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zeroth qstn:
Yenna rascala,Real ya ...

Awarded at the recent filmfare awards,they are shaped like a tender coconut and said to be inspired by Raspberry awards,they went to the worst and the dubious.
example:Akshay kumar got one for dancing in the most weding functions..
Id the award
ans:na real awards.

1,This picture created a controversy recently.What controversy?Elaborate.




ans:they used photoshop to blend those antelopes.environmentalists soon found out and as usual protested.

2:What did G.H.Rao design and musician R.Sudharshan create that is very famous {and still going strong after 60 years} in Kollywood{almost all tamil movie ffans would have cn this.
ans:avm logo and the accompanying music.

3,Id the building and the creator who also made an appearnce in a Simpsons episode.


and connect him to Rajini's Shivaji.
ans:frank gehry who constuctd guggfenheim museum filmed in "style" song in shivaji.


Show stopper:Id the child artist

ans;kushboo.


4:Everybody is talking abt Tata nano.But exactly twenty years back the car this car was the talk of the town.it was a modified Volkswagen car which had a rear engine {like nano}.People thronged the car in large numbers to it wherever it went on display.It was also a reason for the success of "PST".
Id the car and its claim to fame?
ans:";super car" from paati sollai thataadhae.

5;From "Are u smarter than a fifth grader?"{look out for more qstns from "are you.... in this blog}.

ans:atlantic.

5,A weird thing happened after the release of "Mella thirandhadhu kadhavu"{ya the movie with msv and illayaraja as musicv directors] that had the producers cnfused.Finally they managed to find a solution for the "problem".Whats the problem and what was the solution?

ans:One of the[intelligent?] theatre owner in Madurai realised that the movie would be more interesting if he showed the second part[after interval part] first and the first part second and promptly fdid so.This method caught fire[?] and all the theatre owners did the same.
The producers of the movie were initially confused.Later they got a separate film certificate for the reshuffled film and continued the film in theatres.



6,"R is quite right. No one is indispensable. My disappearance from Jamshedpur may not be felt, but the arrival of R and JJ will certainly make a difference. It's all like a circus -- the serious acts of entertainment are always shown first. Then come the clowns and the animal trainers. That may well be the case with T"
Identify R,JJ and T.and whose quote is this?
he is cn below.

russi modi,ratan tata and tata steel.


7,Identify the "pack":

General characteristics
Crew: One, pilot
Length: 3 ft (0.9 m)
Wingspan: 18 in (0.45 m)
Height: ()
Loaded weight: 125 lb (57 kg)
Powerplant: 1× Bell rocket engine, 300 lbf (1.33 kN)
*Propellant: 90% pure hydrogen peroxide

Performance
Maximum speed: 60 mph (96.5 km/h)
Range: 860 ft (260 m)

jet pack.

8,Whats the singular of "opera"?

ans:opus.

9,Id the building which was the former ancestral home of the Nehru family.It was also the birthplace of Jawaharlal nehru,indira gandhi and rajiv gandhi. Donated to the Indian government in 1970 by Indira Gandhi, it was turned into a museum.

ans:anand bhavan

10,From "Popcorn quiz":What are credit cookies?

ans:

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kya aap panchvi paas se tez hain?

The other day i downloaded an episode of "are you smarter than a fifth grader".it turned out that episode was a spl one-that the contestant flunked in the very first question and had to return bare handed.
but the host did smthing special-he invited the contestants wife to play for him...and the wife went on to win a huge sum much to the embarassment of her husband.


this was the 1st qstn which he flunked...



then his wife came straight from the audeince side and started afresh...


and courtesy some easy qstns initially like this,she cruised along merrily...



and smtimes she took the help of the kids,in short the lifelines..



the hostJeff Foxworthy who was witty and commanding... srk will be our host...


the lady who had the shock of her life...





the kids who come as lifeline...to help in "copy","cheat" and "save"


a sample of qstns from which u hav to choose...

for more:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Smarter_Than_a_5th_Grader%3F



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An one off quiz

q-connect the following pics.

ansr in the fag end of the quiz{sujatha style quizzing?,


"Waht-2-nmae-tihs" quiz:

zeroth question:Id this drummer who was a die hard fan of Metallica.He sent his resumes to Beetles and Pink floyd.Having got rejected he came back to his home town and did some "drummer" role in some kollywood films.




