Q_rious

Quiz -21

2008-03-29T06:11:00.000-07:00

Q.1. Identify and put fundae .

Q.2.What incident is portrayed below. The incident and its aftermath are discussed in NCERT textbooks used and referenced widely throughout India.

Q.3. This work, an 1893 tempera, prompted its creator to write, “I painted the clouds like real blood. The colors are shrieking.” The figure in the foreground appears in the form of ectoplasm,with its arms bent upward and its head stripped bare of skin. Inspired by a hallucinatory experience suffered by the artist, identify the artist and the art work .

Q.4. Connect .

Q.5. On 6th July, 1535, a gentlemen condemned to die for high treason kissed his executioner on the cheek and joked with him that since his beard had done no wrong it did not deserve the axe. Laying his head on the block, he carefully made sure his beard would not be cut. Who went to his martyr's death so cheerfully?

Q.6.Below is the smart "Micro compact car“. It was designed primarily for urban use in European cities, where parking is scarce and fuel economy is of great importance .This was manufactured by which company in collaboration with Daimler AG ?

solve and submit the answer at pandagirija@gmail.com before the 26th April 9 pm with the subject answers to quiz 21 - date with your name. Then again next and results will be uploaded.

Happy Quizzing :)

quiz - 20

2008-01-30T11:13:00.000-08:00

Q.1.Identify the advertiser of this print ad. ( nice ad btw :P )

A. Mercedes S class ad

Q.2. easy one. Put fundae.

A. MGM lion roar recording

Q.3. Connect . ( recent)

A. sabeer bhatia ( nano city , arzoo, hotmail , tanya sharma )

Q.4. Another connect .( back to childhood :P)

A. london bridge is falling down

Q.5. Identify both . ( i love the stories :) )

A. alice and queen of hearts

Q.6. Identify .( the older version of something )

A. old spice

Results :

Indu -6
ronnie -5
suraj -2
sishir- 3
srihari -5
abhisek -4
raghunath -5
desktopdevil ( ??) -6
sarthak -6

Happy Quizzing [:)]

quiz 19...Q_rious is back

2007-12-21T04:27:00.000-08:00

Q.1.Explain the significance of this famous photograph.

Ans. The execution of Mussolini, his mistress, and others...their dead bodies were hung upside down for public display at Milan..

Q.2.Explain the blank space.

Ans. Ramnath Goenka’s famous blank editorial as a protest to press censorship imposed during the emergency in 1975.

Q.3.Fill in the blank

.

Ans.Steve(Steve Irwin).

Q.4.Identify and connect.

Ans. All 4 are the queens depicted in the pack of cards: judith, argine, rachel, pallas

Q.5. Connect. (a very specific one)

Ans.The six aircraft companies shortlisted for India's MRCA tender: Dassault (Rafale), EADS (Typhoon), Mikoyan (MiG-35), Saab, Boeing, Lockheed Martin.

Q.6. Connect.

Ans.Merrill Lynch

pic 1-"Wall Street Meat" is co-authored by Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch.
pic 2 ,3 -Jyotir aditya Scindia and Jack Ryan worked for Merrill Mynch
pic 4-John Thain , CEO of Merrill Lynch

Q.7. Again a connect.

Ans. "The battle of evermore " song

Scores :

Sarthak mishra -6
Pranav -3
Anubhav Chatarjee - 1
Varun Shenoy -1
Mihir Shah -4
Raj kamal .vasu -1
karan .s -2.5
Prahlad .s - 3
Shantanu -1
Rahul Raj -2
Mohit Modi -4
Gowathm -4
Rama nathan -5
SSK..(???) -1

quiz -18

2007-11-25T10:07:00.000-08:00

Q.1.Put Fundae.

Ans :Blair Witch project

You can see another such poster also.

Q.2. Connect.

Ans :The Count of MonteChristo

pic 1- Alexandre Dumas , the author
pic 2-Château d'If
pic 3-Statue of Abbé Faria next to the Old Secretariat in Panaji
pic 4-James Caviezel who did the role of jesus christ in "The Passion of the Christ" also played the role of Edmond Dantès in the 2002 movie "The Count of MonteChristo'

Q.3.These 5 siblings inspired something very famous. Put funda.

Ans: Saving Private Ryan.

They are the Sullivan brothers who all died during the same incident in World War II, the sinking of the light cruiser USS Juneau.As a direct result of the Sullivans' deaths, the U.S. War Department adopted the Sole Survivor Policy. So it inspired the movie "Saving Private Ryan"

Q.4.Connect.

