument mrks his birthplace in Arlington,Massachusetts n a
monument marks his burial in Oakwood cemetery,Troy,NY. Y is he so imp for the
Americans??
He was the inspiration for Uncle Sam(Durin WorldWar)
6._________ Fauntllory ______ was born on June 9,1934.His less known relatives
include Uncle Ludwig Von Drake, sister Della, cousin Fethry.Whom r v talking abt?
Donald Duck
rapid fire
1. if the kiwi rugby team is called all blacks wat r their bsktbal team known as?
Tall Blacks
2. ”Though art the…” this is the translation of wat??
Jana Gana Mana
3. “The Music stopped n I stood still n found myself out of the hill left alone against my
will”..whose words??
The Pied Piper
4. whose autobiography is “its not abt the bike..”?
Lance Amstrong
5. which channel has its logo after _____(J)castle in Germany??
Disney World
6. Its design composes of __ marbles that holds.. buzz……….
Bahai Ltus Temple
7. About wat logo did Peter Scott say,”we wanted a black n white image as it reduces our
cost….”?
Giant Panda of WWF
8. which internet undertakin has the caption “Stand on the shoulders of giants”?
Google’s Corner
9. Which Spanish term of the 13th century meanin buzz…..
Guerilla….
THESE ARE QUESTIONS FROM THE FINALS OF THE QUIZ. THANXX TO JOBIN TOM OF JYOTHI NIVAS PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR SENDING ME THIS SET.
anagrammania(clues wer given accordingly.. not part of the qs though)
1. genuine class-alec guiness
2. the great charmer-margaret thatcher
3. richly ill no tan-hillary clinton
4. fine in torn jeans-jennifer anniston
5. a major held icon-michael jordan
6. only man in mars-marilyn mason
7. he bugs gore-george bush
basic qs
1. name the film with angelina jolie in the lead as mariane paul,wife of daniel paul,the
journalist who was slained?
a mighty heart
2. ”though it was i who invented it,bill gates made it famous..”..what was mr. david
Bradley refferin to here??
Ctrl+alt+del
3. in 19th century.due to short supply of wood n coal,wat did d Egyptians use as fuel for
their locomotives???
Mummies
4. X, ‘night of sevens’,’white day’ r three of the same genre with X most famous.watz X?
valentine’s day
5. ‘I create as I speak…” which aramic word/phrase translates into eng thus??
Abracadabra
6. citation for wich particular prize read “ for adopting the mathematical concept of
imaginary nos. in the biz world”.it was awarded to the CEOs of Enron,Worldcome,
Sunbeam etc..
ignobel prize for economics.. all comp. involved in scandals..
sights n sounds(a/v)
1. portrait of Vincent van gogh
2. audio of ndtv 24x7 composed by a r rehman
3. underarm bowl by Trevor chapel, against kiwis, playin under greg chappel..
4. kill bill title song(bang bang..)
5. summer of 69,bryan adams
6. bill gates(under bars.. an old pic)
missing link
1. Jordan,midland,spyker,_________
force India f1..under diff names d same team…
2. scwarzennegar,tomy lee jones,jack nickolson,heath ledger,jim carrey..connect
villains in d batman movies
3. oru vadakkan veeragatha,mathilukal,vidheyan,ponthanmada,_______
baba sahib ambedkar..films that won mammootty the bharat awards..
4. trinity,rds-1,hurricane,geboise blue,596,the beginning,chagai-1,_________
smiling Buddha..code names of first nuclear test of various countries
5. mike myers,cameroon diaz,eddie murphie,antonio banderas.. connect
voices in shrek movie
6. connect george orwell; a british PM;head of state visitin Washington…
blair..original name of orwell was _____ blair(J)..a british pm-tony blair .. head
of state visitin Washington stays at blair house..
basic qs 2
1. ”it reminds me of a wasp”,xclaimed enrico piaggio wen he first laid eyes on this.wat
name was given to it as a result of this?
Vespa
2. ’akebono’ n ‘kanishki’ r legendary sumo wrestlers.in the internet history,wat was
started in 2 comp named after them??
