The Last Of the Quizzes for 2008...

Well , we had a great year of quizzing .And lets continue that...

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Q1. Where would you find this great piece of info?

Answer: How I Met Your Mother..

Q2. What does this pic depict?Hint : Peter Patrelli wishes it were not true.



Answer : Butterfly Effect
Q3.

Connect: Daytona, Memphis, Nashville and Impala

Answer : Microsoft Code names

Q4.

Guess the singer:

Jab bhi bajti chemistry class ki bell,
Main laga leta apne baalon main jell,
Miss ki aur Meri jum rahi thi chemistry,
I think hamare pyar ki ban rahi thi history,
But jaise hi physics ka period aaya,
Miss ne newton ka first law yaad dilaya,
what goes up must come down,
tab pata chala love is an abstract noun

Answer : Bheegi Billi of 9XM


Q5. A--
Answer:Special Edition DVD menus of the movie “MEMENTO”.. A sort of psychological test for users with leonard’s clues on it to solve it and access special features.

B --Originally the likes of Brad Pitt and Aaron Eckhart were considered for this position but it was later given to X. Identify X.

Answer : Guy Pearce

C--Connect A & B.

Answer :Guy Pearce plays the lead role in Memento.

Q6.Connect these beauties.

Answer: Bond Girls ..The First and the latest.

Q7.Identify the 3 Pics and connect them .
Answer : A. as-Suli’s diamond B. Knight’s Tour C. Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli

Q8.
Answer :Drew Barrymore. The 4 generations of the barrymore family starting with Maurice Barrymore then John barrymore then john drew barrymore and then Drew barrymore.

Q9.Identify the two movies and connect them .


Answer : A. It’s a wonderful life B. Sliding Doors Connect- All have the butterfly effect shown in them.
Q10.Identify the book (the picture on the cover gives a pretty good idea about the name)


Answer: Doctor Who -The Domino Effect by David Bishop

Q11.Identify the brand and the product.

Answer :Kellogs Corn Flakes

Q12. Connect them. (No real life connection as of now.)



Answer :Paul Dano plays the role of Dwayne who is a Nietzche fan in the movie “little miss sunshine” and Robert Forster plays Arthur petrelli in Heroes is a fan too in the series. In the pic he can be seen reading “thus spoke zarathustra”.. If some one can tell me what book was paul dano reading in the movie it will be gr8.

Q13.Identify this ..

Answer : The Grand Trunk Road

Q14 .What does this map depict?

Answer : The countries who are the members of CERN are in blue and those who are observers in red.

Q15. What is this?

Answer : The Globe of science and renovation at CERN.

Q16.What place is this??
Answer : CERN main site as seen from Switzerland.

**16(b)-- Connect Q 14,15 & 16 . : CERN

Q17 . What is so special about this aircraft ?


Answer : Lucky Lady II, a B-50 aircraft that was the first one to go around the world non-stop.

Q18.Connect the 3 pictures

Answer :The connect is the Crimean War. Balaclava from Battle of Balaclava. Cardigan from Lord Cardigan. Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of the pie chart to record casualties during the Crimean War.

Q19.Identify the persons and connect them ..
Answer : According to Steven Spielberg they are the inspiration for the face of E.T. (L to R) Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway and Albert Einstein .

Q20.Connect.
Answer : The connect is Atlanta Summer Olympics 1996. The guy in white is Richard Jewell. Jewell, working as a private security guard discovered a pipe bomb, alerted police, and helped to evacuate the area before it exploded, saving many people from injury or potential death. Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell later was considered a suspect. The Tennis player is Fernando Meligeni. He lost to Leander Paes in the bronze medal match in Atlanta.

Q21 . Identify the people shown and connect them.
Answer : The connection is directors making cameos in their own movies. Alfred Hitchcock in The Birds, Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver and Peter Jackson in The Lord of The Rings.

Q22.Identify the place ?
Answer :The place is Timbuktu in Mali

Q23.What famous line did he say?
Answer :“You deserve a break Today”

Q24.Whats' so special about this place?

Answer : Ushuaia in Argentina, considered the southernmost city in the world.

Q25. Identify.These are notes of what?

Answer :NOKIA tune

Q26.Identify the company the products of which are shown below ..

Answer : GE television and VCR.

QM's : scores n comments

Pritam-16
Deepak-25
Abhishek Sharma-5
Ritwick kallandy-7
Subhrajit Mishra-10

Funny points to note:
Ppl hv th8 tierra del fuego to be in north America while it is in south America
Kudos:
Kudos to pritam for the Crimean war connect
Kudos to subhrajit for q24 the directors who have played cameos in their movies connect
Kudos to Deepak for scoring so high..

Lo(go)n

Now that quiz master is busy with his B-Skul crap.Lets put in a filler.
Lets identify the logos here...Answer rowwise just like last time,submit answers as comments.
Just 1 row at a time.No matter how many u get just answer for 1 row.

Ziuq It..

Last week saw gr8 response to a gr8 Quiz by PJ..Well thanks to all...We appreciate your response everytime..But we would also like some QMs from among you guys...

