quiz#3

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Sorry……for de late post..guess wer updating…after a long time….so lets have a divine start..

1) Complete the lines”Ananyashchintayanto mam ye janah
paryupasat; tesham nityabhiyuktanaam…………………”

Yogakshemam Vahamyaham,motto of LIC.

2) Percy ______ was an English first-class cricketer who played 50 matches for Warwickshire County Cricket club from 1912 to 1914. In a career that lasted 50 first class matches, he took 199 wickets at a bowling average of 20.03. His main claim to fame, is that a famous comic writer chose to name his fictional character after this cricketer. Name the author, & the character.

Jeeves,PG woodhouse

3) X is the trade name for the product manufactured and distributed by Haw Par Healthcare in Singapore. It was originally developed in the 1870s by a herbalist, Aw Chu Kin, in Rangoon, Burma, who asked his sons Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par on his deathbed to perfect the product.

Tiger balm

4) huh….looks so complicated……..wats dis..??

The first video game “Tennis for two”

5) Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an American statesman and diplomat.When he was the governor of Massachusetts he signed a bill that redistributed his constituency to ensure control.Two reporters came up with a word to describe this act of “re-drawing voting lines to favor one candidate over the other” .Whats the good word??

Gerrymander

6) The picture below…is from a famous series that was broadcasted over 1970′s…This particular sketch where two people are trying to order breakfast from the menu and the waiter goes on saying the same ingredient in all the dishes….. it gave rise to a a term in electronic communication… huh..whats the ingredient.?

Spam

7) X is the son of aprisoner of Worrld War1 eventually escaped from Russia to rejoin his family in Budapest.He then changed his name from Shwartz fearing Fascist threat to Jews to the one we know him now.His new sir name is a palindrome….who is X?

George soros

8) An early home microcomputer version of X was programmed in 1979 by F. Seger on the TRS-80 computer, and was followed shortly afterwards by a version for the Commodore VIC20.what am i talking about?

9) In the recent 6th ODI of Natwest series Alan Wilkins commented saying”when X made his debut Y was only 5 years of age and they are exchanging words on the pitch”.Identify X and Y.

Saurav Ganguly and Stuart Broad

10) The name of the automobile company literally means “damage” in Czech .Name de famous company

Skoda

Winners:

Ramesh Natarajan-7

Kamal rathi-7

Shrinidhi Rai-2

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quiz #2

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1)There are numerous explanations for the origin of this colloquial term but most of them are just speculations.some say it has originated after a french term which is a port in Haiti with a reputation for good rum.The oldest known references of this term comes from a slogan for election campaign in 1840 coined by the democrats.What am i talkin about

2) Nominees for Best actor in a leading role

Marty(1955)-Ernest Borgnine

Bad day at black rock-Spencer tracy

East of Eden-James Dean

Love me or leave me-James Cagney

Man with a golden arm,the-Frank sinatra

what is so wierd?

3)X recalls his funny movements of cricket in his autobiography about a non first class match.England bowler Bunny Lucas, who looped a delivery that dropped from around 30 feet almost vertically towards the stumps.X deduced – there was plenty of time for thinking – that presenting a vertical bat would fail, so settled on a cross-batted heave. The resulting air shot belied his first-class experience, demolishing two stumps and breaking his bat. The ball then landed on the solitary stump.who is X

4)connect

5) connect

6)X is the only Indian cricketer to have born in the state of Goa. His son Y, who earned a blue for Oxford University in cricket, is also a Rhodes Scholar. He went on to work for The Times of India between 1988 and 1994 . Y’s wife Z, the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose(a former director of Doordarshan), is a journalist & has worked with The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. Now though, Y & Z work in the same organization O.Identify X,Y,Z and O.

7) connect

Sorry of the delay in posting the answers.They are….

1) O.K or Okay

2) It was the first time an actor was nominated for the award posthumously !

3) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4) The actors(from L to R) are T.E lawrence,chris gardner,oscar schindle,the connect being the fact that all their life stories were made into pictures

5) The connect is MATRIX. The pic of the top left is that og the wachowski brothers who directed the film matrix, the  car toyota martrix & the other pic is that of joseph sylvestor who coined the mathematical term matrix.

6) X–>Dilip Sardesai

Y—> Rajdeep Sardesai

Z—-> Sagarika Ghose

O—> CNN IBN

7) The connect is Brian McKechnie, the batsmen who faced the underarm ball from Trevor Chappell. He also went on to represent the national rugby of NewZeland, the All Blacks.

Till next time,cheers!

P1

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1) Name the man in picture. And what has he contributed to the world?

2)What is so special about this photograph?

3) The coins below have contributed a word in the English language. Whats the good word?

4) The first occurrence of X was rather different. X first made his appearence in a science fiction made by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The science fiction was called “Reign of X” during the great depression. What was so different with X’s first occurrence?

5) The picture below is that of a coffee pot. What invention was made because of this coffee pot?

6) This stamp was launched in India In October ,1854.It features a young queen Victoria .It was sold for four annas per unit,if that really helps!

What is so significant about this stamp?

7) The earliest known reference to X is in a manuscript from Egypt in the 4th century A.D., which prescribes a mixture of powdered salt, pepper, mint leaves, and iris flowers. The Romans used X formulations based on human urine. An 18th century American X recipe containing burnt bread has been found. Another formula around this time called for dragon’s blood, cinnamon, and burnt alum. In 1850, Dr. Washington Wentworth Sheffield was the first to introduce it in its present form. What am I talking about?

8) First published by Jane Taylor in 1806,it took the rhythmic form by taking the tune of the 1761 French melody “Ah ! vous dirai-je, Maman” .It is said that Mozart had written 12 variations of the original song. The original song has no connection with what is it used for now. What are we talking about??

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Happy quizzin..fellows.!!!

sorry..for de delay in posting the answers and the new quiz

1) Douglas engelbart( inventor of mouse)

2)Tartar ribbon by james clarke maxwell (world’s first colour photograph)

3)soldier(the coins are called solidus)

4)superman made his debut as a villan(that wld have been a sitter i guess)

5)webcam

6)everbody would have gone with india’s first stamp..but its de world’s first bi color stamp

7)tooth paste

8)twinkle twinkle little star

the scores

anshuman yadav-4

t.k.harish-3

vijay-2