Showing posts with label Pushing Your Gray Matter - Quiz Time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pushing Your Gray Matter - Quiz Time. Show all posts

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Quiz 2

Since not many people found the last quiz answerable,i am posting a mellowed down version consisting of 5 questions.So go ahead kill,steal,google,do whatever you want,just get the answers.I assure you they will be interesting.


1.The California Products Corporation,a manufacturer of ‘environmental containment coatings’, has two competing divisions.One division has had ‘attention’ focused on its most famous product during a fortnight in August-September every year since 1978. The other division’s product has enjoyed similar ‘attention’ every January, since 2007. Either identify these products or tell me where these products are in use.




2.The Separation of Light and Darkness, The Creation of the Sun and the Moon and the
firmaments, the creation of Adam and Eve, the Fall, Noah’s Sacrifice and the Drunkenness of Noah are sequences at which famous location?



3.At Beijing 2008, in the Rhythmic Gymnastics group event for women, the Israel didn’t
win any medal. The team comprising of Olena Dvornichenko, Katerina Pisetsky, Maria Savenkov, Rahel Vigdozchik & Veronika Vitenberg finished 6th, but got much media attention in India. Why?



4.To make the kiswah, you need 670 kilograms of pure silk. This quantity is turned into
47 panels of cloth, each of a length of 14 metres. Other requirements include 120 kgs gold and about 50 kgs silver for lettering. The kiswah measures 658 square metres and costs about 17 million in the local currency. What is the kiswah?



5.While bouncers are very common now, in 1893 it would have been unthinkable for a bowler to use those tactics as it was used in this historic match. The umpire would have surely objected. Also, matches with only one innings a side are a relatively recent occurrence. In the late 1890s even friendly matches lasting only 1-2 days had 2 innings each, so it is very unlikely that this match would last only 1 innings. Also, even if the match lasted one innings each, as long as the chasing team didn't lose all their wickets, if they hadn't scored as much as the team batting first, they wouldn't lose the match, simply draw it. What are we rambling about?





Answers in a week.

P.S.:Please dont let me down unlike my friends quiz...

Friday, August 8, 2008

answers.....

since no one has even attempted my questions, i have decided to dumb down the next set of them....
but before that, here are the answers.

1.Pervez musharraf
2.Bucknor. and that is steve bucknor
3.Ernest hemingway
4.Winds of change
5.Volvo
6.Nandan nilekani and n r narayana murthy. they are the founders of infy
7.Pablo Picasso. that is his full name
8.Peter Shilton. maradona scored the goal of the century. 1986 world cup
9.Nur Inayat khan
10.Beowulf
11.Murder on the Orient Express.the book was inspired by the lyndberg kidnapping
12.Richard Branson, of virgin
13.the word is quiz.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Brain Teasers... How many can you get right?

Ok these questions may seem a bit beyond our scope, but our resident quizmaster has informed me that we are encouraged to google the answers, so guys and gals, feel free to check: Lehnsherr..


1. He was born on August 11, 1943 in Daryaganj in Delhi. He is from a family of civil servants. His grandfather, Qazi Mohtashimuddin, bought Neharwali Haveli in the old walled city of Delhi where he was born. The haveli, with its high roofs and arches, is believed to have been the home of a "Wazir" (Minister) in the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar.Who is he?

2.Stephen Anthony ………………… was a high school mathematics teacher and sports coach. He was a FIFA referee in the World Cup qualifier between El Salvador and the Netherlands Antilles in 1988. In October 2007 he was awarded the Order of Jamaica, Commander Class, for "outstanding services in the field of sports". Who are we talking about?

3.In a letter to Ezra Pound, he describes why bulls are better than literary critics: "Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't marry old women of 55 and expect to be invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you cited as co-respondent in Society divorce trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are edible after they have been killed." Identify.

4. ……………… …. ..……... is a 1990 power ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of XXXX. It appeared on their 1990 album Crazy World, but did not become a worldwide hit single until 1991. In 2005 the viewers of the German television network ZDF chose this song as the song of the century. It is widely known in Germany as the song of German reunification (and fall of communism in Eastern Europe generally), even though it only rose to popularity two years later. Song?

5.Which famous Automobile manufacturer's name means "I Roll" in Latin, a reference to Rolled Steel being used in the manufacture of their vehicles??

6.N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh ,Ashok Arora, _____________ & _____________.

7. ________ Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y _________. Fill up the blank

8.Glenn Hoddle, Peter Reid, Kenny Sansom, Terry Butcher, Terry Fenwick & Pe_____ _____on, tell me what happened next??

9.this woman, a descendant of Tipu sultan, was the subject of two books in the last few years. half indian, half american, she was born in Moscow, where her father was performing (as a sufi mystic who was trying to spread peace through music) her childhood was spent in london and paris, and she became a radio broadaster, primarily of children's stories. when world war 2 broke out, she escaped from paris to england and joined the waaf, where she was spotted by the secret service and sent back to paris as a radio operator, code names madeleine. she was captured in october 1943, tortured for 10 months in german prisons and finally sent to dachau in september 1944, where she died.she was a posthumous george cross awardee, and will probably be the subject of shyam benegal's next film. who?

10.This epic English poem of anonymous authorship, is the oldest surviving piece of literature in the language. The events described in this poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration and settlement in England. It tells the story of X, a hero of the Geats (people from Geatland, modern southern Sweden), who battles three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a dragon. The hero eventually dies in the battle. Just name the poem/hero.

11.Mr. Rachett aka Cassetti, kidnapped and held to ransom, a three year old girl named Daisy Armstrong. He killed her despite receiving the ransom and this led to the death of her grieving parents as well. The family's maid, who was a police suspect, committed suicide. The retribution that fell on Mr. Ratchett, forms the plot of which famous work of fiction? Also identify the real life incident which inspired the Rachett story.

12.He is one of Britain's best known entrepreneurs who is known for his enthusiasm and his love for high-risk, high-adventure world record-breaking attempts.He has been a entrepreneur from his childhood days.By the age of 15 he had started two ventures that eventually failed: one growing Christmas trees and another raising budgerigars.He has been involved in a number of world record-breaking attempts .He was knighted by the Queen in 1999 for "services to entrepreneurship" .He also was the star of a reality television show on Fox contestants were tested for their entrepreneurship and sense of adventure. It did not succeed as a rival show to Donald Trump's The Apprentice and only lasted one season.Can you guess who he is?he does cameos in movies too.

13.James Daly, a theatre manager in Dublin, was challenged by his friends to find a new word which has no meaning at all. The same night Daly called some streetboys and gave them some money and asked them to write the word 'X' on the walls of the city. The city woke up the next day to the see 'X' written throughout the city. What was X?

ANSWERS COMING SOON....

Please leave your answers serial wise... in the comments section

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Quizzes On Underground

A fortnight passes, Underground left untouched.... What do we moderators find when we return? Questions unanswered, people tearing their hair, some beyond hope, most engrossed in solving the demented and twisted questions set by our quizmasters, the devious beings who will not let you sleep until you open wikipedia and check it out....

The point being, just watch this space from some pretty amazing questions related to well,hopefully, all spheres of life depending on the sanity of the quizmasters at that moment in time...

Answers will be given out on a fortnightly basis.

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