Here be dragons

Identify and give funda

2008-09-13T12:13:00.000-07:00

What are these...?

2008-09-02T23:10:00.000-07:00

Mumbai:
14/32 2925
09/27 3445

Delhi:
10/28 3810
09/27 2813
11/29 4430

Kolkata:
01/19 2400
19/01 3627

Chennai:
07/25 3658
12/30 6708

Bangalore:
09/27 4120

Hyderabad:
09/27 4280

She's an uptown girl

2008-08-27T21:58:00.000-07:00

Give Funda:

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here

2008-08-21T10:51:00.000-07:00

1> IN late 2004, UK’s Total Film Magazine announced the results of their Best Movie Villain 2004 poll, where 10,000 movie fans voted and an unusual No.1 was chosen. Who?

2> Inspired by many critic’s complaints about the accents of the characters in his second movie, this director decided to counter the criticisms by creating a character that not only couldn’t be understood by the audience but the also couldn’t be understood by characters in the movie. Which movie and what character?

id this crazy conductor

2008-08-21T10:13:00.000-07:00

rahul

simply connect

2008-08-19T08:44:00.000-07:00

by Jakati: potentially the best quizzer in insti, but only if he could start turning up for quizzes......

Identify...

2008-08-18T11:01:00.000-07:00

Rahul

Cosa nostra busters

2008-08-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

Identify

-Rahul

One off question

2008-08-12T02:20:00.000-07:00

This blog has been dead too long... a one-off question to revive it...
Others please continue posting!

Identify and connect these three pics. I am looking for full funda.
(rot13 your answer)

~Chinmay.

P.S. It may be a sitter, but it was something interesting I stumbled upon.

visual connect

2008-02-23T09:30:00.000-08:00

visual connects

Q1 This one has been there in a few quizzes, should be simple

Q2. Connect ....give funda for all four.

Q3 Connect ...

--rahul

dry as a bone

2008-01-21T05:05:00.000-08:00

1) The name of the band D12 is short for the Dirty Dozen, but the band has only six members. What's the funda?

2) On Wednesday, May 13th, 1997, ABC aired an episode of "Dharma & Greg" in which the couple tries to have sex in public because everyone will be indoors doing something.

3) Srikanth - 0, Gavaskar - 0, Amarnath - 5, Patil -1, Yashpal - 9. With the first five wickets gone thus, yet historic match. How?

4) What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qualities of "durability, reliability and excellence"?

5) 'Stay in College/ Get the Knowledge/ Stay there till you're through/ If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread/ They can sure make something out of you!". This is doggerel written by a famous sports person. Who?

--rahul

set the ball rolling

2008-01-07T07:21:00.000-08:00

easy ones to start with

1. identify the occasions depicted by these amul adds
a.

b.
c.

2. give the name of the character and the character on which this is modeled.

3. Though he tried to be historically accurate, Ashutosh Gowarikar made one error in terms of a prevalent rule in cricket matches in those days.(Lagaan)
What rule?

4. give a specific connect between the two characters. Hint-It's a fake world, after all...

5.All of her first three movies(1970s) recieved an 'A' from the censor board.She got so pissed off that she dropped an 'a' from her surname to show her dissent and declared "I have donated the A to Censor Board!"-Which heroine.

--Rahul

Undisputed Attitude

2007-12-05T05:58:00.000-08:00

Four simple questions.

Answer in rot13 (http://www.rot13.com/) in the comments section.

- Vaibhav.

The questions:

1. The German government issued a set of regulations, effective April 1, 1905, which introduced three new conventions:

1. Ruhezeichen ("Cease-sending signal")
2. Suchzeichen ("Quest signal")
3. Notzeichen

How do we know Notzeichen better?

2. On March 18, 1995, a certain person issued a two-word press release: "I'm back." Name the person, and give funda.

3. Which site devoted to movie reviews takes its name from a practice of old time audiences on watching a play they didn't like?

4. Fill in the blanks.

McDonalds
Chinese army
US department of defense
_____________________
Walmart
National Health Service(UK)

A Single....

2007-11-13T06:50:00.000-08:00

Here's a single question - Connect........

A famous song by a very famous band 'X' features a chorus sung (or rather chanted) by a large number of people who were fans of 'Y', attending a stadium where Y 'performed'.

The song sung by the chorus is called 'Z' , which is the anthem of 'Y'........

X, Y, Z ?

I can give a hint if required.
Follow ROT13.

~Chinmay.....

sports time

2007-11-03T00:56:00.000-07:00

a sports quiz

should be easy to crack

1) What is depicted?