Ans: Books by Thomas Harris on Hanibal Lecter

pic 1 - "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" painting by William Blake - inspired the book " Red Dragon"

pic2-In Voluptas Mors, 1951, photo by Philippe Halsman. Used in miniature in "The Silence of the Lambs" advertising poster.

pic 3- "Hannibal" ,the Carthaginian military commander

pic 4-Gaspard Ulliel who played the role of hannibal lecter in "Hannibal rising"

Q.5.Identify him

Ans: Seth Godin ( the "purple cow" fame)

Q.6.This monk is credited with the invention of a very famous drink. Identify the drink.

.

Ans: Champagne , the monk is "Dom Pierre Pérignon"

Q.7.Connect.

Ans : Famous ads by David Ogilvy

Q.8. Identify the sport.

Ans: Sepak Takraw

Q.9 .Connect.

Ans: AJAX

pic 1- Ajax ,the mythological Greek hero in trojan war

pic 2-AFC Ajax

pic 3-Google uses "AJAX" scripting language

Q.10. Connect.

Ans: Treaty of Park Avenue

The movie still shown is from the movie 15, Park Avenue. The pictures are of Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke.

The Asimov-Clarke Treaty of Park Avenue, put together as Asimov and Clarke were travelling down Park Avenue in New York while sharing a cab ride, stated that Asimov was required to insist that Arthur C. Clarke was the best Science Fiction writer in the world (reserving second best forhimself), while Clarke was required to insist that Isaac Asimov was the best Science writer in the world (reserving second best for himself)

Nice attempts were made and a lot of ppl participated. Kudos to all.

Scores:

Vineet -6
manas -4
Shovik-8
Sarthak-8
Shantanu-5
Rahul Raj -6
Srinivas -5
Adwait Prasad -4
Gowtham -5
Rama Nathan -8
Shivmani -6
Mohit Modi-6
Jolly Rover -4

Happy Quizzing.

quiz -17

2007-11-21T09:52:00.000-08:00

Q.1.This advertisement led to the foundation of a famous English word :p. What?

Ans :The word is "crap" and the ad is of "Thomas Crapper & Co. Ltd." in London.

Q.2.Identify.

Ans: The Ten Commandments

Q.3. Which famous incident is captured here ?? ( the man in the pic is one of the 100 most influential figure of century by TIME magazine)

Ans: Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. The most widely reproduced version of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener (Associated Press), from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile (800 m) away.

Q.4. Connect.

Ans : pic 1-the island "Iwo Jima"
pic 2-Clint Eastwood
pic 3-Ken Watanabe

Connect is "Letters from Iwo Jima" -the movie

Q.5.Connect ( Hint: They all are in chronological order )

Ans: pic 1-Oskar Schindler -Schindler's List

pic 2-Frank Abagnale Jr.-Catch Me If You Can
pic 3-Mehran Karimi Nasseri -The Terminal
pic 4-Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln
pic 5-Tintin

Connection is "these are the characters that inspired the movies of Steven Spielberg" ( tintin and lincoln are upcoming ones)

Q.6.Identify the missing company:

Ans: Citigroup Inc. ( all are in sequence A ,B ,C , D ,E ,F as their NYSE ticker)

Scores:

Amrit -6
Indu-3
Sarthak -5
Abhilash -4
Shantanu -3
rahul -4

quiz -16

2007-11-12T05:53:00.000-08:00

Sorry friends. Due to end sem exams and some other issuesi couldnt publish the answers. Publishing them now. enjoyyyy.

Q.1.identify

Answer: International Prototype Kilogram at House of Breteuil in Sèvres on the outskirts of Paris

Q.2.In preparation for an event for the great Pat Cash, a fourteen year-old player was arranged to play with him in a match. Cash was reluctant to play against such a unknown opponent, whom he believed to be a cakewalk and took this arranged match as an offence. In the end, he was surprised to find himself losing by a close margin .The 14year old boy is one of today's most celebrated sports persons. Who?

Answer: Rafeal Nadal

Q.3. Connect.

Answer: connection is Satyajit Ray.
Ray designed covers for many books, including Jim Corbett's Maneaters of Kumaon(pic -3), and Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India(pic 1).
The movie E.T. ( pic 2)is based on his story "Bankubabur Bandhu"

Scores:
Manas-2
Mohan-1
Indu-1
Madhu-2
Mousumi-1
Amrit-2

quiz -15

2007-11-09T11:03:00.000-08:00

Q.1.Identify.