Yahoo!
3. At about the same time as Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, a strikingly similar play
in plot was written by a famous author.Name the author n work..
Jew in Malta, Christopher Marlowe
4. Whose famous last words wer “Last words are for fools who havnt said enough”..?
Karl Marx
5. Samuel Wilso, of Troy, NewYork was the meat supplier for the soldiers stationed in
upstate NewYork. A monument mrks his birthplace in Arlington,Massachusetts n a
monument marks his burial in Oakwood cemetery,Troy,NY. Y is he so imp for the
Americans??
He was the inspiration for Uncle Sam(Durin WorldWar)
6._________ Fauntllory ______ was born on June 9,1934.His less known relatives
include Uncle Ludwig Von Drake, sister Della, cousin Fethry.Whom r v talking abt?
Donald Duck
rapid fire
1. if the kiwi rugby team is called all blacks wat r their bsktbal team known as?
Tall Blacks
2. ”Though art the…” this is the translation of wat??
Jana Gana Mana
3. “The Music stopped n I stood still n found myself out of the hill left alone against my
will”..whose words??
The Pied Piper
4. whose autobiography is “its not abt the bike..”?
Lance Amstrong
5. which channel has its logo after _____(J)castle in Germany??
Disney World
6. Its design composes of __ marbles that holds.. buzz……….
Bahai Ltus Temple
7. About wat logo did Peter Scott say,”we wanted a black n white image as it reduces our
cost….”?
Giant Panda of WWF
8. which internet undertakin has the caption “Stand on the shoulders of giants”?
Google’s Corner
9. Which Spanish term of the 13th century meanin buzz…..
Guerilla….
Friday, February 29, 2008
IT TUDE -QUIZ 2008
Legends and Myths. Trivia and Classifieds. Dig up the archives! Run search engines!! Scratch your brains!!! Press the panic button!!!! In other words, get set for a nerve-wracking ride at IT-TUDE 2008.
IT-TUDE is a technical fest conducted annually by the Dept of Information Technology, CUSAT. the quiz competition conducted as part of it will be on 8th march 2008.
the quiz is going to be conducted by dreamz.cash prizes worth Rs 8k will be given away.it will be an open quiz. Expecting participation from all over kerala and even outside.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1. There will be a written elimination round which consists of 25 questions.
2. Top 6 teams will be selected to the finals and 2 of them with the lowest scores will be eliminated after the 2nd round.
3. The quiz will consist of 4 rounds (3 dry + 1 theme) which will be held back to back.
4. The quiz master is always right.
5. If the quiz master is wrong, rule 4 applies.
for more details, contact Nikhil George - 0484 2534006
OBLIGATORY QUESTIONS
1. Harry "Bunny" Manders is the sidekick of which character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle?
2. On December 18th 2003, when Larry Ellison got married to Melanie Craft, his friend was the official wedding photographer. Name the official Wedding Photographer.
3. The huge success of the film made a popular icon of its signature logo, a black-and-white image of a highway receding towards a glowing horizon at night. In 1978, an enterprising group of students from the College of Architecture at Ball State University in Muncie,Indiana, manufactured and sold a small production run of black T-shirts emulating the logo and typeface of the original, but reading "MUNCIE INDIANA: A Gross Encounter of the Worst Kind." Sales were going well until stories about the shirts appeared in local media, prompting complaints from Columbia Pictures, which was offended about the logo, and the Muncie City Council, which was offended about the slogan. Which film?
Scroll down for answers
1. A J Raffles
2. STEVE JOBS!
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
IT-TUDE is a technical fest conducted annually by the Dept of Information Technology, CUSAT. the quiz competition conducted as part of it will be on 8th march 2008.
the quiz is going to be conducted by dreamz.cash prizes worth Rs 8k will be given away.it will be an open quiz. Expecting participation from all over kerala and even outside.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1. There will be a written elimination round which consists of 25 questions.
2. Top 6 teams will be selected to the finals and 2 of them with the lowest scores will be eliminated after the 2nd round.