1923-. .42

24- .50

25- .29

26- .31

27- .37

28- .37

29- .30

30- .37

31- .34

32- .34

33- .33

34- .36

35- .32

36- .35

37- .35

38- .29

39- .14

2) CONNECT (EXHAUSTIVE)

Roberto Moreno, Nelson Piquet, Martin Brundle, Ricardo Patrese, Jos Verstappen, J.J. Lehto, Johnny Herbert, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Felipe Massa, Gachot, Moreno, Zanardi, De Cesaris

3) When the U.S delegation noticed that there was no American flag among the national flags for the opening ceremonies, they retorted in a certain manner which marked the birth of this certain exception in the opening ceremony which continues till date. Who was the athlete involved and what is the tradition?

4) look at the pic and try to guess what first did this player do and name him.

-rahul

Timepass

2007-10-25T01:52:00.000-07:00

Four easy questions

use rot 13
--Rahul

1 Who portraying whom and holding what?

2) What has been blanked out ? Its a name

3) Why is this pic significant in the history of cricket ? and who is the batsman ?

4) Connect

Saddam Hussein, Ayrton Senna, Daniel Pearl, Lee Harvey Oswald, Karl Wallenda- not an exhaustive list

mix quiz

2007-10-20T10:34:00.001-07:00

A short quiz

do use rot13 and yes pain Vaibhav for treats

1) X, a sportsperson, was and still is, known as Y in his native country. He took the name X only when he moved to the world stage. Another player( same country), who is known to the world as Y went by a nickname Z initially in order to avoid confusion with X. In 1996 Olympics X played as Y since another player named X, who was 2 years his senior, was also on the team.

2) Name the place.

3) give a connect.

nobody seems to be getting the third one so 1 hint-this fourth pic should make it simple

4) What specific thing would connect the following?

Kun Lun Mountains, Hunza Valley, Ojai Valley, Kham in Yunnan province, Lijiang Zhongdian, abandoned city of Tsaperang.

Note-Not an exhaustive list

-Rahul

Visual Quiz

2007-10-11T14:50:00.000-07:00

Visual Quiz

Try these out. Plenty of clues in the images.
Please follow the ROT13 rules....and a CCD treat assured for the winners..

1. Identify both of them. Funda or the approach is quite apparent in the image.

2. Identify both of them. importantly the person on the right...and he is NOT her dad..

3. Such images are custom made for quizzes...Identify both of them and the movie....

4. This is slightly tough...What recurring gag was inspired by these Belgian pirates...where have you seen four similarish people together...rack your brains...all of you have definitely come across them.

5. Which 'contemporary' fictional character is inspired from the protagonist of this comic strip. Try to match the features again....

Ciao!
Shibu

Bollywood Quiz

2007-10-06T08:28:00.000-07:00

Please leave your answers in the comments section encrypted in rot13 (www.rot13.com). Answers in a week.

- Samarth Mohan

1. Connect. (Hint: Someone plays a double role)

2. Connect:

a) The movie: ”The Fakir”

b) The music video: “Breathless” (Indian)

c) The movie: “Dil Chahta Hai”

3. Connect.

4. Connect the movies:

a) Jumai Shasthi

b) Bhakta Prahlad

c) Kalidass

5. Connect.

6. Connect.

7. Connect.

8. Most usually we hear of Hindi movies being “inspired” from English ones. But here is an example which has turned the situation on its head. A critically acclaimed English movie (8 academy nominations) was said to be inspired by a Hindi movie (which ironically wasn’t much of a hit itself).

Name both.

Pre-MidSem NBD Buster

2007-09-04T10:36:00.000-07:00

Trip for 2 to Aarey Milk Colony "Little Kashmir Boating Pond" for junta that crax all 5.
Trip for 1 to Sewri Industrial Estate for junta that crax 3-4 questions.
Trip for family to Chamko Detergent Factory (Vada-Pav Happy Meal included) at Kharghar for 1-2 ques.

Acceptance of prizes is mandatory and enforced :P

1. Connect

2. Connect us too!!

3. Question Mark?

4. Question Mark?

5. Identify her/his (GOD) father:

a.

b.

~Surdy

P.S. Answers encrypted in rot13 please

Sports Quiz

2007-08-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

Sports quiz this time.

All the questions in the first set of 8 are connected by a theme (Theme A). All the questions in the second set of 6 are connected by a theme (Theme B).

The catch – Themes A and B are also connected in some way. You could say that B is the inverse of A (again, in a way). Don’t worry too much about that, getting the themes is pretty easy. In fact, you’ll probably get them before many of the questions.

Please leave your answers in the comments section in rot13 (www.rot13.com).

Moderate googling is allowed for pic connects, but tell us if you did.

Answers in a week.

All questions were set by Rahul Gaur and I thought of the themes.

