Quiz # 9

To all my fellow Quizzicists,
As always another new quiz post in another brand new day. How the times have changed since the last post. Man United are the champions of Europe, Hillary is out of presidential contention and BJP form their 1st Government in the South (finally, the time has come!). Enough of me chattering on, go ahead and let your gray cells do their work!

Happy Quizzing
Sudar
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1. What is the name of this dog ,why is it famous in India and what is it current profession ?

Ans: Hutch Dog. Figaro, the little Pug that followed a boy around to everyone’s delight in the Hutch advertisement some years ago, has handed over the modelling mantle to its son — Spike.

2. Which is the first novel ever written on a typewriter ?
Ans: Tom Sawyer

3. Greek mythological character X, known in Greek mythology as being the monstrous three-headed guard dog of Hades. Identify X ! ( Clue: Think in computer terminology)
Ans: Kerberos (Checking varuvaangilla! Think back to networking concepts in 4th Sem)


4. X are characters in Greek mythology (yes, another mythology question today) , some of whom handled tasks that the gods couldn't be bothered with. This term became famous with BSD Linux. What am I talking about ?

Ans: Computer Daemon

5. Identify the brand !

Ans: Sodexho - A French multinational corporation and one of the largest foodservice companies in the world . Show in the picture is the SodexhoPASS Meal Voucher and Gift Voucher

6. A Sitter. Fill in the blanks. Who is the personality ?
Maruthur ______ ___________ Menon

Ans: Marathur Gopala Ramachandran Menon (MGR)

7. Identify the company ! (Clue: There are enough clues in the picure, you idiots ! )

Ans: Google. When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

8. A very famous quote of a very famous incident. Guess which ?
"I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him".

Ans: David Halberstam on Thích Quảng Đức ‘s self immolation in Vietnam [ See pic below ]

9. Identify the guy getting married.

Ans: Alfred Hitchcock

10. Connect the following pictures [ lets see who can answer this tough one... ]

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Ans: Blitzkrieg [ German for “lightning war” ]
Insight: Panzer tank used during WWII blitzkrieg on Poland. Rock metal group Deathstars whose album is called Blitzkrieg ]


All the best, people ...
-- Sudar

Quiz # 7

Dudes n Dudettes,

A new day and a new Quiz post.... This quiz is filled with Pics. Have fun !

Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com

Happy quizzing,
Sudar

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1) Identify these people and the Connect. [ Clue : You probably have one of their creations ]

Ans: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger.com

2) Who said these famous quotes :-

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high”

Ans: Ayrton Senna

3) Another Connect.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Meet the Robinsons

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End

Ratatouille

Spider-Man 3

Surf's Up

Transformers

Ans: RenderMan from Pixar

4) Combining the efficiency, scripting, strong typing and productivity of ML with the stability, libraries, cross-language working and tools of .NET

What am I talking about?

Ans: F# programming Language [Check out http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx ]

5) How do we better know her as ?

Ans : ANKITA JHAVERI - Rasna Girl ["i love you rasna"]

6) In 1990 the US Government launched a nation wide crackdown on _______ , which was dubbed as Operation Sundevil.

Ans : HACKING

7) In the Dilbert comic strip, when Dogbert was asked to design a new company logo, he takes a piece of paper that his coffee cup was sitting on, and calls it the Brown Ring of Quality. Which telecom companie’s logo is being parodied here?

Ans: Lucent [Now its Alcatel-Lucent ]

8) Identify the logo or name their most famous product.

Ans: RockStar Games and Grand Theft Auto

9) Identify this object.

Ans : Black Box

10) Which famous law can be mathematically illustrated as follows?

Ans: Murphy’s Law

11) Identify this character (Clue: The Number of the Beast)


Ans: Eddie, whose full name is Eddie the 'Ead or Edward the Head also known as Edward the Great . He is the mascot for the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden

12) Who has replaced Wareen's Buffet's late wife on the board of Berkshire Hathaway ?

Ans: Bill Gates

All the best machans...
-- Sudar