Just five questions:

zeroth question:Id the country of origin of this prankshow.

1,Put fundaas.

2,Whats Pangea day?

2,Identify the movie.

3,What is she playing?

4, Whose logo?

5,The four vultures in this cartoon version of "the jungle book" were to be voiced by a famous four.Who are the fab four?






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my quiz mates

Not in any order:

VENKATESH aka peter:




my partner for kwizes in my second year when we were learning the tricks of the trade.
Believes he is the best in yo yo qstns{hollywood and western musik based qstns}¥.
proud owner of a 1000 gb movie collection and an equally big book addict¥.
Has the drive and passion to succeed¥.but if he learns to be street smart and be a little willing to share his knowledge,he will go places¥.

note:lost a gf bcoz of me and so karries a grudge till date¥.pls drop it peter¥.

NATRAJ AKA MOTTAI:


hardcore Tamil movie fan¥.recites tamil dialogs without batting a eyelid.kreated a ruckus when in a bad patch¥.the "kool guy" egvrybdy wants to hangout with¥.smtimes funny smtimes sarcastic¥.believes in "ulaga arIvu" than in bookish knowledge.

blessed with an equally good and complimentary partner with whom he won many a quiz¥.the "guy to beat" in our kwizzing circle¥.



Arun kumar:{last frohm left}


my partner in my recent quizzes¥.though we shmare many interests like business
books osho kiyosaki and others¥.he is hmore exclusigve in his preferences¥.has a blog of his own¥.the only promising talent in kwizzing among my juniors.i wish u get a good partner for kwizzes in future¥.

VARUN,VISWESH AND SAMBU:


The trimurthy of quizzing who woke up and smelled the coffee very late¥.being late bloomers couldnt catch up with the rest¥.Otherwise they are as good as any good kwizzer¥.
Saahmbu






Ramamoorthy aka Rahma:


Venkateshs complimentary partner and natrajs best frend¥.was good in skool kwizzing and brings the same talent to table and much more.BelieVes in waiting for things to happen rather than pushing the envelope¥.my only classmate for whom "interface" means more than a teknical term and "quiz"doent mean boring¥.
he used to advise me in some "worldly affairs" and is disappointed with me for not following his advice¥.


WHAT TO DO RAMA,I AM JUST ME.





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IQ-League on smsgupshup

Hai all,




IQLeague{Indian Quizzing League] is now ON.

Its now on at http://www.smsgupshup.com/index
I invite you all to join my smsgupshup group-IQL.

To join my group go to
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/IQLeague
and click subscribe

NOTE:IQLeague doesnt and wont stop at just being a sms group.this is just the beginning for bigger things.

To the uninitiated,smsgupshup is in their own words is a free group sms service to connect with your friends and follow your passions over SMS.
GupShup enables you to:
Send messages to a group of friends or share your thoughts with the world (learn more)
Receive messages from friends or groups that interest you ,


Its like yahoo groups on mobile.Instead of mail in your mailbox,yoo get messages in your mobile inbox.


Why should i join?
1, Quizzing is always fun nO matter how.

2,It keeps you oonnected with ur fellow quizmates.

3.It brings quizzing to ur mobile inbox every day and in every hour.
WAP and net connectivity are now just not fast enough.

4,It gives you an edge over ofhers.Who knows a qstn here now and there tomorrow can make all the difference.

5.Bcoz u r a leader and encourage good things in ur life.



Who shouldnt join?

1,People who have subscribed to DO-NOT-CALL directory.

2.People who dont consider the messages as an opportunity to learn and grow.


Questions from groups in smsgupshup;


Q]Recently Big B lauded X's trance dance in 'Y'. On seeing his enchanting trance dance during d qawwalli "Z", Big B said tht not since Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968 had there been such an apocalyptic moment in a film.
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/BigB

Q]Whose work,led to the "global satellite systems" in use today.Geostationary orbit at 36000kM above the equator is named after him.