- Gaur and Vaibhav.

Set 1:

1. This tennis legend, born to a Labour MP, showcased his talents at Wimbledon before turning pro. In the later part of his career he launched a clothes range which had the sign (pictured) as the trademark.

2. There is one photo missing in this list. Whose is it? Give funda.

3. This player made his debut in a “friendship tour” but shot to fame after a match in 1992 at the Gabba. An injury caused by a Kenyan batsman forced him to retire earlier than planned. After retirement he has been employed by Standard Bank and has married a niece of another cricketer from the same country.
Who?

4. Whose picture is missing at the top of this list?

5. This post WW-2 cricketer lost many years to the war but still had time to make his mark as one of the finest of his generation . His friendship with another great Australian sporting hero is well known in cricketing circles. They became friends in India while serving the army and remained the best of friends.
The Best Player in the Ashes is awarded a medal that carries their names. He is credited with the fastest triple ton ever recorded.
Who?

6. Whose face completes this list? (very easy, your first guess will be right)

7. This person, a great friend of Ranjitsinhji, was also an eminent politician and was offered the throne of Albania, which he refused . In the later part of his career he became a mental patient and developed a horror of Indians, though he continued to lead a normal life. Who?

8. These cricketers (pictured below) were the first from their country to do something, and he was the first of all. Till now, 12 people from 8 different countries have achieved the same feat.
Give his name, and the feat.

The above 8 questions are connected by a theme.

Set 2:

1. Whose picture is missing at the second position of this list?

2. Whose picture should logically come at the top of this list?

3. This versatile player was good at rugby, tennis and swimming while at school but chose cricket as his vocation. He was the first ODI captain for his country and also featured in Kerry Packer’s World Series. He has played for more than 6 states at first class level. Who?

4. This football player was involved in the ‘battle of Berne’ though he was not playing the match. He top scored in the Spanish football league 4 times and also won an Olympic gold and silver. He died in 2006 of pneumonia and was a national hero at the time of his death though disgraced for some years.
Who was he?

5. This player has a unique record of top scoring in three different leagues in 3 different nations. He formed one half of a deadly duo that rocked Spanish league for nearly 5 years. Id him.
A series of pictures is also provided to help.

6. This athlete has bettered the World record 46 times in his field, he first did so at the age of 16.Has won three consecutive titles at the Olympics .This short statured person is, however, huge in stature in his country. He has tried his hand at politics but hasn’t been successful yet. Who is he?

Julius Caesar

2007-07-13T04:11:00.000-07:00

Four easy dry questions.

Take 'em away.

Answers in the comments section (encrypted in www.rot13.com) please. I will put up the answers in a week.

Also, there will be an open general intra quiz on July 27th (Friday). Please be there.

1. Taglines for which film? (Both are for the same film)
Ever wanted to be someone else?
Be all that someone else can be.

2. Give funda (exhaustive list):

New Delhi, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Sawai Madhopur, Chittaurgarh, Bharatpur, Agra

3. This is the list of a certain person's influence on pop culture. Who?

- Teaches Elvis his trademark dance
- Brings an end to segregation-he picks up a African American student's book that she drops as she enters a "whites only" school
- Inspires the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine"
- Foils Watergate
- Plays a part in Ping Pong diplomacy (1971) when he plays ping pong for America against communist China.
- Starts the jogging craze
- Brings about the "smiley" after wiping his face with a T-shirt
- Provides the slogan for the "Shit happens" bumper stickers

4. Paul Oliver wrote the following in a sleeve note for a 1962 Blind Boys album : "Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, ________ or _______—these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys".
A young Englishman took inspiration from this article. Who was
he and how did it inspire him?

- Vaibhav.

Visual Quiz...

2007-06-11T14:03:00.001-07:00

Continuing the quizzing season with another visual quiz...
Please leave your answers as comments encrypted in rot13 (www.rot13.com)

1. The FIRST ..my favourite...treat at shack assured for this one..
what is special about the following frames...or what connects them.

2. The SECOND one .....radial connect....should be easy...

3. The THIRD one ....the sitter
what does it commemorate...try to figure out the languages first..

4. The FOURTH one ....
another radial connect...

two can play at LVC

2007-06-09T19:57:00.002-07:00

Another LVC.The first few clips may have slightly convoluted connections, but you should be able to get the theme by the last couple.

gourav
p.s. sorry for the botched editing

The Sporting Life

2007-06-08T22:14:00.000-07:00

I set a sports quiz recently - here are some of the leftovers.

Please give your answers in rot13 (www.rot13.com) in the comments section. Answers in a week, also in the comments section.

1. This is the rarest form of dismissal in cricket, with only four such known dismissals in first class cricket and none at all in international cricket. Name it.