3. The quiz will consist of 4 rounds (3 dry + 1 theme) which will be held back to back.
4. The quiz master is always right.
5. If the quiz master is wrong, rule 4 applies.
for more details, contact Nikhil George - 0484 2534006
OBLIGATORY QUESTIONS
1. Harry "Bunny" Manders is the sidekick of which character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle?
2. On December 18th 2003, when Larry Ellison got married to Melanie Craft, his friend was the official wedding photographer. Name the official Wedding Photographer.
3. The huge success of the film made a popular icon of its signature logo, a black-and-white image of a highway receding towards a glowing horizon at night. In 1978, an enterprising group of students from the College of Architecture at Ball State University in Muncie,Indiana, manufactured and sold a small production run of black T-shirts emulating the logo and typeface of the original, but reading "MUNCIE INDIANA: A Gross Encounter of the Worst Kind." Sales were going well until stories about the shirts appeared in local media, prompting complaints from Columbia Pictures, which was offended about the logo, and the Muncie City Council, which was offended about the slogan. Which film?
Scroll down for answers
1. A J Raffles
2. STEVE JOBS!
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Monday, February 18, 2008
TATA CRUCIBLE QUIZ, kochi edition
thanxx to ganesh raam of the team that came runners up for sending me the questions.
1. A leyland belongs to which group- Hinduja
2. Which ADAG venture is also into discount broking -R Money
3. What does the MH in LVMH stand for? - Moet henessy
4. Which company's name when translated reads' a service used by
hotels '- Sodexho
5.Sierra entmnt is owned by - Vivendi ( Choices Available)
6. Leader to Leader foundation started by - drucker (Choices )
7.NGO started by Ripen Kapoor- CRY
8.BILT makes what - paper
9. A print ad - real munnar Vs Malappuram united - Malayala Manorama
10. UB launched GoanSun . what is it? - Goan Feni
11. First company to put nutritional info on its products- Kellogs
12. Aao sochein bada is tagline of - IDBI
13. New version of the pajero? - Montero
14. Paul wolfowitz visual
15. producer of Jhoom BJ - Yashraj Films
16. Which magazine calls itself the worlds most circulated. Can be
brought only on annual subscription basis- RD
17.Thunderbird Mobikes are from - Royal Enfield
18. Bottled for business-cobra beer author- Karan Bilimoria
19 Ad - Monte Carlo (the one with the glenn mendeiros soundtrack)
20 Ad- Archies (boyfriend is the drummer punch line)
Cutoff hovered around 13-14
Some Q's from the wildcard ( this is easy - All on buzzer)
Behind the Arches is bout which company- Mcdonalds
ALFA expansion in italian was given - Alfa romeo
Disiro, ICE , Gigaset are from -Siemens
Leap Ahead- Intel
Band Aid trivia ( usual q- inspiration from wifes cuts)
Which Tata tea brand shares its name with a sun sign - gemini
'Menswear Pvt ' is now knwn as - Pantaloons
Sub-club loyalty program is from -Subway
Elephants cant dance book -Louis gerstner
Fine,flexible optic cable - Finolex
From Finals
Crossword
Euro currency trivia
Emerald mountain blend. mocha Kilimanjaro are from - georgia coffee
Maubli hotel was the first purchase by - hilton
Nation banks on us -SBI
penta star logo - chrysler
potatochips division of pepsi -Fritolay
Manchester city- Thomascook
Tata world
Coffee denoting time to drink it - 8'o clock
Store having a family of three logo- is a place of fun .games
books..etcetera -landmark
Tata steel trivia
tata chemicals trivia - Mitapur is the key word
Selection round
person was kenneth blanchard - visuals of One min manager,
hyperthyroididsm were shown
tech - what is daughter board- Anythin added extra to motherboard
convenience store which renamed itself from 'U-tote'm in 1946 caus
they wanted to change their store timings- 7-11
Toonz Animation Logo
