Thursday, June 7, 2007

Daily Quiz- June 7

TODAYS QUIZ-JUNE 7-2007

1)This logo created quite a stir and drew a lot of flak with the extreme that an animation of this logo could be harmful for epileptic patients.Many say that the money spent to create this (a cool 40000 pounds) were all in vain!Identify the logo.Good in numbers?



2)From the world of fiction and fantasy,connect the two images. Found the answer?



3)Identify the Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for alleged espionage during World War I.




4)Identify the author of the folowing books.Quite misleading! Tul C das?



5)Connect the two pictures.This quetn is dedicated to Nadal for his colourful tees and 3/4 ths.



6)June 29 marks the release of the eigth film from Pixar.I am wating to wach it.Name the film.Some letters have been masked for obvious reasons.



7)You would have surely heard his name if u know the records right.Identify this "Jumbo" bowler?

8)Identify the nobel laureate in this TIME cover.
9)This is the pictogram of which sports in Olympics?
10)It was the poster of X, created for the 1940 Games, which were never held because of the Second World War. It was just updated with the dates and the lines around the countries, drawn in red on a globe in the background.Whos X.This flyer of a Finn never raced without a stopwatch in his hand, although he occasionally tossed it aside after building up a sufficient space cushion between himself and rival runners.


















ANSWERS:
1. 2012 Olympics logo
2.Finding Nemo.Nemo named after Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues under the sea by Jules verne and the look alike fish is Pierot,the clown fish.The French children's book author Franck Le Calvez was angered by Disney, claiming that the story and the characters were stolen from his book Pierrot Le Poisson-Clown (Pierrot the Clownfish).
3.Mata
.Arthur C. Clarke
5. Barcelono Olympics - the flame was lit by this handicapped archer called Rebello and this is the surrealistic logo of the games Obi.
6.Ratatouille
7. Jim Laker
8. Ernest Hemingway
9.Softball
10. paavo nurmi

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8 Comments:

At June 9, 2007 at 2:30 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

1.
2.
3.Mata Hari
4.Arthur C. Clarke
5.
6.Ratatouille
7.JIm Laker
8.
9.
10.Paavo Numri

 
At June 10, 2007 at 10:17 AM , Blogger Dhananjay Shettigar said...

My answers:

1. 2012 London Olympics
3. Mata Hari
4. Arthur C. Clarke
7. Jim Laker
8. Ernest Hemmingway
9. Baseball
10. Paavo Nurmi

 
At June 10, 2007 at 10:22 AM , Blogger Dainty Damsel said...

1. Olympic Logo
2. FInding Nemo and..(no idea)
3.
4.Arthur C.Clarke
5.
6.Ratatouille
7.
8.
9.Softball(2008 summer olympics)?
10.

Good compilation :)

 
At June 10, 2007 at 10:24 AM , Blogger Dainty Damsel said...

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At June 10, 2007 at 12:50 PM , Blogger The Dublin Daly said...

1. 2012 Olympics logo
2. Nemo - Finding Nemo and Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues under the sea by Jules verne
3.Mata Hari
4.Arthur C. Clarke
5. Barcelono Olympics - the flame was lit by this handicapped archer called Rebello and this is the surrealistic logo of the games Obi.
6.Ratatouille
7. Jim Laker
8. Ernest Hemingway
9.Softball
10. paavo nurmi

 
At June 10, 2007 at 3:30 PM , Blogger Karthik Narayan said...

great start to these blogs... excellent work.. tell me abt urself pal... sounds like a groovy project...

 
At June 10, 2007 at 8:16 PM , Blogger thetvquiz said...

hai karthick i hav tv tuner card on my PC and one fine day i realised that thre was so much qestions that could be asked as a quiz and thus this blog was born...

more about me... i am doing my third year engg in GCT,Cbe.

 
At June 10, 2007 at 8:26 PM , Blogger thetvquiz said...

Abhinav and crescent,u answered 5 and got all five right.well done.

The same with Dhananjay.You have got all ur 7 answers right...

Dublin daily you almost got all ur answers right..except for a little snag in answer 2 coz the fish is not nemo but another clown fish from a frnch film which sued FN for copying thir idea..but still u are d winner for d quiz..
Congrats...
but y d name dublin daily?

 

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