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/Riddler

Q]All _----------- are left-handed. They also are the only mammals with hair on the soles of their feet.Fill up the banks.
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/AMAZING_FACTS



Q: 'Prem Rog' a movie directed by Raj Kapoor is based on which social cause?
-Dowry-
Widow-remarriage-
Untouchability-
Casteism





Q]Alng wid d richest people list, Forbes mag also has a richest fictional characters list. Last year, Santa Claus was first on d list because his wealth was calculated 2 be infinite. Dis year he was absent frm the list. Why?
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/Riddler



Q]Which sports star got his nickname after one of his father's friends(Vuong Dang Phong), who was a soldier in Vietnam. On his 21st b'day, he legally changed his name from Eldrick to his nick name.
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/WordOrigins



Q]What was the secret message in the Wall?
SecrtMsg in Wall:"Congratulatns, u hav discoverd the secret msg. Plz send ur answers 2 Old Pink, care of TheFunnyFarm, Chalfont."
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/PinkFloyd


"u dont have 2 write 2b a poet. Some pple wrk in gas stations & they're poets."


Q]After the marriage she was presented the 'Hyder Mahal' palace for her residence, hence, the name HYDERABAD (literally, "the city of Hyder").
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/DidUKno



Q]Who said-"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/quotes




Other gupshups which i receive:

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/TodayInHistory

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/moviequotes

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/QUIZ_N_PUZZLE

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/DevilD

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/HealthTips

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/INTERNET

http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/word

MY BLOG A FEW DAYS BACK:
IQL-The dawn of the dons..

Ya,You read it right.In the lines of ICL and IPL,how abot an IQL-Indian Quizzing League- where

1,Quiz teams from varios cities like Chennai,Bangalore,Mumbai,Coimbatore,Kolkata,Delhi,Pune,Hyderabad and Trivandrum,etc can quiz against each other to be called as the national quizzing champions.

2,Each team may be sponsored by their own city corporates like Landmark could sponsor Bangalore and Odyssey for Chennai.Sponsors obviously pay for everything including the prizes.

3,Each team may include 6 college students,4 school students,and six others [anyone other than college and school going} and a quiz master as their captain.

I have the minds only to think this far...Can anyone take off from here?
The logical qstns that artise will be-

1,How can it b completed-like an online event? or a month long fest where ppl actually meet?

2,Considering the "mass appeal" of quizzing how can we sell this idea to prospective sponsors and the general people?

But hopefully and eventually,we should find the right answers as we always do....







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Q-BAY~where questions shore up.

ZerOth question

Watch this and id the impersonator.


ans:Novak djokovic imitaing Sharapova.


AND NOW TO THE QUIZ ON FOOLS DAY HOAXES:

Note:Answers only to those who send me a greeting card,a NY times best-seller book and a plate of Hyderabadi biriyani to my mail-pudhiaideas@gmail.com




1;What connects the entities in the following pic...

ans:various ways of celebrating a football goal¥.


This might help you:









2,Relate the three gentleman in the image below."Dont get scared" might be a clue for tamil cine fans.


the connect is "anjathey".the first guy is veenai chittibabu who is the father of music director sundar c babu who is the music director of anjathey,myshkin its director and Bharathiar who wrote Aathichudi used in the title song in the film.



3,Explain the equation..


{format patented and copylefted by yours lovingly}

Karl Elseners "Victorinox",the swiss knife company, named after hiswife Victoria and inox for stainless steel.



4;Identify the famous staircase.[there are enuf clues in the pic]

Odessa staircase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_Stairs


5;Story time:

Once upon a time when there was no quizzes....Hiranyakashyap tried several ways to kill his son Prahlad but Lord Vishnu saved him every time. Finally, he asked his sister, H to enter a blazing fire with Prahlad in her lap. For, Hiranyakashyap knew that H had a boon, whereby, she could enter the fire unscathed. Treacherously, H coaxed young Prahlad to sit in her lap and she herself took her seat in a blazing fire. The legend has it that H had to pay the price of her sinister desire by her life. H was not aware that the boon worked only when she entered the fire alone. Prahlad, who kept chanting the name of Lord Naarayana all this while, came out unharmed, as the lord blessed him for his extreme devotion. Thus, Ho derives its name from H. And, is celebrated as a festival of victory of good over evil.Id H and Ho.
ans:Holi and Hollika.


6, Lost in mysterious thoughts while identifying him?

ans:JJ abrams creator of LOST,tv serial




7,Id the Latvian statue..

