The Sports Quiz S02Q05

A luke warm response ..But nonetheless better than last week..

Question 1 : I started young at the age of 6.My Mom was the one who taught me .When i was young there used to be a show that would come in the afternoon around 1 or 2 .So My Mom would write down all the puzzles and we would solve them together.My mom never went to a club .However she had prior experience solving the puzzle with her brother.So we solved all the puzzles for over a month.The prize was a book that they gave to the winner.After so many puzzles they asked me to take all the books and stop sending any more entries.Who am I ?

Answer : Vishwanathan Anand talking about Chess and her mother's role in it .

Question2: Identify the Personality ..


Answer : Wilt Chamberlain after scoring 100 points in a NBA match.

Question 3 : Connect the Pics.


Answer : The pics are of Torino FC ,Manchester United and Zambia FA .The connection is "Tragic accidents in which Football teams were killed" .

Question 4 :Identify the beautiful location .Quite a famous one..

Answer : This is the Picturesque 18th hole at "The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews " .

Question 5 : It is regarded as one of the "Greatest Moment In Sports History" .Identify the Gymnast or just tell me what was the Moment..


Answer : The Gymnast is Kerry Strug .She is remembered for performing the vault despite having seriously injured her ankle, in order to clinch a gold medal in the women's team competition for the USA against Russia.

Question 6: Identify the Energy Sapping Stadium..Marvellous Architecture...[Hint : David..to Teddy...And Ole has won it...]

Answer : Allianz Arena , the home ground of Bayern Munich .

Question 7 : Identify the Mascot. And connect both the Pics..

Answer : The mascot is Baggu ,Mohun Bagan's Mascot. The Connect is Mohun Bagan Cricket Team ,which participates in tournaments organised by Cricket Authority Of Bengal ,was reprsented by Laxmipati Balaji,Chaminda Vass and Virat kohli in the season 2009-10.

Question 8 : Identify the Power-Packed Player..
Answer : Sir Garfield Sobers

Question 9 :The Poster and the DVD Cover of which famous Movie . Its a Sports Quiz..
Answer : The Hustler ..It frequently features in All time greatest Sports Movies..

Question 10 : Identify the Legend..
Answer : Jaspal Rana..Who won many a medals for India ..

Question 11: Harold Dennis had a passion for football.But a injury to his knee shortened his career . He then moved on to play his second favourite sport in which he bacame quite a famous personality, not as a player though..How do we better know him ?

Answer : The Charismatic Dickie Bird , Famous Cricket Umpire.

Question 12: Connect the 3 pics..And for once not related to football..Nor to singing in an Opening Ceremony..

Answer : The diving pool at Montjuic, with its breathtaking views of Barcelona, was used in the 1992 Olympics - and immortalised in Kylie's video for 'Slow' .

Question 13 : Identify the Trophy.


Answer : The Reliance Cricket World Cup Trophy ,1987.

Question 14 : Identify the Logo..

Answer : Its the new Logo of HockeyIndia.

Question 15 :Fantasy Cricket ??

Sehwag and Graeme would open..Ponting to come in next..Sahin 2nd down..Pietersen would do fine in 3rd down..Chanderpaul would provide stability..Dhoni would captain..Bhajji Would be turbanator..johnson,steyn & zaheer to be the Fast bowlers..

What am i talking about ?

Answer : The Wisden Dream Team XI for 2009.

And for the Scores :

Preetam Jena--14.5 (Winner of the Week)
Aswini --14
Ritwik (Sharp Shooters)--11
Mrutunjay--10.5
Kamal Rathi--8.5
Manas Sahoo--7
Saurav Mandal--6

The General Quiz S02Q04

Question1 : Identify the beautiful lady.Had i not blanked the guy it would have been a cakewalk.

Answer 1 . Sachin plot and his wife sarah-abdullah(sis of Omar Abdullah) .was in the news recently .

Question2:You would have seen a lot of such “illusions” like pic 1… so connect ..
Answer 2. Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. It is in contrast to his idea of normal science.

Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.

Question 3: Connect..

Answer 3.Ek ruka hua faisla - Pankaj kapur (father of shahid kapur),anu kapoor starred in it and it was the remake ot the movie 12 angry men whose still is the 3rd Pic.

Question 4 :An easy one. ID the AD.

Answer : Wonderbra..... look at y this gal is keepng her bossoms away from d guy... Every ad of this brand will never feature the bossoms rather the ad part.Ever intelligent ads.


