quiz - 20

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

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

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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

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.


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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

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