I dont have all d answers

time for me 2.0

2008-05-23T23:36:00.000+05:30

finally there is sm1 like me..

visit this blogger
http://sportsquizzard.blogspot.com/2008/04/dd-podhigai-bsnl-sports-quiz29032008.html

when i started this blog posting bsnl sports quiz was my only objective.but as i blogged on i got diverted to other(hopefully better) things..

now to c sm1else doing dat,i realise its time for a makeover.
time to move on and move up.

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feel like blogging

2008-05-12T20:04:00.002+05:30

Some videos i enjoyd last week:

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c thru blogging..

2008-04-07T22:53:00.008+05:30

What you c in most blog is the final completed version of an authors thought.What if u can c the various stages thru which a blog goes b4 it gets edited,censored,sequentialized and presentable?

It would be ike an author spreading his plot and characters on d table letting his readers into his world of writing showing how he develops a plot and even the minor mistakes which he corrects at the end...

enuf said what folows is an incomplete blog of mine...

this is how it has shaped up on the first day...

drop in tmrw to c how it develops on the second day of blogging...

some shrewd quizzers cld guess d qstns even now...

as for the others wait till the plot thickens...

C THRU BLOGGING-DAY 2 of 2:

1)Put fundaas..whats d film and whats d speciality?

2, Id the film :

and connect it to d gentleman below.

3,Identify whos proposing to whom?

4,Put fundaas

5, Id this famous web comic..

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2008-04-01T05:01:00.002+05:30

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/QuizyJuicy 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.

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Just five questions:

2008-03-31T14:58:00.008+05:30

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

2008-03-30T21:56:00.001+05:30

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

2008-03-28T07:25:00.005+05:30

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.

2008-03-25T09:31:00.032+05:30

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?

2008-03-24T12:41:00.000+05:30

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.

2008-03-18T06:13:00.017+05:30

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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Kya aap this blogger se tez hain?

2008-02-28T14:08:00.015+05:30

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?

2008-02-26T17:17:00.006+05:30

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

2008-02-11T09:53:00.005+05:30

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

2008-02-09T22:46:00.000+05:30

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

2008-02-01T09:47:00.000+05:30

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!

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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QUIZ SCHEDULE

2008-01-21T20:37:00.000+05:30

QUIZTRACK POSTPONED:

Jan27-Quiztrack hs bn POSTPONED 2 jan 27sunday.Rangarajan sir quiz,30k, prizes-2 reasns 2 b @ psg cas 4 cbes bigest open quiz on jan27.

Quiz schedule:

Jan 23-Scitech quiz,Kurukshetra,anna univ.
Jan 24-Open quiz-anna(if u have oplanned to attend dis and next,pls do register and get ur reg form printouts soon)
Jan 25-Biz quiz,anna

Jan26-Odyssey quiz(here too u hav to register and they will giv ur seat numbers once u register.it seems to b a highly organised quizzing)

Jan 27-Quiztrack,coimbatore.
Jan27,28,29-IIT Saarang Quizzes.

PSG TECH kriya(read:jimmy wales functn) schedule:
Feb2-3per team Gopal kidaoji Open quiz;
Feb3-2 per team- Rangarajan sir inter collg quiz.4 details:9994276798.

Feb 10-IMS quiz,coimbatore.

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Survival of the Dearest?

2008-01-11T08:26:00.000+05:30

Most watched video of 2007-Battle at kruger.

Like i said b4, wait till d end.

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A Must-do-quiz on a Must-c-film

2008-01-07T18:14:00.000+05:30

"Taarae Zameen Par" quiz:

1,Put "bindaas" on the pic below and connect with Tom Cruise,Steven Spielberg,Robin Williams,Beethoven,Winston Churchill,Mohammad Ali,John Grisham and much more gr8s,who are left out just to keep the qstn short.

{and also with albert eintein,leonardo da vinci and Picasso.}

P.S.:good idea for a theme round?

2, The Penrose triangle[see pic below], also known as the tribar, is an impossible object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form". It is featured prominently in the works of artist M.C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.

What does this triangle to do with Taarae zameen par.

P.S:Cant help my wiki addiction...

3, Id the singer.

4,Needless to say,there are a lot of people working behind the scenes of a film and the following couple played a cruial role in TZP as the crux of the story was theirs.Id them.

5,The title of the movie was reportedly given by scriptwriter X, when he and Aamir met at party held at Salman's residence. The title was immediately finalised by Aamir Khan Productions and credited to X. Salman Khan is credited as one of the many for an "inspirational factor to Taare...", in the beginning of the film.

6,Complete the title of the book,which i read smwhere has the same plot as TZP.

TODAYS VIDEO:

pls watch till the end

http://www.taarezameenpar.com/

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Online quiz

2008-01-05T18:25:00.000+05:30

Online quiz on-line now:

http://techfest.org/scitech/

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New quiz on the blog

2008-01-03T22:27:00.000+05:30

"Predicting tmrws quiz today" QUIZ:

Hai makkals,tomorrow is the general quiz at Krishnammal arts college and following is my "net-pages- gazing" predictions on what might b asked in the "Woman achievers" round in tmrs quiz.Enough said,lets move on....

