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..