Answer:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Q.2.Identify & Connect.

Answer: pic 1-Anakin Skywalker
pic 2- Industrial Light & Magic owned by George Lucas
pic 3-Tatawin ,a city in Southern Tunisia where soem parts of StarWars was shot

Conect is -StarWars ( anything related to it wil work)

Q.3.Wallops Flight facility at Wallops Island, Virginia is where a division of NASA's rocketry department is located. Here, the history and advancements in rocket sciences have been recorded in the form of paintings on the walls. What is the first painting on the wall?

Answer:Tipu sultan's army using rockets against the British army. Tipus Sultan was the 1st ever to have a rocketry division in his army.

Scores:

Mohan Srinivas -3
Madhu Srinivas -2
Indu -1
Sarthak- 2

quiz-14

2007-11-06T01:09:00.000-08:00

Q.1.Two theories try to explain the origin of this extremely common usage. According to the first, it came about during the printing of the appendix of Rene Descartes' classic treatise "La Geometries". While the text was being typeset the printer ran short of certain letters in the alphabet and therefore used a single alternative for all of them. The second theory claims that its usage alludes to the Arabic root word “shei” which stands for the unknown. What usage am I talking about?

Answer:Use of ‘x’ as the unknown in algebra

Q.2. Connect.

Answer: pic 1- Shirley Ardell Mason
pic 2- priyadarshan
pic 3-Rajani kant

Connection is the movie "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" (find how :p)

Q.3.Identify the brand from the logo on the headlight ( Its German..and amazingly beautiful)

Answer: Maybach

Scores:

Mousumi-1
Somjeet -2
Sarthak -3

Wish all of you a very happy Deepavali [:)]

quiz-13

2007-11-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

Q.1.Once Walt Disney took the Chinese government to court over a very serious copyright violation issue. However, on hearing their side of the story, not only did he decide to withdraw the case, out of sheer joy, he sent some artifacts from his personal collection to these authorities to help them out.What inspired the change of heart?

Answer: Actually Chinese government started building a theme park called DISNEYLAND. When Walt Disney got to know about it he sued them..but later the Chinese government officials showed that they din't know the meaning of DISNEYLAND and The entry for amusement park in the Chinese dictionary was DISNEYLAND. That made the heart change of Walt Disney.

Q.2. Connect all of them.

Answer: They are Marcus Carl Franklin, Christian Bale, Richard Gere,Ben Whishaw, Heath Ledger, and Cate Blanchett

all 6 actors are going to depict the role of Bob Dyaln in his biographical film " I'm Not There".

The connection is Bob Dyaln obviously..

Q.3. Connect the 3 pictures.

Answer: pic 1- The ARPANET team
pic 2-Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
pic 3-European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Connection is internet ( or WWW)

Scores:

Indu-1 ,Sarthak-2

quiz-12

2007-11-02T07:38:00.000-07:00

Q.1.Which famous law is being depicted in this mathematical formula?

Answer: The Murphy's Law

Q.2. What does this map depict?

Answer: Track of Tour de France

Q.3.“Born in 1953, I have over 90,000,000 brothers around the world. Born in 1962, I have over 75,000,000 sisters around the world.” Ad line for which brand?

Answer:SHARP..TV (1953) and Microwave Oven(1962)

Score:
It was an easy quiz :)

Amrit- 3
Indu- 3 - nxt time keep the order correct :P
Gowtham -2
Prashant-3
Neeraj-2
Deepak -2

quiz -11

2007-10-31T07:47:00.000-07:00

Q.1.What am i talking about??

No. of singers and musical groups: 8
No. of US presidents: 5
No. of movies: 5
No. of authors: 4
No. of actresses: 4
No. of novels: 3
No. of actors: 3
No. of astronauts: 2
No. of boxers: 4
No. of baseball players: 3
No. of health and medicinal references: 6 and so on...

The list is not exhaustive

Answer:The lyrics of 'We didn't start the fire' by Billy Joel

Q.2. This is the main entrance in to what?? The lines at the gate means " Work will set you
free”.

Answer:The gate of auschwitz ( Nazi concentration camp)

Q.3.Connect

Answer:Seven Samurai (directed by Akiro Kurosawa) was inspiration for sholay , bug's life and stephen king's ( pic 1) dark tower.