Klaxon is a trademark for which electromechanical device - Car Horn
Connects
1. Akio morita- NYse- a medal - a track in the bg - Sony ( first
foreign firm to be in nyse, medal was the honour of british empire,
pope's voice was copyrighted by sony)
Am not sure if i've worded it rite
2. Time Magazine trivia - Visual of a mirror (2006- YOU), britton n
henry n another guy..song had parveen bhabhi-first indian on timemag
cover
3. ISKON trivia - Govinda restaurants ,APJ n abhishek are patrons
4. Tata Sky Trivia- STar logo-temasek which has stake - the
subscription print ad- Amul voice of India
Nano words
Pc's unlimtd -dell
Hsbc trivia - mercantile bank of shanghai, dubai..etc
CNX - crisil
1. A leyland belongs to which group- Hinduja
2. Which ADAG venture is also into discount broking -R Money
3. What does the MH in LVMH stand for? - Moet henessy
4. Which company's name when translated reads' a service used by
hotels '- Sodexho
5.Sierra entmnt is owned by - Vivendi ( Choices Available)
6. Leader to Leader foundation started by - drucker (Choices )
7.NGO started by Ripen Kapoor- CRY
8.BILT makes what - paper
9. A print ad - real munnar Vs Malappuram united - Malayala Manorama
10. UB launched GoanSun . what is it? - Goan Feni
11. First company to put nutritional info on its products- Kellogs
12. Aao sochein bada is tagline of - IDBI
13. New version of the pajero? - Montero
14. Paul wolfowitz visual
15. producer of Jhoom BJ - Yashraj Films
16. Which magazine calls itself the worlds most circulated. Can be
brought only on annual subscription basis- RD
17.Thunderbird Mobikes are from - Royal Enfield
18. Bottled for business-cobra beer author- Karan Bilimoria
19 Ad - Monte Carlo (the one with the glenn mendeiros soundtrack)
20 Ad- Archies (boyfriend is the drummer punch line)
Cutoff hovered around 13-14
Some Q's from the wildcard ( this is easy - All on buzzer)
Behind the Arches is bout which company- Mcdonalds
ALFA expansion in italian was given - Alfa romeo
Disiro, ICE , Gigaset are from -Siemens
Leap Ahead- Intel
Band Aid trivia ( usual q- inspiration from wifes cuts)
Which Tata tea brand shares its name with a sun sign - gemini
'Menswear Pvt ' is now knwn as - Pantaloons
Sub-club loyalty program is from -Subway
Elephants cant dance book -Louis gerstner
Fine,flexible optic cable - Finolex
From Finals
Crossword
Euro currency trivia
Emerald mountain blend. mocha Kilimanjaro are from - georgia coffee
Maubli hotel was the first purchase by - hilton
Nation banks on us -SBI
penta star logo - chrysler
potatochips division of pepsi -Fritolay
Manchester city- Thomascook
Tata world
Coffee denoting time to drink it - 8'o clock
Store having a family of three logo- is a place of fun .games
books..etcetera -landmark
Tata steel trivia
tata chemicals trivia - Mitapur is the key word
Selection round
person was kenneth blanchard - visuals of One min manager,
hyperthyroididsm were shown
tech - what is daughter board- Anythin added extra to motherboard
convenience store which renamed itself from 'U-tote'm in 1946 caus
they wanted to change their store timings- 7-11
Toonz Animation Logo
Klaxon is a trademark for which electromechanical device - Car Horn
Connects
1. Akio morita- NYse- a medal - a track in the bg - Sony ( first
foreign firm to be in nyse, medal was the honour of british empire,
pope's voice was copyrighted by sony)
Am not sure if i've worded it rite
2. Time Magazine trivia - Visual of a mirror (2006- YOU), britton n
henry n another guy..song had parveen bhabhi-first indian on timemag
cover
3. ISKON trivia - Govinda restaurants ,APJ n abhishek are patrons
4. Tata Sky Trivia- STar logo-temasek which has stake - the
subscription print ad- Amul voice of India
Nano words
Pc's unlimtd -dell
Hsbc trivia - mercantile bank of shanghai, dubai..etc
CNX - crisil
Friday, February 15, 2008
Quark@BITS-Goa
These are the pelims questions for the SciTech quiz conducted during Quark-08, the annul Techfest of BITS-Goa..
