Friday, November 7, 2008

Whats your Vision?

Well the response was luke warm..Blame it on the CAT ...

Send in your entries to deepakdondas@gmail.com before Tuesday Night..(11.11.2008)
Google wont be of much help....Jus Kiddin...

1. Identify the Sport.
Ans:Lacrosse

2. The Three superheroes came together for a special reason. What?
Ans:UNICEF



3.This was a very famous mail on the internet and people thought it was a joke. But it was found to be the contrary. What was the story?


Ans:GMAIL Soap .The soap apparently was an actual campaign done to promote Gmail's spam filtering might to Russian students.

4. Just tell me whats going on?


Ans:The crew of Apollo 11 in quarantine after returning to Earth, visited by Richard Nixon

5. The left image is the 3-D version of the pic on the right.The Oxygen atoms are denoted by red.The Nitrogen are denoted by Blue and the Sulphur is denoted by Yellow. Just tell me what is this chemical substance.

Ans:Viagra

6. Identify the 3 Pics and Connect them .

Ans:Millennium Dome, Chicago Bulls , Spring Board Diving Event

Connect -Microsoft Code Names for their Operating systems.Chicago (Windows 95), Millenium(Windows Me) , SpringBoard(Window XP SP2)..


7.What money spinning activity is this person attributed to? Or just identify him.
Ans: Ian Fleming, The Question Number was 7.(Subtle hint)

8. Whose logo is inspired by this japanese painting?
Ans: Firefox

9. Cannot be true!!But Someone ran an AD like this. Who ?

Ans: Pakistan International Airlines Ad..

10. Identify the three and Connect them .

Ans: Vauxhall,SAAB and Buick.
Connection GM Motors


11. Whose Ad is this?
Ans:
12.Identify the person and his claim to glory .
Ans:Navin Jindal, steel magnate. His claims to glory as indicative in this picture, its his winning the case for the cause of letting the Indians fly the Tricolour all the year round.

13. Connect the 3 Pics.


Ans: COnnection is PONG.

In first it's Roddick Vs Pong... Tennis player Andy Roddick starred in a 2006 commercial for American Express in which his opponent was Pong.
2nd pic is of Tele games Pong-IV,one of the many consoles that flooded the market in 1977.
3rd pic represents Pixar. In the Pixar Movie WALL-E, WALL-E attempts to play Pong with EVE, but she has already gone into standby mode.



14. Identify .Ans: Stupid Cupid by Archies .Wonder 14th feb is near by..

15. Again Identify. A sitter..
Ans: Emirates Group

16. Whose Print Ad is it ?


Ans:Maybach , With the famous Maybach SW 42 .



17. Three beautiful ladies. Just identify them and then connect .

Answers:

17.1 - Gilda, Rita Hayworth
17.2 - One Million Year BC, Raquel Welch
17.3 - The Seven Years Itch, Marilyn Monroe

Connection - Shawshank Redemption

Andy asks Red for a Rita Hayworth poster during a screening of Hayworth's film Gilda. The poster depicts a scene from that film. He eventually replaces the poster with one of Marilyn Monroe in her skirt blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch and later with Raquel Welch from One Million Years B.C.


18. What is missing in the Pic ? Or just tell me what was it for?

Ans: Award winning Ad for "Wear Helmets"


19. Identify.
Ans:Prison Break Season 4.

20. Identify the logo.
Ans: Rotten Tomatoes.

21. Identify the logo. Hint : It also forms a part of the connection in Q 6.


Ans:Fort Wayne Pistons now known as Detroit Pistons. Detroit is the Code-name for Windows 95 OSR2.(That was the hint..)

22. Connect the Pics.
Ans:
22.1 - Dark Knight Returns
22.2 - Thomas Bayes
22.3 - Formulae of IMDB Movie Rating
22.4 - Amazon Logo

Connection: IMDB is owned by Amazon . Dark Knight topeed the IMDB chart of all time top movie for a brief period (replacing Godfather) which created a big uproar. The rating is based on acturial science(Bayesian probability) .

23. Whose Ad is it?
Ans: Vicoria's Secret

24. Connect Again..(Identifying the pics would get you more score)

Ans:
24.1 - Time Magazine cover on fighting global warming (its only third time that the TIME mag has changed the color of its border)
24.3 - Holocaust as on Time mag, 1939. WHEN TIME NAMED HITLER MAN OF THE YEAR
for 1938, the cover showed "Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on." Hitler's hymn grew louder and louder as he led Nazi Germany toward his "final solution," the extermination of the Jewish people.
24.2 - Suharto Indonesia, the biggest polictical funds embezzler in the history of the world

Connection - TIME Magazine
25. Connect ..


Ans:
25.1 - NASA
25.2 - Jockey Logo
25.3 - U.S Service Men

Connection--Jockey...First underwear on the moon as a part of NASA cosmonauts’ kit for Apollo – 11 & America’s First official brand to be used by U.S. Servicemen.


And for the scores:

subrajit---11
manas--7.5
Vicky--9
Pradeep--8.5
preetam--12.5
kamal--18......Winner by a long way...
Sudeep-11.5

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Look beyond what u c



Guys just somethng for timepass since DAS aint puting up any new quiz....
So here are da rules...
U just need to identify 3 famous things from the pic(be it nethng dat u identify as 1 f da gr8st thngs in history) and go about adding it in the comments part...
Dats da rule...Lets c hw many v crack.