Score-a-plenty Quiz..

A very poor response this time..

Q1 . This has been in the news recently with AajTak and IndiaTV calling it Breaking News everyday . Just Connect this pics for me...(Name the 3 pics and then the connection..)

Answer : 1st pic is of  'Majnun in the Wilderness' .2nd Pic is of the Album ,'Layla' (Eric clapton).3rd Pic is of map of Rajasthan .

The connection being ,"Laila and majnun were cremated in Rajasthan(officialy now)" made it big in the Breaking News sections..

Q2 . Connect the 1st pic with the other two..The 2nd and 3rd pics are quite childish i must say...

Answer : The cover of the TIME magazine featured the 1947 image of Einstein taken by American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman. It was during this photo session that Einstein spoke to Halsman of his despair over how his special theory of relativity and letter to Roosevelt led to the creation of the atomic bomb. It was at this point of immense sadness for Einstein that Halsman took the picture. Atom Bomb would also do...

Q3 .Identify the Group .They have been in the news recently and are quite a hit among Indians(Read Youth) ..

Answer : The Twilight players , featured in the Songs ,'O Pardesi ','Saali Khusi' from Dev D and made quite an impact with their Dance.

Q4. Identify the 6 Pics and Connect them..

Answer:Right to Left (Sabarmati Ashram(Ahmedabad),Howrah Bridge(Kolkatta),Gateway to bada imambra(Lucknow) , Bangalore Palace ,Lalbagh palace(Indore),Vasco da gama landed here(Kochi)...

Connection Indian Institutes of Management. Sorry i missed out Shillong.

Q5.Of Scams and Satyam..Connect the Pics..If you could identify the 3rd pic , the connection is a sitter..

Answer : The Rajus of Satyam and the Rajus of Nagarjuna group who were earlier touted as rivals were found culprits in the Satyam Scam after Morgan Stanley backed Out.The two companies have many joint ventures and have been taking people for a ride until when Morgan Stanley backed out and the whole networking between the two groups was made public.(Unconfirmed reports as the case is under jurisdiction...Answer as reported in Business World)

Q6. Whose Passport is it ? And no its not a country!!!

Answer : I was looking for European Union , but the cover page of the Passport is written in the language of the Country to which the Person belongs..This happened to be the European Union passport for Lithuania .So Lithuania is also correct.

Q7 . Manfred,Sid and Dieogo wud just jump at the sight!!Ice Age was actually here...Just identify the place for me..

Answer :This is the Niagra Falls completely Frozen off .

Q8 . Two diferent eras but the same plight ..Connect the two pics..the first pic has been doing the rounds in email/youtube since the recent american elections...

Answer : Heneritta Hughes and Florence Thompson…The faces of Economic Dpression 2008 and 1929 respectively .

Q9 .Connect the Pics again..Easy Connect..

Answer : 1st Pic is of the Hoover Dam .2nd pic is of e-Bay .3rd Pic is of 1976 Chevrolet Camaro .

Connection is the movie ,"Transformers " .

In the film's backstory, the Hoover Dam is built around the All Spark (which crash-landed in the Colorado River) to hide its energy signal from the Transformers. 

Witwicky's descendant Sam Witwicky intends to sell the glasses on eBay which was traced by Frenzy and Barricade.

Bumblebee,an autobot Scout is an 1976 Chevrolet Camaro which was bought by Sam.

Q10 Connect the two pics shown below.The second pic  has 25 stories in it!!!

Answer :  1st pic is of Steve Jobs .2nd Pic has 25 pics who are all alumni of IIM A who feature in the book Stay hungry Stay Foolish

Steve jobs used the Stay hungry Stay Foolish  as the closing statement in his famous speech at Stanford university.

Read it once if you havenot read it once.

Q11 . A trivial connect but a healthy(?) one...Connect the Pics again

Answer : Brands of cigarretes.:Navy cut,ultima cigarettes,Jaisalmer cigarettes,char minar.

Q12 . Identify the exhilirating sport never seen on Indian Television but all of us might have played it once in our life..And its not called Flying Disc!!

Answer : Ultimate freesbee or Ultimate

Q13 ..Connect the 4 Pics..we all have seen them in a different avatar..

Answer : Pics of King David,King Charles ,King Caesar,King Alexander .

Connection :Four Kings of a deck of Cards

Q14 ."Whats in the name??"But the connect is the Names..How does the names connect ??

Answer : This one was actually silly. 

