Quiz # 11

Ladies, Gentlemen & my dear Quizzers,
Been a very looonng time since my last post. I am sorry to keep you eagerly awaiting for another round of mouth watering grey matter. Wait no more, lets dive right into trivia (also check out answers to last quiz #10).
Happy Quizzing,
Sudar
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1. X makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; Xyy makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off." Who said this and about what ?

2. Who created the world's first smiley :) ? [ Pic below contains the 1st usage of the smiley ]

3. Who is the only player to have won the Ballon d'Or award three times in a row ? [ Clue: Think UEFA]


4. You've all heard of a Search Engine. What is a Holmes Engine ?


5. Identify the Google Doodle !


6. Whose motto or commitment is this :
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge"

7. Identify the following machine and its signifance to the computer industry. [ Clue: IBM ]

8. Connect the following pictures ...

9. The servers of which website are called Raphael, Gabriel, Michael .... ?

10. Usual question to my chennai makkal.
Who has released an album called 'I Love you, Mozart' ?

11. Identify the 3 people being depicted in this Amul advertisement !

12. Final question is a video quiz. Enjoy madi !
Identify the company & product being advertised !

Happy quizzing folks,
Sudar

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 # 8

Mama, Machan and Mappilai's ,

Enjoy this latest quiz post. You can expect the frequency of the posts to increase over the next 2 months. Stay tuned and as always happy quizzing.....

Happy Quizzing
Sudar
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1. Identify the Doodle below ...

Ans: Celebrating 25 years of TCP/IP [Thank you! Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn]

2. What is Sping ? (No Googling on this one. Think People Think ! )

Ans: Sping is short for "spam ping". Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service providing notification of newly published posts or content.

3. In the book "Cuckoo's Egg" there is a number sequence that is popularly known as the Cuckoo's Egg. What was the other interesting feature of this book ?


Ans: There is a recipe for chocolate chip cookies referenced in the book as a footnote.

4. A Cool question. What is depicted in the picture below ???

Ans: The Hindu Calendar [ Source: Wikipaedia ]

5. Who said this to whom :-
"Had you been in my army, I would have made you a colonel" ?

Ans: Adolf Hitler to Dhyan Chand.

6. Identify the Dude !

Ans: Orkut Buyokkoten [Yes, Mr.Orkut himself]

7. The visual is of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer introduced by IBM in September 1956.RAMAC stood for random access method for accounting and control. What first was achieved by this gigantic machine ? :D [ Source : Quizzards ]

Ans: First computer to come with a hard disk [Bet none of you got this right!]

8. Identify this path-breaking car ? Sitter !

Ans: Bajaj Lite (answer to Tata’s 1 lakh car).

9. To which company did the shipment of tea destroyed by the American colonists during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong ? [ Clue: There is a connect with India ]

Ans: East India Company

All the best machans...
-- Sudar

Quiz # 2

Hi 'Quizzers' ,

Enjoy round 2 of my quiz blog.

Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com

Happy quizzing,

Sudar

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1) Who faced the first ball in the first ever One-day match?

Ans : Geoffrey Boycott

(Trivia : he is also the 1st batsman to be dismissed in an ODI )

2) Connect these 3 people...

Ans: Coca-Cola.

The connect is Coke. The person on the left is John Pemberton, the person who invented the concoction. Aamir Khan is famous for his “Thanda matlab Coca Cola” ads and George Fernandes gained popularity because he was part of the movement that led to Coke being thrown out of the country in the 70s.

3) “Don’t dream it. Drive it. “ – is the tagline of which company?

Ans : Jaguar

4) On 7 Jan 2004 , Toyota Canada announced the name of a new car, calling it "the new wave of bold style”. This Special Edition Celica is a high-performance car, and is available in two colours - red and thundercloud. The original name was dumped when the car was released in January 2005. It is now called the Celica Sports Package. What was the dropped name?

