Quizzers and aam-admi,
I'm back from a sabbatical with a new quiz post. The reason for the delay is the same 'busy with work'. These are sad times for our country, gripped in the hold of Terror. Here is some work for your grey cells to take your mind of all that's happening.
Happy Quizzing,
Sudar
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1. Identify this machine/instrument ? [ Clue: it was in the news last month ]
Ans: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – found in CERN.
2. X said about Y : "Something that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want" . Identify X & Y.
Ans: Larry Page talking about the ‘perfect search engine’.
3. Connect the following : Teoma, Inktomi, Slurp, BabelFish, PigeonRank. :)
Ans: Search Engines (All are either codenames of search engines or their algorithms)
4. Identify the guy on the right .
Ans: Manjeri Narayan Nambiar – M.N.Nambiar.
5. Connect these two pictures. [Am sure you would all have come across this book during college ]
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Ans: Katmai ! This is the codename for SQL Server 2008 and that’s a lake in Katmai national reserve.
6. A question for my Tamil Makkal :-
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Ans: FIREFOX ! Clint eastwood acted in the movie “firefox”, which is about a secret Russian ultra-modern fighter plane called “firefox”. Of course the 1st picture is of Mozilla firefox.
8. This fictional character lives at 221B ,plays the piano and guitar. He also had an infarction in his leg which led to an addiction to Vicodin. Who am i talking about ?
Ans: Sherlock Holmes [sitter, this one was a sitter ! ]
9. Where would you come across these words and what is it called ?
" I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the ___ , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the ___ ; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers."
Ans: GPL (General Public License) given out by the GNU Free Software Foundation.
10. Identify this famous fictional pirate. [ Clue: R.L.Stevenson ]
Ans: Long John Silver. From the book “Treasure Island”
2. X said about Y : "Something that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want" . Identify X & Y.
Ans: Larry Page talking about the ‘perfect search engine’.
3. Connect the following : Teoma, Inktomi, Slurp, BabelFish, PigeonRank. :)
Ans: Search Engines (All are either codenames of search engines or their algorithms)
4. Identify the guy on the right .
Ans: Manjeri Narayan Nambiar – M.N.Nambiar.
5. Connect these two pictures. [Am sure you would all have come across this book during college ]
++Ans: Katmai ! This is the codename for SQL Server 2008 and that’s a lake in Katmai national reserve.
6. A question for my Tamil Makkal :-
Where would you be if your coordinates were Madurai - 641040?
Ans: Subramaniapuram7. Connect these pics and find out what the answer actually represents? [E.g. a car or a bomb etc ]
++Ans: FIREFOX ! Clint eastwood acted in the movie “firefox”, which is about a secret Russian ultra-modern fighter plane called “firefox”. Of course the 1st picture is of Mozilla firefox.
8. This fictional character lives at 221B ,plays the piano and guitar. He also had an infarction in his leg which led to an addiction to Vicodin. Who am i talking about ?
Ans: Sherlock Holmes [sitter, this one was a sitter ! ]
9. Where would you come across these words and what is it called ?
" I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the ___ , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the ___ ; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers."
Ans: GPL (General Public License) given out by the GNU Free Software Foundation.
10. Identify this famous fictional pirate. [ Clue: R.L.Stevenson ]
Ans: Long John Silver. From the book “Treasure Island”
Happy quizzing folks,
Sudar
