Hi Guys,
I'm back with answers (with ##). Thanx all for the lovely response.
bye for now,
Nishant
1. We all know that the first Indian talkie was Alam Ara. It was produced by
the Imperial film company and was released on March 14, 1931. Name the
director of this movie.
## Ardershir Irani, though I've given points for Moti Gidwani also, who had
a part in the direction.
2. Which Guru Dutt production was his only film to be entered in an
International film festival and was also nominated for an Oscar ?
## Saheb, Bibi aur Ghulam
3. What unique distinction do the nominations for the following films hold -
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sleuth and Give them Hell, Harry ?
## In each case, the entire cast was nominated for awards.
4. If Pele, Lineker and Maradona all wore the No. 10 on their jerseys, which
number did Dutch superstar Johann Cruyff wear on his shirt ?
## No. 14
5. In which sport did Leander Pace's father Vace Paes represent India ?
## Hockey
6. How many test centuries did Don Bradman score in his career ?
## 29
7. With the words 'Miyan, Captain banoge?', which chairman of selectors
offered Azharuddin the captaincy of the Indian team in 1989 ?
## Raj Singh Dungarpur
8. What was the name of the hospital in Hyderabad, where Ronald Ross
identified the carrier of malaria on 20 August 1879 ?
## Begumpet. One Hyderabadi answered the quiz only b'cos of this question.
9. Which was the last Tintin adventure that Herge left unfinished at the
time of his death ?
## Tintin and the Alpla Art.
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles was a cross between bloodhound and which
other dog ?
## Mastiff
Now the scores. There were no ducks in this match !!!!!!
7's
1. Rajneesh De
2. Avijit Chaudhuri
6's
1. Narayan Iyer
2. Vikrant A Patankar
5's
1. Anirudya Shankar Ray
2. G J
3. Krishnamurthy
4. Lalit
5. Perumselva Pandyan
6. Rajesh Kumar Agrawal
4's
1. Anoop Bhat
2. Aseem Mudbidri
3. Balachandran Ramachandran
4. Balakrishnan
5. Banana Sing
6. Hampihallikar Pashant P H
7. Krishna Kumar
8. Prasad Shetty
9. Ravish Singh
10. Ruchir Agarwal
11. Samrat Sengupta
12. Sriyansa Dash
13. Talukdar Sumita
14. Vaibhav Bajpai
15. Vrinda Anurakshat
3's
1. Bhaskar Ramakrishnan
2. C Srinivas
3. Dilip Avadhani
4. Jefferey Alapatt
5. Manish Mahajan
6. Satyaki Choudhary
7. Nirmalkumar Dhanasekaran
8. Prasad Acharya
9. Rajarshi Gupta
10. Rohit Palan
11. Sajal Dogra
12. Satish Kumar
13. Vibhendu Tewari
14. Vijay Shanbhag
2's
1. Abhinav Goyal
2. Abhishek Choudhari
3. Ajit Chandorkar
4. Amitabh Tapadar
5. Dilip Hariharan
6. Jawahar Haldipur
7. Reddy Pratap
8. Rohit Priyadarshi
9. Uttam Padukone
10. Vivek Kumar
11. VPMO
1's
1. Yogesh Mali
2. Amit Pandey
3. Amit Ranade
4. Arun Prashant
5. Avinash Waghray
6. Kumar Prakash
7. Piyush Raithatha
8. R Neetu
9. Suresh Nanduru
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Hi,
U guys sure love movies. There were 78 responses in all. No ducks even this
time, but there was no century too.
Hoping for even a better response next time.
bfn
Nishant
Here are the answers and the scores:
1. Which Amitabh Bachchan movie was based on the Hollywood political movie,
'Meet John Doe', directed by John Capra?
### Main Azad Hoon
The director of the English movie is Frank Capra and not John Capra. Sorry,
galti se mistake ho gaya !!!!!
2. The symbol of R K movies shows a man with a violin in one hand and a
woman leaning on his other hand. What does the symbol signify?
### It signifies the romance between Raj Kapoor and Nargis. It is also a
scene in the film 'Barsaat'. I have given half points to the mention of only
the movie.
Someone said 'No' to 'thoda sa roomani ho jaaye'....Don't know why !!!??
3. Which character did Rekha play in Sashi Kapoor's "Utsav"?
### Vasantsena, no points for prostitute. I had needed the character's name.
4. Dilip Kumar along with Suni Dutt shares a unique honour bestowed on a
citizen. What honour?
### Both were made Sheriffs of Bombay (Mumbai).
5. Ruma Guha Thakurta, Madhubala, ______________, Leena Chandravarkar.
Complete the sequence.
### Yogita Bali, all wives of Kishore Kumar.
6. What is Shivaji Rao Gaekwad better known as...?
### Rajnikanth
7. 'Ma Baker..' of Boney M has been an inspiration for a very famous Hindi
Film song featuring Shahrukh Khan. Name the song.
### 'Sach yeh kahani hai, sun lo meri jaan', from the film "Kabhi Haan Kabhi
Na".
8. In 'Chandni O meri Chandni' number from the film "Chandni", who joins Sri
Devi in the duet?
### Jolly Mukherjee, many answered Rishi Kapoor, but the question was on
music, as the heading might have suggested.
9. In which movie did Laxmikant-Pyarelal make their debut as music
directors?
### Parasmani
10. The song 'Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko', from the film 'Yaadon Ki
Baraat' was composed by R D Burman. Give me the name of the Singer / Music
director who played the famous opening Guitar piece.
### Bhupinder, he had played guitar in the song 'Dum maaro dum' from "Hare
Rama Hare Krishna" also.
The scores:
9's
1. Anirudha Bhattacharjee
2. Rahul Labh
3. Vibhendu Tewari
8.5's
1. Tathagata Chatterjee
8's
1. Avinash
7.5's
1. Subrat Mohanty
2. Vaibhav Vishal
7's
1. Pramod Kudva
6.5's
1. K C Dash
6's
1. Chandran Sanjeev
2. Gopal H
3. Jayanto Karmakar
4. Raja Balasubramanian
5. Sharad Gupta
6. Tathagata Mitra
7. Thiagi
5.5's
1. Mr Satyaki Choudhury
2. Pradeep Jayaraman
3. Prasad Shetty
4. Pradeep Sarkar
5's
1. Chakrabarti Udayan
2. Dinesh Singh
3. Movin Miranda
4. Nikhil Rajendra
5. Singh Sharad
4.5's
1. Bala Thiagarajan
2. Deepak Chandran
3. G J
4. Padmsam
5. PGP15065
6. Prasad Acharya
7. Somaskandan
8. Abir Ghosh
4's
1. Abhinav Goyal
2. Abhishek Choudhari
3. Ajit Chandorkar
4. Anands
5. Ashtyagi
6. Guruprasad Kini
7. Madhav Nair
8. Ruchir Agarwal
9. Salagrama Sriharsha
10. Uttam Padukone
11. Vikrant A Patankar
12. Waghray Avinash
13. K S Ramprasad
14. Shardul
3.5's
1. Crazy Horse
2. Gautam Ghosh
3. Hari Krishnan
4. Harshad Nimje
5. Salil Gokhale
6. Shivakumar Nagarajan
3's
1. Anoop Bhat
2. Krishnamurthy
3. Narayan Iyer
4. Rajesh B
5. Vijay Shanbhag
6. Vikas Mehra
7. Vivek Kumar
2.5's
1. Kowshiks
2. Mashal Dias
3. Navneet Bal
2's
1. C Srinivas
2. Nilesh Iyer
3. Pratyush
4. Subramanian
5. Sunil Pandey
6. Suresh Ramasubramanian
7. V Kannan Iyer
8. Vishal
1.5's
1. Ramachandran Sundaraman
2. Krishnan Sriram
1's
1. Ajay Shenoy
2. Krishnan Rajamani
3. NirmalKumar Dhanasekaran
4. Saurabh Mehta
5. Sunay M
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Here are the answers to the ' A short & simple Quiz'.
Alongwith the answers, I have also given the stats as to how many among the
total entrants answered the question correctly. Name of the person would be
mentioned alongwith, if he/she is the only one to get it correct.
1. "First Impression is the always the best" Right ? But, not always. A famous
English novel was originally titled 'First Impression' but was rechristened
later. Which is the novel ?
Ans : Pride and Prejudice { 1 / 9 ( Natasha ) }
2. This was a part of the erstwhile Gondwanaland. The continental drift has
split this apart and is a tiny set of isles now. The place is fossil rich (
Fossils of the Prehistoric shark Pucapampella was found here) and was even a
cause for a war between two countries in the last century ? Which set of isles
are we talking about ? psst... heard of Pebble Islands , Sea Lion Islands....
Ans : Falkland Islands ( formerly, Malvinas Islands ) { 4 / 9 }
3. Here is a sitter. Come Sep 15th, the Olympics would start. And tell me, in
which Olympics was the Olympic flame lit for the first time throughout the games
?
Ans : Amsterdam 1928 { 2 / 9 }
4. We all have heard & seen of skirts - micro, mini, micro-mini, micro to the
power of nth, etc. But, what would you be holding if you had a 'hobble skirt' in
your hand ?
