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The Shadys 2007

I know the NSIT-QC Blog is currently facing a deluge of Roshan proportions with tons of quiz reviews but with the year-end here and almost every other blog doing a best and worst of 2007, here's my list.
And the Shadys go to…

Fashion Statement of the Year
Manan Lalit of IIT Kanpur with his white sweater and muffler combo.

Adulation of the Year
Girl from Miranda House doing the Rapid Fire round at Tempest 2007, after Kaustuv (of Hindu) cracked it (the Rapid Fire, that is) left, right and centre - a shy, slightly embarrassed and almost inaudible – "wow" escaped her quivering lips.
Close second: Girl at the Registration Desk of Hans Raj College's Chemistry Society Quiz - "NSIT! NSIT! NSIT!" Followed by - "Electronics! Electronics! Electronics!". Add heavy breathing and an exclamation seen only in... you know.

Best Quizzers of the Year
The team from Moti Lal Nehru College who won the quiz at Event Horizon even though they were unable to identify this obscure little guy called - Eminem.

Honest Comment of the Year
"Sometimes you have to bow to the kingpin." – Moti Lal Nehru College Professor after recanting his earlier announcement that NSIT (Roshan and Udit) had won the quiz. Finally, the team from MLNC walked away with the prize.

Spelling Bee Champion of the Year
Girl at registration desk at IP College for Women who spelled my name as Debash-eee-sh. Yes. With a triple-e.

Rout of the Year
Sharat and Manan at SGTB Khalsa College. S and M win with 115 points. Khalsa comes joint second with Khalsa at -5 points.

Fest Name of the Year
KémE 2007 – Chemistry Society Fest of Hans Raj College. I could say KémE again and again. On a loop. All day long.

Prize of the Year
Kirori Mal College with their grand prize of the Letter M of the World Book Encyclopedia. The proud winners were – Debasish and Anang Rawat. Anang kept it and has been looking for a certain hindi word in it ever since.

Announcer of the Year
Girl at Kirori Mal College Physics Society Quiz – "And next up we have Shararat from NSIT".

Bluff of the Year
Debasish at the KMC Physics Society Quiz, who identified the Chinese-Japanese-Asian-looking Miss Universe 2007 as Lee. When her name was revealed as Yuri, he went on to claim that her name was actually Yuri Lee, got points for it, resulting in a tie-breaker and then victory. Also worth noting is according to the official Miss Universe website, Miss Universe 2007 is a certain Miss Riyo Mori.

Quizzing Rule of the Year
Questions shall pass only if the team that is asked the question says "Pass". A rule first seen at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, and then later resurfaced at the KMC Physics Society Quiz.

Still-Going-Strong-Battle-Cry of the Year
Ban Ki Moon

Feel free to add to the Shadys in the comments. My next post will be a quiz. God promise.

Quiz Review - Hans R

Quizzy Days

Two quizzes.One day.

College=Hansraj College
Organizers=Chemistry Society as part of KemE 2007:-)

Expected to be another of those shady run of the mill quizzes that are held in the morning,with very little prize money.....This was everything that it wasn't supposed to be.
The quiz started half an hour late...huge achievement:-) but was organized decently enough.There was rather obvious rigging involving 1 team.Other than that,the quiz had no major problems.
Prelims were quite shady,which led to an expectation of Capital of Burkina Faso type of questions but the finals weren't too bad.There was no solving chemistry questions which came as a big relief.
Decent job.

PRELIMS

1.National sport of Spain?
2.In which year did Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen win their Respective Beauty pageant crowns?
3.Write 68 in binary form.
4.Where did the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny begin?
5.Which date is celebrated as International Womens rights day?
6.Expand FIR.
7.Convert ideal human body temperature on Kelvin scale.
8.Which gas is a natural ripening agent?
and 2 more questions

FINALS

1.In which country is Lake Superior present?
2.First Srilankan woman Prime Minister?
3.Connect Golda Meir,Maragaret Thatcher,Indira Gandhi and Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
4.Connect a Japanese dish,NBA,storm and city in Japan.
5.Question on Marilyn Manson and the band.
6.Wrote under Mary Westmacott----writer of the longest running play in the world,Mousetrap and first recipient of Mystery Writers Association award.
and many more :-)

