Friday, June 29, 2007

BEST OF MAHAQUIZZER 2007:

Mahaquizzer 2007 was one of the quizzes in 2007 i wish i had attended.Conducted by Professor Arul Mani,it is one of the most looked for annual quizzes in the kqa calendar.Recently i stumbled upon the quetions on the net.Here are some of the best ones.

1)___ ___ is a term coined by Desmond Tutu to describe post -1994 South Africa when apartheid rule officially ended after South Africa's first fully -democratic election. The phrase was elaborated upon by President Nelson Mandela in his first month of office, when he proclaimed: "Each of us is as intimately attached t o the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous trees of Pretoria and the trees of the bushveld . a ___ ____ at peace with itself and the world."Give the term.

2)Which trophy, still in use and nicknamed .The Holy Grail. , is the only one in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, m anagement, and club staff engraved upon it? Each winning player and team management member gets to take it home for a day to share with family and friends , thus being used as a baptismal font once.

3)This town in Belgium once attracted visitors anxious about their health from all over Europe. Its name is now a noun in English. The town is also famous for its association with an F1 circuit which used to host the Belgian Grand Prix. Identify town.

4)The European system (which is followed in Ind ia too) of labelling what item uses a degree scale from H (for .hardness.) to F (for .fine point. ) to B (for .blackness.)?

5)Islam holds that the end of the world will be caused by a terrible earthquake. The Arabic term for this climactic event is the title of the 99 th Sura in the Koran. This term is also the title of a cheesy Bollywood flick from 1988, directed by Harish Shah, and starring Dharmendra, Karan Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Kimi Katkar, Vijayeta Pandit and Rati Agnihotri. What is the term?

6)Whats the missing element in this otherwise exhaustive list of African countries that have something in common: The Gambia, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Democra tic Republic of the Congo and Zambia?


7)Federico Borrell Garcia died at the age of 24 on 5 September 1936 at the Cordoba front near Cerro Muriano. How has this been immortalised?

8)What four-letter word connects a feminist publishing house from India, a river in the Himalayas, the abbreviation u sed for Potassium in homeopathy, a river in Karnataka, the asteroid that menaces Earth in Arthur C. Clarke.s Hammer of God, the character played by Christine Anu in Matrix Reloaded and a painting by Tyeb Mehta that made headlines in 2005?

9)He shares pride of place with the serpent -god Gucumatz in the Quiche Indian narrative Popal Vuh. Often referred to as the .Heart of Heaven., he vented the anger of the gods upon the first humans by causing a deluge and a thick resino us rain that destroyed them utterly. Identify this deity whose name is familiar to us for other reasons.

10)From which spoken language have the fol lowing words entered English: bagel, chutzpah, klutz, maven, schmuck and shtick?

11)The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World is the title of a book by Esquire editor A. J. Jacobs, published in 2004. It recounts his attempt at something which has been done by very few people. The earliest recor ded instance was by Fath Ali, the Shah of Persia in 1797. What did A. J. Jacobs do?

12)Special mobile units of doctors sent out to remote places in China are commonly known as .______ Teams. in honour of which personality?

13) He was one of the nominees for the .Best Beard of th e Year. in 2006. The award was eventually won by Monty Panesar. He had earlier made his fortune by launching an adult site called BOMIS in 1996. The money earned thus helped him set up his pet project. That project is a household name tod ay. Who are we talking about/what is this project?

14)The velocity of light, represented by .c., is 299,792,458 meters per second. A mnemonic used to remember this is .A Way We Remember What Constant Is Light's Velocity.. How does one arrive at the sequence using the mnemonic?

15)Patients suffering from a rupture of the biceps tendon may develop a bulge in their arm. This is the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and is sometimes referred to as a ._______ Muscle. in medical circles because the muscle is more pronounced than normal. Fill in the blank.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Sivaji Quiz...