Ans : A coke bottle { 2 / 9 }
5. What was the former name of Monica's den, err.. I mean, 'White House' ?
Ans : Executive Mansion or Presidential Palace { 4 / 9 }
6. In printing, what are left hand page and right hand page called ?
Ans : Verso and Recto { 3 / 9 }
7. Name the cartoonist who drew the Donald Duck Comic books. Uncle Scrooge is
one of his creations. While answering this question pay respect to this departed
soul who left for heavenly abode a month ago.
Ans : Carl Barks { 2 / 9 }
8. When Vendors collude together and create an artificial rise in the price of
materials, economists call them as playing monopoly. Now, what is the phenomenon
of Buyers colluding together to artificially lower the price of materials known
as ?
Ans : Monospony { 2 / 9 }
9. According to Milton's 'Paradise Lost', what was the capital of hell ?
Ans : Pandemonium { 5 / 9 }
10. Ending this short quiz in high spirit, what is enology ?
Ans : Study of wines { 7 / 9 ( Max people got this one correct. It's natural..
ha ha ) }
The points tally :
6's
Natasha Almeida
5's
Sudipta Dhar
Tathagata Chatterjee
Phani Madhav
4's
Movin Miranda
5's
Nirmal Kumar D
G Jain
1's
Vijay Shanbag
Chirantan Chatterjee
thanks n' regards,
ramaprasad
..................... Ramaprasad K Subramaniam ....................
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Another EZ Quiz... Mail in your entries by Oct 6th to ramsap@...
1. "Necessary But Not Sufficient" - a much talked about phrase in
business/corporate circles nowadays. What does it refer to ?
2. "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" - whose words are
these ?
3. Today, KBC is the talk of the town. As you may be knowing, it is not an
invention by Rupert Murdoch & his team. This show is in fact run under a license
from the inventors of the show who has so far issued license to hold such shows
in more than 50 countries and they provide set design, questioning pattern and
even the candidate selection procedure in a 169 page booklet. Name the inventing
company
4. Identify the structure in the picture attached.
5. "If anything can go wrong, it will and at the worst time possible." By what
name is this funda known popularly ?
6. In India, why is a pick-pocketeer often referred to as 420 ?
7. Why did a stamp issued by St. Kitts and Nevis in 1903 depicting Christopher
Columbus standing on his ship and observing the American coast through his
telescope, become a rare collector's item ?
I am a Holmes fan... and that will show up, somehow or the other...
8. On completion of his Degree & training in Army, Dr.Watson was immediately
posted to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers regiment, which at that time was
engaged in a war in Asia. In which city/town did Dr. Watson actually join his
regiment ?
9. Which is the longest word that can be made using the letters of only one row
of the keyboard ? elementary... my dear... ( no that isn't the answer )
10. Here is a sitter. She was in her pre-teens and did not know a bit of
malayalam. But, her debut was in a malayalam movie, in which she got the state
award ( for acting, mind you..) and the movie went on to win several state &
national awards. She went her on way and cut a niche for herself as a sexy siren
in languages other than malayalam... who are we talking about ?
thanks n' regards,
..................... Ramaprasad K Subramaniam ....................
Panasonic, NJ, USA
Tel (O): 201 348 7000 extn 2533
Tel (M): 201 921 5885
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> Hi everybody
> here are the answeres for a old quiz, that u might have forgot.sorry, i'm
> not getting time for evaluation of your performence in quiz.(i have over
> 150 mails in my folder)..
>
> 1. This imaginary substance was believed to change base metals into gold
> and was sought by the alchemists in the medieval periods. Name the
> substance?
>
> Ans. "Philosopher's Stone (14th century)" an imaginary stone,
> substance, or chemical preparation believed to have the power of
> transmuting base metals into gold and was sought by alchemists.
>
> The Philosopher's Stone was a substance (not a rock) that the alchemists
> sought. It was thought that an underlying spirit linked all things and
> gave rise to the dualistic forms universe. Therefore, by combining
> different chemicals and substances a secret balance of dualisms might be
> discovered, The Philosopher's Stone, that would contain the essence of the
> (nondual) divine. That substance would have transformative power and so
> the notion that ordinary minerals would be transformed into gold, the most
> perfect metal.
>
>
> 2. How well do you know the comic character "Bruce Wayne"?
> (Hint : Van Kilmer, Michael Keaton & have played this character with great
> aplomb.)
>
> Ans:-batman
> (All answered it except two)
>
> 3. Which Indian town recently in the news, is situated approx. 6 kms from
> the confluence of river Dras & Suru?
> (Hint : It is situated on the banks of river Suru.)
>
> Ans :kargil
>
>
> 4. Who is the only Indian Bowler to take a wicket with the very 1st ball
> he bowled in test-cricket?
>
> Ans: Nilesh Kulkarni
>
>
> 5. What name is given to a collector of picture post-cards?
>
> Ans: "Deltiologist"
>
> Can you find out the names for the collector of these items?
> 1) Match Box Labels
> 2) Flags
> 3) Teddy Bears
>
>
>
>
> 6. What distinction does the International organization "Medicins Sans
> Frontiere" has achieved recently?
>
> Ans. "Nobel Peace Prize 1999"
> Since its foundation in the early 1970s, Mdecins Sans Frontires has
> adhered to the fundamental principle that all disaster victims, whether
> the disaster is natural or human in origin, have a right to professional
> assistance, given as quickly and efficiently as possible. National
> boundaries and political circumstances or sympathies must have no
> influence on who is to receive humanitarian help. By maintaining a high
> degree of independence, the organization has succeeded in living up to
> these ideals.
>
>
>
> 7. What term is given to the elements which are neither metals nor
> non-metals?
> Ans. "Metalloids"
>
> Metalloids are the elements found along the stair-step line that
> distinguishes metals from non-metals. This line is drawn from between
> Boron and Aluminum to the border between Polonium and Astatine. The only
> exception to this is Aluminum, which is classified under "Other Metals".
> Metalloids have properties of both metals and non-metals. Some of the
> metalloids, such as silicon and germanium, are semi-conductors. This means
> that they can carry an electrical charge under special conditions. This
> property makes metalloids useful in computers and calculators The
> Metalloids are:
>
> Boron
> Silicon
> Germanium
> Arsenic
> Antimony
> Tellurium
> Polonium
>
>
> 8. Which American film star is a part of American Olympic team for Sydney
> Olympics 2000? She is a member of American Archery Team?
> (Hints : Thelma and Louise and Earth Girls Are Easy.)
>
> Ans: Davis, 43, only took up archery two years ago. The star of Thelma and
> Louise was inspired to try her hand at the sport after watching Justin
> Huish win two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
>
> According to the U.S. Olympic Committee, no other actors have turned
> Olympic athletes, although the process has happened in reverse. Tarzan
> portrayers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe were both Olympic
> medal-winning swimmers before they took to swinging from vines.
>
>
>
>
> 9. What will you be doing if you are "SHOUTING" on the Internet?
> (Hint : Answer in the question itself.)
>
> Ans. "Writing in Capital Letters"
>
>
> 10. Which is the only game to be played on the MOON?
>
> Ans. "Golf"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> bye!!
>
> Manish Maheshwari...@ 71,gt hostel-1,i.c road,jamshedpur-831001
> 'JIGYASA' - THE KNOWLEDGE RENAISSANCE
>
>
Here come the answers for JIGYASA 00.09.01
> 1. Which economist first propounded the often quoted statement, "There's
> no such thing as a free lunch". I am sure a lot of us have been at the
> receiving end of this statement. So why not go out and find out who
> started this whole thing ?
> Ans: Milton Friedman
>
>
> 2. In computer hardware selling SOHO is "Small office Home office" ,
> However what does SOBO stand for?
> Ans: S.O.B.O stands for Small Office Business Office
>
>
> 3. Ronnie Screwvala and UTV own a television channel in India. Name the
> channel ?
> Ans: Vijay T.V.
>
>
> 4. "The difference between God and Larry Ellison: God does not think he is
> Larry Ellison " is the title of Larry Ellison's Biography by ............
> ?
> Ans: Mike Wilson
>
>
> 5. Which car had the following as its famous slogan, " At 60 miles an hour
> the loudest noise in this new car comes from the electric clock "
> Ans: Rolls Royce Silver Cloud
>
>
> 6.What is the latest model of airplane from Airbus Industries to hit the
> commercial airplane market?....... This should be a cake walk for the
> Satyam Oracle team who have just completed an assignment for Sri Lankan -
> the official carrier of Sri Lanka
> Ans: A3XX
>
>
> 7. Name the largest tour and travel operator in India ? Hint : The
> company became the largest player after taking over another company which
> operated in the same business
> Ans: Thomas Cook was the intended answer after the proposed takeover of
> Travel Corporation of India . However the takeover has just fallen through
> yesterday and the answer to this question now I guess is the KUONI - SITA
> combine.
( However when the question was asked it was Thomas Cook - TCI that we had
in mind so points to people who got either)
> 8. TITAN has recently launched a range of digital clocks in India. Under
> what brand name does TITAN sell these clocks?
> Ans: CYBER
>
>
> 9. In Politics P.P.P is the Pakistan People's Party. What is PPP in
> economics ?
> Ans: Purchasing Power Parity ----it`s the I.M.F`s method of guaging the
> size of a country`s economy.
>
>
> 10. All of us are familiar with Golden Handcuffs, Golden Handshakes etc
> etc. However what is a Golden Parachute ?