2. *Founded the Asian kabaddi federation
*Was a keen wrestler in college
*Has served as the head of the Maharashtra Wrestling Association and Maharastra Olympics Association
What is his/her current position?

3. This term may originate from the Salem witch trials. One test used to expose a witch required the woman to swallow one communion wafer. It was thought that if she were in fact a witch this task would be impossible. Many women failed the test. It is used commonly in sports nowadays, in a similar connotation. The term? (Clue: SA?)

4. _____ was once on a plane when a stewardess asked him to fasten his seat belt. ____, in his trademark bragging style, told the lady "Superman dont need no seat belt". The stewardess retorted "Superman dont need no plane!". Fill in the blanks (both are the same).

5. Connect Eddie Eagan, Clara Hughes, Christa Luding and Jacob Tullin Thams with reference to the Olympic Games

6. Connect:

In baseball : a home run with all four bases occupied, scoring 4 points
In contract bridge : bidding for and winning all the tricks in one hand
In ski jumping : winning the Four Hills tournament
In the WWE : something achieved only by Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero and Rob Van Dam
(Hint : the connect is better known in other sports)

7. During the European Championship finals of 1996, then BBC television pundit Ruud Gullit coined a phrase. "__________" was a term that Gullit used to describe teams who played the game in a smooth, elegant and effortless style: teams comprised of artists who could evoke the highest spiritual consciousness through exceptional technique and intimacy with the ball.
He has used the term as a synonym for sides such as the Portugal team of the mid-1990s and more recently, European Champions League holders Barcelona.
Fill in the blanks.

8. What in the NBA was first achieved by Chris Ford for the Boston Celtics on October 12, 1979, in a game against the Houston Rockets at Boston Garden?

- Vaibhav

LVC Time

2007-06-05T21:11:00.000-07:00

This is a Long Visual Connect. Fourteen pictures, all connected by atheme. The catch is that you have to crack the connect as soon aspossible. So look at the pictures one by one in the order that theyare shown and try to get the theme after as few pictures as you can.

If something is blanked out in a picture, the words blanked out are the link to the connect.

It becomes really easy by the last few, so try to get it before that.Post your answer and picture at which you cracked in rot13 ( http://www.rot13.com/). Also, if you don't get it on first pass, please retry using google:)

~Vaibhav

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Picture 4

Picture 5

Picture 6

Picture 7

Picture 8

Picture 9

Picture 10

Picture 11

Picture 12

Picture 13

Picture 14

Fill in the blanks

2007-05-18T13:23:00.000-07:00

Simple. Each question consists of a group of words or terms, which are all connected. (either by a common theme, or by the fact that they belong to a special series) You have to fill in the blanks (and give funda, if you feel like it). Most of the questions are very easy, so this should be a high-scoring quiz.

Give your answers in the comments to this post. Encrypt using rot13 (rot13.com) please. Answers in a week.

Example :

1. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, _______

Answer : Ringo Starr, of course.

2. _____, ________, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John W. Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt

Answer : Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. These are the only people to have walked on the moon.
Michael Jackson should also be on this list <\daya joke>

Questions :

1. Paspoli, Tirandaz, ______
(Hint : these are names of villages in Mumbai)

2. Sigma 6, The Meggadeaths, The Architectural Abdabs, The Screaming Abdabs, The Abdabs, Tea set, ____________

3. 1994 : Michel Preud'homme, 1998 : Fabien Bartez, 2002 : Oliver Kahn, _________

4. Jordan-Ford, Benetton, ___________

5. James Dougherty, ________, Arthur Miller

6. Kosciusko, Vinson Massif, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, McKinley, Aconcagua, ______

7. Servant of God, Venerable, Blessed, __________

8. Paris, London, Stockholm, Los Angeles, ___________

9. Phani Burma, PC Barua, Nageshwara Rao, Dilip Kumar, _________

10.
# 1845 - Useful and Instructive Poetry
# 1848 - The Rectory Magazine
# 1850-1853 - The Rectory Umbrella
# 1855-1862 - Mischmasch
# 1856-1857 - The Train
# 1858 - The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically
# 1860 - A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, Systematically Aranged with Formal Definitions, Postulates, and Axioms
# 1860 - Notes on the First Two Books of Euclid, Designed for Candidates for Responsions
# 1865 - _________________________
# 1866 - Condensation of Determinants, Being a New and Brief Method for Computing their Arithmetic Values
# 1867 - Russian Journal
# 1867 - An Elementary Treatise on Determinants with their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Geometry
# 1867 - Bruno's Revenge
# 1868 - The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically, so far as it Relates to Commensurable Magnitudes
# 1869 - Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
# 1872 - _________________________
# 1873 - The Enunciations of Euclid I-VI, Together with Questions on the Definitions, Postulates, Axioms, &c.
# 1873 - The Vision of the Three T's
# 1876 - The Hunting of the Snark
# 1879 - Euclid and His Modern Rivals
# 1882 - Euclid, Books I, II
# 1883 - Rhyme? and Reason?
# 1885 - Supplement to Euclid and His Modern Rivals
# 1885 - A Tangled Tale
# 1886 - The Game of Logic
# 1889 - Sylvie and Bruno
# 1893 - Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
# 1896 - Symbolic Logic, Part I
# 1898 - Three Sunsets and Other Poems