Results----Sharat and Roshan--1st
Team from Hansraj---2nd

College=Ramjas College
Organizers=Physics Society and teachers
This quiz was again a pleasant surprise.Decent prize money.Good to OK type of questions.As Sharat sir calls them..they are just right questions.They took only 4 teams to the finals.And there was constant discussion in between the Finals.With ladies trying to hog chocolates when
1.They don't deserve it
2.They don't need it.
Some controversy over a few questions.And the person who was reading the questions in the finals had neither made them/read them/didn't know how to read.But friends did help him out rather well.

Prelims
1.Who said about Mahatma Gandhi..."generations will come by and no one will be able to believe that such a man walked this earth
2.Which 19th century writer was born in the year of the sighting of the Halley's comet and predicted successfully his death when it came again.
3.Name of spacecraft in which Rakesh Sharma went to space.
4.What does DC stand for in Washington DC
5.Which bird can fly backwards
6.Full form of HBO
Finals
1.IDing DeBroglie,Homi Bhabha,Satyendranath Bose and Vikram Sarabhai.
2.Which club did Baichung Bhutia play for in England?
3.What surface is Wimbledon played on?
4.Chief of F1
5.Writer of Gone with the wind
6.Band that gets its name from an Aldous Huxley novel
7.Dystopia that gave the phrase "Big Brother is Watching"
8. In 1768 this was first compiled and its origin is doubted to be French or English. DIctionary of the Arts and Natural Sciences.
9.Regional name=Sorrah which it has now beeen renamed by..Place of geographical importance in India.
10.Exiled Bengali writer from Bangladesh now living in India.

RESULTS---Sharat and Roshan--1st

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Quiz Review - Acharya Narendra Dev College

Reviews

Part 2

College= Acharya Narendra Dev College,Kalkaji
Organizers= College students and teachers
Date=21st December 2007

Got to know of this quiz in on the morning of the 21st when I went to Motilal Nehru College..which was a separate fiasco altogether that day...Detailed posts already written:-)
Big bucks.Expected Biz Bigwigs were there.Still managed to rush and take the prelims alone while Udit aaraam se waltzed in just as the prelims were over:-).Organizers were nice and courteous delaying the quiz by half an hour.Seemed that it might be nice.Sponsored by Metlife. So money was decently big.Total=10K

Now this is where it started to go downhill for the seasoned good quizzers,Business quizzers and bright for us,the new kids on the block:-).Despite being widely publicized(where I don't know though),there were questions to normailze the Business Quiz in the prelims.The prelims were MCQ and true and False type.Big thumbs Down.Was despised big time by the crowd who specially came for this---CBS people and some other grown up people.

We topped the prelims and won the quiz.:-) The quiz was conducted in a very organized manner but it had too many letdowns/problems.

1.Most teams who made it were tukkabaaz waaley:-) I won't say I exclude myself from that:-)..But we managed to hit everything(nearly) in the quiz later.Reasons explained as we continue.A word of appreciation to the audience including Rishabh,Lohit-CBS,Bhatta and Sayeed..who mananged to garner a lot of audience prizes.Bravo!
2.The prelims had questions on sports.The format was poor.this was not a "Business Quiz".I would be complaining if I hadn't gotten everything.
3.The finals...dry questions were directly lifted from the first 10 results (say) when you type Business Quiz on Google.There was a time when Rishabh+Lohit(CBS) and us on stage were predicting the next question that would be asked.90% of the time we were right.All very good questions but lifted.
4.In the prelims.No weightage given to B-Questions and in the finals if a team was surging ahead...when scoring in the early rounds where 20,10,5 points.Here again to normalize it bonus points of the order of 50 and 100 points were awarded if you answered the 2-3 questions on the trot.
PRELIMS
1.Who did a puja on he banks of the Invisble river "saraswati" and Narmada's confluence for some religious and political reason in 2005?
2.Jim Laker got his 10 wicket haul where?
3.Chairman of Amnesty International?
4.Who said about Mahtama gandhi "A seditious fakir going up to the Emperor and negotiating freedom in his white one piece cloth and..".something on the derogatory line.
5.Pan Parag was started in ?
6.Google reported how many billion pages in May 2006?
7.Where did Shashi Tharoor get his degree on diplomacy..University that is?
8.Nhava Sheva is a port in which state?
9.A question that related ACC/Holcim and one another Cement company?
10.Questions on Industry regulations/Tax laws.