> Ans: A golden parachute is a payment that is contingent of a change (1) in
> the ownership or effective control of the corporation, or (2) in the
> ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the corporation. The
> traditional use of a golden parachute is to offer company executives
> financial security in the event of a takeover. In essence, a form of
> "layoff insurance," meant to protect against a sudden loss of employment.
> Thanks V Babu for this really comprehensive answer
>
>
>
Jigyasa 00.09.01 Scores are as follows .............( However I must admit
that we have not corrected some of the scores that came in late as our
official score keeper Ved has now got transferred to Hyderabad - however
technology has come to the rescue and he can access this mailbox from the
web - So the next time onwards we will not miss any scores - V.T)
The Topper with a perfect 10
V Babu (Pretty comprehensive reply for Q No. 10.) CONGRATS
The 9's
Anshuman Seth
Ashutosh Mutsaddi
Harvinder Singh Rayat (Welcome to the club, Harvinder)
The 8's
K Balasubramanian
Deepak Parmeshwaran
Bhawani Girish
Manish Manke
Prithijit Ray
Rajneesh De
S Srikanth
The 7.5's
Rajesh Venugopalan
The 7's
Bharath Ranganathan
Kosigi
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal
TN Seshadri
Surjith Singh
Varadarajan Seshadri
The 6.5's
Anindya Ray 6.5 (0.5 marks only for Q No. 5 as u have mentioned
'FORD Rolls Royce')
The 6's
Ashish Sahu
Gautam Mahanti
Movin Miranda
Nikhil Shembekar
Phani Chaturvedula
Sriram Iyer
Vishal Mago
Yahoo/Urmila C
The 5's
Dipanjan Chatterjee
K Subramanian
The 4.5's
Bossy
Girija Shankar Narayanan(0.5 marks for mentioning 'Cook' only in Q No. 7)
The 4's
Amitabha
V Gunashree
Haritha G
Narayanan Iyer
Nishant Labh
Raghunath S Iyer
Ryan Michigan
Suresh Nanduru
Vaidyanath Ganesan
The 3.5's
Thiagi
The 3's
Animesh Arun
Anurag Dahiya (Any relation to Kapil Dahiya in IIMA ?)
Aravind Aravind
Jayant Vishnu ( Marks given for showing creativity in Q Nos. 1,5,9)
Manish Jain
Nirmal Kumar Dhanasekaran
Piyush Raithatha
Rohit Palan
Rupesh Verma
Shivakumar Nagarajan
S Kishore
Vivek Kumar
Aadil L
The 2's
Akshay Tandon
Amit Pandey
Anoop Bhat
Jaideep Chowdhary
Kensy Joseph
Mashal Dias
Prabu Balasubramanyan
R Venkatramanan
Ravi Chandran
Ravikiran Rao
S Pramod Biligiri
Sandhya R
Shardul Deo
Sivaprashanth Danturthy
Vijay Shanbag
The Uno's
Girish
Jags Raju
Sunay M
Sunil Pandey
Tarun Somani
Vijay Bhat ( Hello Bhatta)
Well ???
Madhavi Shyam Sundar 0
Pankaj Sharma 0
> The JIGYASA community is increasing in numbers almost by the hour - we
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>
Dear manish,
just to point out that Geena Davis turned out for the
Olympic trials but was definitely not part of the
US Olympic team to sydney. in fact, she finished quite
poorly at the selection trials
Movin Miranda
manish1@... wrote:
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Here are the answers to EZ Quiz
1. "Necessary But Not Sufficient" - a much talked about phrase in
business/corporate circles nowadays. What does it refer to ?
ANS : This is the much awaited book from Dr. Eliyahu M Goldratt, the management
guru, who has brought in TOC & related concepts. He explained the concept of
Theory of Constraints & DBR principle in the form a novel, "The Goal".
"Necessary But Not Sufficient", which is releasing on Oct 15th talks about
applying these thoughts on IT industry. Of course, this is also in the form of a
novel. Interested ! read a sneak preview at http://www.rogo.com/cac/index.html
You may know more about TOC, Goldratt and all at www.goldratt.com
Surprisingly, nobody answered this question.
2. "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" - whose words are
these ?
ANS : Gloria Steinem. She was a sworn feminist. But, after nearly three decades
of her "fight against MCPs", recently at the age of 66, she got married.
3. Today, KBC is the talk of the town. As you may be knowing, it is not an
invention by Rupert Murdoch & his team. This show is in fact run under a license
from the inventors of the show who has so far issued license to hold such shows
in more than 50 countries and they provide set design, questioning pattern and
even the candidate selection procedure in a 169 page booklet. Name the inventing
company
ANS : Celador Productions, UK
4. Identify the structure in the picture attached.
ANS : Sorry ! I had posted the picture. It did not get distributed as a result
of the group policy that only text files would be distributed.
5. "If anything can go wrong, it will and at the worst time possible." By what
name is this funda known popularly ?
ANS : Murphy's Law. Second most popular answer.
6. In India, why is a pick-pocketeer often referred to as 420 ?
ANS : B'cos such petty crimes are booked under section 420. This was found to be
the most popular answer
7. Why did a stamp issued by St. Kitts and Nevis in 1903 depicting Christopher
Columbus standing on his ship and observing the American coast through his
telescope, become a rare collector's item ?
ANS : Telescope was invented much later than Columbus
8. On completion of his Degree & training in Army, Dr.Watson was immediately
posted to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers regiment, which at that time was
engaged in a war in Asia. In which city/town did Dr. Watson actually join his
regiment ?
ANS : Canadahar or Kandahar, Afghanistan. Though he landed in Bombay, he joined
his regiment only at Afghanistan.
9. Which is the longest word that can be made using the letters of only one row
of the keyboard ? elementary... my dear... ( no that isn't the answer )
ANS : TYPEWRITER
10. Here is a sitter. She was in her pre-teens and did not know a bit of
malayalam. But, her debut was in a malayalam movie, in which she got the state
award ( for acting, mind you..) and the movie went on to win several state &
national awards. She went her on way and cut a niche for herself as a sexy siren
in languages other than malayalam... who are we talking about ?
ANS : The most popular answers were Silk Smitha followed by Sridevi. But, it's
actually our own RAMBHA. This was answered correctly only by Sagi hyma
Here is the medal tally : ( Total questions - 9 only )
6's
Harvinder Singh Rayat
Sagi hyma
Suyog Gaidhani
5's & 4's
None
3's
Samrat sengupta
Shiv Kumar
Sunil Pandey
Narayan iyer
2's
Jeba Dharmaraj
Nikhil Mohta
Sriram Krishnan
Shikha
Vivek Kumar
1's
Ajay Shenoy
RAJNEESH LOMASH
subramanian.k
Vikas Kulai
the silent participants...
Geeta_Madhavi
Nirmalkumar
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Here come the questions for JIGYASA 00.10.01
1. If anyone of you own a cellular licence in India and wanted to sell out
then you would have a bunch of guys standing at your doorstep – Orange,
Bharti, BATATA etc. Who the hell are these BATATA guys ?
Ans:
2. IF you are a wireless communication freak – you would definitely have
heard of Bluetooth which is touted as the next Big Thing – however Bluetooth
is named so after a person. Who is he ?
Ans:
3.The name of which International advertising agency literally means
'Watchmaker and Watchmaker' ?
Ans:
4. What is special about the ROLEX at centre court at Wimbledon ? Hint :
they have done something that they have never done before nor will probably
do ever
Ans:
5. Warren Buffet’s insurance company, National Indemnity recently stepped up
to insure the world’s largest –ever lottery – offering a top prize 0f $ 1
billion. Name the lottery that has been covered? Hint : As most things
these days it is a dot com
Ans:
6. In the Indian Mobile phone market there is a lot to cheer for the end
consumer. A slew of new models , reduced import duty etc etc. However a new
brand to hit the market is TRIUM. Now the question – which company owns the
TRIUM brand of Mobile phones ?
Ans:
7. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than
in USA. In Africa, salesmen had to customize 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
brand and product ?.
Ans:
8. This is a question that appears on most of the quizzing web sites in the
Indian Internet space. Who is the only Indian character in the Dilbert strip
and what position does he hold ?
Ans:
9. Chemicals, aspertame and acesulfame are something you would not like to
forget if you are one of those calorie freaks. So what are these chemicals
and what purpose do they serve ?
Ans:
10.Well a sitter to wrap up this edition of JIGYASA – Harshavardhan Nawathe
of Mumbai who had the distinction of being the first person to win a crore
on KBC said that if he won the 1crore he would want to do something. What
did he dream of doing? Hint : His dream would give Mamata Banerjee sleepless
nights
Ans:
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Come November 2nd, Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar will be flagging off their annual inter-Bschool
management meet, XPRESSIONS'2000. As is wont, this event will
see its customary fare of Quizzes dished out. There will be a
Corporate Quiz on 3rd Nov and an IT Quiz on 4th Nov. QM is
ANUSTUP DATTA.........obviously needs no intro. Needless to say
that the quizzes will be of pristine quality .
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Hi again,
a very easy quiz for u ......!!!!!
1. Which Mughal monument in India is dedicated to Arjumand Banu Begum?
2. Which cocktail made of pineapple juice, coconut and rum literally means
'strained pineapple' in Spanish?
3. What is the legal term for a person who has given false evidence under
oath?
4. In R K Narayan's Guide, in which town does Rosy meet Raju, the guide, for
the first time?
5. By what popular name do we know the 'circular notes', first introduced in
1870's by the pioneer travel agent Thomas Cook?