- Vaibhav.

appena due domande

2007-05-17T09:52:00.000-07:00

1. An excerpt from the diaries of a reporter of the newspaper Dawn: When I last met him on September 30, 1971, he was full of beans. He thumped his thighs in his characteristic manner and said: "You just wait and see that I am going to make it to Calcutta one day..." He did indeed live up to his words, and made it to Calcutta less than three months later, but only as a prisoner of war.

Who is the person who uttered these lines which the reporter highlights. Very workable...please don't google or wiki...the date is a big clue...the first name that comes to ur mind is probably the answer.

2. The name of which famous computer language when spoken in the correct way is also a musical note. Again quite workable...and since recently there is more than one language that can be an answer to this question. Anyways,I prefer the most common one.

a few arbit questions

2007-05-08T08:35:00.000-07:00

1. Connect Direction Software Solutions,Tijarat Impex and Estee Lauder, the cosmetics company.

2. Give funda of the following route: Moon-Earth-Circumnavigate the Earth-Go below the Sea-Circumnavigate the Earth from below the oceans-Go to the centre of the Earth and out the other side

3.In whose stories can you find the character Clovis Sangrail, named because he was so 'appallingly frank'.(Additional points if you can explain the funda of the name).

4.Funda again:
British-1599
Danish-1616
Dutch-1602
French-1664
Swedish-1731

gourav

Resurrection

2007-05-04T10:17:00.000-07:00

Having shaken myself out of endsem-induced stupor, I came up with these four questions.

Answers in rot13 (www.rot13.com) please.

1. The noted American film critic Leonard Maltin is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the shortest movie review, for his review of the 1948 musical 'Isn't it Romantic?'
What did his review consist of?

2. This phrase refers to a large and valuable fictitious diamond which has a flaw (of a particular colour) at its centre. When one zooms in to look closely at the flaw, it takes on the shape of a leaping animal.
Most people think that the phrase actually refers to the personality with whom it is most closely associated. GIve the phrase.

3. Connect; and fill in the two blanks. (which are different)

1869 : the Fisk-Gould Scandal, a financial crisis in the United States
1881 : the Eyemouth Disaster, in which 189 Scottish fishermen lost their lives in a European windstorm
1887 : hanging of four people; connected directly or indirectly with the rally of Haymarket Riot
1889 : the Johnstown Flood, which killed over 2,200 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
1910 : a campaign outside the British House of Commons of the Women's Social and Political Union the Conciliation Bill failed
1919 : the Battle of George Square, a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland
1921 : the announcement of British transport union leaders not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners
1929 : ___________________________________

1939 : devastating fires in Australia
1944 : a disastrous attack by the Canadian Black Watch near Woensdrecht during The Battle of the Scheldt
1945 : an air battle over Sunnfjord
1945 : a riot at the Warner Bros. studios stemming from a Confederation of Studio Unions (CSU) strike leading to the eventual breakup of the CSU
1959 : the cancellation of the CF-105 Avro Arrow project by Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker leading to the lay off of 30,000 workers
1974 : the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in the Republic of Ireland
1978 : a massacre of protesters in Iran
1982 : the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War
1987 : the day an hour-long F4 category tornado ran through the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1993 : _______________________________
2004 : a crackdown in Maldives, Malé (13 Aug) on peaceful protesters

(Clue : Megadeth song/Recent Bollywood movie)

4. In 1839, the British Treasury had announced a certain competition. However, none of the submissions were considered suitable, and the Treasury chose instead to use a profile of Queen Victoria. The head
was engraved by Charles and Fredrick Heath based on a sketch provided by Henry Cole. The background consisted of finely engraved engine turnings.
What is being described?

~ Vaibhav

Another another un

2007-04-12T07:11:00.000-07:00

1. Which is the highest rated musical at IMDB. I'd appreciate wild guesses rather than googled answers for this one.

2. He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After the death of his parents, he wandered around the world, visiting places like Los Angeles and Paris as an artist. Won a game with his friend Fabrizio, before embarking on a memorable trip.
She was engaged to steel tycoon Nathan Caledon Hockley, giving up her dreams so that she and her mother could escape their financial troubles. She later escaped from Hockley and married a man named Calvert before settling down in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Where did "He" and "She" meet each other and have a brief fling?