Ans : Tsunami

5) Identify this doodle and tell me what it is supposed to signify..?

Ans : Doodle signifying Google’s motto “Don’t be Evil!”

(Trivia: this doodle was rejected and never appeared. Reason: Too Self-Obsessed.)

6) Where in Bangalore would you find the following words inscribed ‘Government’s work is God’s work’?

Ans : Vidhana Soudha.

7) Who is a "lollypop man" in Formula One?

Ans : The man who holds a sign of Stop and 1st gear in the pit to let off the car.

8) Connect these pics ..

Ans : Martin Scorcese.

9) “Basilisk Lizard”
“Zod” ,
“Etch” ,
“Feisty Fawn”.

What are these names of ? (Clue : think openly !)

Ans : Codenames of latest Linux Distros (OpenSusE 10.2 , Fedora Core 6, Debian and Ubuntu 7.04)

10) A Sitter. Identify this Device.

Ans : Apple i-Phone.

11) The article, where I took this from describes her this way – She joined a company that sold hot packs for lunch. The major thing her neighbor recollects is that she used to get curd rice for lunch most of the time. Maybe she knew that curd rice and X made a good combination. Who is she and what’s in the X?

Ans : Indira Nooyi - CEO of Pepsi Co.

12) When this marketing campaign(Ads are given below) was to be launched a lot of agencies were in the fray. Which company won and finally created this series of ads?

Ans : This was the India Shining series of ads, which were designed by Grey Worldwide.

Quiz # 1


Hi Guys,

I wanted to create this quiz blog a long time back. But unfortunately, work @ Microsoft has kept me very busy. SO finally i managed to create a quiz blog. Happy quizzing ...

Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com
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1) Identify this Doodle which was displayed recently and tell me the unique thing about this Doodle which caused a controversy ?

Ans : Valentine’s Day doodle.
Controversy :- There is no “L” in it. It reads as ‘Googe’. Googleblog later confirmed that it was NOT a mistake. But “those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately”. Notice the small L in green color on top of the strawberry J

2) In 1895, as holders of the FA Cup, this team put the trophy on display in the window of a sports shop. The Cup was stolen and was never recovered. Hence, they were labeled as "The Villains". Identify the team.

Ans : Aston Villa (a.k.a the VILLAINS )

3) Nintendo's 'Mario' is one of the best known video game characters.

Who was Mario named after ? ?

Ans : Mario was named after Ninetendo’s landlord Mario Segale who was an Italian.

4) tangible item/service: price,
tangible item/service: price,
tangible item/service: price,
intangible item/concept: priceless.

What are the above lines ? (Clue : think Corporate, think Money)

Ans: Master Card

5) Identify the Company and its headquarters...?

Ans : Microsoft (Redmond HQ)

6) In the Internet lingo, if someone advised you to 'RTFM', what is he telling you to do?

Ans : Read The Fucking Manual. :)

7) Which drink was named by its inventor after rejecting the first six names that were offered?

Ans : 7 UP

8) What is Spanish for a "tall pole"?

Ans : Palo Alto (a.ka. Silicon Valley, california!)

9) A sitter... Identify the dudes and the organization they started..?

Ans : Infosys

10) This was created by X, Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll with X playing the lead and started on 1st January 1990. An electrical engineer with degrees from Newcastle and oxford universities, how do we better know X as?

Ans : The unimitable Mr.Bean (a.k.a Rowan Atkinson )


11) Identify this place.















Ans: Guantanamo Bay , Cuba

12) He shares his first name with a character in "Peanuts". Who am I talking about?

Ans : Linus Torvalds

13) Whose Logo is this ?

Ans: Indian Railways

14) What do psychologists define as ‘a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longing often of a perverse nature?

Ans: LOVE

15) Many objects in India are trademarked with the ISI stamp. What is trademarked ISI No.1?

Ans: The Indian National Flag !

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Adios amigos,

Sudar