6. In the Mahabharata, from what material were Shakuni's dice made, making
him invincible in any game of chance?
7. Which group of fictional characters had the motto 'All for one and one
for all'?
8. In Gulliver's Travels, what was the name of the island of sorcerers and
magicians?
9. What do the Chinese refer to as 'One Lee Chang Che'?
10. On 3 December, which Indian naval ship, commanded by Lt. Commander Inder
Singh sank the PNS Ghazi off the coast of Vishakapatanam?
answers in a weeks time...
so long...
Nishant
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1. Name the person who has been appointed as the Founding Dean of Indian
Business School, Hyderabad.
2. Temple Trees is the official residence of ...
3. "Breathe 100% pure air with 20% discount on oxygen. Welcome to _____". Where
are you being welcomed to ?
4. Which Bangladeshi Freedom fighters party/association/group worked with the
Indian Armed forces in the East Pakistan Liberation War ?
5. Nominees for Nobel Prize for literature this year included 2 Indians. Name
them.
6. Name the only Non-governmental organization in the whole world, which has all
the three wings of Armed Forces namely - Army, Navy & Air Force.
7. Name the first Indian athlete to win a gold in a World athletics
championship.
8. Come 2003, the cricket fans would be on their toes again, as the World Cup
Cricket rolls in. Name the Venue of the 2003 World Cup Cricket Finals.
9. Which Nobel category does not yet have a single female laureate?
10. Where are Maxwell Mountains located ?
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Hello friends,
Here is an easy quiz. Answers in a week's time. 10 questions in all. So, here
goes:
1) Apart from being famous, what links Hrithik Roshan, Meena Kumari, Sir Gary
Sobers and Anne Boleyn?
2) Who scored the last goal of World Cup Football 1998?
3) What is the name of the wrestler who was stripped of his Gold medal for 76 Kg
class of freestyle wrestling in the Sydney Olympics 2000?
4) Name the element with Atomic Number 49 in the Modern Periodic Table.
5) By whom, was the "The Fall Of Man" painted?
6) Dutch football striker Dennis Bergkamp is said to have a chronic phobia. What
is it?
[ Hint: You would know if you saw "Forces Of Nature" ]
7) Which famous novel begins with these lines:
Slonim, Poland
April 18th, 1906
She only stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to
scream.
8) For which team will Grant Hill be playing for in the NBA 2000-2001 upcoming
season?
[ Hint: Think of fairies ]
9) "The amount of heat absorbed or given out by a unit mass of the substance to
change its state without change of temperature, is known as the ______ ____
of the substance."
Please fill in the blanks.
10) In the book "Dr. No" by Ian Fleming, the heroine, Honeychile Rider, has a
facial deformity. What is it?
[ Hint: The deformity is not one by birth; but was an inflicted one. ]
Ok, that's all for now. Hope you found the quiz easy.
Regards,
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>hi everyone,
> This is my second quiz on net and it's
>IT.Send your answers before 30th.
>
>Questions :-
>
>1)In 1938 DAVE PACKARD and BILL HEWLETT released their
>first product called a RESISTANCE-CAPACITY AUDIO OSCILLATOR which tests sound
equipment.Name the famous
>hollywood legend who bought the product for his movie?
>
>2)What is a WAPERWARE ?
>
>3)Name the INDIAN who created the first anti-virus
>program RED ALERT ?
>
>4)CLIFFORD STALL dreamt of hunting a hacker who tries
>to break the american defense network.He wrote a book
>describing his dream.Name the book?
>
>5)In 1911 a company was formed by the merger of The Tabulating Company ,The
Computing Scale Company and The International Time Recording Company. Name it?
>
>6)In word processing ,what are WIDOW and ORPHAN?
>
>7)What is the unit of movement of the MOUSE?
>
>8)IBM 1620 HAD AN ACRONYM "CADET".Expand it?
>
>9)If you are KEVORKING system or a program , what
>actually are u doing with it?
>
>10)what's the name of the company which got the prestigious SANKHYA VAHINI
prohect even before it was incorpotated?
>
>
>
>P.B.S.SRINIVAS,
>II SEMESTER,
>M.C.A.,
>CUSAT,COCHIN-22.
>
>
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'JIGYASA' - THE KNOWLEDGE RENAISSANCE
Here come the answers for JIGYASA 00.10.01
1. If anyone of you own a cellular licence in India and wanted to sell out
then you would have a bunch of guys standing at your doorstep – Orange,
Bharti, BATATA etc. Who the hell are these BATATA guys ?
Ans: BATATA was formed after the coming together of Birla AT&T and TATA
Telecom.
2. IF you are a wireless communication freak – you would definitely have
heard of Bluetooth which is touted as the next Big Thing – however Bluetooth
is named so after a person. Who is he ?
Ans:Bluetooth was named after Harald Blatand, the Viking King,
of Denmark in the tenth century . Some literature I have read have also
mentioned him as Harald Bluetooth - so points for both.
Well Rajiv Rai has his last word on Harald Blatand "Scandinavian Viking king
who united the tribes (just as Bluetooth will
unite the technologies)". Thanks Rajiv
3.The name of which International advertising agency literally means
'Watchmaker and Watchmaker' ?
Ans:Saatchi and Saatchi ( Almost everybody got this right )
4. What is special about the ROLEX at centre court at Wimbledon ? Hint :
they have done something that they have never done before nor will probably
do ever
Ans:The only DIGITAL rolex watch in the world.
5. Warren Buffet’s insurance company, National Indemnity recently stepped up
to insure the world’s largest –ever lottery – offering a top prize 0f $ 1
billion. Name the lottery that has been covered? Hint : As most things
these days it is a dot com
Ans: Well this one was a teaser and NOBODY got it, the answer is GRAB.COM
and I suggest you visit the site as National Indemnity and Berkshire
Hathaway are prominently mentioned on the site.
6. In the Indian Mobile phone market there is a lot to cheer for the end
consumer. A slew of new models , reduced import duty etc etc. However a new
brand to hit the market is TRIUM. Now the question – which company owns the
TRIUM brand of Mobile phones ?
Ans: Mitsubishi. The most popular answers here were TCL, Baron and Motorola
7. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than
in USA. In Africa, salesmen had to customize 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
brand and product ?.
Ans: Singer Sewing Machine. The answers here ranged from Remington
Typewriter to Bicycle to a Harvester
8. This is a question that appears on most of the quizzing web sites in the
Indian Internet space. Who is the only Indian character in the Dilbert strip
and what position does he hold ?
Ans:Asok, who is an intern.( Most got this right )
9. Chemicals, aspertame and acesulfame are something you would not like to
forget if you are one of those calorie freaks. So what are these chemicals
and what purpose do they serve ?
Ans: These are no-calorie sugar substitutes.(artificial sweeteners)used in
Diet drinks like Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi and artificial sweeteners like Equal.
Surjit Singh adds that
"Aspartame - 180 times sweeter than sugar and Acesulfame - 200 times sweeter
than sugar". Thanks Surjit
10.Well a sitter to wrap up this edition of JIGYASA – Harshavardhan Nawathe
of Mumbai who had the distinction of being the first person to win a crore
on KBC said that if he won the 1crore he would want to do something. What
did he dream of doing? Hint : His dream would give Mamata Banerjee sleepless
nights
Ans:Well now as all of you must have watched the October 19th episode of KBC
we all know that he wanted to buy a train for himself.
Bouquets and Brickbats only to Vijay Thomas at JIGYASA@...
Topping this quiz with 9 out of a possible 10 are
Rajiv Rai rajivrai@... ..........
Move over Calcutta - Madras is India's New Quizzing Capital
Rajesh Kumar Agarwal rajesh.agrawal@... ..............
I hope u r not from Calcutta
With 8 out of 10
Ramkumar (ramkumar@...)
surjith singh (suji_us@...)
Harvinder_SinghRayat (Harvinder_SinghRayat@...)
With 7.5
Manish Manke (manishmanke@...)
With 7
navneet bal (navneetbal@...)
Suyog Gaidhani (Suyog.Gaidhani@...)
Shiv Kumar (skumar@...)
Aadil L (collegequizzer@...)
Swaminathan R (9SWAMINR@...) .....
the first among B-School participants
With 6.5
Movin Miranda (movin.miranda@...)
Sixers
Krishnamurthy (krishnamurthy.venkataraman@...)
Anurag Dahiya (anuragd@...) ...............What else can
ESPNSTAR ask for? ....an employee who hits a perfect 6
prashant v mekaraj (pmv79@...)
S Ramnath (ramnaths@...)
Anand (anandviyer@...)
Amit Kishore (amit.kishore@...)
Somaskandan A V (somski@...)
ashtyagi (ashtyagi@...)
M MADHU (m_madhu@...)
Narahari Nayak Kapadikar (naraharinayak@...)
The 5.5's ( they just got caught on the boundary line )
Bharath Gopalan (bangidi@...)
Rajat Gulati (rajat@...)
Nilanshuk Haldar (nilanshuk@...)
Susheel Kumar (toezz@...)
The Fivers
Sanjay Gadhalay sanjay_gadhalay@...
HAMPIHALLIKAR PRASHANT PRASHANTH@...
amitabha amitabha@...
V. Kannaniyer v.kannaniyer@...
prasad shetty pshetty_74@...
vijay bhat vijaybhat@...
ramanand j quatrainman@...
ARAVIND ARAVIND aravind_kj@...