1) What has six flavours:up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom?
*2) What was preserved by Thomas Stolz Harvey until 1978, when it was discovered being stored in a mason jar within a cider box for over 20 years?
3) Which institute, started in 1891 got its current name in 1921, manages NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the data analysis and community support centre for NASA’s Howitzer telescope and is home to luminaries like Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman and Robert Millikan?
4) Name the only two nations, one of whom is our neighbour, not to have adopted the metric system as of today?
5) Cartoon with sting ray
6) Which is the largest animal in the animal kingdom that does not possess a backbone?
7) What was established by the science magazine ______________ (A.I.R) in 1991 to “celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative – and spur people’s interests in science, medicine and technology” ?
8) Name the rocket scientist who developed the infamous V-2 rocket, was captured by the U.S from the German missile research facility in Peenemunde and went on to become the chief designer of the Saturn rocket (which put man on the moon)?
*9)What comes next in this list?
1)IBM BlueGene/L – 478 teraflops
2)IBM BlueGene/P – 167 teraflops
3)SGI Altix ICE 8200 – 126.9 teraflops
4)________________ - 117.9 teraflops
10) Who wrote ‘De Humani Corpori Fabrica’, which was one of the first treatises on the anatomy of the human body?
11) "We guarantee certainty, clearly referring to this light mnemonic"
helps you remember what?
12) Also known as horripilation, piloerection, or the pilomotor reflex, The medical term for this condition is Cutis Anserina. What's more, this reflex is known to serve no real purpose in humans. What am I talking about?
*13) A rare new mineral was recently discovered in Serbia, having the following composition-Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Funnily enough, scientists were shocked to discover this formula had been come across previously, in the world of movies. By what name is it known?
14) Which molecule was discovered by Christian Friedrich Schonbein in 1840, who named it after the Greek word for “odour”, from the peculiar smell it gave out in lightning storms?
15) "Ut tensio, sic vis" is the original statement of which scientific law?
16) Pic 1
*17) Humphrey Davy, the famous scientist, once stated that "its properties bestowed all of the benefits of alcohol but was devoid of its flaws." What was he referring to?
18) What originated when Scott E. Fahlman, a research scholar at the Carnegie Mellon University, suggested that it be used on the subject line of all bulletin board postings that were non serious in nature?
19) He is known to have invented the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, bifocal glasses, and the flexible urinary catheter. He was also the first person to label charge as positive and negative. The CGS unit of electrical charge is named after him. Who am I talking about?
20) On Jan 23rd 1960, Don Walsh and Auguste Piccard became the first men to reach which of the last major unexplored frontiers of the Earth?
21)This word was coined by William Stern in 1912 based on what was first made by Alfred Binet to identify those who needed extra help in school. Louis Terman adopted it and renamed it as the “Standford - Binet” method for measuring what?
22)Pic 2
*23)Pic 3
24) If the Litmus test is used to measure the acidic or basic strength, what is the Titmus test used for?
25) Pic 4
1) What has six flavours:up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom?
*2) What was preserved by Thomas Stolz Harvey until 1978, when it was discovered being stored in a mason jar within a cider box for over 20 years?
3) Which institute, started in 1891 got its current name in 1921, manages NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the data analysis and community support centre for NASA’s Howitzer telescope and is home to luminaries like Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman and Robert Millikan?
4) Name the only two nations, one of whom is our neighbour, not to have adopted the metric system as of today?
5) Cartoon with sting ray
6) Which is the largest animal in the animal kingdom that does not possess a backbone?
7) What was established by the science magazine ______________ (A.I.R) in 1991 to “celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative – and spur people’s interests in science, medicine and technology” ?
8) Name the rocket scientist who developed the infamous V-2 rocket, was captured by the U.S from the German missile research facility in Peenemunde and went on to become the chief designer of the Saturn rocket (which put man on the moon)?
*9)What comes next in this list?