Statue of Liberty!



8,Billion Dollar Game:

In the mid nineties Holland saw the rise to fame of two guys-Joop van de Ende and John de mol.Both of them merged their companies to form "E"{Whose doCtored logo is shown below].Identify "E".



Frustrated with creating "seconds" (buying the formats from sucessful tv shows abroad and producing it for their own territory),
John de m0l

and his team brainstormed to produce a trend setting hit show.Drawing inspiration ftem Jenny cam and severl voyeuristic programme [which were in vogue at the time],
they formed a concept which was initially callled 'golden cage'.but there were no takers of the idea initially.But john de mol didnt give up.After pitching the idea io many tv channels and many a nos,finally a Holland tv channel took a gamble and made it.The show turned out to be a blockbuster hit.

It was also unique in the fact that it converged three media-the net,the tv and the telephone networks.

Id the very famous show which was one of the two serials to go from Europe to U.S.A(the other being WhO wants to be a milllionaire?)
ANS:Endemol and Big Brother.


8,Cake walk for qfi chennai ppl.Identify the gentleman who created a "Landmark" in Chennai,which turned out to be a "Odyssey" for book lovers.




9,Why "Naked news" -the new U.S. TV channel is NOT in our newses?


ANS:hIggin Bothams


10,Only two places in INDIA are sources of Gold.One is Kolar gold mines in Karnataka.Whats the other?

Ans:Banswara


11,Id the singer..


ans:Pankaj Udhas

12;Who sang the following jingle.. {tanq anonymous}

ans in comments.


For all those who are still searching for some questions on fools day hoaxes,Happy fools day quizzing.





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IQL-desh ka qarmayudh?

IQL-The dawn of the dons..

Ya,You read it right.In the lines of ICL and IPL,how abot an IQL-Indian Quizzing League- where

1,Quiz teams from varios cities like Chennai,Bangalore,Mumbai,Coimbatore,Kolkata,Delhi,Pune,Hyderabad and Trivandrum,etc can quiz against each other to be called as the national quizzing champions.

2,Each team may be sponsored by their own city corporates like Landmark could sponsor Bangalore and Odyssey for Chennai.Sponsors obviously pay for everything including the prizes.

3,Each team may include 6 college students,4 school students,and six others [anyone other than college and school going} and a quiz master as their captain.

I have the minds only to think this far...Can anyone take off from here?
The logical qstns that artise will be-

1,How can it b completed-like an online event? or a month long fest where ppl actually meet?

2,Considering the "mass appeal" of quizzing how can we sell this idea to prospective sponsors and the general people?

But hopefully and eventually,we should find the right answers as we always do....





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"Quizonomics" quiz.

Following is the front cover of a famous magazine.But the qstn is abt the back cover which will be at the end.


-1th question,Relate the following video from U2 to the bearded gentleman shown below..
.



zeroth question:
Identify the visulisation tool from a best-selling "DVD"




1,X is a French soldier, satirist, and dramatist, whose life has been the basis of many romantic but unhistorical legends and films.



Cassel{some actor} made a cameo appearance as X in The Return of the Musketeers: the character was depicted as fifty-something and attempting to travel to the Moon with the aid of a balloon.Id X shown below,





Some tamil films like "adutha veetu penn" and "duet" have the same theme as films based on his life..





2,Who is she and why is she in news recently?





3,What does Dobson unit measure?






4,id the now famous ad.{pls ignore the spoof in the end}







4,Relate



to







5,What famous sentence has been blurred?This is the back cover of a famous magazine whose front cover is shown in the beginning.


6,The WWT {The World wide telescope} from Microsoft seems to convert everyone into a star gazer by bringing a live telescope to our desktops.WWT uses images from which telescope to provide the view of the universe.
C also this teaser from MS WWT.



7,The following is a malayalam song "Pinakamano" {what does THAT mean?} from the film "Ananthabhadram".Its not yet another malayalam song.It has a uniqueness to it.Identify the speciality of the song.
I am happy that i got this qstn right in the recent quiz conducted by Rangarajan sir.

P.S:You need not know malayalam to crack this one.may be u need to be
"artistically interested".and also be patient.








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