1,One of the most famous photos in the colums of google images,id this woman who sucessfully fought "for a front row seat" in a U.S. bus and sucessfully got it too.These historians,they never document our equally significant childhood tantrums for a window seat...

2,Id the woman blw[do watch her video too]

The intro for this woman in TED is as follows:
"X,dubbed by her biographer as "the woman who redefined man," has changed our perceptions of primates, people, and the connection between the two. Over the past 45 years, X herself has also evolved -- from steadfast scientist to passionate conservationist and humanitarian."

3,Every International day has its own story for being chosen so.For example,the World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated on 23 april date because the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare.
But my qstn is whose birthday{may 8} is celebrated as “Women’s Day”?and look how she smies for u blo.

This is 1 of her poems:

Cradle Song;

From groves of spice,

O'er fields of rice,

Athwart the lotus-stream,

I bring for you,

Aglint with dew,

A little lovely dream.

Sweet, shut your eyes,

The wild fire-flies

Dance through the fairy neem;

From the poppy-bole

For you I stole

A little lovely dream.

Dear eyes, good night,

In golden light

The stars around you gleam;

On you I Press

With soft caress

A little lovely dream.

4.Just like i found out that Sidney sheldon,Sujatha and Pushpa thangathurai{famous tamil writers} arent actually female,i found that this famous author isnt male eventhough she has a misleading name...
P.S.:Unable to finish the tome of her book in one sitting,i downloaded the movie and found myself on screen.{read this full stop as asterisk mark as my ast. buton is on strike}

5,Miracle worker of many,she is here bcoz she "lit up the darkness of the deaf".

6.A very arbit,unrelated clue for this poetic lady:THINK BABA song.

A very pro-no non sense-clue:In 1993, she recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to do so since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.[

7, O MARIA:

She is yet another example of a "very famous name but not so recognised face".I can bet that u wld hav heard her "German" name atleast once in ur life.her first name is Maria and if u cant guess her surname,u would be doing one of those "O shit" expressions seen ubiquitously in quizzing circles.Enough "clues" in pic.

8,If u havent cn this pic,chances of u answering it is as remote as Dravid scoring the fastest test century against the aussies-{Erroneously credited woman mathematician}.

9,Indians are everywhere and id this "Ocean girl" and "interactive software programmer."

10, The qstn is not whether u know Palak Muchhal,the qstn is whether u can do like her?Wiki says and i quote

"So far, by their more than 300 stage shows, Palak and her younger brother Palaash has raised 12 million rupees which helped to save life of 234 childrens. People who need financial help for treatment of Cardiac surgery of their childrens register request through Palak Heart Foundation. Currently there are more than 400 child heartpatients on waiting list. [6] . Palak raised around one million rupees for 2001 Gujarat earthquake victims. Palak is also helping 39 childrens of sex workers from Nagpur. She has raised funds and built a building for these childrens to stay. She also raised funds for renovation of Indore Palace. She has also performed stage shows in London, Belgium, Dubai, Bangkok, Pakistan.[7][8] Palak's help is not confined to Indian childrens only. She also offered help for 2 year old Pakistani child Fatima Noor who has hole in heart."

///////////END OF QUIZ//////////////

VIDEO OF THE WEEK:

tata..bye... c u...

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WATCH THIS on TV:

2007-12-19T14:26:00.000+05:30

Ellen Degeneres Talk show-weekdays at 2pm.

THROUGH THE WALL OR HAVE A FALL :

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CONTESTS AND EVENTS

2007-12-18T09:23:00.000+05:30

1,"MYSTERIOUS" GOOGLE DOODLE

Thats google doodle on dec 22.Whats interssting is that if u click on the doodle u enter an unusual screen where theres the doodle and below that is a "?".Another google prank?

try it and post ur comments.

2,SS MUSIC VJ FACTOR3:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/12/17/stories/2007121750510200.htm

FOR MORE DETAILS:9884380825/42155551

3,SMS "MY GENIUS" TO 57827 TO WIN LIMITED DITION NAT GEOGRAPHIC TELESCOPES.

4,General quiz in COIMBATORE:

Quiz Genre:General quiz

Time:registration(on spot)-starts at 10 am.
Date and Day:Jan 4,friday.

Venue:Krishnammal arts college,peelamedu,Coimbatore.
Conducted by:Professor Rangarajan Sir.

Rules:Two per team-UG only..

for further details:9842084281

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BACK TO THE BASICS QUIZ:

"Open source" in MGR songs:

Have u cn this songs from "Padagotti"?U shld hav..