1)IBM BlueGene/L – 478 teraflops
2)IBM BlueGene/P – 167 teraflops
3)SGI Altix ICE 8200 – 126.9 teraflops
4)________________ - 117.9 teraflops
10) Who wrote ‘De Humani Corpori Fabrica’, which was one of the first treatises on the anatomy of the human body?
11) "We guarantee certainty, clearly referring to this light mnemonic"
helps you remember what?
12) Also known as horripilation, piloerection, or the pilomotor reflex, The medical term for this condition is Cutis Anserina. What's more, this reflex is known to serve no real purpose in humans. What am I talking about?
*13) A rare new mineral was recently discovered in Serbia, having the following composition-Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Funnily enough, scientists were shocked to discover this formula had been come across previously, in the world of movies. By what name is it known?
14) Which molecule was discovered by Christian Friedrich Schonbein in 1840, who named it after the Greek word for “odour”, from the peculiar smell it gave out in lightning storms?
15) "Ut tensio, sic vis" is the original statement of which scientific law?
16) Pic 1
*17) Humphrey Davy, the famous scientist, once stated that "its properties bestowed all of the benefits of alcohol but was devoid of its flaws." What was he referring to?
18) What originated when Scott E. Fahlman, a research scholar at the Carnegie Mellon University, suggested that it be used on the subject line of all bulletin board postings that were non serious in nature?
19) He is known to have invented the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, bifocal glasses, and the flexible urinary catheter. He was also the first person to label charge as positive and negative. The CGS unit of electrical charge is named after him. Who am I talking about?
20) On Jan 23rd 1960, Don Walsh and Auguste Piccard became the first men to reach which of the last major unexplored frontiers of the Earth?
21)This word was coined by William Stern in 1912 based on what was first made by Alfred Binet to identify those who needed extra help in school. Louis Terman adopted it and renamed it as the “Standford - Binet” method for measuring what?
22)Pic 2
*23)Pic 3
24) If the Litmus test is used to measure the acidic or basic strength, what is the Titmus test used for?
25) Pic 4
Prelims Qns for Abdul Wahab - Bijuraj memorial Quiz
Hi All,
Pls find the Prelims Questions for the Inter-Collegiate Quiz. Quiz was won by Manu's team from Tvm Medical college, CET teams won the rest of the laurels.
1) The Hunting of the Snark & Jabberwocky - Poems, Sylvie and Bruno - 1st part of his last Novel. Who am I talking about? Clue - Cricket.
2) Which European City has a museum by the name "House of Terror"? Clue - Andrassy Avenue is a World Heritage site there...
3) I.DE.A Institute S.p.A.
Strada del Portone, 61
10137 Torino - Italy
Tel. + 39 011 6616.312
Fax +39 011 6616.300
ecorona@idea.institute.it
Give me the most recent name.....
4) Whose Autobiography released in 1995 was titled "Songs My Mother Taught Me"? Clue - Stella Adler, He died in 2004.
5) Who wrote Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile ?
6) He is currently a legal resident of Dubai. Among other things he is the Chairman of Afras ventures a Dubai based company that seeks to promote foreign investment in India specifically Kerala. His Short Story collections "The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories" was published in 1990. Who am I talking about?
7) Which World Currency was used as Official currency by Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman & Trucial States (Now U.A.E) till 1966?
8) Which two countries are separated by the "Oder-Neisse line" Half points for each.
9) He was married to Claudia Villafane & has two daughters with her - Dalma Nerea (b. 1987) and Giannina Dinorah (b. 1989), also has a Son aged 21. He recently gifted an autographed T-Shirt as a token of love for the people of Iran, he wrote"Con todo mi cariño para el pueblo de Irán (With all my love for the people of Iran)." The shirt will be displayed in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' museum. Who?
10) Which famous Hollywood Movie is based on an historically unconfirmed duel between Snipers Vasily Zaytsev of Soviet Union & Major Erwin Konig of Germany in the backdrop of the Battle of Stalingrad?
11) Which organization was founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, in the United Kingdom in 1946? Clue - It means 'Table' in Latin.
12) Which Indian Airline is owned by Jehangir Wadia of the Wadia Group?
