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.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Visual Quiz...
Continuing the quizzing season with another visual quiz...
Please leave your answers as comments encrypted in rot13 (www.rot13.com)
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.
what is special about the following frames...or what connects them.
3. The THIRD one ....the sitter
what does it commemorate...try to figure out the languages first..
4. The FOURTH one ....
another radial connect...
Saturday, June 9, 2007
two can play at LVC
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
gourav
p.s. sorry for the botched editing
Friday, June 8, 2007
The Sporting Life
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
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
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
LVC Time
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 3
Picture 8
Picture 9
Picture 10
Picture 11
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
Picture 13
Picture 14
Friday, May 18, 2007
Fill in the blanks
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
appena due domande
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.
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.
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