3. Identify this hot-bod….The answer is slightly shocking…:D…no morphing done…original ‘controversial’ image :P

Album Covers......

2007-04-10T02:10:00.000-07:00

Due to the subject I am handling, this is gonna be one explicit post.... R Rating..........
But I hope its ok... we r all grown up now :P

0. Just identify these bands and albums.... pretty sraightforward

1.The album's cover was rumored to be meant to show this rock artist urinating on the American flag. Whether that was actually the intent has never been confirmed. Pretty guessable.... identify the artist and the album.

2.Based on the Robert Williams painting, this cover depicted a robot rapist about to be punished by a toothy metal avenger. MTV refused to play any of the bands videos because of this cover art. he band compromised and put the original cover art inside, replacing it with a cover depicting a cross and skulls of the five band membershis compromise did not satisfy MTV, and the network continued the video ban. Finally,David Geffen, then-president of Geffen Records called MTV and earnestly requested MTV to play the band's songs. MTV finally relented, and soon the album's headline single became the #1 most requested song in 24 hrs. Identify the band and possibly the album.

3. The album's intended artwork did not reach the UK in time to press the album, so a cover of naked women lounging in front of a black background was issued in its place. This guitarists family, who own the rights to the album and most of his catalogue, has stated that the original UK cover will never be used again since the artist himself did not like it. Identify this legendary guitarist and the album. Nice cover :D.
4. This cover is of a band which was the defining act of its genre. The lyrics contain mentions of or references to semen ,hymens, open sores, parasites, milk and even abortion. The cover as seen includes a photo of a TAM (Transparent Anatomical Mannikin), a medical, anatomical model on the front cover (with added angel wings), a collage of flowers, plastic fetuses and turtle shells on the back cover, and various symbols of fertility on the back cover and sprinkled throughout the liner notes, for which the album became very very controversial, despite for its huge commercial success. It is often regarded as the best album of the band. Identify.

5.This cover art was inspired by the ending of Arthur.C.Clarke's novel Childhood's End. (The ending involves several naked children, only slightly and physically resembling the human race in basic forms.) It is a collage of several photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland, by Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis.The results of the shoot were less than satisifactory, but some accidental tinting effects in post-production created an unexpectedly magical album cover. It was initially released with a paper collar wrapped around the cover, printed with the band and album name, that had to be broken or slid off to access the record. This hid the children's bottoms from general display, but still the album was either banned or unavailable in Spain and some parts of the southern USA for several years. The cover was later rated #6 on VH1's 50 Greatest Album Covers in 2003. The album itself was the 149th greatest album of all time acc to VH1. Identify this legendary band and the legendary album.

6. The original album art, seen here, aroused the anger of some Hindus, who felt the artwork, taken from Hindu imagery and altered by giving the dancing figure a cat's head, was offensive. The band, who had been unaware of the source of the artwork, and record company apologized, and changed the artwork to the version seen above. Identify this album by "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". (Hint: The CAT's head is significant)
7. The boy on the cover is Peter Rowan(brother of the band's lead singer's friend) . He also appears on 3 other album covers for the band.The image was changed laterto a distorted picture of the band for Canada and the USA due to fears that the band would be accused of pedophilia.
One other cover is also seen. Identify the band. Pretty simple due to the immense popularity of the band. :)
Hope you like the quiz.........
Tata....

Chinmay.

Connect me puhleez...

2007-04-09T08:29:00.000-07:00

C =

B =

A =

Connect A -> B -> C

A: The guy to the extreme left....(look closely, the guy on the extreme right might help you think along the right lines)

B: No clues (I deliberately wanna make the connect tuff :D)

C: Kiddo pic of one helluva sonofagun

Treat at Pizza Hut (sponsored by Lath) for 1st Crackoo

~surdy

Visual..

2007-04-07T11:52:00.000-07:00

The image on the left is a compliation of stills from a famous recent movie. All these stills have the symbol X in common.
Identify
a) the movie (trivial)
b) the signifcances of the Xs...

another un

2007-04-05T10:11:00.000-07:00

1. This fellow wrote a book called "The Great Boer War" in 1900 and he was decorated for his efforts in the same war with knighthood in 1902. His knighthood is often wrongly credited for some other stuff he did...Who is he..

2. India once had an obscure legspinner called Sairaj Bahutule in its playing 11. I guess he still plays domestic cricket. It so happens that he was involved in a car crash in which some kin of a famous someone X died. This devastated X and he came out with something he was really good at as a homage to his dead kin. Identify X.