1,Jokes aside,identify the comic serial{inset:creator}

ANS:"futurama",creator:matt groening.he also created simpsons.

2,This guy played in the last 50-50 world cup and made some splash thanks to his big "form".Now lets c how good ur memory is..

ans:Leverock.{remember how he celebrated sachins wicket?}

3,HP has released a series of ads featuring celebrities like jayz,michael gondry,serena williams among others.
can u id the famous personality before his name appears in the video?

ans:paulo coelho.


4,"x?" is a reality show hosted by S.
Contestants dress up as comic book superheroes of their own invention. Each week,S challenges the contestants to represent what "superheroes are all about." One or more of the superheroes deemed the least deserving is eliminated per episode. The grand prize for the winning superhero is to have his or her character star in a Dark Horse Comics comic book written by S and appear in an original movie to be aired on Sci Fi Channel. The winner also receives a trip for two to Universal Studios Florida to participate in the park's Parade of Superheroes.

The qstn is id X and S.flg is a snapshot of the host in d show
ans:Stan lee in "who wants to be a superhero?"

"AUDIENCE QSTN":
yes this is yogi bear.
Yogi Bear is well-known for a variety of different catchphrases, including his pet name for picnic baskets ("pic-a-nic baskets") and his favorite self-promotion -"I'm ____ __ __ ____ _____".
now cmplete yogi bears fav catchphrase.

ans: i am smarter than ur average bear.


5,No this is not madame tussauds.then wat is tis?

ans:Deekshabhoomi is famous throughout India as the site where Dr. B. R. Ambedkar embraced Buddhism to promote his efforts to overcome discrimination against lower-caste and untouchable Hindus, and is also the largest hollow stupa in the world.

6,just answr this qstn from natgeo challenge:focus is the name of the game.

ans:george orwell.


7,one from quiztrack:id Dhanush's hairstyle in the flwing pic.

ans:corn rows.popular among hip-hop ppl.btw whats shivaji's "motta boss" hairstyle called?


8,and one for the movie fans:identify this teenager-girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) and a famous pop singer named HM at night, concealing her real identity from the public, other than her close friends and family.

ans;hanna montana.

9,This image originally cropped from a Playboy magazine centerfold picture of Lena Söderberg {a Swedish model who posed naked for the November 1972 issue} is famous for what other reason?

ans:this is the image used as standard for image processing.
hav u cn this in the guide that comes along with Onida or other tv sets which depict a number of images to show variation in clarity or color.

10,Kamal's character name in "Unnal mudiyum thambi" is nmaed after which fav author of k.b.?

ans:Dr. M.S. Udhayamoorthy - Noted social worker, businessman, writer and close friend of arignar Annadurai{famous for his slf improvement books in tamil}

11,.

ans:Marty and The Lost Weekend (1945) are the only two films to win both awards.
another less copied version of the qstn is the initial teaser.


12,id the "vedic indian rock" band-a contemporary rock band of India. It is the reincarnated version of the old band '____', with a new line-up (except for the guitarist) and new sound. Their debut album titled ____ was launched on May 15, 2007, and soon they became 'the new face of Indi-Rock'. _____ is the first Indian rock band to have seen a huge celebrated main stream release.

ans:agni.




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For Ramkumar aka Kabaala

IMS QUIZ COIMBATORE QUESTIONS:

1,Id the contraption near the two gentlemen

Pappins digester

2,What did the romans name bcoz they thought that it "lied in the middle of the earth"?

ans:Mediterranean sea.

3,Complete the famous quote:"Houston, Tranquility Base here ___________"

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."

4,What is common to

THevar magan[tamil film]

Poochakkoru Mookkuthi

Godfather[not the english one]

malayalam film Kilukkam

ans:films remade by priyadarshan into hindi.