Without much Ado , lets begin ....

Rules are Simple :
---Answer Completely or try and be as close to get full marks...(Wikipedia helps coz i lift the Pics directly from it..This time I am not..So Google would certainly help...)

---Send in you answers to deepakdondas@gmail.com ...before Tuesday Evening..(23/12/2008)


Q1. Identify the Airlines ..




Answer : Singapore Airlines..

2.The Four leaders came forward for the first time to star in a Ad.As it is very clear they had no idea they would be starring in it(They were all dead at the time)...Just tell me what is it that brought these leaders together..Answers that are remotely close are fine .

Answer : "Fur-wearers don’t have respect for life".Award winning print ad campaign for the animal rights association »Noah«. Each single ad was printed in German high-fashion magazines. [Anyone who has given Animal rights/Peta as answers is given full marks..]

Some Answers were :
---The Book "Saddam, Stalin, Hitler and History"?? [None other than Subrajit..]
---Gillette Shaving Kit Ad [By Abhishek..Nice one.]

3. Four historic places in the UK. Identifying them is not diffcult i hope..Just Connect the places or where would you find them all together at the same place at a given time.

Answer : Trafalgar Square , Kings' Cross Station , Marylebone Station , Liverpool Station ..You would find all these places in the Monopoly UK version..

4.A landmark picture that became the face of a landmark period in World History. What ??

Answer : The Great Depression... Dorothea Lange's photo Migrant Mother (1936) was the iconic image of the Great Depression..

5 . Identify the Writer .Quite a famous one this man is..

Answer : Fyodor Dostoevsky ... Indian Connection --> Movie Sawaariya was inspired by his short story ' White nights' .

6.A complex Math equation when plotted gives a graph that look like the Picture show below..It is named after an Indian GOD . Name the God or the graph.. Answer : Buddhabrot .It is a special rendering of the Mandelbrot set which, when traditionally oriented, resembles to some extent certain depictions of the Buddha .

7.Child's Play : Connect the 7 interative toys (They interact with the hosts on TV shows).Or rather who brought them into the market.


Answer : Microsoft . ActiMates were a series of interactive toys released by Microsoft in February, 1997, which were in the form of licensed dolls which could interact with certain episodes of their respective television series .Microsoft released seven characters including Arthur, his sister DW, the four Teletubbies and Barney.

8. Identify the Ad ...Some kind of Command Prompt errors but enough hint in them...


Answer : Absolut Vodka Ad .(Absolut Hacker).

Trojan Condoms???What an Idea by Gagan..

9. Identify the brand ..From its distinctive style of Advertisements..

Answer: Johhny Walker .

10 . Where have all the Goddesses gone ? Another great ad from an Indian Giant.. I want a specific answer for this one..


Answer : The ad from BIG BAZAAR for Womed's Day Bonanza..

Preetam answered "AXE" . Nice Guess..

11. "Not Every Connect is as simple as it seems " . Identify and Connect..[Hint : Names are more important than the actual entity...]


Answer : iPod Classic ,Cafe Coffee Day , Next , Smile, Recording Studio...All are channels from Zee TV.

12. Identify the Mascot of a Food-Chain . Its was sadly replaced though ..



Answer : McDonald's old mascot Speede..

13 . Identify the Man . He has shed lots of weight and looks quite in shape .


Answer : Bibendum ,The Michelin Man ..

14 . "How far would you go for your Love? "...Identify the Movie .


Answer : The Golden Globe Nominee , Slumdog Millionaire ..

15 . An easy One.. Connect the 3 Pics..
Answer : Connect is Shantaram .The Pentridge Prison is where Gregory David Roberts stayed, Johnny Depp playing shantaram in the movie, Leopold cafe was frequently visited by him and has got the special mention in the book.

16.After creating ripples in the Box-Office in "Finding Nemo " ,it is back to make a special appearance in the Quiz..Identify the kind of Fish.


Answer : Clownfish..

17 . Identify the rather famous painter.


Answer : CONGO ,The Chimpanzee . Quiz regulars must have come across this previously..

18 . Three Ads..All saying the same thing..The new age is slick and stylish ..While the old age is boring...Whose ad is it or which Product is it for?


Answer : The ad by Apple " PC v/s Mac" . Apple Mac is good enough for the marks..
19 . Not a connect actually because all are the same thing shown differently...What ?


Answer : Big Brother Versions in different Countries..


20 . Fun Ending : Whats missing in the 3rd pic??



Answer : Google Chrome..


The Scores for this week read as :

Soumya Kar----------11
Vicky Rout-----------6
MPS Das------------13
Gagandeep Bhatia---7
Preetam------------13
Subrajit--------------6
Manas---------------10
Abhishek sharma----4

This week's QM is Manas Sahoo .. Quiz to be uploaded soon...

Pot Pourri......

ANSWERS TO BE SENT ACROSS TO preetam.jena@wipro.com
1... A restaurant down under changed its older logo after demonstrations by the Indian diaspora. What was the controversy all about and name the restaurant also.The following is the later adapted logo.