Cricket Megaconnect

2007-04-04T07:17:00.000-07:00

1. This cricketer played 76 first class matches for Kent scoring 2152 runs at an average of 20.11 and took 1 wicket at an average of 19.00. In winter he played football for Fulham, Lincoln City and Walsall; he claimed to have played four sports professionally - the others being table tennis and boxing. He was awarded the OBE for his services to cricket.

2. _______ was born in Barnsley in April 1933. 5'10" and a right-hand batsman, _____ played in a Barnsley side that included Geoff Boycott and the journalist Michael Parkinson, with whom he remained friends. A good enough player to have represented Yorkshire during their period of dominance (debuting in 1956 against Scotland), a regular first team place eluded him in such a strong side (his career best performance 181* against Glamorgan at Bradford in 1959 was rewarded with omission from the next game as the senior players returned from Test duty) and he moved to Leicestershire at the end of that year. He won his county cap in his first season, 1960, in which he topped 1,000 first-class runs, but later referred to the decision to leave Yorkshire as "the biggest mistake of my life".

_____ retired relatively early, aged just 32, and spent a few years coaching and playing as a club professional. He later admitted to regret that his playing career had not been more successful (first-class average in 93 matches: 20.71) .

3. ________ came to cricket by accident. Signed as a footballer by Bristol Rovers - he scored 60 times for them in 139 league matches (including one in the famous 4-0 FA Cup victory over Manchester United in 1951) and had equally useful spells with Plymouth, Newport County and Bristol City) he earned some extra cash by helping the Gloucestershire groundstaff in the summer. But it soon became apparent that he was a more than capable wicketkeeper, even if his batting was poor, and he was a regular in the county side for 15 seasons. He played 406 first class matches scoring 5367 runs at an average of 14.19 and was a useful leg break bowler.

4. His career spanned 11 tests and 24 ODI's starting from 1986 till 1990. His first test was India vs. Australia in Mumbai 1986 and first ODI was India vs. England in Chandigarh, 1985.

5. ________ played 14 matches for Baluchistan, Quetta and Karachi and scored 422 runs at an average of 21.10 and took 12 wickets and an average of 22.58. He was born in Delhi in 1938.

6. His career spanned from 1986-95 with Test debut being NZ vs Aus in 1986 and ODI debut in the same tour in NZ vs Aus.

7. He was immensely popular as a player , his roly-poly figure again hiding his worth to Gloucestershire as a pugnacious middle-order batsman who contributed to the side both on and off the field. He made his county debut late - he was 25 - after dabbling in teaching, and smashed a hundred on debut. Despite his bulk, which made him something of a liability in the field, he excelled at the one-day game where his placing of shots compensated for his lack of speed between the wickets. Has played 282 first class matches scoring 10,672 runs at an average of 24.47. Was awarded MBE for services to cricket in 1997.

8. Made his test debut in 1989 in Kingston in the WI vs. India match and has a career spanning more than 100 tests. Made his ODI debut in WI vs India at St. John's and his ODI career spans more than 150 matches. Has been involved in five world cups.

Connect all of them. The connection itself is far, far easier than getting the individual names. And, of course, encode in rot13 and post in comments sections.

~NCJ and Vaibhav.

Some comp. related stuff

2007-04-02T08:16:00.000-07:00

Most are guessable. Atleast to people who dabble around with software and source code.

1. In 1999, David Smith fell in love with a Florida Stripper who unfortunately did not return his passion. So Smith sat down and wrote a virus mourning his love affair and named this virus after the stripper. This virus arrived disguised as an email and supposedly caused damages worth $80 million. Name the virus/stripper.

2. This person is often known as the Wizard of _oz. When he was just 18 years old, he used to sell an illegal device called Blue Box at the Homebrew Computers, that enabled people to make free long distance calls. He went under the name Oak Toebark and his first call using this device was to the Pope in the Vatican, to make a confession. Who?

3. Versions of this old and venerable linux distro are named after characters of a animated movie produced by Walt Disney. Name the distro and the movie.

4."First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful People", and __NOT__ read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture. "
Where would you find this? (Notice the underscores and I don't expect anybody to get it)

- Arjun

One more

2007-04-01T05:27:00.000-07:00

____________ has sparkling eyes, relaxing smile and a pleasing personality, representing a youthful, friendly and fun loving character with a positive attitude and a zest for life. __________ is in his teens - cheeky and curious and aware of social and health challenges around us. _________ was a product of extensive worldwide research and development sessions.
Fill in the blanks (all blanks are the same)

-Vaibhav

Funda?

2007-03-28T07:52:00.000-07:00

Can u explain the funda behind Boeing naming its aircraft models as 707, 727, 737 etc...