Chandramukhi would hav made it easier.

6,what event is depicted here?

ans:the murder of julius caesar

7,Id the Sanskrit word consists of the root man- "to think" and its literal translation would be "instrument of thought".

mantra

8,id

Pablo picasso

8,Where in US do u see a puramid,golden eagle and olive leaves.

ans:US one dollar bil

9,Percy Shelley,Claire Clairmon, Lord Byron were all involved in the creation of this literaray gem.Who completed it and what was cmpltd?

Mary shelley and Frankenstein

10,Connect

and

The Untouchables is a 1987 film

Al capone

11,During World War II, I was held by Italy. Ottorino Barassi, the Italian vice-president of FIFA, and hidden from the Germans in a shoe-box under his bed.Who am i?

Jules rimet trophy

12,Apart from Satyajit ray,who has won both Bharath ratna and Dadasaheb phalke award?

Lata mangeshkar

13,In which game does the ball vary from Double Yellow - Extra Super slow and Blue for Fast .

ans;squash

16,Name the swedish town from which four chemical elements have been named?

Ytterby,

17,What was firest published in the eighteeenth century by some "Society of gentlemen" ?

Britannica encyclopaedia

18,When Abraham Lincoln met this lady he said,"So you're the little lady who started this Great War."Whos the lady?

Harriet beecher stowe

9,connect:gibbs,ravi shastri and gary sobers.

ans:are u looking for a answer here?

10,id the author{a little cute clue is also prsent]

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Baby and Child Care,

20,What was released on 21 April 1997..MP3 decoding was performed by the Advanced Multimedia Products decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac, which was free for non-commercial use

Winamp

21,Whose autobiography is aptly titled:noyhing ventured nothing gained

ans ;edmund hillary

22,where would u find this boat

niagara

The "essential" WHO AM I round:

1,bishan singh bedi

-As captain of India, Bedi's personality inevitably led to some controversies. One famous controversy occurred during a Test match against the West Indies in 1976 when he objected to the intimidatory tactics of the West Indian fast bowlers and declared the Indian first innings closed early after two players were forced to retire hurt. Subsequently, five players were absent hurt in the second innings of the match

-In November 1978, he became the first captain to concede an international cricket match. In a One Day International against Pakistan at Sahiwal, India, with 8 wickets in hand, only required 23 runs from 14 balls. Bedi, however, recalled the batsmen from the crease and conceded the match in protest at the bowling of Sarfraz Nawaz who had bowled 4 bouncers in succession with not one being called wide by the umpires.

2, Salman rushdie

-style is often classified as magical realism,

-King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. He worked for two advertising agencies (Ogilvy & Mather and Ayer Barker) before becoming a full-time writer.[6]

-Rushdie also engages in more popular forms of public discourse. For example, he gave a cameo appearance in the film Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) based on the book of the same name, which is itself full of literary in-jokes. On May 12, 2006, Rushdie was a guest host on The Charlie Rose Show, where he interviewed controversial Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, whose work has also faced violent protests from religious traditionalists, about her 2005 film, Water. He also performed the (uncredited) role of Helen Hunt's obstetrician-gynecologist in the film version of Then She Found Me.

3,LSD

-is sensitive to oxygen, ultraviolet light, and chlorine, especially in solution, though its potency may last years if it is stored away from light and moisture at low temperature. In pure form it is colorless, odorless and mildly bitter.

During the Cold War intelligence agencies were keenly interested in the possibilities of using LSD for interrogation and mind control, as well as for large-scale social engineering. The CIA research on LSD, most of which was done under Project MKULTRA, the code name for a CIA mind-control research program, began in the 1950s and continued until the late 1960s

4,after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council

AUDIO:

1,KBC audio -Amitabh and Harsha bhogle

2,Aerosmith audio

3,Jinna speech after pak independence

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1;http://www.cricinfo.com/db/INTERACTIVE/COMPETITIONS/IND_IN_AUS_2007-08/history-competition.html

2; Shah Rukh will be hosting the Indian version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, the biggest reality show of the past year in the US, which will be produced by Synergy Adlabs,” Siddhartha Basu, head of Synergy Adlabs, says. “We are doing a show with Shah Rukh and it is being produced by Synergy Adlabs,” Keertan Adyantha, general manager and EVP, STAR Plus, said.






