quiz -11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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