Ans...Ballina-based curry franchise Handi Ghandi As per Tushar Gandhi ''It goes absolutely against all his beliefs.Using his image to sell beef curries and such doesn't gel." The company name Handi Ghandi was deliberately mis-spelt to differentiate it from Gandhi and later the image was changed.http://www.echonews.com/1125/index.html



2...Identify the man,who is credited for being the biggest influence in the advent of highrisers.

Ans...Elisha Graves Otis who invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke.Otis's invention increased public confidence in elevators, and enabled a building trend: the skyscraper.The company he founded became known as the Otis Elevator Company.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Graves_Otis

3...As usual an AMUL ad presenting something which was quite hot at that time.Tell me what does the ad represent.Hints are throughout the poster just as we know the amul ads as.

Ans....It was a tribute to the then trend of making remakes.Don,Gabbar n Umrao Jaan were the 1s depicted by the chracters."Deja view" & "The original Choice" in the poster were some intelligent hints.No marks given for only don as an answer.



4...Identify the vintage ad.


Ans...Amul chocolates.




5...1st store of a certain chain.Identify the chain.

Ans...Pizza Hut.The house here resembles a hut which might have been a hint.


6...Another vintage ad.Complete what the girl says n u ll get the brand being endorsed by the cricketer.(Not me,but my...)

Ans...BSA-SLR.It was Kapil Dev and he endorsed only 3 brands I think Palmolive,Boost and BSA-SLR.

7...Identify the occasion for the google doodle.

Ans...Leap year.The picture was that of a frog leap.

8...Adjoining picture is a report,Bill,declaration or a statement.Just let me know what this piece of paper signifies.

Ans...Bhagat Singh death statement.

9...Connect the two gentlemen.

Ans...TVS motors.Dhoni endorses TVS bikes n the left fellow is T.V.Sundaram.The founder of TVS.

10...Connect the following picture with PAMELA ANDERSON LEE.

Ans...During her final speech at the Comedy Central Roast, Anderson referred to her breasts as "Pancho and Lefty" Which is an album by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson whose cover is shown.

11...Famous lady lends her name to a very famous jargon used in a completely different domain to this lady's profession.Elaborate.

Ans...Bo Derek Stocks.A jargon used in stock market to describe a perfect stock or investment. Since in the 1979 hit movie "10", actress Bo Derek portrayed the "perfect woman", or "the perfect 10".

12...This map here suggest a route of some event.Just tell me what does the blue line represents.

Ans...Route followed in Around the World in Eighty Days by the French writer Jules Verne.

13...The picture down here is a very common n glutton inducing site.But it has something to do with sports.(Apart from forming the diet of sportsmen i.e.)

Ans...Fried Egg. Its a Golf term used when The ball lands in a sand bunker in golf, with at least half the ball under the level of the sand.The picture given was to represent the ideal situation.

14...Identify the personality.

Ans...He's the original "Man who sold the world" David Bowie.

15...A famous personality who was jailed during the Emergency chose to name his daughter after the Maintenance of Internal Security Act that he was booked under.Name the personality and his daughter ? Answer is in the question itself.

Hope noone uses google for this.

Ans...The intials of Maintenance of Internal Security Act gives us MISA which is the name of the daughter of Laloo Prasad Yadav.

16...Seems like a miniature oil tank carrier huh.Just tell me what is this instrument?

Ans...This is the Flight data recorder commonly known as Black Box.

17...Identify this rather famous brand.

Ans...Teen Spirit.The root of the Kurt Cobain number.

18...These were some illustrations by a famous personality meant to represent one of his creations.Just give me the name of the personality and the character or thing that it represented.

Ans...Designs created by Satyajit Ray for 'The Alien' a science fiction which was eventually cancelled, being produced by Columbia Pictures. The script was written by Ray in 1967, loosely based on Bankubabur Bandhu.When E.T. was produced in 1982 by the same company , many, including Arthur C. Clarke, saw striking similarities in the movie to Ray's earlier script - Ray discussed the collapse of the project in a 1980 Sight & Sound feature, with further details revealed by Ray's biographer Andrew Robinson (in The Inner Eye, 1989). Ray believed that Spielberg's film "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies."Spielberg denied this claim and said "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."

19...Son of a trapeze artist couple.Raised by a police officer.His original family is in Paris.His vital stats are Age : 19 Height : 5'11 Weight : 70Kgs.

Name this rather famous personality.

Ans...He is the king of desi comics SUPER COMMANDO DHRUV.

20..Identify the country the following national flag represent.

Ans...The Vatican City.

Response was amazing this time around.The scoreboard reads like this...

Pradeep Pati...14

Deepak Das...14

Sushanta Pathak...8

Hitesh Das...8(Some really good guesses.)

Manas Sahoo...7

Praneet Gourav Mishra...7

Subhrajit Mishra...6(Sorry for nt sending the notification.V ll take care next time around.)

Biswabikash Rout...6

Abhishek Sharma...3

Ashok Chandra...3

Rithwik Kallandy...2

Rocky Kumar...2

Malini Guha...1