The "maybe" tough QUIZ...

Hi folkz. Its quiz time again. Let us find out how tough these questions are. I am sure u will have a tough time. The questions marked * represent tie breakers.

Send all your answers to - akhi746@gmail.com.

Happy Quizzing !!!

Lets start:

1. Identify the place depicted here: (Hint: Think of places where people wait to get into.....Famous waiting place in USA....no more hints)


Ans: Chicago Union Station. Many ppl came close answering Grand Central NY..but as I say take a look at the ROOF b4 deciding.

2. Relate: (Hint: Think Jordan "Rude ass".....sorry for the use of vulgar words....)



Ans: The first is the logo of ROLAND. Valentino Rossi currently races for the fiat YAMAHA team. Jordan Rudess uses the KORG...All 3 in caps are manufacturers of msical instruments. Hence MUSIC was the link.

*3. Connect


Ans: The link is DANIEL PEARL. The first person is Sheikh Mubarak Ali Geelani the person whom Daniel Pearl was supposed to interview when he was abducted and murdered. The lady is Christiane Amanpour who is a member of the honorary board of THe Daniel Pearl Foundation. ALso narrated the HBO documentary on him. DOWJONES is the parent company which publishes Wall Street Jornal of which Pearl was the South Asian Bureau chief.

4. Connect (Hint: U can manage it without the image with 1851)


Ans: The connection is TITANIC. The old building on the left is the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, commonly known as Widener Library which commemorates Harry Eljins Widener, a 1907 Harvard graduate, who was a of the Titanic disaster. His mother, Eleanor Elkins, made a $3.5 million donation to Harvard University to build a library named after him.There is a legend at Harvard that in order to prevent what befell Widener from happening to another student, all students are required to prove that they can swim they are allowed to graduate at the behest of his mother. It is also believed that Widener's mother tried to get this rule imposed at the Hill School whose motto is shown. Leonardo Dicaprio acted in TITANIC.


5. What is the relation between: (Hint: What is the "probability" of u answering this?)

ax⁵ + bx⁴ + cx³ + dx² + ex + f = 0, where a ≠ 0

and the pictures:


Ans: The Relation is ABEL. Abel proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation(shown here) in radicals in 1823 (now referred to as the Abel Ruffini Theorem). The picture on left represents the Abel Prize - it has been described as the "mathematician's Nobel" prize by Keith Devlin and is among the most prestigious awards in mathematics. It comes with a monetary award, which in 2008 was US$1.2 million. It was awarded to SR Srinivasa Vardhan in 2007 “for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation”

6. This image represents an event - the only of its kind ever in the history of military combat(till
now). What am I talking about ? (Hint: It seems the frigate is sinking due to...............)


Ans: Torpedoes fired from a nuclear sumbarine(HMS Conquerer) during actual combat for the first and only time till now.

7. The sun's ____________ is about 3km whereas the same for the earth is about the size of a
peanut.

Ans: Schwarzchild radius

8. Identify this: (Hint: the language is the hint)


Ans: Logo of MOSSAD - Israel's secret service.

*9. Identify the duo (Hint: Just as popular as any u may know....Infact all of u know them...)


Ans: Robert Resnick and David Halliday [:)]

10. Whose logo? (Hint: The name has been erased. Also think sub-prime)


Ans: The Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA, also known as Ginnie Mae).

11. Identify this famous movie:


Ans: War and Peace(1968 - Russian movie). The most expensive movie made till date if inflation is taken into account.

12. Identify this picture: (Hint: Think "Hyper")


Ans: 1923 Weimar Republic Hyperinflation: A German woman feeding a stove with Papiermarks which burned longer than the amount of firewood people could buy with them.

*13. Just Identify: (Hint:Famous food joint...I wonder how many of u haven't heard of it)


Ans: Bikalananda Kar Rasagolla shop in Salepur.

14. Relate:


Ans: Kanishka. The headless statue is of the great Indian king Kanishka. Air India Flight 182 known as Emperor Kanishka was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal-London-Delhi route. On June 23, 1985 the Boeing 747 operating on the route was bombed over Irish airspace, killing all onboard. The only person convicted of involvement in the bombing is Inderjit Singh Reyat whose photo is shown on the right.

15. Identify:

a)

Ans: King Gillette - invented the safety razor.

b)
Ans: Evolution of Arsenal's crest over the years.

c)
Ans: The famous "dental floss maze" ad campaign run by Oral - B.

16. Connect 15 a), b) and c)

Ans: Gillette, Crest and Oral - B are all billion dollar brands of P&G.

17. Identify the famous lakes:

Ans: Rakshas Tal and Manasarovar lakes

*18. What does the map below represent? (Hint: Think of something India has and China
doesn't)


Ans: Penetration of iPhone 3g. No official carriers yet in China. Countries in yellow are those where it will be introduced by end of this year.

19. Identify the following:

a) (Hint: Achilles' heel of IAF for a long time)

Ans: Hawk AJT of BAE systems.

b) Head-quarters of ____________ (Hint: Think of a "Spirit")

Ans: Norhtorp Grumman Space agency.

c) Whose logo ?


Ans: Lockheed Martin

20. Connect 19 a), b) and c)

Ans: All three are part of the multibillion dollar Joint Strike Fighter (JSF - F -35 Lightning) defence program.

Due to lack of time, I have posted only answers here. I will evaluate and announce the winner s tomorrow. General response to this quiz was very "low". I got mailed answers from only 4 ppl.