கொடுத்ததெல்லாம் கொடுத்தான் அவன் யாருக்காகக் கொடுத்தான் ஒருத்தருக்கா கொடுத்தான் இல்லை ஊருக்காகக் கொடுத்தான் (2)
(கொடுத்ததெல்லாம்)

மண்குடிசை வாசலென்றால் தென்றல் வர வெறுத்திடுமா
மாலைனிலா ஏழையென்றால் வெளிச்சம் தர மறுத்திடுமா
உனக்காக ஒன்று எனக்காக ஒன்று
ஒருபோதும் தெய்வம் கொடுத்ததில்ல..

When i heard this song,oi thought of open source,Did u?or am i just hallucinating?well lets just move on to the quiz...

1, Identify this ad.1 of my recent favs...dont just c ya.."DO" Whatever possible...

for answer:

ans:lead india ad.

2,He is just in.Whos tis?

ans:new man utd coach fabio capello.

3,Identify this "broadcasted message" :

“ My name is Dr. Robert Neville.
I am a survivor living in New York city.
Nothing went the way it was supposed to.
There were 6 billion people on earth when the infection hit.
I am broadcasting on all AM frequencies.
If there is anyone out there..
Please.
You are not alone.
„
— Robert Neville, bricks shat

for answer:http://www.ifilm.com/video/2919376
ans:I am legend message.

4,Id this famous author who is connected with the independence of our nation.

ans:dominique lapierre

5,In the movie Mission Impossible 3, THE "good" guy (i.e., Tom Cruise's character), forces THE bad guy to read several syntactically but not semantically grammatical sentences off of a business sized card at gun point. Whats the speciality of that sentence which is given below the pic?

The pleasure of Shawn’s company
Is what I most enjoy.
He put a tack on Ms. Yancey’s chair
When she called him a horrible boy.
At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens
Across the width of the room.
Icount on his schemes to show me a way now
Of getting away from my gloom.

ans:it has all phonemes.

6,Id the controversial director..

ans: Sami

7,Do You Know that if you want to join the mensa Mensa you need a score of 148 and
that in SAT 2001 men scored 509 out of 800 on the verbal portion while women scored 502 out of 800. The difference, however, is more pronounced and consistent on the math segment of the SAT. In 2001, men scored 533 while women scored 498. This difference tends to appear year after year. The IQ is measured by the _________--________ scale{standard scale for measurement of I.Q}...fill up the blanks
the bspectacled gentleman may help u.
btw is there a scale for E.Q.?

ans:Binet.

8This snake can glide in air.Whats this daredevil snake's name?

9,hich tv personality connects with the elements in the pic beow.

ans:Ellen degeneres.

10,Identify the screenshot of the talent hunt,initially promoted as "The search for Harsha ki khoj".

This episode was relatively more intersting.The participants had to do a simulated "live" sportscenter show.The catch was that as they started reading,the autocue{text scroller kept in front of news readers} would freeze or go berserk,the wrong videos would b played and in the midst of this a live correspondent should also b tackled.All d participants panicked...
ans:CLOSE UP DREAM JOB

11,I remember watching "Mind your language" in my childhood days in Sinhalese tv{there was no cable in those times,atleast in my home].To the uninitiated
Mind Your Language is a British comedy television series set in a school for adult students in London, focusing on the English as a Foreign Language class taught by Mr. Jeremy Brown, portrayed Barry Evans, who had to deal with a motley crew of foreigners.

The show was cancelled in 1979 by Michael Grade, then LWT's Deputy Controller of Entertainment, who considered the stereotyping offensive.In India it was remade as?

12,Last week my home city of Tirunelveli was abuzz with an event which filled the downtown with fluxes,arcs and digital banners.The walls were all plastered with all d possible dat can b conjured up from "sanga tamilae" to the oft repeated "varungala mudhalvare".The money spent on the event is rumoured to between 40 and 50 crores.

Identify the event .The pic blow shows Stalin and Ramesh Prabha in the grounds jus 2 days b4 d event.

DMK ilaignar anni manadu.

13,

ans:arpad elo.

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2007-12-17T15:46:00.000+05:30

THIS QUIZ IS A STUB:
-Pls help to improve it

Open source softwares,encyclopaedias and now its time for open source quizzing.
People who are reading this can contribute their favourite questions[in the comments column].Qstns will b posted with appropriated references to the genius who framed it.

So people who want to share some qstns that they think are cool are otherwise can do that in this blog.So what are u waiting for?Roll ur mouse and start creating and we shall change the quizzing scene one qstn at a time.

You can contribute ur qstn to the following topics,
1,The really boring "mokkai" quiz
2,Quiz you can use
3,Quiz of Buildings and monuments
[These topics are just guiders and qstns need not be necessarily from the same topic]

[These are the topics i wanted to post in my blog but didnt find the light of ur eyes due to insufficient numbers.}

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QUIZ YOU CAN USE:

1]What happens if you type ur atm pin reverse order?
For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine.
The machine will still give you the money you requested and also do soimething else.Try this tomorrow.Wait for smthing to happen and enjoy d consequence.

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2007-11-29T09:50:00.000+05:30

"Browsing centre-closes-now-i-have-to-rush" quiz:

1)identify the sixth in the list.A gr8 "sports" personality.

2) Identify the logo...wiki's micky....