Finals

1. This company was called Lutsuko and later changed its name to something that literally means 'to lose money'. Which one?
2. Which car in Spanish means 'Charming'?
3) Which international brand had an ad campaign - 'Tomorrow is mine' and had signed Rahul Dravid for the campaign?
4) This organisation has 1356 members and has the ad-line "the world put stock on us". Which organisation?
5) Of whom did Shahrukh Khan once say that 'our figures are similar'?
6) Who designs jewellery for the company called Artex?
7) What is a coin with a minting error called ?
8) What is the name of the new FM channel introduced by India Today?
9) What is 'Agfa' the trade mark for?
10) Which international airline uses the slogan "Smooth As Silk" in its advertisements?

11.Car which means grace?
12.Expand ZEN
13.Identification questions of logos of Ferrari,Porsche,ABN AMRO,Logitech,Some Irish airlines,Mazda.
14.Identifying Kiran Mazumdar Shaw,Ramdorai,KV Kamath,Azim Premji,Jack Welch.
15.What post and what company did Jack Welch represent?
16.Time hailed KM Shaw as what?
17.KM Shaw was on the Board of directors of which Institution?
18.Kamath heads which bank?
19.Ramadorai's company?
20."Where muscles matter"----tagline of?

For more questions visit www.businessquiz.com :-)

Results:- Roshan and Udit-1st
Devesh and friend-Venky-2nd

Roshan

Quiz Review - Hans Raj College

Reviews
Part 1

Collection of questions and reviews over different quizzes...many of which were original thus consuming my time in typing and some lifts from sites which are first results when you type quiz/Business quiz on google.

Starting in reverse order from the end of the quizzing season

College=Hansraj College
Organizers= T.I.M.E
Date=22nd December 2007

The last quiz of the season left a bitter taste in the mouth.As a part of their Confluence festival,the college completely outsourced the quiz to TIME and did not start on time.Time on poster was 0930 hours and time it started was 1130 hours.No finals.Just a written round.Poorly done.Though that meant with MCQs anyone had a chance.I have time to do my MBA and I don't like organizations like this even if they have 51.5% entrants to IIM.No way sir.

Questions

1.What does Kautilya's arthashastra deal with?
2.When was the East India Company started?
3.India is the largest producer of wheat,milk,groundnut or one more thing that wasn't the answer?:-)
4.Who wrote Ananda Math?
5.Where was the first stock exchange in India started?
6.Ancient texts in Law India were written by?
7.Father of the cellular phone?
and something like that.

Results-Unknown.Not that I care.

Roshan

Identify The Product

Answer

QoTD

Designed by Manish Bharadia, sponsored by an NRI and manufactured by a US toy making company with a production unit in China - What am I talking about?

Chemistry lesson plus French Airlines

In sort of addition to Sharat's post , the 'wonderful' quiz at MLNC (Moti Lal Nehru College) had a few controversial answers :

1. The Quiz master claimed at MLNC that Aeroflot(Russian Carrier) was a French airlines (or was it Aerofort) Anyway, seeing the French civil aviation site, i have been unable to see that Airline operating in France, infact i have been unable to find the airlines by that name anywhere, except a site which mentions the name but it also calls Cathay Pacific Cathey Pacitic so i assume thats a typo. The only French airlines which can operate in France are

Air France
Aircalin
Air Austral
Brit Air
Corsair
Icare Franche Comté
Europe Airpost
Twin Jet

Corsair and Air France are the only international ones.
Refrence : French DGCA (Direction Générale de l'Aviation civile)

2. Plus we got a question on the origin of "Satyameva Jayate" (satyam eva jayate सत्यमेव जयते) , the correct answer is Mundaka Upanishad (3.1.6), but they claim the answer is Rigveda. You may check the rough english text here , read the 3.1.6

Truth alone prevails, not falsehood. By truth the path is laid out, the Way of the Gods, on which the seers, whose every desire is satisfied, proceed to the Highest Abode of the True.