With 4.5/10
Dominic D'souza d.dominic@...
Lakshminarayanan K G lakshminarayanankg@...
With 4/10
subramanian.k subramanian.k@...
Gopal H h.gopal@...
Vibhendu Tewari vibhendut@...
Reddy Pratap preddy@...
Manish Mahajan xanthus_was_struck_dumb@...
Anoop Bhat soundmeister@...
AMITABH TAPADAR 9amitabh@...
amit pandey pandeyamit@...
SureshT suresh.t@...
With 3.5/ 10
Anoop_Mehendale Anoop_Mehendale@...
With 3 / 10
Nikhil Mohta n_mohta77@...
Narayan Iyer nari_iyer@...
Kishore V. Meda kishoremeda@...
Kartik pgp15081@...
Anuradha Ramachandran anuradha_ram@...
S.Kishore skishore@...
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Parul Verma pverma@...
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Rahul Gehani rahulgehani@...
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S Balakrishnan 9SIVARAM@...
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With 2/10
Manish Maheshwari manish1@...
Siddarth Kumar k_siddarth@...
Bhaskar Ramakrishnan BhaskarR@...
saurabh mehta mehta_saurabh@...
Sunil Naik spnaik@...
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With 1.5/10
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Vivek Kumar vivek.kumar.h6z6@...
With 1/10
SATISH T. mailsattu@...
Sangeeta Mishra sangeeta.mishra@...
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hi ,
Sorry all of you for my fault. I had written vapourware as waperware.
Thanks alot for correcting it. Here are the answers and scores.
SCORES.
1)VISHALI(vivacoius)-8.
2)SURESH RAMASUBRAMANIAN-6.
3)SHIBANI PRASAD MOHAPATRA-6.
4)RAJNEESH DE-6.
5)HARVINDER RAYAT-6.
6)HARIVS-5.
7)ANAND KAMANNAVAR-4.
8)SIDDHARTH KUMAR-4.
9)ABHINAV GOYAL-3.
10)V.KANNAN IYER-3.
11)MANISH MAHAJAN-2.
12)PIYUSH RAITHATA-2.
13)SUBRAMANIAN.K-1.
14)HUSSAIN POONAWALA-1.
15)VIJAY SHANBAG-0.
16)SRIKANTH.GONUGUNTLA-0.
17)VINEET VIRMANI-0.
Q&A.
1)In 1938 DAVE PACKARD and BILL HEWLETT released their
first product called a RESISTANCE-CAPACITY AUDIO OSCILLATOR which tests sound
equipment.Name the famous
hollywood legend who bought the product for his movie?
WALT DISNEY FOR "FANTASIA".
2)What is a WAPERWARE ?
A PRODUCT WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN RELEASED BUT STATED BY IT'S
COMPANY THAT IT'S GOING TO BE LAUNCHED.
3)Name the INDIAN who created the first anti-virus
program RED ALERT ?
NEVILLE BULSARA
4)CLIFFORD STALL dreamt of hunting a hacker who tries
to break the american defense network.He wrote a book
describing his dream.Name the book?
A CUCKOO'S NEST.
5)In 1911 a company was formed by the merger of The Tabulating Company ,The
Computing Scale Company and The International Time Recording Company. Name it?
COMPUTER TABULATING RECORDING COMPANY.(later in 1924,renamed as IBM).
6)In word processing ,what are WIDOW and ORPHAN?
WIDOW - THE LAST LINE IN A PAGE THAT JUMPS INTO NEXT.
ORPHAN - THE FIRST LINE OF A PARAGRAPH WHICH IS LEFT BY THE
REST OF PARAGRAPH AFTER SWITCHING TO NEW PAGE.
7)What is the unit of movement of the MOUSE?
MICKY.
8)IBM 1620 HAD AN ACRONYM "CADET".Expand it?
CAN'T ADD DOESN'T EVEN TRY.
9)If you are KEVORKING system or a program , what
actually are u doing with it?
KILLING /TERMINATING.(named after dr.death)
10)what's the name of the company which got the prestigious SANKHYA VAHINI
prohect even before it was incorpotated?
IU NET.(a sub. of CANEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY).
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> Hi guys...
>
Sorry for the delay.
> Thanx again for the lovely response. There were 75 responses in all. I'm
> back with the answers and the scores.
>
> keep mailing and happy quizzing.
>
> bfn,
> Nishant
>
>
> THE ANSWERS:
>
>
> 1. Which Mughal monument in India is dedicated to Arjumand Banu Begum?
>
> ## Taj Mahal.
>
> I thought u all would get this....Arjumand Banu Begum was Mumtaz's real
> name !!!!!!
>
> 2. Which cocktail made of pineapple juice, coconut and rum literally means
> 'strained pineapple' in Spanish?
>
> ## Pinacolada.
>
> 3. What is the legal term for a person who has given false evidence under
> oath?
>
> ## Perjurer...I've given points to Perjury and perjuror (with an 'O')
> too...
>
> 4. In R K Narayan's Guide, in which town does Rosy meet Raju, the guide,
> for the first time?
>
> ## Malgudi
>
> This was again a cake walk......R K Narayan had to place his people in
> Malgudi...isn't it ??
>
>
> 5. By what popular name do we know the 'circular notes', first introduced
> in 1870's by the pioneer travel agent Thomas Cook?
>
> ## Traveller's cheques
>
> 6. In the Mahabharata, from what material were Shakuni's dice made, making
> him invincible in any game of chance?
>
> ## Sage Dadhichi's bones.
>
> No points for just bones !!!! Krishnan Sriram had a lovely guess about
> Lizards being inside the dice and cos lizards cannot lie on their stomach,
> they had to roll over their back. Good try man !!!!!
>
There's also some ambiguity in this answer, as some say that it was his
fathers bones. I would want some more info on this as my source says that it
was Dadhichi's bones.
> 7. Which group of fictional characters had the motto 'All for one and one
> for all'?
>
> ## The Three Musketeers.
>
> 8. In Gulliver's Travels, what was the name of the island of sorcerers and
> magicians?
>
> ## Glubbdubdrib
>
> 9. What do the Chinese refer to as 'One Lee Chang Che'?
>
> ## The Great Wall of China.
>
> 10. On 3 December, which Indian naval ship, commanded by Lt. Commander
> Inder Singh sank the PNS Ghazi off the coast of Vishakapatanam?
>
> ## INS Rajput
>
>
>
> THE SCORES:
>
> 8's
>
> Harvinder SinghRayat
>
> 7's
>
> Amit Kishore
> Guru Prasad
> Movin Miranda
> Rajiv Rai
> Sethia Aditya
> syed shaheen jamil
>
>
> 6's
>
> Anil Kumar
> Arun Hiregange
> Ashwin Hegde
> dominic d'souza
> Jose Augusto De Abreu
> Manish Manke
> Nilesh Iyer
> R Sivakumar
> SUJITH VIJAY
>
>
> 5's
>
> Akshay Natrajan
> Anoop Bhat
> Aseem m
> Ashwani Agrawal
> Devdan Mitra
> Dilip Avadhani
> gautam ghosh
> GJ
> Mahesh Ramasubramanian
> narayan iyer
> Rahul Gehani
> Ramacharan Sundararaman
> sabyasachi majumdar
> Saket Jamkar
> Satyen Kale
> Sudhakar Chandra
>
>
> 4's
>
> Amar
> Anand Vaidyanathan
> Anoop Mehendale
> CHAKRABARTI UDAYAN
> Husain Poonawala
> Jeffrey Alapatt
> Krishnan Sriram
> Madhu.Kaushik
> Manish jain
> Manish Mahajan
> Nirmalkumar Dhanasekaran
> pankaj batra
> PSRIRAM
> pushkarnath sen
> R Shantaram
> rameshkumar
> ramnarayan s
> Ryan Michigan
> samrat
> Swaroop Venkatesh
> vikas kulai
> Vinayak Nagaraj
> vibhendu tewari
>
>
> 3's
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> Ajit Chandorkar
> Anup Mankar
> Arif Murshed
> gaurav sabnis
> Shibani Prasad Mohapatra
> srikanth gonuguntla
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>
>
> 2's
>
> Badrinath D
> Jeedigunta Vijay
> Santanu Aich
> saurabh mehta
> Srikanth Karne
> TARUN SOMANI
> Vijay Shanbhag
> Vivek Kumar
> Yogesh Mali
>
>
>
> 1.5's
>
> Anirudha Hatwalne
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> 1's
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> Namit Agrawal
> Raghavendra B
> Shardul Deo
> SWAMIKS
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hi,
clifford stall's book was A CUCKOO'S EGG.sorry for
mentioning it as A CUCKOO'S NEST.THANKS ALOT TO ALL OF
YOU FOR HELPING ME.I WILL BE BACK WITH A GENERAL QUIZ.
BYE,
P.B.S.SRINIVAS,
II SEMESTER,
M.C.A.,
CUSAT,COCHIN-22.
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Hello friends,
Here I am with the answers. Although nobody maxed the quiz, all the questions
were answered by someone or the other. So, here are the answers in bold:
1) Apart from being famous, what links Hrithik Roshan, Meena Kumari, Sir Gary
Sobers and Anne Boleyn?
### An extra thumb, (or) 6 fingers on a hand ###
2) Who scored the last goal of World Cup Football 1998?