3)put fundas
"I will not illegally download this movie.
I will not wait 20 years to make another movie
Global Warming did not eat my homework
Does any kid still do this anymore?
I will not waste chalk ."

http://www.simpsons-intros.com/Intro/2F12

4)"The crawl is such a hard thing because you have to be careful that you're not using too many words that people don't understand. It's like a poem. I showed the very first crawl to a bunch of friends of mine in the 1970s. It went on for six paragraphs with four sentences each. Brian De Palma was there...". De Palma helped to edit the text into the form used in the film[2]
iD the very very famous "crawl"

5)Id the cover of this famous first newsletter.(my fav "couple" were once in the club)

6)Connect Kadhalil vilundhaen,Evano oruvan(thought provoking film i identified with),Roja,Devadhaiyai kandaen.(exhaustive list but difficult to list all).

ANSWERS:

1,Thala "Ajith Kumar"- Tamil actor and a renowned rally/race car driver
2,Uncyclopaedia.http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
3,Simpson title gag,in which Bart repeats writing a new sentence in every episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_chalkboard_gags
4,
5,Homebrew club.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club
6,Films titles which have also songs in their names.KV was a wrong one.

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The Rectus abdominis Quiz

2007-11-18T09:32:00.000+05:30

The Rectus abdominis Quiz:

The Rectus abdominis is a long flat muscle, which extends along the whole length of the front of the abdomen, and is separated from its fellow of the opposite side by the linea alba.We know this better as "SIX PACK".

Now see if u could flex this six pack quiz.

1,In the Ramayana, Vishwamitra takes Rama and lakshmana with him to slay the demoness Tataka. During the course of the Journey, they often slept on the banks of Sarayu river. Vishvamitra did something to wake Rama up every morning before dawn so that he can do his rites. what did he do?

2,Connect

3,This company was started in 1945 by 2 brothers named _____ and a person named Ghulam Mohammed. The company logo was chosen with the names of the brothers and the name of Mohammed in it. After the partition of 1947, Mr.Mohammed left India and went on to become Pakisthan's first finance minister and later its governor general. Since Mohammed was no longer in the company, and worse still was in Pakisthan the company had to come up with an immediate explanation to explain its logo, which contained a reference to Mohammed in order to escape public antagonism. They came up with a new name for the company in 1948 by which name they are still known today. What company are we talking about?

4,Identify this "inventor" genius in the middle.

5,Connect the video with the following pic.
,

6:Connect

Extras: Put fundas

Q ,What is a "click and mortar" company?

ANSWERS:

1,Suprabadham
2,Madhavan's "Leukas" means white light and "Yevano Oruvan" is a remake of marathi film "Dombivilli east"
3,Mahindra and mohammed which became Mahindra and Mahindra.
4,Professor Shonku created by Satyajit ray.
5,Simon singh and the age of universe controversy.
6,Saawriya "inspired" by fyodor dostoevskys "white nights".Tamil film "Iyarkai" would also be a good connect.

extras:

1,formation of telugu desam.The wayward functioning of the Congress in the Andhra state in the 70s and the Andhras' anger over the way the Chief Minister, T. Anjaiah, was insulted in public by Rajiv Gandhi, who was then only the AICC secretary-general, at the Hyderabad airport changed the mood of the public which started looking for an alternative to the Congress. NTR fulfilled that need by espousing the cause of `aarukotla Andhrula atma gauravam' (self-respect of six-crore Andhras) and won the ensuing election.

2,a company which has both real world and virtual[net] presence like The Dabbawallahs.

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Quiz torrents

2007-11-05T09:14:00.000+05:30

Finally a torrent file on quiz.Yes I have uploaded a torrent of the last BSNL sports quiz{november 3} and its here
http://www.mininova.org/tor/976523

[you need a bit torrent client like bitcomet or azureus to download it]
Friends if you need torrent of any tv show or any video drop in a comment.I will make sure you get them.And also do help by uploading videos of quizzes or just by downloading them coz the more u download the more seeds are there for others to download.

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2007-10-31T19:10:00.000+05:30

Slideshow Quiz:

Today i stumbled upon a website known as Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ which enables users to share powerpoint presentations.I searched for "quiz" and found some good quizzes. I have posted them here.http://www.thetvquiz.blogspot.com/.Though there werent many quiz ppts,remember wikipedia too wasnt huge when it started.

I would like to make a sincere request to those quizers who are reading this.Please post the quiz presentation slides that u have/created and share the joy of quiz with others.It also adds permanence to ur quiz presentations.You need not worry about hard disc formatting or "lost in tansit" or any other data loss.You can enjoy ur quiz 4 etrnity and may be show it to ur grand children.And imagine the possibility of millions of views that u can get.

Present your fellow quizzers and the quizzing fraternity with ur poerpoint "presentations".

Looking forward to post and see some good quizzes in the future.

View Upload your own

For ur eyes only:

View Upload your own

Powerpoint or Ppt is a boon to quizzers.Gone are the days when TVs and OHPs were used for clumsy audio-video questions.Ppt is surely a "presentation" for quizzers.