13) Which famous Musician is married to his Ex-manager Antonia Minnecola, an Italian American? Clue - Think Local.
14) Who heads the United Civil Front movement, part of the Other Russia coalition in opposition against President Vladimir Putin?
15) Lars Ahlfors of Finland and Jesse Douglas of U.S were the first recipients of which famous Prize in 1936? Clue - It was instituted by a Canadian and carries Prize money of roughly 15000 USD.
16) What is the English equivalent of the Spanish term 'Vaquero'?
17) What was invented by Harry Brearley on August 13, 1913 in Sheffield, England? Clue - It is 100% recyclable, Chromium is a constituent.
18) She was born in Hong Kong in 1984 to a British mother and father of Indian Kashmiri origin. She grew up in Hawaii and subsequently moved to London. She was offered her first role by Kaizad Gustad and has had moderate success in Bollywood, Who?
19) If you have Ophidiophobia what do you have a morbid fear of?
20) Which Oscar winning Hollywood movie inspired Priyadarshan's Thaalavattam?
21) Which Pan Slavist Organization assisted Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Arch Duke Franz Ferdinad?
22) Who played the role of Kato in the American T.V series The Green Hornet?
23) About whom did Churchill say "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general."?
24) Which city is served by the Narita international Airport?
25) Which Indian conglomerate founded in 1938 by two Danish men in Bombay is currently headed by A.M.Naik?
26) He is 35th in the list of '100 most Hated Britons' compiled from a poll by Channel 4. He is the only child of James & Lily and also a member of the Peverell Family. Who?
27) Which Law enforcement agency has the motto Mridhu bhave dhrida karma in Sanskrit which means "Soft in Temperament, Firm in Action" ? Not CBI...
28) who fought Muhammad Ali in "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975?
29) ____________ was born at the King George Hospital, Victoria Street, Lucknow, India in 1940 to parents Rodger Oscar, a steward, and Dorothy Marie (born Dazely) Webb. He was christened on 2 November 1940 at St Thomas' Church, Dehradun, India. Both parents were of mixed Indian Blood or Anglo Indian. A year later his family moved to Calcutta. In 1947, following Indian independence, the family moved to Britain.
30) _____________ is the primary Search methodology used by Google.
And now the answers..... The toppers scored 20 and the cut-off was 11.5...
1) Lewis Carrol
2) Budapest
3) Tata Nano
4) Marlon Brando
5) Ralph Nader
6) Shashi Tharoor
7) Gulf Rupee
8) Germany & Poland
9) Diego Maradona
10) Enemy at the Gates
11) MENSA
12) Go Air
13) Zakir Hussain
14) Gerry Kasparov
15) Field's Medal
16) Cowboy
17) Stainless Steel
18) Katrina Kaif
19) Snakes
20) One who Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
21) Black Hand
22) Bruce Lee
23) Erwin Rommel
24) Tokyo
25) Laresen & Toubro - L&T
26) Harry Potter
27) Kerala Police
28) Joe Frazier
29) Cliff Richard
30) Page Rank
Pls find the Prelims Questions for the Inter-Collegiate Quiz. Quiz was won by Manu's team from Tvm Medical college, CET teams won the rest of the laurels.
1) The Hunting of the Snark & Jabberwocky - Poems, Sylvie and Bruno - 1st part of his last Novel. Who am I talking about? Clue - Cricket.
2) Which European City has a museum by the name "House of Terror"? Clue - Andrassy Avenue is a World Heritage site there...
3) I.DE.A Institute S.p.A.
Strada del Portone, 61
10137 Torino - Italy
Tel. + 39 011 6616.312
Fax +39 011 6616.300
ecorona@idea.institute.it
Give me the most recent name.....
4) Whose Autobiography released in 1995 was titled "Songs My Mother Taught Me"? Clue - Stella Adler, He died in 2004.
5) Who wrote Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile ?
6) He is currently a legal resident of Dubai. Among other things he is the Chairman of Afras ventures a Dubai based company that seeks to promote foreign investment in India specifically Kerala. His Short Story collections "The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories" was published in 1990. Who am I talking about?