The "SIVAJI" Quiz:



Everone is going ga-ga over Sivaji.So it makes sense if there is a quiz completely on Sivaji.Since Sivaji is a film with a little quiz-quotient(Not many interesting questions can be taken) the questions range from plain trivia to deliberately-taken-questions.But Hey Buddy this is Sivaji. Cool.

1)What has this lady to do with Sivaji?Put fundas.


Clue:
Oru Koodai Sunlight
Oru koodai moonlight
Ondraaga Sertha Colour Thaaney En White...

Appatha Vecha Karuppey...
Ippothaan Sekka Sevappey...
Yeppothum Pachai Thamizhan...
Ippo naan vellai thamilan...


2)Identify this monument in Bilbao, Spain, which is made of glass, titanium, and limestone.This is the place where "Oru koodai sunlight" song was filmed.

It can be seen in the 1999 James Bond film The World is Not Enough in the opening sequence where Bond steals a case of British money from a corrupt Swiss banker affiliated with the villain Renard, the Anarchist's terrorist network.



3)"COOL" is one of the oft-repeated one liners in the film.But if you find a "COOL" label in any of the food products what does it mean?


4)Simple one:Identify this gentleman with the Big B who has rapped along with Naresh Iyer and Raqeeb Alam for "The Boss" song in Sivaji.His real name is Lakshminarasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Seshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman Harikumar Sonjay Singh Patel.But he is known for his famous last name.


5)Sivaji is quite an hi-tech film with an array of tech features like voice recognition and MMS being used.It also makes use of a phenomenon in which the first step is to yell “Are you ok?”.Though this is not followed in the film, can you name the process?

6)Connect SIvaji and this musical instrument.





Clue:
Kaaviri Aarum Kai Kuthal Arisiyum Maranthu Poguma...?
oho...Thaavani Pengalum Thoothu Vidum Kangalum Tholainthu Pogumaa...?
Namma Kalathu Medu...Kamma Karai Karisa Kaadu..
Semman Alli Thelikkum Roadu....
Aey...Sadugudu Sadugudu Sadugudu Sadugudu
Sadugudu Sadugudu Sadugudu
Sadugudu Aadiya Marathadi...
Padu Padu Paduvena Porthiya Pulveli...
Thoda Thoda Thoda Thoda Udaikira Pani Thuli...
Suda Suda Suda Suda Kidaikkira Idli...
Thada Thadavena Athirkira Rayiladi...
Kada Kada Kadavena Kadakkira Kaaviri...
Viru Viru Viruvena Madikkira Vetrilai...
Muru Murnuvena Murukkiya Meesaikal...
Manathil Irukkuthu Mei Mei Mei Mei Mei Mei...Mei...

7)If "Sivaji" is the hundred and fiftieth film for Rajini,whats his 100th tamil film?
(This qstn is dedicated to Hariharan of third EIE who mentioned about the wrong qstn on Sandhya.Its actually Kanika who dubbed for Shreya)

8)Connect the following personalities with Sivaji:



9)"Poombaavaai Aambal Aambal
Punnakayo Mouval Mouval..."
If you have heard this song this question should have come to your mind.I am just reiterating the question.What is the meaning of Aambal and Mavval?

10)A sitter to end this quiz.
2007:Sivaji
2008:??????
Extras:In one of the scenes,Rajini is shown as signing with both his hands.In real life,only one Bollywood star is ambidextrous.Name him.
Answers for Sivaji quiz:
1)She is the one whose skin texture was applied in the graphics for the "Oru koodai sunlight" song.The song took 360 days to complete as all this CGI graphics had to be applied frame by frame.
3)Country of Origin Label after the "Chinese Melamine" crisis in US foods.
4)B to the L to the...Blaaze.
5)CPR -resuscitation.
6)Balalaika,a Russian folk instrument.
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8)They are the personalities mentioned in "Athiradi" song for which Vaali is rumoured to have received one crore rupee.
9)Aambal=Lotus flower.
Mavval=Jasmine flower.
10)Sultan of the Warrior,a full length animated film on Sivaji.
Extras:Amitabh Bachchan is ambidexterous.

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