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2007-10-25T13:10:00.000+05:30

Answers for youtube quiz:

1 Bravia

2 Skype

3 Backmasking

4 Fur de elise

5 Carl sagan

6 Carmina Burana

7 Wild strawberries

8 Luciano Pavarotti

9 Microsoft Wibdows

10 Feynman

Watch these videos:

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Youtube quiz

This is one quiz u will surely enjoy.Just identify these youtube videos.Some of the answers are in the video itself.So credit urself only if u can identify them b4 the answer appears.Post the ansrs in the comment section or mail it to pudhiaideas@gmail.com.Lets roll the videos.

1,Identify the ad in which a Glasgow tower block was covered in 70,000 litres of paint with the help of over 1400 separate explosions. This was filmed over a 10 day period in July 2006.Are you brave enough?

2, Simple one.Identify the former "invention" of the people who invented the one in this ad.

3, The song is Led Zeppelin's "The stairway to heaven" but in a different maanner.Whats the funda here?

4,I bet you would have heard this b4.But what is the name of the song?
Thanks to Ramkumar aka Kabalaa.

5, My fav.This is an xcerpt from a Tv serial which was once a super hit in the 80s.The guy who made the serial has also written a famous book by the same name and a sci-fi novel which was made into a film.Identify the person.[do listen to what he is saying coz its another question in itself}

6, This music piece is used in n number of films icluding some scenes in "Mudhalvan"[in the background as he walkslike Rajini after accomplishing good deeds in his CM post].Identify the music.

7, Thanks to Konangal film society, i could identify this famous dream sequel from one of Ingrid Bergmans film in Harsha Bhogles VISTA quiz.Can u2 identify the film?

8, This is the BBC intro flash during the 1990 Football World cup.Identify the famous voice in the background.[Have anyone heard the tenor like song used in bg in Mozhi film in the comedy scene in which Prakash Raj seemingly appears nude ?is it any famous song?]

9, If you can identify the product before the end of this ad,then u r surely a guessinius.

10,I am not joking if i say i hate to sit thru my college lectures.
Are u wondering u why i am boring u ith my story?I have just given u two clues in the above sentence.

For ur viewing pleasure only:

i thought of asking to identify the film.But since many of my friends loathe hindi songs i dropped the question.Nevertheless one of my favourite songs.Many "non hindians" believe its from Chak de India.But nahi,Its from Khosla ka Ghosla.

One of the many funny ads.

A gem of a commercial.

Mini Kong returns to rock?

No one was expected to get hurt watching this commercial.

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My qstns 4 BSNL sports quiz:
Hoping atleast one would be asked.

1,Connect the two pics
{Francois Rautenbach and Hansie Cronje}
ans:Hansie cronje's life made into film _"Hansie" with francois rautenbach playing hansie cronje.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071011/ennew_afp/entertainmentsafricafilmcricket_071011081723

2,Identify the personality connected with chess
.
ans:Professor Arpad elo after whom elo ratings are introduced.Many people think that the letters ELO are some kind of acronym, like FIDE or NASA. But they come from Arpad Emre Elo, born on August 25, 1903. Prof. Elo was a strong chess player (two draws against Rueben Fine!) and a physicist. He achieved fame by devising a new rating system that has gained universal acceptance.

3,With which famous Olympic match woulod you associate the photo with?
pic3
ans:blood in the water match.
The "Blood In The Water" match was a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and is arguably the most famous match in water polo history. The match, which happened on December 6, 1956, was played out against the background of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and saw Hungary defeat the USSR 4–0. The name was coined by the media after Hungarian player Ervin Zádor emerged from the pool during the last two minutes in the game with blood pouring from under his eye after being punched by a Soviet player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_the_Water_match

4 ,By the early decades of the 19th century,there was a great need for a chess set with pieces that were easy to use and universally recognized by chess players of diverse backgrounds. The solution, first released in 1849 by Hatton Garden, London England,which came to be known as X which are still in use today.

ans:Staunton chess set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staunton_chess_set#Old_style_chess_sets
The increased interest in the game of chess, particularly in international play during the late 18th century and early 19th century, brought about a renewed demand for a more universal model for chess pieces. The variety and styles of the conventional form begun in the 15th century had expanded tremendously by the beginning of the nineteenth century. Some of the more common conventional types popular during the period included the English Barleycorn chess set, the St. George chess set, the French Regence chess set, named after the Café de la Régence in Paris and the central European Selenus chess set. Most pieces were tall, easily tipped and cumbersome during play. But their major disadvantage was the uniformity of the pieces within a set. A player's unfamiliarity with an opponent's set could tragically alter the outcome of a game.