7) Which World Currency was used as Official currency by Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman & Trucial States (Now U.A.E) till 1966?
8) Which two countries are separated by the "Oder-Neisse line" Half points for each.
9) He was married to Claudia Villafane & has two daughters with her - Dalma Nerea (b. 1987) and Giannina Dinorah (b. 1989), also has a Son aged 21. He recently gifted an autographed T-Shirt as a token of love for the people of Iran, he wrote"Con todo mi cariño para el pueblo de Irán (With all my love for the people of Iran)." The shirt will be displayed in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' museum. Who?
10) Which famous Hollywood Movie is based on an historically unconfirmed duel between Snipers Vasily Zaytsev of Soviet Union & Major Erwin Konig of Germany in the backdrop of the Battle of Stalingrad?
11) Which organization was founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, in the United Kingdom in 1946? Clue - It means 'Table' in Latin.
12) Which Indian Airline is owned by Jehangir Wadia of the Wadia Group?
13) Which famous Musician is married to his Ex-manager Antonia Minnecola, an Italian American? Clue - Think Local.
14) Who heads the United Civil Front movement, part of the Other Russia coalition in opposition against President Vladimir Putin?
15) Lars Ahlfors of Finland and Jesse Douglas of U.S were the first recipients of which famous Prize in 1936? Clue - It was instituted by a Canadian and carries Prize money of roughly 15000 USD.
16) What is the English equivalent of the Spanish term 'Vaquero'?
17) What was invented by Harry Brearley on August 13, 1913 in Sheffield, England? Clue - It is 100% recyclable, Chromium is a constituent.
18) She was born in Hong Kong in 1984 to a British mother and father of Indian Kashmiri origin. She grew up in Hawaii and subsequently moved to London. She was offered her first role by Kaizad Gustad and has had moderate success in Bollywood, Who?
19) If you have Ophidiophobia what do you have a morbid fear of?
20) Which Oscar winning Hollywood movie inspired Priyadarshan's Thaalavattam?
21) Which Pan Slavist Organization assisted Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Arch Duke Franz Ferdinad?
22) Who played the role of Kato in the American T.V series The Green Hornet?
23) About whom did Churchill say "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general."?
24) Which city is served by the Narita international Airport?
25) Which Indian conglomerate founded in 1938 by two Danish men in Bombay is currently headed by A.M.Naik?
26) He is 35th in the list of '100 most Hated Britons' compiled from a poll by Channel 4. He is the only child of James & Lily and also a member of the Peverell Family. Who?
27) Which Law enforcement agency has the motto Mridhu bhave dhrida karma in Sanskrit which means "Soft in Temperament, Firm in Action" ? Not CBI...
28) who fought Muhammad Ali in "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975?
29) ____________ was born at the King George Hospital, Victoria Street, Lucknow, India in 1940 to parents Rodger Oscar, a steward, and Dorothy Marie (born Dazely) Webb. He was christened on 2 November 1940 at St Thomas' Church, Dehradun, India. Both parents were of mixed Indian Blood or Anglo Indian. A year later his family moved to Calcutta. In 1947, following Indian independence, the family moved to Britain.
30) _____________ is the primary Search methodology used by Google.
And now the answers..... The toppers scored 20 and the cut-off was 11.5...
1) Lewis Carrol
2) Budapest
3) Tata Nano
4) Marlon Brando
5) Ralph Nader
6) Shashi Tharoor
7) Gulf Rupee
8) Germany & Poland
9) Diego Maradona
10) Enemy at the Gates
11) MENSA
12) Go Air
13) Zakir Hussain
14) Gerry Kasparov
15) Field's Medal
16) Cowboy
17) Stainless Steel
18) Katrina Kaif
19) Snakes
20) One who Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
21) Black Hand
22) Bruce Lee
23) Erwin Rommel
24) Tokyo
25) Laresen & Toubro - L&T
26) Harry Potter
27) Kerala Police
28) Joe Frazier
29) Cliff Richard
30) Page Rank
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