### Emmanuelle Petit of France ###
3) What is the name of the wrestler who was stripped of his Gold medal for 76 Kg
class of freestyle wrestling in the Sydney Olympics 2000?
### Alexander Leipold of Germany ###
4) Name the element with Atomic Number 49 in the Modern Periodic Table.
### Indium ###
5) By whom, was the "The Fall Of Man" painted?
### Michaelangelo , Sistine Chapel ###
6) Dutch football striker Dennis Bergkamp is said to have a chronic phobia. What
is it?
[ Hint: You would know if you saw "Forces Of Nature" ]
### Fear Of Flying ###
[ In "Forces Of Nature", Ben Affleck has a similar problem too! ]
7) Which famous novel begins with these lines:
Slonim, Poland
April 18th, 1906
She only stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to
scream.
### Kane And Abel, by Jeffrey Archer ###
8) For which team will Grant Hill be playing for in the NBA 2000-2001 upcoming
season?
[ Hint: Think of fairies ]
### Orlando Magic ###
[ The clue is now obvious, isn't it?!? ]
9) "The amount of heat absorbed or given out by a unit mass of the substance to
change its state without change of temperature, is known as the ______ ____
of the substance."
Please fill in the blanks.
### Latent Heat ###
10) In the book "Dr. No" by Ian Fleming, the heroine, Honeychile Rider, has a
facial deformity. What is it?
[ Hint: The deformity is not one by birth; but was an inflicted one. ]
### She had a broken, and crudely reset nose ###
Ok, now for the scores:
Congratulations to everybody...
7 . 5 , the highest score:
Anand Sivashankar (sorry, but I couldn't give you full marks for "Artificial
Nose" )
7. 0
Ravi Subramanian
6. 0
Balakrishnan
Aniruddha Gupta
Harvinder Singh Rayat
Sabyasachi Majumdar
5. 0
Pinaki Chakrabarti
Hirak "Maverick" Parikh
Samrat Sengupta
Nilanshuk Haldar
Jim Morrison
4. 5
Manish Mahajan
Ashwin Jayaraman
4.0
Anindya S.Ray
R Venkataramanan
Ryan Michigan
Saurav Sahu
S. Vasant
Gaurav Sabnis
Ramabrahamasai Alladi
Mohit Puthuraya
3. 0
Sanjay Gadhalay
Shiladitya Basu
Swaroop Venkatesh
Jyothiprakash Rao
Vibhendu Tewari
Jaidev Karanth
2. 5
Chakrabarti Udayan
2. 0
Vijay Shanbhag
Shardul Deo
Husain Poonawala
Amitabh Tapadar
Yogesh Mali
Narayan Iyer
Krishnan Sriram
Kannan Iyer
1. 0
Bharath Gopalan
Parthasarathi Patel
Sunay. M
Hasan P
Srikanth Gonuguntla
Shibani Prasad Mohapatra
No Zeroes
A Big Thank You Goes Out To Everybody Who Participated!!!
Another Quiz will be following within a day or two. Again, thanx a lot.
Regards,
Nikhil HariKrishnan.
P.S.: BTW, the name's 'Nikhil' and not 'Hari' !!! Bye!!!
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Hi,
Sending u some info from one of the regular subscriptions I have....
Regards,
Nishant
> WHO INVENTED THE BOXING GLOVE?
>
> Jack Broughton of Great Britain. The English bare knuckle
> fighting champion for many years (beginning in 1734),
> Broughton also wrote the first set of boxing rules.
>
>
> WHAT WAS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF KISSES IN A SINGLE FILM?
>
> One hundred twenty-seven in Don Juan (1926). Mary Astor and
> Estelle Taylor received the kisses from John Barrymore.
>
>
>
> WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN TO DIE IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR?
>
> Convicted axe-murderer William Kemmler became the first man to
> be executed by electrocution on August 6, 1890, at Auburn State
> Prison, New York. Harlold P. Brown had conceived the idea of
> death by electrocution and conducted the early experiments;
> Thomas Alva Edison supplied the equipment. According to the
> official report, the procedure, which had to be repeated to
> induce death, took eight minutes.
>
WHAT IS THE MOST VIOLENT FILM ON RECORD?
The 1984 film Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, takes top
honors. It contains 134 acts of violence per hour, or 2.23
per minute.
HOW MUCH DOES A 1-CARAT DIAMOND WEIGH?
It weighs 200 milligrams, or 3.086 grains troy. The measurement
originally represented the weight of a seed of the carob tree.
> WHO IS THE MOST MARRIED PERSON IN HISTORY?
>
> Mongkut of Siam - the king in The King and I - had 9,000 wives
> and concubines. Solomon, by contrast, had only 700.
>
WHAT ARE ZYGODACTYL FEET?
Feet with two toes pointing forward and two pointing backward
- which birds such as parakeets, parrots, and woodpeckers have.
HOW DID THE WORD "TESTIFY" ORIGINATE?
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to
a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
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Hello friends,
Here I am with my second quiz, as promised. 10 questions this time too. So, here
are the 10 questions:
1) "I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts...". This a quote taken from
a classic. This also appears in a Microsoft game. Name the classic, and also the
game.
[ half points for each ]
2) Where would you find Ulaanbaatar?
3) Until 1969, there were 5 categories in which the Nobel prize was awarded.
Name the 6th category which was added.
4) How are "Erythrocytes" better known as?
5) Name the lady player against whom Steffi Graf played her last and final pro
career tennis match ?
6) _____ ___ states that at constant temperature, the current flowing through a
conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across its ends.
Please fill in the blanks.
7) Lord Melchett is the head of which international organisation?
8) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
From which of Shakespeare's works has this been taken?
9) Apart from being actresses, what links Tabu, Kate Winslet, Aishwarya Rai and
Emma Thompson?
[ Hint: The link has to do something with one of the movies they acted in. You
know, the characters they played. ]
10) This "dedication" has been taken from a famous book. Identify the book.
" For Mary *** who grew me up. Who taught me to say 'excuse me' before
interrupting her in Public. Who loved me enough to let me go. For LKC, who, like
me, survived."
[ the *** is because revealing that would be tooooooo much of a hint. ]
Answers in a week's time [ and I AM punctual ;-) ]
Regards,
Nikhil HariKrishnan.
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Hello JJs ( JIGYASA JUNTA),
Will come up with a more "Serious" JIGYASA quiz sometime later but here is
something to sweeten up your day
But before that
Apologies to a lot of people for not having mentioned their names in the
scores of the last JIGYASA quiz Vicram S, Sid Mehlwal, Kumar V, Yogesh Mali,
Anindya S Ray, Jaideep Choudhary, Ashok Gopal & Ajit Chandorkar.( Mistakenly
put these mails in the wrong folder )
Sid Mehlwal and Anindya Ray from XIM, Bhubhaneshwar got 8 . Anindya also was
the only person to have cracked the GRAB.COM question among all the
participants. Congrats and personal apologies to you Anindya.
Cheers
V.T
Here come the questions some of which border on the absolute trivia
1.What is the single busiest day of the year for chocolate stores in the
U.S.? ( Hey... this justifies its place in a Business Quiz does'nt it? -
watch out could be a question at this year's Brand Equity )
Answer:
2.What is the term given to a bundle of 50 cigars?
Answer:
3. "A small cigar can change the world; I know, I've done it frequently at
parties" are song lyrics from the song "A Small Cigar" Who performed this
song. Name the Band ?
Answer:
4.What is the term given to the decorative picture on the inside of a cigar
box lid? ( Trivial Trivia so u get 4 options)
a. vista
b. panorama
c. scena
d. landscape
Answer:
5.What country has the highest consumption per person of chocolate?
Answer:
6. During the process of Manufacture of Chocolate the temperature of
Chocolate is lowered and increased several times. What is this process
called ? ( Workable )
Answer:
7.This British Chocolate company owner in the late 1800's was a devout
Quaker. Because of his religious beliefs, he tried to abolish slavery on
cocoa plantations. His chocolate is still sold .Who was he? ( Hint : British
Chocolate that still sells )
Answer :
8. Lets get a bit localised now - Name the Sate in India that produces the
largest amount of Cocoa - the major ingredient in Chocolates ?
Answer:
Answers only to vijay _thomas@...
Will post the answers within 10 days with all the scores ......I promise
TO SUBSCRIBE TO JIGYASA send a mail to
JIGYASA-subscribe@egroups.com and join the JIGYASA community
Here are the answers for "EZ Quiz - Oct 2K"
1. Name the person who has been appointed as the Founding Dean of Indian
Business School, Hyderabad.
## Ans : Prof.Sumantra Ghosal
2. Temple Trees is the official residence of ...
## Ans : Currently, President of SriLanka. It was earlier the Prime Minister's
residence. When Ms.Chandrika graduated from PM to President, the residence
also...
Anindya Roy put forward this explanation too and he gets a bonus point for that
!
3. "Breathe 100% pure air with 20% discount on oxygen. Welcome to _____". Where
are you being welcomed to ?
## Ans : Thoise airfield, the highest airfield in the world, near Siachen
Only Harvinder Singh Rayat got this one correct.
4. Which Bangladeshi Freedom fighters party/association/group worked with the
Indian Armed forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War ?
## Ans : Mukti Bahini
5. Nominees for Nobel Prize for literature this year included 2 Indians. Name
them.
## Ans : Sir V S Naipaul and Salman Rushdie
6. Name the only Non-governmental organization in the whole world, which has all
the three wings of Armed Forces namely - Army, Navy & Air Force.