5,The lyrics of the song "Jago India" is Har raat, Har subha, Dekha hai khwaab yeh, Saara Hindustaan, Saara Hindustaan, Jaagoo India....'.What is its significance?

ans:Song penned by sreesanth b4 T20 WC to cheer team India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHP_gcgtR18

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2007-10-06T07:13:00.000+05:30

QUIZ with a LINK:

1,Connect the two images

link:http://www.artnewsblog.com/2006/04/joan-miro-google-logo.htm

2,X was spherical in shape. It was 0.579 metres in diameter and weighed 83.60 kilogrammes. Its hermetically sealed body was made of aluminium alloys, and its surface was polished and specially treated. It sent out a "beep-beep" radio signal through its four antennas. The signal was received by scientists and ham radio operators throughout the world. The signal continued until the transmitter batteries ran out on October 26, 1957.

Listen to this

http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/sputnik.au

and connect it with

4,Connect

6,Identify:

link:www.bittorrent.com

7,Put fundas

Apple Computer Inc, B’Tselem, C-SPAN, D-Link, E! Online, F-Secure, Gmail, H-Net, iTools,
Jennifer Lopez, K Desktop Environment, Council of Europe portal, Texas A&M University,
SBC Knowledge Network Explorer, O’Reilly Media, PFLAG.org, Q4music.com, The R Project
for Statistical Computing, McDonald’s, T-Mobile, whatUseek Web Search, V-Day, President
George W. Bush, X.Org, Yahoo! Messenger, Z Communications.

link:www.google.com

8,
What colors do the letters of the Google logo have, from left to
right?
a) Red – Blue – Green – Yellow – Green
b) Blue – Red – Yellow – Blue – Green – Red
c) Blue – Yellow – Purple – Yellow – Red – Blue

9,Identify

link:http://www.nothingsostrange.com/

and connect it with

10,Identify the film

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"The Who am i" quiz

2007-07-11T15:37:00.000+05:30

The "Who am i" quiz:

Click on the link below, select the "Who am i?" quiz and start playing.

http://www.historychannelindia.com/game.asp

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2007-07-09T20:49:00.000+05:30

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TV of the day

2007-07-06T01:42:00.000+05:30

The Tasty Visual of the day is

of an Afghan girl who was once featured on the cover of the National Geographic.Many years later the cover was later selected as one of the best covers of NG magazine,the reason being that her face was an icon for the plight of Afghan women. Then started an attempt to find the girl.Initially it was difficult.Finally they found her in an Afghan town and this time (inserted pic) was of a veiled tired face.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html

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Celebrity quiz

2007-07-02T00:46:00.000+05:30

Celebrity quiz:

How many times are we going to watch celebrities being quizzed about their chutzpah?boring?
i have lined up a plethora of celebrity guests from renaissance artists and percussion musicians to football heavywights and virtual worlds-all of them are waiting to quiz you.
So scroll down,meet them and dont forget to answers the questions they ask you.

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Podhigai Sports quiz june 30

2007-07-01T01:11:00.000+05:30

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2007-06-29T20:56:00.000+05:30

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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Podhigai Sports quiz june 23

2007-06-26T18:27:00.000+05:30

E mail questions:

CARRY OVER QSTNS:

OTHERS:

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The Sivaji Quiz...

2007-06-19T00:45:00.000+05:30

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 SaduguduSadugudu 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.

Review that i liked on Sivaji:http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=sivaji+hairstyle+motta+boss&btnG=Search&meta=

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.

2)Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,Spain.

3)Country of Origin Label after the "Chinese Melamine" crisis in US foods.

4)B to the L to the...Blaaze.

5)CPR -resuscitation.

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

6)Balalaika,a Russian folk instrument.

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.

Podhigai Sports quiz-june 16

2007-06-17T19:01:00.001+05:30

Miscellaneous quiz

2007-06-17T02:23:00.000+05:30

STARTER:
The San Antonio Spurs edged out the Cleveland Cavaliers 83-82 on Thursday to capture its third NBA championship in five years with a 4-0 finals series sweep. Identify the two superstars of the team who are now dubbed as the "Dynasty".

TODAYS QUIZ:

1)fill in the blanks in the following pic and connect it with the next one.

2)Yengae,yedharku,yerpadi?

3)Identify this famous Ballet dancer who was once the prime target of KGB.

4)Identify the new channel in the pipeline said to be dedicated to billions of Indians.

5)Complete the A-League:

6)No this is not from one of the fantastic fours.it is the close-up image of a body organ.Which part has such a geography?

7)Three smiles.the "i have done it" smile, the "am i posing good" smile and the "please finish this soon" smile.Identify the one in the middle.

8)Cast-a-Spell is a take off from Spell Bee.though not very inspiring,words are always intriguing.
But what is meant by "ubergeek"?

9)Identify the boxer who is trying to "make a mark" in Bollywood and also name the film in which he does a cameo.

10)Is he saying "Nan illingo" in Goundamani style?
Jokes apart what is the umpire signalling?

11)Something odd with the uniforms?Put fundas.

Extraas:
Identify this "not so stranger in the monitor".