Chicken Nuggets , The Bull , Jazz group , Fishing Net, A Rocket .

Connection: Nicknames of the Teams playing in the NBA . Denver Nuggets , Chicago Bulls , Utah Jazz, New Jersey Nets , Utah Jazz .

Q15 . Connect the Pics ..

Answer :Pics of Harvey Milk,Wladyslaw Szpilman ,Idi Amin ,Ray Charles ,Truman Capote . Last 5 Real characters portrayed by Oscar winning actors.

Q16 . This is actually a question that i came across in one of the quizzes..Whats missing in the Pic? 

Answer : The Godfather.

Q17 . Dry Weather Question...

Alicia Keys--> Zac Efron -->Bill Maher --> Kevin Kline --> Christopher Walken --> Cuba Gooding, Jr. --> Alan Arkin --> Joel Grey --> Eddie Murphy --> James Franco --> Seth Rogen --> Jessica Biel --> Natalie Portman -->  Ben Stiller (as Joaquin Phoenix) --> Jennifer Aniston --> Jack Black -->  Sarah Jessica Parker -->  Daniel Craig -->  Robert Pattinson -->   Amanda Seyfried -->  Tina Fey -->  Steve Martin -->  Whoopi Goldberg -->  Goldie Hawn -->  Anjelica Huston -->  Eva Marie Saint -->  Tilda Swinton -->  Will Smith -->  Reese Witherspoon -->  Sophia Loren -->  Shirley MacLaine -->  Marion Cotillard -->  Nicole Kidman -->  Halle Berry -->  Michael Douglas -->  Adrien Brody -->  Robert De Niro -->  Anthony Hopkins -->  Ben Kingsley -->  Steven Spielberg 

What is the list all about ?

Answer : Academy Award presenters for the  81st Academy Awards .

Scores:

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Preetam Jena---8.5

Praneet Gourav--11

kamal kiran--1

Ritwik kallandy--4.5

Anurag ---3.5

The 70mm Quiz

1...Name this famous city,manned by one of the greatest superheroes of all time.
ANS....Its the BATMAN land,The Gotham City.





2...Connect


Ans...."Oho Deepika Ji,aayiye aayiye"Remember the ad???
Connect is Deepika Chikalia the Sita of Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana.She used to endorse Nirma Super brand and was a MP from the Vadodara Constituency also.



3...Again connect

Ans..Connect is RUDYARD KIPLING The poster is of movie "WIMBLEDON".

In the entrance of the Wimbledon court there is a poem written at the top titled "IF" which is written by Sir Kipling and the characters of Talespin series were inspired from the Jungle Book authored by him.

4...Identify film personality who has a cult following.

Ans...Its Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Ed Wood). He was awarded as The worst Hollywood d irector and also a movie based on his character was made with Johny Depp playing him.

5...Connect

Ans...The lady is Kamini Kaushal and the man is Emilio Hernandez.They were the ones who posed for the Filmfare and Oscar Statuette respectively.

6...The two pics give clues on two famous characters who form one of the most famous pairs ever.

Ans...Girraffe the character from Madagascar was voiced by David Schwimmer who played Ross Geller in the hit sitcom FRIENDS.In the same series Jennifer Aniston playing Rachel worked for Ralph Lauren whose logo is in the LHS.So the connect is "ROSS and RACHEL" from FRIENDS.

7...Identify the ad.

Ans...Megastar Cineplex.

8...Connect

Ans...In the Bee movie there was a character based on Larry King,also the ugly step sister in the Shrek was voiced by him.Dory was voiced by Ellen Degeneres,Fast Tony the giant armadillo, played by Jay Leno in The Ice age.

So the connect all of them are famous Talkshow Hosts.

9...Identify this very illustrative lady.

Ans...Its Bhanu Athaiya the first Indian to get an oscar award.She won it for Costume designing for "Gandhi".

10...Connect

Ans...All of these are hints for the questions asked to Jamal Malik playing in KBC in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.From the top is Samuel Colt,Benjamin Franklin,Jack Hobbes,Yash Chopra(Director of Deewar),Surdas,Arun Govil(Played Rama in the Ramayana series) and the Three Musketeers.

11...UK born H.J.Richardson was awarded The Padma Shree awards in the late 2000s.Her biography was named Life and Times of a H-Bomb.Name this former bombshell.