## Ans : LTTE.
Sorry to note that nobody answered this question correctly.
The most popular answer was UN. The UN does not have a permanent force of it's
own. A UN force is made up of armed officers on deputation, of various member
countries for a specific task.
7. Name the first Indian athlete to win a gold in a World athletics
championship.
## Ans : Discus thrower Seema Antil, this year.
8. Come 2003, the cricket fans would be on their toes again, as the World Cup
Cricket rolls in. Name the Venue of the 2003 World Cup Cricket Finals.
## Ans : Wanderers in Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa was also given points.
9. Which Nobel category does not yet have a single female laureate?
## Ans : Economics.
Actually, in a small (but not cheap!) consolation, the 1995 economics prize was
"shared" by a woman.
Robert E. Lucas, the University of Chicago professor who won the 1995 Nobel
Prize in Economics for his work on the theory of "rational expectations," had to
split the $1 million prize with his ex-wife. Seven years before, she had her
divorce lawyer insert a clause that would cover such an eventuality. Under the
property settlement, if her ex-husband had won the prize the following year, he
would have been able to keep the whole thing. Mrs. Lucas was apparently acting
on her own set of rational expectations, since eight University of Chicago
professors have won the Nobel Prize so far; Lucas was the fifth in the last six
years.
10. Where are Maxwell Mountains located ?
## Ans : On Planet Venus
The medal tally is ...
8's
Anindya S Ray
7's
R Srinivasan
Anand Sivasankar
6's
Harvinder Singh Rayat
Amiyarath
5's
Narayan Iyer
4.5
Hari VS
3.5's
Vijay Shanbag
3's
R Venkatraman
Srikanth Gonuguntla
2's
Subramanian K
Thiagi
1's
Manish Mahajan
Ramakrishna V
0.5
Anoop Mehendale
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Hi all,
This is a mixed bag from me.send your answers within a week to
santanua@...
1.What is unique about the film 'Rukmabati ki Haveli'?
2.Sulabh Complexes in India are the cocept of which Indian?
3.Who presented the Lifetime Achievement Oscar to Satyajit Ray ?(virtually-b'coz
Ray was admitted in a Calcutta Hospital)
4. Who were the 'Heroine Mothers' in Soviet Union?
5. Who is a Cruciverbalist?
6. What is 'Trishkadekaphobia'?
7. Which famous Indian Classic Musician have acted in film 'Heat and Dust'?
8. 'Flower top' and 'Crown top' are the varieties of what ?
9. Which youngster is known as 'Don's clone'?
10. Which actreess' face was plastered on the A-Bomb dropped in Hiroshima?
Thanks,
Santanu Aich
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Hello Everyone,
I am II BBM student in Bangalore, Christ College. This
is my first quiz and here it goes.
1) Who runs a consulting firm called RASP from a hotel
suite in Delhi?
2) To signal its recovery after a glitch during the
release of windows 98, Microsoft played a popular
number during the launch of Windows 2000. Which one is
it and by whom?
3) The largest construction company in Saudi Arabia is
owned by an international political personality. Name
the company, and the individual?
4) Who is the latest sports personality to endorse
Reebok's Rockport brand of shoes?
5) The writings of which business thinker form part of
the curriculum for secondary school students in
Venenzuela?
6) When it was started in 1964 by a consortium of
finance companies, it was called Interbank. What is it
known as today?
7) Which restaurant chain eventually forced the
founders of McDonalds's , the McDonalds brothers, out
of business?
8) Which sportsman was IMG founder Mark McCormack's
first client?
9) After whom has the National Insurance Company named
its 1999 Student Yojana Scheme?
10) In which Indian City was Coca-Cola test launched
in 1993?
__________________________________________________
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http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Hello people,
Overwhelmed - would be an understatement. I received exactly 113 replies.
Thanx a lot to all the people who participated. But first things first, here are
the answers:
1) "I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts...". This a quote taken
from a classic. This also appears in a Microsoft game. Name the classic, and
also the game.
[ half points for each ]
### The classic is Julius Caesar(Act III, scene II). The game in which this
appears is Microsoft Hearts. [ go to MS Hearts, and Help and Quote ] ###
2) Where would you find Ulaanbaatar?
### The answer is Mongolia. Its the capital city.
[Well, there was some confusion regarding the spelling, but I think this one
is the most widely used. The city was also known as Ulaanbaator, Ulan Bator, and
Urga.
But I have accepted all the spellings. ] ###
3) Until 1969, there were 5 categories in which the Nobel prize was awarded.
Name the 6th category which was added.
### It is Economics, or Economic Science.
[ Prize funded by the Bank Of Sweden ] ###
4) How are "Erythrocytes" better known as?
### Red Blood Corpuscles ###
5) Name the lady player against whom Steffi Graf played her last and final pro
career tennis match ?
### It was against Lindsay Davenport Of the U.S., in the 1999 finals in
Wimbledon. ##
6) _____ ___ states that at constant temperature, the current flowing through
a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across its
ends. Please fill in the blanks.
### Ohm's Law ###
7) Lord Melchett is the head of which international organisation?
### Greenpeace ###
8) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
From which of Shakespeare's works has this been taken?
### As You Like It
[ I also accepted "The Seven Stages Of Man" ] ###
9) Apart from being actresses, what links Tabu, Kate Winslet, Aishwarya Rai
and Emma Thompson?
[ Hint: The link has to do something with one of the movies they acted in.
You know, the characters they played. ]
### All have played characters in movies based on Jane Austen's "Sense And
Sensibility".
Thompson and Winslet played the role (of the 2 sisters) in the English version
,directed by Ang Lee, named after the book itself.
Tabu and Rai played the roles in the (somewhat modernised) Tamil version,
directed by Rajiv Menon, and entitled "Kandukondein Kandukondein ".
[ I have accepted all the answers with atleast one of the key-words ] ###
10) This "dedication" has been taken from a famous book. Identify the book.
" For Mary *** who grew me up. Who taught me to say 'excuse me' before
interrupting her in Public. Who loved me enough to let me go. For LKC, who, like
me, survived."
[ the *** is because revealing that would be tooooooo much of a hint. ]
### The book is The God Of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. The *** was
Roy.(although I didn't want that answer, many ppl did answer that too)
And now for the scores:
10 pts
Harvinder_SinghRayat ( the only person to max the quiz ). Congrats!!!
9 pts
Mahesh Nair ( missed only the 5th question ) . Congrats!!!
8.5 pts Congrats!!!
BALASUBRAMANIAN K.
ramnarayan.s@...
Neel Sen
Anand Sivashankar
8 pts Congrats!!!
Manish Kathuria
Subramanian, Ravi
Balakrishnan
7.5 pts Congrats!!!
SUJITH VIJAY
anuradha rana
Mahesh_Venugopalan
K S Prakash
manoj john
G.Vidhyashankar
harivs
7 pts Congrats!!!
Samanth Subramanian
Shankar Swaminathan
Siddarth Ravindran
Shiv Kumar
After this, the marks are not in any particular order, just in the order which
I received them
( Please bear with me )
Jeffrey Alapatt : 6 pts.
The Red Herring : 3 pts.
Pradeep R : 3.5 pts.
Sunil Pandey : 3 pts.
Aditya.R : 5 pts.
Amit Ranade : 4.5 pts.
Piyush Raithatha : 2 pts.
Jeedigunta, Vijay : 3 pts.
Ryan Michigan : 4 pts.
Arun Jagannathan : 3.5 pts.
Anand Chandrasekar : 4 pts.
jvd dvj : 5.5 pts.
Siddarth Kumar : 4 pts.
deepa_narayanan : 3 pts.
PSRIRAM : 5 pts.
Anoop_Mehendale : 2 pts.
Umesh Krishnan.U : 3.5 pts.
R VENKATARAMANAN : 6 pts.
Satapathy, Tapas Ranjan : 2.5 pts.
jyothiprakash rao : 3 pts.
Avinash : 3.5 pts.
R.Shantaram : 6.5 pts.
dominic d'souza : 3.5 pts.
vibhendu tewari : 6 pts.
P Vidyadhara : 4 pts.
deepak.baranwal@... : 1 pt.
Vishal Mago : 3 pts.
Devarajan : 4 pts.
Ashish Asthana : 4.5 pts.
Rajib Acharya : 6 pts.
Nikhil Mohta : 3 pts.
Vidya Murthy : 6.5 pts.
prabhat maheshwari : 2 pts.
SURESH_RAO : 3 pts.
Vinithbc : 4 pts.
Ramacharan Sundararaman : 4 pts.
subramanian.k : 3 pts.
Raghunath S Iyer : 4.5 pts.
sabyasachi majumdar : 6 pts.
rohith rajagopal : 4 pts.
samrat sengupta : 5.5 pts.
MANJULA S : 4 pts.
narayan iyer : 5 pts.
Hitanshu Gandhi : 4 pts.
Swaroop Venkatesh : 4 pts.
shantanu dey : 3 pts.
Rahul Gehani : 4 pts.
Arvind Ramanan : 4 pts.
Nilanshuk Haldar : 4 pts.
Vijay Shanbhag : 4.5 pts.
VINEET VIRMANI : 3 pts.
Anoop Bhat : 6 pts.
Satish Burli : 5 pts.
mausami prasad : 3.5 pts.