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The jallikattu quiz

VIT RIVIERA QUIZ:

No,this quiz is not abt tamil sports and culture.Such quizzes are extinct.The sprawling campus at VIT was not a place to expct one.But still this post gets its name from a prelims qstn which are those ones which linger in ur mind for quite some time and brings a smile whenever u chance to look at the related things long after the quiz....

I attended the VIT Riviera quiz on jan 30 with my partners Venkatesh and Ramamoorthy.After the prelims entertained hopes of making it to finals,but found ourselves in the consolation teams list.So near and yet so far....The quiz was a good one with some well thought out questions and some tasty frivia...but as one of my friends pointd{and i agree} that the fields on which the qstns were based were a little restricted....without any further "review" lets look at the q and a s which are in the order in which i found it interestingh...the wordings hav changed{not hav bn changed}bcozeither i didnt jot the full qstn or i found another form of asking it more quizzer friendly....

and now the "eponymous" qstn :

1]The name of the sports derives from the native words for "coins" and "package" as the winner is usually gifted a package of coins .It traces its origin to about 500 years back.This has bn in news for the wrong rasons lately.
{The best of prelims qstns,and we got it right after much collisons in the head}

2] a,Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.

b,Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge's surcease.

c,Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.

d,The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.

e,A cat will assume the shape of its container.{this is a big clue,folks}

Ans:http://funnies.paco.to/cartoon.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_physics

3}Whose quote?
{i was thinking abt asking this qstn 4 a long time}

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/fou/QUO.htm

ans:Howars Roarke's inspiratiopnal speech at the end of "fountainhead"

3]A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based ______; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached....

ans:u and me-the human body.

the blank is on "biped"
http://www.absolutelyhonest.com/authors/R.%20Buckminster%20Fuller_quotes.html

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

I am the only guinea pig I have-buckminster fuller.



4]The House of Commons, historically and currently in its modern form, has two sets of lines separating the front row benches. These lines are better than a "sword's length" apart from each other, to keep over excited members from appealing to their swords to settle debate. It was quite common through much of the House's history, dating back to the 14th Century, to have its members armed with swords.
In modern courtrooms you may hear a judge demand "order, order in the courtroom" in times of heated exchange. In the House of Commons, the Speaker would demand that members, "____ ___ ____,___ ___ ____" if debate was becoming heated, particularly along the front rows. The mortal consequences of heated exchange between armed men demanded strict adherence to the House rules. Thus, the phrase “___ ___ ___” was echoed throughout the House to return order and to quell the growing conflict.
ans:toe the line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-toe2.htm

5} "What hath god wrought"
"Watson,come here,i want you"
"Do you know anything,kemp"

What is spl abt the above?

ans:First msgs transmitted via telegraph,telephone and wireless.

Spin-off question:whats spl abt-
CQD CQD SOS SOS CQD DE MGY MGY. MGY
All hail our distress!

All hail our distress!

Save our souls!

Save our souls!

All hail our distress!

ans:msg transmitted from titanic.

6]Who is the wife of Agni?

Ans:Swaha

7]The term N is sometimes used synonymously with anomie to denote a general mood of despair at the pointlessness of existence.The N movement was an 1860s Russian cultural movement which rejected existing authorities and values. It is derived from the Latin word "_____", which means "nothing"

8]Connect:the visual with the video

ans:films based on agatha christie novels.

9] It is also known as the Stormtrooper Effect among Star Wars fans.The term was coined by film critic Roger Ebert in the 1980s, as part of his "Little Movie Glossary".The theme is commonly seen in cowboy films, action films, martial arts films, and comics, and is often a source of mockery by critics, satirists and fans.What am i typing abt here?

10]put fundaas.

Authors of chracters which appeared in the league of extra ordinary men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen#Principal_characters

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