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 # 10

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 :-

Where would you be if your coordinates were Madurai - 641040?

Ans: Subramaniapuram

7. Connect these pics and find out what the answer actually represents? [E.g. a car or a bomb etc ]

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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”

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

Quizzers,

A quick update. I haven't posted the answers for Quiz #7 for a reason. There are some places where it is being used to conduct a quiz and once that is done i will post the answers .

" Patience is a virtue .... So is Delayed I/O" :)

--
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

Quiz # 6

Vanakkam 'Quizzers',

This Quiz is a mind-boggling one. All the best in cracking it !
Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com

Happy quizzing,
Sudar

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1) “You can learn all you ever need to know about the competitor's operation by looking in his garbage cans.”

Who said this famous quote ?

Ans : Ray Kroc ( Founder of McDonalds )

2) Tyldesley's commentary on Solksjaer's goal is famous among X fans for its direct nature:

"Beckham... into Sheringham... and Solskjær has won it!" Tyldesley again followed this with the exclamation, "X have reached the Promised Land."

Identify X ! :)

Ans : Manchester United - The Greatest football team on earth… :)

3) Identify this Dude . [ Clue: Think computers. Think Programming.... ]




Ans : Microsoft’s very own Anders Hejlsberg – Creator of C# !! ( Many people have spotted him in our cafeteria ! )


4) The _____ web site was created in 1996 by X and Y to host their advanced system utilities and technical information and Microsoft acquired _____ in July, 2006.

Identify ___ and X , Y ( Clue : ___ = X + Y ) . Maths :D

Ans : Sysinternals.com, Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.

5) In the (all-too familiar) world of computer programming, what are Camel-casing and Pascal-casing?

Ans : camelCasing , PascalCasing

6) My 1st Video Quiz question ... !!!! yippeeee....

Which company/product is being advertised here.. ?

Ans : Apple PC

7)

"Bring me my bow of burning gold!

Bring me my arrows of desire!

Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!

Bring me my ………”.

Complete it to get the name of the Academy award winning movie based on a real life event.

Ans : Chariots of Fire !

8) Born to wealthy parents in Lithuania in 1938. His father was a count, his mother a descendant of theVisconti family in Milan. His family was killed by the Nazis, and he was the lone survivor. In 1970’s he started his psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He is described as being short with maroon colored eyes and 6 fingers on his left hand. He has the habit of tilting his head to one side while listening, and his former caretaker Barney Jackson spotted him last in Buenos Aires in 1993. Identify !!

Ans : Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Trivia : From the movies ‘Red Dragon’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ and ‘Hannibal’ )

9) Connect these two pics ....

Ans: Morpheus (God of Dreams + Lawrence Fishburn playing Morpheus in the Matrix movie)

10) March 2007, Mexico, in an attempt to lower the amount of weapons on the street, offered an X to anyone who turned in a weapon.

Name X.

Ans: Microsoft XBOX.

11) This ancient city was developed in a lotus-like formation with a temple at the centre and the streets layered one after the other in a concentric manner. The streets were named after the months in the Tamil calendar. According to legend, on the day the city was to be named, Lord Shiva blessed the land and the people and divine nectar showered on the city from his matted locks. The city, thus, came to be named _________, meaning ‘The Land of Divine Nectar’.

Often referred to as the ‘Athens of the East’, how we do know this city today ??

Ans: Madurai. The blank is ‘Madhurapuri’.

12) Identify ! [ Clue : "Hello, hello yaar pesardhu? Nee dhaan da pesurah ! " ]

Ans: Arun Sarin (CEO of Vodafone)

13 ) My last question for this post. Connect these 3 snaps.

Ans: Ayrton Senna, Roland Ratzenberger , Williams F1 team logo.

Both died in the same crash in 1994 at San Marino Grand Prix. Senna was driving for Williams-F1.

Trivia : Roland died the previous day during Qualification, whereas Senna died during the actual Grand Prix race. In the wreckage of Senna’s racing car they found a furled, bloodsoaked Austrian flag. A victory flag that he was going to raise as he won the race, in honor of Austrian Roland Ratzenberger, who had died on that track the day before.

All the best machans... :)
-- Sudar

Quiz # 5


Buenos días 'Quizzers'

Enjoy my latest Quiz post.. Please send in your answers to sudharscool@yahoo.com

Happy quizzing,
Sudar

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1) Connect these ....

Ans : The calendar for the 2008 Formula One World Championship has been published by the FIA, with new additions in Valencia and Singapore..

On the left is the Street Circuit in Singapore, & on the right is the Flag for Valencia Football Club.

2) Who are these ? (Clue: They are Legends) . Thalaiva !!!

Ans : Ken Thompson (L) and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.

Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie). He later called it C. ( Long live C/C++/VC !! Java sucks).

3) If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop in the Bay area, where would you be ?

Ans : Apple Headquarters. (#1, Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California )

4) My goal of life is to try experience all the wildest things in life (defining "wild" is up to you) and never look back or regret about anything.
Where would you find this ??

Ans : Orkut buyokkokten's profile "about:me".

5) What is this place below and where would you find it ?

Ans : Kansai International Airport. It is also known as sinking airport.

One more thing is that it is built on a man made Island.(OSAKA,JAPAN)

6) Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Who appears throughout the book?

Ans : Ross Perot (He is the founder of EDS )

7) Which industrialist – Philanthropist donated $800,00 for the land on which the U.N. General Assembly has been built?

Ans : John D. Rockefeller Jr.

8) Who are they and what are they famous for ?
[ Clue : You needn't look too far away from the picture for a clue, its inside. ]

Ans : Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel. Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'. But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain... So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics... INTEL

9) Titanic" tied what movie as the most honored motion picture in Academy Awards history by winning 11 Oscars in 1997?

Ans : Judah Ben-Hur

10) Vienna, Katmai and Orcas. What am i talking about here ?

Ans : All are codenames of upcoming Microsoft Product releases in 2008.

Vienna - Windows Server 2008 (now codenamed Longhorn)

Katmai - SQL Server 2008

Orcas - Visual Studio 2008

All the best amigos... :)

-- Sudar