Drop in ur ansers in the comments column or mail it to me pudhiaideas@gmail.com
Scintillating quizzing!

answer for e-mail questions:

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answer for e-mail questions for june 9 episode:

1)Monica Seles' record of 3 french open wins was equalled by Henin.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21860262-5012689,00.html

2)Ray Mali is the new acting president of aICC.

http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2007/jun/07mali.htm

3)Bayern Munich

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070607120210AA4hgFZ

Podhigai Sports quiz-june 9

2007-06-10T23:41:00.000+05:30

"Ka Mate"
Leader:

Ringa pakia!
Slap the hands against the thighs!
Uma tiraha!
Puff out the chest!
Turi whatia!
Bend the knees!
Hope whai ake!
Let the hip follow!
Waewae takahia kia kino!
Stamp the feet as hard as you can!

Leader:
Ka mate, ka mate
’Tis death, ‘tis death (or: I may die)

Team:
Ka ora, ka ora
’Tis life, ‘tis life (or: I may live)

Leader:
Ka mate, ka mate
’Tis death, ‘tis death

Team:
Ka ora, ka ora
’Tis life, ‘tis life

All:
Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru
This the hairy man that stands here...
Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā
…who brought the sun and caused it to shine
Ā upane, ka upane
A step upward, another step upward
Ā upane, ka upane
A step upward, another step upward
Whiti te rā, hī!
The sun shines!

Daily Quiz- June 7

2007-06-07T09:24:00.000+05:30

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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JUNE 5:

1)Identify the "could have been" flag and currency of a "could have been" nation.

2) Identify the Indian pace spear-head.

3)Simple.Identify the gentleman who is the uncrowned "raja of retail".I loved reading it and i would rcommend you to read it too.

4)Identify the high-profile occassion.

5) Name the the model of Sony Ericson and Fevicol who acted in an important role in the film BOYS.

6) T.P.Rajalakshmi was an actress, producer and the first tamil woman director. She got married and separated at the age of 7. She learnt dance and music and made her stage debut under the tutelage of Sankaradas Swamigal, considered the father of Modern Tamil Theater. In 1936, she directed the movie X (based on her first novel) and earned the recognition as the first woman director. She also acted in Sandow's Usha Sundari and Rajeswari.X is _______?

7) Identify the tamil poet.

8)The three-eyed smiley face used as the logo of a film in marketing was borrowed from the comic book "Transmetropolitan". Producers had to get permission from DC Comics to use it.In which film is the following three-eyed smiley face used?

9)Spamming JRD?Put fundas.

10)Identify the following desi spidey who is doing the rounds in Indian ad world.

Extraas:

What is the claim to fame of the following controversial personality?

answers:

1) Khalistan!Reemeber Bindransinghwalae and Operation Blue star?

2)Jhulan Goswami.

3)Kishore Biyani.

4)A public debate in which all the 8 presidential candidates get on stage and discuss things.

5)Kamal Chopra

6)Miss Kamala

7)Qaidae Millath

8)Evolution

9)The story goes that when Sudha Narayanamurthy was young she saw a TELCO ad which asked female candidates not to apply.Eneaged by this Sudha wrote the great JRD a letter condemning this gender bias.After a few days JRD invited her for interview and she became the first female TATA employee.(tHANKS to Hariharan of third EIE for mentioning the typo)

10)Makkad man.

Extras:Paula jones who created quite a stir in the nineties by accusing Clinton of sexual harassment.

Podhigai sports quiz june 2 sms winners

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Indru-June 4,2007.

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June 4,1959:

Fidel Castro took control of the sugar mills which were under US' hegemony.

Rajaji started th Swandhandhara party.

Tiananman Killings took lace in Beijing

King Birandra dies.

Podhigai Bsnl Sports Quiz-June 2

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For years, Indian fans have been unable to shut out two traumatic sporting memories of the ‘80s. Chetan Sharma’s last ball low full toss to Javed Miandad who hit it for a six in that 1986 Sharjah game against Pakistan is the more famous Hall of Shame nominee. But old timers still think that hockey goalkeeper Mir Ranjan Negi’s porous defence, in India’s humiliating 1-7 loss to Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games at New Delhi, was a bigger heart break.

Twenty-five years after those 70 minutes at the jam-packed National Stadium and subsequent unsubstantiated allegations of match-fixing, Bollywood is ready with a film that captures Negi’s life and game. Yash Raj production’s Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Chak de India, due for an August 10 release, isn’t just about the angst of the troubled goal-keeper but also about his redemption.

Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Shimit Amin of Ab Tak Chhappan fame, the bio-pic also captures Negi’s hour of glory that ensures a typically Bollywood happy ending. As coach of the national women’s team, Negi helped the team capture the gold at the Manchester Commonwealth Games, exactly two decades after the game where he let in seven goals.

A;TERRY JENNER.

http://ouchmytoe.com/cricket/archives/2007/05/28/terry-jenner-to-coach-in-chennai/

A:Gareth Hopkins

http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/296411.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

A:KUALA LUMPUR
www.rediff.com/sports/cchock01.htm

CHESS PUZZLE:

ANSWER 1:
ANSWER2:

Spell bee quiz

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Spell Bee quiz:

Following are some of the questions based on the Spell Bee program from ESPN.Since i cant ask u to spell 'burelage' or any other word for that matter,all the questions ask for anything but the spelling of the words.No googling.Mail me your answers to pudhiaideas@gmail.com;One who gets a perfect ten will get a pocket Oxford dictionary!