Question 5 :Idenfity and Connect. Please explain the connection.

Answer :Lisa marie presley.. exwife of Jackson, Quincy Jones ..Producer of Thriller n thriller video.. connection is MJ

Question 6 : Identify both and Connect to a personality


Answer :Shepard Fairey with his famous HOPE painting during the campaign of Obama and pepsi logo with "CHANGE" campaign for Obama..connect obama .. "HOPE" and"CHANGE" famous campaigns for OBAMA.

Question 7 :Connect ..and explain why is this kid so famous?


Answer : Connection Dreamworks .. Steven Spielberg in ET ..he is one of the founding members of Dreamworks. The left pic is of artist Robert Hunt and his son Williams(who became the model for the boy on the moon)

Question 8: Identify the caricature ..
Answer : Its a caricature of 'Charles Darwin and the missing link'. Hint was the broken chain

Question 9 :Identify the bearded person .. and Connect to the man in the extreme left.
Answer : Francis Ford Copola...and mario puzo. This letter is wrriten by mario puzo to Mr Brando covincing him for his role for "The Godfather

Question 10 :Easy 1 ..Connect ..well I have to filter it out it took time ?

Answer : The Brocode... This scene is the violation of brocode.. when Barney sleeps with Ted's ex-GF Robin

Question 11 : Connect the 4 Pics.


Answer :Holly Valance .. She gav her guest apearnces in Prison Brk seaso2.. the 1st pic a scene of it. ,Kambakth Ishq and Taken guest apperaces

Scores :

Manas sahoo - 6/11

Deepak --5/11

Amit -- 5/11

Sushil-- 4/11

Faster ones...S02Q03

Each n every question is workable here,use ur grey matter answer is in the question itself...

1...Identify the ad

Ans...Viagara.The old man and the lady at a very suggestive position.Now u know what I am talking about.

2...Ad for???

Ans...Absolut Yoga...Notice the excercise mat and the bottle with its head down???

3...Whats da ad???
Ans...Eno...Self explanatory

4...Ad for???

Ans...Burger King..Now u know where Ronald goes after he is done with posing for snaps in McDonalds

5...Whats special about it???

Ans...Notice the voluptuos body...Its the Virgin cola 500 ml pet...Its specially designed keeping in mind Pamela Anderson Lee's assests.

6...Why is this pair of glasses famous???
Ans...Its nt Mahatma Gandhi its John Lennon's.



7...Ad for???

Ans...Nintendo

8...Ad for???


Ans...Peter England, for the soccer world cup

9...Ad for???

Ans....Harley Davidson...Look at the way the lad is positioned...The comfort of a HD it must be.

10...Whose ad and what was da occasion???

Ans...Well nt everyday a rival is in da ad...But on this day it had to be there..Pepsi on April Fool's Day

Scoreboard...
Aswini...9
Deepak...9
Gautam...7

The E Quiz S02Q02

Question 1 :

What fills into the Rank 1 ? Quite a craze these days!!

Answer : Twitter.Com . Ranking based on the fastest growin member community .

Question 2 : Exception handling..Well what are these guys posing infront ?


Answer : Muhammad Ali's star (Hollywood Walk Of Fame)is placed on the Walls of Kodak Theatre ,due to Ali's request that he not be walked on.


Question3 : Whose Ad ?(Do you know who you are??)


Answer : HardRock

Question 4 : This T-shirt came around May 2008 after something "Special" happened . If you know Russian then its a cake-walk..And yes its related to sports..what event gave birth to this T-shirt ??

Answer : Manchester United Wins "Russian-Roulette" Champions League Final after beating Chelsea in Penalties..This gave birth to this T-shirt

Question 5 : Which company gave away its signature logo to promote the product ? The company or the Ad would be enough..

Answer : Nike gave away its traditional Swoosh for the Air Jordan .Now it is being sold by Jordan Brand, a sub group of Nike.

Question 6 :Id the Logo ..
Answer : Time to Move On.. Fastrack .

Question 7 : Who am I ? ..I know you guys know me very well..You guys controlled my moves everytime..

Answer :Super Mario .He started off his career as a Carpenter .Then he became a plubmer.He has to save Princess Peach . His enemy shown here is Bowser.

