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