UnRock Trivia (Answers)

2007-03-24T05:15:00.000-07:00

1.) A limited edition of X’s European release album came with an autograph by X and a message "With love and big kisses".

Lyrics of X’s World Famous number:

".................

when I get hold of you ...

I'm seeking protection with you, babe

I'm lying in your lap, babe

I'm burning in your fire, babe

Have mercy"

Who be X?

X= Tarkan (Simarik's muaaaaaah fame)

2.) She goes by the stage name "Y" meaning the trade wind. Is often described as the on-screen Lolita of the music industry for her consistent portrayal of the same in her music videos. Critical reviews of her work: "Sweet syrupy pop ditties wrapped in silky synths, violins and catchy techno beats". Y Search is "an internet search engine exclusively designed for the promotion of the singer Y." It was created in 2006 to obtain better search results for the keyword "Y" compared to other search engines.

Enuff said...

P.S. I am gonna break a lot of IITian hearts wen i say this... "She is married and a mother".. so says Wiki :(

Y= Alizee

3.) His entire family tree looks like a circus of athletes. Consequently, he also tried his hand at water polo and (un)fortunately for him was selected to represent his national side. His father is Portuguese (Jewish) and his mother is Chinese Jamaican. He claims to be a direct descendant of Solomon through his father. His chart-topping number was a dancehall-style song featuring a jumpy handclap rhythm known as the Diwali Riddim (Rhythm). He performed at the 2007
World Cup Opening Ceremony. Who be he?

Sean Paul

4.) Just guess this:D

A rough translation of a song primarily in Spanish and Gibberish:

"I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie

to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop

the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie

to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat"

The song please?

The Ketchup Song

5.) Z is an electronic musical project started by the "Cretu" couple. Z has always been involved in copyright infringement lawsuits due to their incessant sampling right from Gregorian chants, aboriginal Taiwanese Chants to When the Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin. Z’s biggest hit was a sensual track with an insistent beat based around "questioning" the sexual desires of Marquis de Sade (the Sadism guy).

Z= Enigma

6.) A tough one :D

"This song is built around a sample of "Aye Naujawan Hai Sab Kuchch Yahan," from the 1972 film Apradh - originally performed by Asha Bhosle - the intro to the song is actually taken from the beginning of another song "Yeh Mera Dil Pyaar Ka Deewana" (from the film Don and also performed by Asha Bhosle, and composed by Kalyanji

Anandji)."

The song please?

Dont Phunk With My heart - Black Eyed Peas

7.) Possible explanations of what :

> what a monkey wrote on a type writer when an experiment took place involving monkeys and type writers
> something derived from the chanting of African street musicians
> a gibberish word meaning nothing

Chumbawamba

~Surdy

Ikk hor mini quiz...

2007-03-20T08:24:00.003-07:00

1. 20 franc swiss note....what indian connection..??

2. Maino : Sonia
Komalavalli: X ??

3. Tom Cruise threatened Paramount with withdrawal from promotion of his latest film Mission: Impossible III if a particular episode of this series depicting him as a homosexual wasn't withdrawn for airing before its re-broadcast.....This series somehow did not gather much controversy and passed relatively unnoticed for showing a caricature of Prophet Mohammed well before the Danish newspaper controversy. Which is this series which perpetually stays in controversy..?

-Tayal

answers encrypted as ROT13 in comments...

Ein

2007-03-20T06:11:00.000-07:00

Encrypt with rot13.com. Answers in a week.

1. Which novel starts thus?
"If youth, throughout all history, had a champion to stand upfor it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and,possibly, do it practically; you wouldn't constantly run across folkstoday who claim that "a child don't know anything." A child's brainstarts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infantconvolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put amystic possibility for noticing an adult's act, and figuring out its purport."

(This is workable. Hint - Even if you don't know the book's name, guess the funda. The book itself is not famous)

2. Why did Mike Whitney, the Australian cricketer, once say that he was the only man to have taken a hattrick with two balls?

3. Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum shared the title of Overseer of the Manicurists in the Palace of King Niussere during the Fifth Dynasty ofEgyptian pharaohs, circa 2400 B.C., and are listed as "royal confidantes" in their joint tomb.
Niankhkhnum means "joined to life" and Khnumhotep means "joined to'the blessed state of the dead'" and together the names can betranslated as "joined in life and joined in death". What is special about Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum?

-Vaibhav

Intro

2007-03-20T05:56:00.000-07:00

First post!!

No rules - just post as many interesting trivia tidbits and quizzes as you can, as often as you can.

Please give your answers in the 'Comments' section, after encrypting your text in rot13, www.rot13.com

Let the games begin!