1)If "check mate" is for the king,what is it for the queen?(Yes,there is a term for it!)

2)Imagine that you and your friend decide to put a board saying "No Parking" outside
ur home.You have bought the board and you ask ur friend to bring it to the front of ur home.You would say "Bring that _________ ".Also imagine that you have just
graduated from Oxford and use only very standard and apt words.So Pls dont say board.

3This one is guessable.Saggitarius is an astrological symbol.But what does the
word "Saggital" refers to?

4)Which clinical condition is characterised by protruding eyeballs?

5)Psilosis is one of the obvious change in physical appearance of a patient who has
undergone a chemical treatment for cancer.What does "Psilosis" mean?

6)Most of the words which begin with "im" are negative words ie they have negative meanings like impoverished,impotent.What negative meaning does "impuissant" mean?

7)Choose the best:
"Plattdeutsch" is:
a)a silver palette
b)a German dialeact
c)an Italian dish
d)a kind of hamburger.

8)The next time you see a stamp look for the "burelage" at the back of a stamp to
check whether it is genuine.So whats burelage?

9)Your friend checkmates you in a game of chess.But somehow you manage to checkmate
him in the very next move.What should you say now?

10)"Chromotrichial" is a kind of portmanteu word.What does it mean?

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2007-06-02T08:41:00.001+05:30

TATA Crucible quiz finals

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TATA CRUCIBLE QUIZ:

Quiz Master:Giri Balasubramaniam.

DECODING MINDS:

WORLD OF TATA:

A:Sir Dorabji Tata.

LATERAL MINDS:

OTHER QUESTIONS:

A:Pareto principle.

A:these are known as "Pay-what-you-like" restaurants where you pay whatever you feel like paying.One of my friends told me that there is one such in kovai.

A:Podcasting.

A:STEN gun(from the first letters of the founders)

A:Colours in the flag of Bavaria.

A:The travel of the Ashes Urn from England to Australia for display.

A:the breaking of Dassler brothers to form Adidas and Puma.

A:Leverage Buy Out(a smaller company buying a Bigger One)

The winning team:

SMS winners for may 26 episode.

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Congratulation winners!

answer for e-mail questions:

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Answer for e-mail questions Asked on may 26 episode :

1)Fillipo Inzaghi scored the teo goals against Liverpool in the UEFA Cup final.

www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/news/kind=1/newsid=542669.html

2)Allan Donald.

http://content-www.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/294592.html

3)Bill Johnston.

http://www.cricketworld.com/australia/article/?aid=11511

Miscellaneous quiz

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MISC QUIZ:

1)Simple one to befin with:This guy should have sent shivers through his opposition with his "critically acclaimed" technique.He is also remembered as the originator of what many consider one of the most eloquent descriptions of the sport of cricket:
Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

Whos he?And what was his technique?

2)The person in the below pic is the one who wrote under the pen name "Paul French" and also formulated the three law of robotics.

first law:A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
second law:A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
third law:A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Whos he?

3)No this is not any graphic gimmicks.It is an image taken from a recent exhibition from the top players of tennis and was known as "BOS".Expand BOS.

4)WII is a leading _________ brand?

5)Which recent hindi film is loosely based on the following film?There are enough clues.

6)Identify the mascot.

7)Simple,Identify the famous personality.

8)Name the new american idol and what record does she hold?

9)The ocassion is the Oscars.Who is this bearded gentleman? George Lucas has stated that he was the inspiration for his Star Wars character Han Solo.

10)With which nobel layreate would you associate the following logo.Think Micro!

ANSWERS:

1)Douglas Jardine,Bodyline bowling.

Jardine never referred to this kind of short-pitched bowling as "bodyline", preferring to call it "Fast Leg Theory".

2)Isaac Asimov.Later, Asimov added the Zeroth Law: "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm"; the rest of the laws are modified sequentially to acknowledge this.

3)Battle of the surfaces which Nadal won.

4)Video game console.

The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: [wiː]) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. The console is the direct successor to the Nintendo GameCube. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3,[3] but it competes with both as part of the seventh generation of gaming systems.A distinguishing feature of the console is its wireless controller, the Wii Remote, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and can detect motion and rotation in three dimensions

5)Ta Ra Rum Pum.

6)Bravo of the world Military Games to be held from Oct 14 to Oct 21.

7)Satyajit Ray!In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing at the San Francisco International Film Festival; it was accepted on his behalf by actress Sharmila Tagore.

8)Jordin Sparks.She is the youngest winner of the award.

9)Francis Ford Coppola with the best director award for wht els but for "The Godfather" film.Does he look like Han Solo?

10)Mohammed Younus.The logo is that of Grameen phone which sponsored the India-Bangladesh series.