Ans...The Queen of Cabaret....Helen

12...Sanjay Dutt had lauched a company and named it SON.What does it stand for???
Ans...Son Of Nargis

13...When it aired first Kyunki Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi credits ran a special thanks to Sachin Pilgaonkar.What made Ekta Kapoor thank him although he wasnt involved in the project in any way???
Ans...He had copyrighted the title "Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" but when Jeetendra insisted he could nt say no.

14...A former naxalite Gaurang got a national award for best actor in his debut film only.Name this immensly popular star???

Ans...Our very own Mithun da.

15...Bhojpuri film superstar Ravi Kishan once worked with Shah Rukh Khan.Name the movie???

Ans...Army

16...There is a hollywood movie named 'HIM'.What is its claim to fame???

Ans...Him was a pornographic movie produced for gay audiences. The film focused on a young gay man who developed an erotic fixation with the life of Jesus Christ. The film was virtually unknown until 1979, when it was cited in the book The Golden Turkey Awards, where it was listed as the "Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography."

Scoreboard:

Deepak Das...11

Manas Sahoo...7

Subhrajit Mishra...7

Rithwik Kallandy...6

Kamal Kiran...1

Dry-Fit

Dry weather is here so keeping up with nature shudnt the quiz b dry for a change.
So heres a new set straying from the trail of picture quizzes,a dry quiz.So send in the answer ASAP to preetam.jena@wipro.com

1...First published in Agra in 1869 and sold 2200 copies priced at 1 anna each.British Forcescracked down upon it calling it bazaar trash and Gandhiji said its filth in litterature,but still it sold more than any chronicles of truth.It was supposed to be called "Dil behlao" but later a different name was chosen,which still stands till date.
Ans..The 1st one is my fav question.Answer is MASTRAM.Its famous catchline was "MASTRAM masti mein,aag lagaye basti mein".Still its a widely circulated magazine in Delhi and UP.

2...Dr.Comfort and Lurid Revelations is a band.Quite an obscure one to that.But one of its band member is quite famous.Tell me who he is?
Ans...The easiest of the lot answered by almost all,thanks to google off course.Its the English spinner GRAEME SWANN.

3...Khuswant Singh was told about someone
"Had she even applied for a clerk's job she wouldnt have got it coz she wasnt even a matriculate...She couldnt fathom a woman more good looking than her at her near vicinity.She had even once insulted Gayatri Devi calling her a bitch and a glass doll."
For whome were these kind words for???
Ans...Who else but INDIRA GANDHI.

4...An honorary editor of British Royal Statistics once recounted"I recall hearing a commentator on radio saying surely someone could come up with something better and I soon realized that it was a Maths problem"What did he come up with???
Ans...Toughie here.Its Frank Duckworth off the Duckworth-Lewis method.Only Subhrajit could get it,good work pal.

5...Stating on the emotional moment of the last of its rolling out from factory,Its makers famously proclaimed that the product had lost relevance in this new age just like Volkswagen Beetle.Tilll date it has sold more than 10 million units.What products were they talking about?
Ans...Its the nostalgic CHETAK,HAMARA BAJAJ.

6... One Dr.B was once a very popular doctor in the remote and tribal areas for he healed people with locally found herbs.Working on the popularity of his home made medicines,He decided to venture into entrepreneurship and started his own company and named it taking the initials of what his patients used to call him.I want either the name of the company,the man or what his patients used to call him.
Ans...People used to call him DAKTAR BURMAN and from here he got his company's name DABUR.

7... Connect the authors;
H. Rider Haggard, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, Dante, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells.
Ans...These were the authors who penned some very beautiful novels and great heroes of their novels assembled in a film the film is called "THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN"

8... For which news agency does Sunil Gavaskar write his columns for.
Ans...Everyone reads him daily and noone knew.Go check the newspaper today.Its GAMEPLAN a news syndication company.

9... Nimbus 2001, Cleansweep 7s and Nimbus 2000 are some models available in market. Firebolt being the bestseller. Reebok got associated with it a while ago in marketing of some top of the line sports gear. Which sport are we talking about ?
Ans...Yes its QUIDDITCH.

10... The Metropolitan Motor Works is a gift to his son by his father.Identify?
Ans...Easy one to end the show.Its Rabindranath and Rathindranath Tagore.

The set was really difficult but still kudos to people for scoring really high here.Most of the questions I framed are straight out of articles in newspapers that i have read over the years so google wasnt off much help I guess.Anyways heres the scoreboard.

Subhrajit Mishra...6
Manas Sahoo...5
Deepak das...5
Pradeep Pati...4
Swayamprav Bhatta...3
Gagandeep Bhatia...3