Les Quizarables

Question #66

2010-05-08T22:23:00.001+05:30

Greek Mythology. He is the origin of an English word which means something that is mockingly out of reach. A chemical element which due to its difficulty of isolating the pure metal from the ore also got its name thus. Who is being depicted in the image below?

Question #65

2010-04-24T14:18:00.001+05:30

•Myths say this strange looking animal X was created by a Buddhist monk X at a mountainous village in Y. X ate a cow and a goat at the village. Urged by his followers to perform a miracle, he joined the head of a goat to the bones of the cow and created this divine animal.

•The myth gave this animal the status of the national animal of Y.

•There are four subspecies: A, B, C and Y.

•A recent census estimated the number of the A subspecies to be at only 1000. Its divine association did not protect it from hunters who kill it for its delicious meat.

Solve for X, Y and A. What are the other two subspecies?

Question #64

2010-04-11T01:43:00.002+05:30

What is so special about what he is saying? What is this effect known as?

Went uncracked!
Answer: The McGurk Effect which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. In this video, a visual /ga/ combined with an audio /ba/ is heard as /da/. Try closing your eyes and play the video again!

Question #63

2010-04-09T13:08:00.003+05:30

This is a zoomed in view of something. This was in the news recently for some obvious reasons. What is the hoopla all about?

Answered correctly by Nazar, vish and buckingfastard.

Answer: New Delhi in Islamabad. Kolkata in Bay of Bengal. Won’t they have a hoopla?

Question #62

2010-04-06T16:07:00.001+05:30

He provided scientists with an extraordinary window into the human brain and the nature of memory. Who is he? What is so special about him?

Answered correctly by Nihar, indian and mak

Answer: Kim Peek. The man who could recite whole books by heart but could not button his own shirt. He suffered from the Savant Syndrome.

Question #61

2010-04-05T17:56:00.001+05:30

Connect.
This question is a modified version of a question asked in our college's Inter Hall Quiz event. No originality claimed

Ans: These are Computer Chess. Deep Blue, Deep Thought, Junior and Hydra

Question #60

2010-04-04T01:38:00.001+05:30

What product developed by Sisi Yuan, Yiwu Qiu, Lei Zhao, Qiulei Huang, Lijun Zhang and Weihang Shu is being shown in the image below?

Answer: Fresh Code, Graphing the freshness level of food.

Answered correctly by all who tried.

Question #59

2010-03-26T11:04:00.001+05:30

Identify the fourth club and connect.

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Ans: Portsmouth FC

Question #57

2010-03-23T18:30:00.001+05:30

Answered by all who tried.
Ans: The book is 'Fire in the Valley' on which the movie- 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' is based.
The rivalry between Gates and Jobs

Question #56

2010-03-22T22:22:00.000+05:30

Where in India might you find this brand of confectionary?

Answered correctly by 5 people!

Answer: Tihar Jail

Question #55

2010-03-21T19:10:00.001+05:30

Connect

Ans: Deep Vein Thrombosis also known as Economic Class Syndrome

Question #54

2010-03-20T20:15:00.002+05:30

The Y Effect is a British and Japanese analogy for the economic success of the United Kingdom's finance industries, especially those in the City of London. The point of this analogy is that a national and international institution can be very successful even if they lack strong native competition.

London's financial industry saw tremedous growth in the 1980s but has been dominated mostly by foreign companies, especially American investment banks, rather than British firms.

The analogy has also been used in the business discourse of Japan, whose financial markets and other parts of the economy had not substantially opened up to foreign competition.

Identify Y.
Answered correctly by Mak and vish
Ans: Wimbledon Effect

Question #53

2010-03-19T23:29:00.001+05:30

In the midst of World War II he calculated, on the basis of positional probability, where enemy submarines might surface. Although he was merely a pawn, he helped "checkmate" the enemy. Who is he?

Answered correctly by Nihar, Mridul and mak

Answer: Reuben Fine

Question #52

2010-03-18T20:25:00.000+05:30

That is 3/4ths the logo. What is missing?

Answered correctly by all who tried.

Answer: This is the logo of One Laptop per Child. The laptop is missing.

Question #51

2010-03-17T18:56:00.003+05:30

After enough of sports and entertainment, its time to get bizzy.
Connect. Not Exhaustive

Cracked by vish.
Ans: These are companies acquired by Microsoft. Clockwise from top left, Aquantive, Groove Networks, Farecast, Powerset and Placeware.

Question #50

2010-03-16T21:00:00.002+05:30

Something about what is written on the right is very special to the fellow on the left (You might see him wearing that on his arm which I have blanked out). This is also used on some cellular telephones to gain access to hidden menus etc. What is it that connects all three?

Answered correctly by aviralshrivastava.
Answer: 786

Question #49

2010-03-15T22:45:00.002+05:30

Identify the device shown in the video. Why did it became so popular?

Ans: Its Kuo Cheng Hsieh's device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net. He won the Ig Noble Prize in Economics (2007) for this innovative device.

Question #48

2010-03-14T21:09:00.001+05:30

OK. So, Indians are very passionate about cricket. Here is another cricket question. Who is the fellow below? And why is he famous/infamous?

HINT: Even Tilak Raj or Malcolm Nash would be in awe of him.

Answered correctly by vish and aviralshrivastava.

Answer: This is Bert Vance. He conceded 77 runs in an over! You might consider looking up here for an interesting account of the incident.

Question #47

2010-03-13T20:59:00.001+05:30

No, this isn’t Photoshop. What is it? Give funda.

Answered correctly by Vish
Answer: Quoting Vish.
Philippine's Flag. The one at the bottom is the usual flag. If the red is displayed at top it means the country is at war.

Question #46

2010-03-12T22:41:00.002+05:30

It is said that the world’s first computer programmer was a woman. She was an apprentice to Charles Babbage and was a daughter of Lord Byron. Who is she?
Hint: A computer language is named after her.

Correctly answered by 10 people.

Answer: Ada Lovelace.

Question #45

2010-03-11T19:44:00.002+05:30

This type of bat has been in news recently and you will see more of it very soon.
What is this bat known as?

Cracked by Utsav, sattepesatta, Arun Mallya, Nazar.
Ans: It is known as "Mongoose bat" made specially for T-20 cricket. Matthew Hayden is supposed to use this bat in IPL 2010

Question #44

2010-03-10T16:54:00.004+05:30

Movie buffs, this one is for you.

0.5 point for getting the right connect and 0.5 point for cracking the second part.

1/2 points to Utsav and vish
Answer: The answer I was looking for was "Women who have won Academy Award for Best Actress as well as Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. The 4th being Sandra Bullock who won both these awards in the same year.Even Nicole Kidman has won Oscar as well as Razzies but she didn't win razzies for the Worst Actress"

Question #43

2010-03-09T20:00:00.001+05:30

Easy one. Antagonist and Protagonist?

Correctly answered by Aviral and Subhodeep.

Answer: Logorama

Question #42

2010-03-08T18:33:00.004+05:30

For cricket freaks

As I said I was looking for a very specific answer. Correct answer by vish
Answer: They are the first/only person to score centuries for 2 different countries in tests and ODI's respectively. The person on the left is Kepler Wessels who scored century for Australia and SA and the one on the right is Eoin Morgan who scored century each for Ireland and Bangladesh.

Question #41

2010-03-07T17:33:00.003+05:30

They are talking about a very famous holy war.Name it and give funda.

Cracked correctly by vish and Arun Mallya.
Ans: They are talking about the famous editor war, i.e holy war between Vi(m) and Emacs.