Husain Poonawala : 4 pts.
navin giles : 3 pts.
Hirak "Maverick" Parikh : 5.5 pts.
Anirudha Hatwalne : 1 pts.
HasanP : 4 pts.
R.Srinivasan : 6 pts.
The Mad Economist : 6.5 pts.
vijay bhat : 2.5 pts.
Krishnan Sriram : 4 pts.
Sanjay_Gadhalay : 5.5 pts.
Ajay Shenoy : 2 pts.
Jaideep Chowdhary : 2 pts.
sumant : 5.5 pts.
Rajarshi Gupta : 3 pts.
Vijay_Thomas : 4 pts.
Pinaki Chakrabarti : 5.5 pts.
maddy chella : 6.5 pts.
Shardul Deo : 3 pts.
Gautam_Ghosh : 1 pt.
gaurav sabnis : 3 pts.
satishP@... : 4 pts.
Dilip Avadhani : 5.5 pts.
Sudhanshu.Deshpande@... : 3 pts.
B.V.Harish Kumar : 4 pts.
smitha : 6.5 pts.
Mathew, Jackson X : 4 pts.
Deepak : 5 pts.
Vivek Kumar : 6 pts.
debashri sengupta : 3 pts.
Santanu Aich : 2 pts.
suresh : 3 pts.
debanuj chakrabarty : 4.5 pts.
vyass@... : 3 pts.
Madhu.Kaushik@... : 5 pts.
Rajesh Panicker : 4 pts.
v.kannaniyer@... : 4 pts.
vikas kulai : 3 pts.
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel : 5 pts.
Yogesh Mali : 2 pts.
Congratulations to each and every one of you. Thank you for your active
participation.
My next quiz will be a theme quiz, but it will take a little time. So till
then, bye and take care.
Regards,
Nikhil HariKrishnan.
P.S. : It turns out that most of you guys are fans of Aishwarya's huh?!? All
the wrong answers I got for Q.9) were all based on roles played by her in other
movies (eg:, "All have played a political character", etc. ). Also, one answer
was that all their b'days fall in the month of November. Well, as it turns out,
Aish's and Tabu's do fall in November, but not the other two. Anyway, good
try!!! Bye!!!
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Hi all,
Thanks for your overwhelming response.I got about 65 mails last week. Here are
the answers(with #) and the scores are given at last.
Please don't mind if I miss any name.
I've also got many mails from the new egroups quiz community
qcds@... to all of u.
1.What is unique about the film 'Rukmabati ki Haveli'?
# Actually only femmales lived in that Haveli.
(I've also given point to those who have written all the charecters in the
movie were females)
2.Sulabh Complexes in India are the cocept of which Indian?
# Dr. Vindeshwari Pathak
(Cracked by most of you.Some other interesting answers were Maneka Gandhi,Mother
Teresa,...........)
3.Who presented the Lifetime Achievement Oscar to Satyajit Ray?(virtually-b'coz
Ray was admitted in a Calcutta Hospital)
# Audrey(Catherine) Hepburn
(Satyajit Ray was asked by the award committee to chose the person.He choose
Audrey Hepburn. Other interesting answers were Jyoti Basu,Mother
Teresa,President Venkatraman)
4. Who were the 'Heroine Mothers' in Soviet Union?
# Mothers of 10 or more children.
(It was a prize made of gold,silver and red enamel , instituted in 1944
Courtsey:Anirudha Bhattacharjee. No points to those who haven't mentioned the
exact number)
Some more funda from Hitanshu Gandhi:
here is an excerpt from a romanian website i once scoured for a project about
this..
Birth Control
Perhaps the most appalling policies were those introduced to "boost" the
population. Abortion and Contraception were abolished and all women in
factories subjected to monthly gynaecological examinations to ensure that the
laws were obeyed. From 1983 it became the duty of every woman to produce a
minimum of 5 children. Childless and unmarried women were subjected to higher
taxes whilst women producing larger numbers of offspring were declared
"Heroine Mothers". The results are well known - the unwanted children of the
orphanages and horrific deaths from back street abortions
5. Who is a Cruciverbalist?
# An expert in solving Crossword Puzzles
(Samrat, & Anindya mentioned that 'IT'S A COMPUTER PROGRAM TO SOLVE
CROSSWORDS'.Some also mentioned that crossword developers are
cruciverbalists.I've given 1 point to all of them........... I'm tooooooooo
generous :-) )
6. What is 'Trishkadekaphobia'?
# Fear of number 13
(Cracked by most of u. Anirudha have an interesting funda 'fear of drinking
vodka ???'
7. Which famous Indian Classic Musician have acted in film 'Heat and Dust'?
# Zakir Hussain
(Cracked by most.Next popular answer was Pt. Ravishankar)
8. 'Flower top' and 'Crown top' are the varieties of what ?
# Post Boxes (None gave the correct answer)
9. Which youngster is known as 'Don's clone'?
# No Sachin Tendulkar was the popular choice.But it's Abhishek Bachchan.
(Don is not Bradman but the Big'B.Only Neetu and Neel gave the correct
answer.Greaaaaaaaaaaat)
10. Which actreess' face was plastered on the A-Bomb dropped in Hiroshima?
# Rita Hayworth
(Cracked by most of u)
Now the scores:
10's
9's
8's
Ravi Subramanian (Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
7's
Anindya S.Ray
Harivs
Avijit Chaudhuri
Ranadeep Dutta Gupta
Bhargab Dutta
6's
Jeffrey Alapatt
Anirudha Bhattacharjee
Prateep Sarkar
Anirban Rahut
Vivek Kumar
Neel Sen
5's
shreyas@...
Siddhartha Roychowdhury
Jagdish Kumar
Harvinder SinghRayat
Vibhendu Tewari
Faridur Rahman Choudhury
Mahesh Nair
Vikram Vasu
Madhu Kaushik
Anindya Bhattacharya
Rupkumar Mitra
4.5's
Seema Ramnarayan
4's
Balasubramaniam, Chaithanya
Arun Jagannathan
Neetu R
Udayan Chakrabarti
Hitanshu Gandhi
Suresh Ramasubramanian
Narayan Iyer
Aseem Mudbidri
Deepak Chandran
Atul. R
Gorachand Goswami
3's
Upasana
Shiladitya Basu
Prasenjit Sengupta
Amit Pandey
S.V.Sriram
Manjula.S
Deepak AR
Anoop Bhat
Satish Pai
Samrat Sengupta
MJ Pawnday
Akshay Pundle
Guru Prasad
Shantanu Sapru
2.5's
Shantanu Dey
2's
Rohith Rajagopal
Tapas Ranjan Satapathy
Rohith Sadagle
Anoop Mehendale
Vijay Shanbhag
Piyush Raithatha
Shankar Swaminathan
Nilanshuk Haldar
Satish .T
1's
Sunil Pandey
Jayant Vishnu
Rajesh Panicker
Ajay Shenay
Krishna Nataraj Muthu
Shardul Deo
Happy Quizzing.
Santanu
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Hi all,
Sorry for some errors in my mixed bag quiz.
Sandeep Banerjee have correctly pointed out that Katherine and Audrey Hepburn
are two entirely different people .Actually Audrey's name was Edda Kathleen van
Heemstra Hepburn.Katherine Hepburn was also an hollywood actress long before
Audrey.I meant to say it will be Kathleen instead of Catherine.
Suresh Ramasubramanian also pointed out the mistake in the time stamp.It will be
15th Nov instead of 15th Aug.My computer settings was wrong at that time.
Thanks,
Santanu
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hi,
this is my third quiz on net and it is general.
send your answers and comments on or before 5th dec.
questions:
1)What is the revolutionary wireless technology,named
after 10th century danish ruler HARALD BLATAND whcih
could well catalyse the emergence of MOBILE INTERNET ?
2)"ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN","THE SEA BATH"," A DEMOLITION",
"WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY" AND "LADIES AND SOLDIERS
ON THE WHEELS".What am i talking?
(clue:an old hotel in bombay)
3)Many years ago,a cricket-obsessed boy in central calcutta had a wonderful
idea.He wrote to SIR BRADMAN
that he and his friends played a hard-fought tournament
with a difference.They played not on the lush maidan,
but street cricket in calcutta's narrow gullies.The boy
asked the DON whether their tourney could be named
'BRADMAN CUP' and was lucky enough to get the permission,wishes and a photo with
HIS autograph on it.
Name the boy who had later got the distinction as one
of the gifted cricket writers from INDIA?
4)"I DON'T THINK ANYONE HAS COME TO ANY HARM FROM D.N.A. . INFACT, THE ONLY
PERSON IT HAS HARMED IS CLINTON".Who said these words?
5)What is the ISRO's commercial arm which is already
selling SPACE images to the world?
6)In 1870,pilgrims enroute to a rama temple in ANDHRA
PRADESH had lit fire to prepare their meal.One of the
supports of a cooking vessel caught fire and the incident was reported to the
BRITISH. DR.WILLIAM KING,
a geologist confirmed the deposits of coal in GODAVARI
VALLEY.A company was formed with it's script registered in LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
and later rechristened SINGARENI COLLERIES COMPANY.What is the
original name of SCC?
7)What's the brainchild of RIPPON KAPOOR which came into existence in 1979 and
is one of the most respected
welfare organisations around the world?
bye,
P.B.S.SRINIVAS,
II SEMESTER,
M.C.A.,
CUSAT,COCHIN-22
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