Question 8 :Where would you find this? or When would you find this?
Answer : Technical Problem at Twitter.com


Question 9 :Just Complete the equation.. [P.S--Parental Guidance advised]
Answer : Marlyn Monroe + Charles Manson ------ > Marlyn Manson

Question10 :Id the little girl..She almost won "It" in the year 2006.
Answer : She is Abigail Breslin .

Question 11 : Not a single connect until now..Well you have it here..
Answer : The use of a Biased Coin by both (AB as Jai in Sholay and Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face in The Dark Knight ).

And the Scores :

Manas---9
MPS-8
Debashis -6
ritwitk-9.5 (Great score for someone as young as you..)
ashwini-11

So Ashwini is the winner for this week too ..Congrats Ashwini..You get Free Publicity for one more week .

The General Quiz S02Q01

A Good response to the 1st Quiz this season...I would request People to please mail answers and not tell them to QM on Gtalk and be satisfied..We would be giving the "Season Winner" a Great Award..Weekly Winner would be getting "Free Publicity" at the Blog..

1 .What is missing in the Pic ? Identify who would fit in the Place of the Question Mark ?
[P.S-A High five to all who answer this..]


Answer : Borat . All the characters are played by Sacha Baron Cohen namely Ali G (RESPECT!) ,Borat and Bruno..
2 . Identify the movie.


Answer : Bodyline ..Had to feature with the Ashes starting this week.

3.This is not an exhaustive list . What special privilege that these people are entitled ?

Answer : The people shown above are exepmt from Frisking before boarding Flights in India . Apart from the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister, former presidents, Lok Sabha Speaker, Cabinet Ministers, SC judges, it also includes Chiefs Ministers, Deputy CMs, ambassadors of foreign countries, high commissioners and their spouses, Cabinet Secretary, visiting foreign dignitaries, people protected by SPG and the Dalai Lama. Robert Vadra makes a entry into the list only when accompanying people protect by the SPG.

It has nothing to do with "Condom" Subrajit!!

4.Connect the 3 pics..Was in the news recently..Easy one .

Answer : Kodakchrome. Kodakchrome was recently taken off the market after 70 odd years in service . Some of the iconic images captured by it were Steven Mccury's Afghan Girl and the assasination of John F.Kennedy.

And nothing to do with number 30 as gagandeep said.."sharbat gula found at age 30; jfk shot at 12:30; a 3020 mm reel"

5. Whats "Special " About "The Cover" ?
Answer : Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx, a myth that states that individuals or teams who appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine will subsequently experience bad luck.
SI addressed their own opinions on the "alleged" cover jinx in a 2002 issue that featured a black cat on the cover.


6 . What connects the two completely different Acts ?

Answer : As someone said..it was a "crap" connect..Well may be..

The wrestlemania logo was inspired by 20th Century FOX logo and 21st century Fox was an album by Samantha Fox . How easy can one get ??

7. What is this Patent for ?

Answer : US patent 5255452, filed by Michael Jackson, described the anti-gravity lean used in the music video for "Smooth Criminal".


8 . Identify the Indian Mag.


Answer : Chandamama...

9. Where would you find these paintings ? [4 of them are shown below ]



Answer : You would find these and many more pics ON the Berlin Wall. Easy one..

10 a . Connect .

Answer: Scuderia Ferrari , the racing division of Ferrari.. Only Ferrari get 1/2 marks ..

10 b .Which company being the biggest "supporter " of 10a fails to get a "name-space for itself "due to EU laws ?

Answer: Marlboro ,despite being the biggest sponsor of Scuderia Ferrari cannot use its Logo for publicity as it is against the EU laws..What Crap!!
11. Connect the movies.


Answer : All the movies were inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's White Nights.Saawariya is ofcourse the most infamous one of them.

12. Answer .The Invisible Man.. :)

13 . What connects the Man (highlighted) to the Picture below it ?

Answer : Wisden . The man pointed in the picture above John Wisden who launched the "Wisden Cricketer's Almanack" .The 2nd Pic of Wisden 2008 cover featuring KP.

And for the scores :
Aswini--10.5
Preetam--9
Subrajit--7 (Rectified!!Sorry for the calculation error)
Anoop Vraj--8.5
Ayyapa Kancharla--2.5
Gagandeep Bhatia--6

Next Quiz in 2 -3 days time.. And BTW Congratulations to Aswini..Your gift hamper is on the way..[Hopefully it reaches you someday soon..]