Scores:

Prashant-3
Indu-2
Manas- 1 ( 0.5 + 0.5 )

quiz -10

2007-10-29T05:17:00.000-07:00

Q.1. Agents from two countries are seen fighting here. Which are those two fictitious European countries?

Answer:
Syldavia and Borduria

Q.2.“Caught ______, Bowled ______ “ was the most common entry in Wisden's record books till "LBW Wasim Akram " replaced it.

Fill up the blanks.

Answer:"Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee"

Q.3. What significant achievement ( be specific) connects them ??

Answer:
"Battles of Panipat".

1st pic: Babur defeated Delhi sultan Ibrahim Lodi in 1st battle of Panipat

2nd pic: Akbar defeated Hemu in 2nd Battle of Panipat

3rd pic: Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated marathas in 3rd battle of Panipat

Scores:
manas-1
praneet-2
akshaya-3

quiz- 9

2007-10-26T11:25:00.000-07:00

Q.1.The person in the pic got into a controversy with a very famous firm for some reason. Name the person , the firm and the controversy.

Answer : The guy is “Mike Rowe” .He is a Canadian university student, notable for being the defendant in a lawsuit filed by Microsoft over the domain name "MikeRoweSoft.com“ ( as it sounded similar to microsoft.com). A settlement was agreed, with Rowe granting ownership of the domain in return for training and gifts from Microsoft.

Q.2.On all counts the vastly superior, Adlai Stevenson was widely expected to win the 1952 USA Presidential election hands down. However, based on a statistical analysis of pre-poll trends, only one source predicted (correctly, as it turned out later) that a huge surprise was on the cards and Dwight Eisenhower would win. Which was this source?

Answer: UNIVAC- the first commercially available computer in US

sorry guys , i repeated this question...:p

Q.3.Identify the man on the cover and tell why it is special ??

Answer: the guy is peter sellers ( pink panther). The speciality abt the pic is ..
he is the only male ever to appear on playboy cover page

Scores : ashish bhat-1
manas -1

happy quizzing :)

quiz-8

2007-10-24T04:01:00.000-07:00

Q.1.The Hindi movie ‘Jaane Bhi Do yaaron’ of course has the theme that 2 photographers watch the murder of a mayor of the city and click photographs. A classic movie of a very famous director is the source of inspiration, proof of which is the name of the park where the scene is supposed to be held. Which movie? Which all time great director?

Answer:Michelangelo Antonioni's " Blow Up "

Q.2.Identify the painting

Answer: "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans " by salvador dali

Q.3.Identify the inventor and his creation.

Answer: Jack Kilby with his famous invention "handheld calculator "

Scores:

Akshay Anantharaman -0.5
Ashish Bhat- 1
Rohit krishnan -0.5

Nice try guys :)

quiz -7

2007-10-22T05:37:00.000-07:00

Q.1. Identify What is being produced here

Answer: sandpaper by 3M

Q.2.Champawat,Muktesar, Panar, Talla Des, Chowgarh, Mohan, Kanda, Chuka etc were some of the more famous trophies added to his bag by a legend. What are these known together as and who was the legend ?

Answer: jim corbet ..and these r the tigers killed by him...collectively known as "maneaters of kumayun"

Q.3.What happened next? ( see the below pic)

Answer:Roberto Rojas in Brazil v Chile, World Cup qualifier, 3 September 1989. During the match a firework landed close to the Chilean goalkeeper Rojas, who then feigned injury. His team refused to continue the match (as they were down a goal at the time). The plot was discovered, and as a result Brazil were awarded the game, Chile were out of one World Cup and excluded from the next, Rojas was banned for life and the woman who threw the firecracker was signed up by Playboy Brazil. [:P]

quiz -6

2007-10-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry folks..
was out of the station for durga puja..
i m giving the answers and results now..

Q.1. Identify.

Answer:Blue Origin's logo ( founded by amazon Chief and founder jeff bezos)

Q.2.( a sitter) .Identify the corporate logo.

Answer: PepsiCo

Q.3.After the release of the movie, Rasputin and the Empress in 1932, the model for prince Natasha filed a lawsuit against MGM, claiming invasion of privacy. What resulted after this incident?

Answer: the trend of inserting the disclaimer"This motion picture is a work of fiction..." in the credits of everyfilm started after this lawsuit

results:

Amrit mishra -2
Ankit joshi-3
Rohit krishnan-2
Asutosh bhabe- 2.5

quiz- 5

2007-10-15T01:22:00.001-07:00

Q.1.Let me start with a story. The young entrepreneur took the unknown but promising band members to a one of his known restaurants in the neighborhood and finalized details of the deal over dinner for bringing out the band's first album under his recording company's label. After the dinner the owner of the restaurant treated them with complementary dash of marijuana joint. Next morning the band pulled out of the deal as they thought the new entrepreneur had bad intention and instead signed the rival label Polydor. The loss to the fledgling recording company was 500 million pound! Which was the band and who was the young entrepreneur?

Answer: band is "dire straits", entrepreneur is "richard branson"

Q.2.A acheived it in 1982. B achieved it in 1984. No one else has since been able to achieve it since. What?

A)

B)

Answer:
A) James Coco - 1982 - Nominated for both Oscar and Razzie for his performance in 'Only When I Laugh'
B) Amy Irving - 1984 - Same feat, this time for her act in 'Yentl'

Q.3. Connect the below 3 pictures.

Answer:

pic 1 - Blue Jay ,2– Mockingbird ,3- harper lee

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

connect is "to kill a mocking bird"

Scores: amrit-1

quiz-4

2007-10-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

Q.1. Connect the below 5 pics.

Answer: connect is Oliver stone

He made the following movies on the above charecters
The Doors (1991)
JFK (1991)
Nixon (1995)
Alexander (2004)
Born on the Fourth of July 1989 - on ron kovic (5th pic)

Q.2. On all counts the vastly superior, Adlai Stevenson was widely expected to win the 1952

USA

Presidential election hands down. However, based on a statistical analysis of pre-poll trends, only one source predicted (correctly, as it turned out later) that a huge surprise was on the cards and Dwight Eisenhower would win. Which was this source?

Answer: UNIVAC- first commercial computer available in US

Q.3. Connect the below 4 pics.

Answer -connect is J. R. R. Tolkien

pic 1-The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where the Inklings (the literary group in which tolkein was a member) met on Tuesday nights in 1939.

pic 2-Tolkien's monogram, and Tolkien Estate trademark.

pic 3-He worked for the Oxford English Dictionary

pic 4 -peter jackson -director of Lord of the rings trilogy

quiz-3

2007-10-12T13:57:00.000-07:00

Q.1. Which common character connects the below 3 authors.

Answer: pic 1-Dan brown 2- J K rowling 3- Paulo Coelho

connect is-Nicolas Flamel ( check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Flamel)

Q.2. Identify the famous duo.

Answer-William Hanna and Joseph Barbera of "tom and jerry" fame

Q.3. What is unique about the below picture.

Answer: national flag of Cyprus .The only national flag to have the country's map on it.

quiz-2

2007-10-11T10:21:00.000-07:00

1.Connect the below 4 pics (a very specific connect i want)

Answer: the pics are 1-chariots of fire
2-Hotel Ritz paris
3-sudhir naik , was caught shoplifting at harrods
4-George Cohen. Lone Englishman to win world cup soccer, Fulham could ever boast of.

connect is -Mohammed al Fayed. Dodi al Fayed (his son) co produced Chariots of Fire. Fulham, hotel ritz and Harrods are owned by Mohammed al Fayed.

2.Identify the group.

Answer - Indian Ocean band

3.This was a poster put up in 1978 explaining something. Who put it up and what is being explained?

" If it’s there and you can see it—it’s real

If it’s not there and you can see it—it’s virtual

If it’s there and you can’t see it—it’s transparent

If it’s not there and you can’t see it-you erased it! "

Answer- IBM's poster explaining the properties of RAM

Results:

Amrit mishra -2

quiz -1

2007-10-10T06:17:00.000-07:00

Q.1. A 1977 comic book published by marvel comics showcased them as superheroes. who??

Answer : The members of the band "KISS"

Q.2. Identify and connect

Answer: the pics are in order...1.Alexandre Dumas ...2.rene lacoste (called one of the four musketeers in his time)..3.The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) .their motto is One for all, and all for one same as the musketeers.

The connection is musketeers

Q.3. Identify.

Answer: this is the famous graffiti kilroy was here

scores:

amrit-1 , Vinesh- 2

happy quizzing

welcome

2007-10-10T06:11:00.000-07:00

This is my blog dedicated purely to quizzing..be it general .biz or sports and entertainment.. everyday 3 questions will b uploaded by me...solve and submit the answer at pandagirija@gmail.com before the next day 9 pm with the subject answers to quiz - date with your name. at 9 pm again 3 questions will b uploaded..and previous quiz results will be uploaded.
so guys hav fun and enjoy..