3. MLNC quiz conductors also claimed that RDX is actually cyclohexane, guess what ?

its not !

Cyclohexane ::






RDX (IUPAC name : 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane) ::

Quiz Review- MLNC Event Horizon

Warning: This is going to be a long post.

As mentioned in the earlier post by Roshan, quizzing season is at its fag end. And at the fag end came today's quiz at Motilal Nehru College. The quiz today was so remarkable that there was a unanimous decision at its end to post a review on this blog.

First the Good things:

1) Discovering that all participants were being treated to a fairly sumptuous lunch, (so what if the canteen looked like an ammunition depot).

2) Being given pens and even a college physics magazine that made us think that the quiz would be likewise- meticulously arranged and well coordinated.

3) The Coordinator himself. Though he made a few bloopers, which shall be described subsequently, this was one guy who kept his calm throughout and seemed keen to help out.

Now the Bad things:

1) The Quiz Prelims: Questions included:

• What is the alternative name of RDX?
• What is yellow cake?
• What is the name of the 7 year old girl who cracked the 10th Board exams recently?
• What was the earlier name of Motilal Nehru College.

Shady questions indeed. Add to that scoring of +2, -1 and you know that things arent progressing the way they should.

2) The body language of volunteers and everyone around organising the quiz. These guys and gals didnt seem to know how to conduct a quiz without mayhem(also they believed Sudoku can be passed off as "Gaming"). General confusion and an atmosphere of disorder was prevalent.

and finally, the Ugly part:(this is going to be the longest)

1) the Quiz Finals: undoubtedly the worst quiz I have encountered in this season so far. The mood of the participants oscillated from anger- vociferously expressed as well as pent-up, stoic silences and at times, helpless laughter. Some of the objectionable parts:

• Threatening participants of disqualification if they as much as dared to talk to other participants.
• Proclaiming that the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was known as 'Desert Storm'(not even Operation Desert Storm). The Actual answer is 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' and though one of the teams did mention this, their answer was not declared as correct.
• Audiences yelling out the answers meant for the teams and getting the question scrapped.
• Giving the easiest questions to the home team and vague trivia for the others.(i.e. rigging the quiz to ensure a home team win.)
  
• Audios and visuals varying in difficulty. There was 'Mount Rushmore' as well as 'Pi-supposedly a satellite of Saturn that I haven't been able to find on the Net despite my best efforts.
• The biggest blooper of 'em all. Question: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was copied from 2 books written in the 80s. Name them. Now there was only one book called The Holy Blood and The holy Grail by Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent. Unfortunately, the quiz master decided that there were 2 books- The Holy Blood and another one, The Holy Grail, hence ensuring that despite a correct answer given, the team in question was not given marks. This lead to a huge hullabaloo in the room and despite the intervention of a prof, things could not be resolved.
• The skewed scoring pattern that meant that anyone who got the only question in the last round right would win the quiz. Due to the ruckus as described in the above point, Team 1 went from potential winners to last. Sad indeed.

• The extremely high handed behavior of <---name removed--->, (who, as per her own claims, left DCE Mechanical to take up Physics Hons. at Motilal Nehru. Her dictatorial stand on decisions combined with her utter ignorance of the themes of the questions quizzing ensured that all the Teams had a tough time. All I can say is that the finalists need to be commended for excellent anger-management and avoiding violence on stage.

I guess the diatribe has been long enough. I end with my conversation with the Friendly Coordinator:

Me: Thank you, that was the worst quiz of my life.
Coordinator: Welcome. Next year round, we shall ensure that the quiz shall be even more worsest.
Me: Thank you once again.

The Quizzers of the Delhi Quizzing Circuit

The Quizzers

As this quizzing season now dies a slow death,as a first year I wish to on behalf of the facchcha lot thank the quizzers of the New Delhi circuit for making it a great time for us:-) Now in-ur-end-oes involved over here.

The reviews for the quizzes participated in will follow and then, separate posts on whatever total questions we can post :-)We may not be bright but then,we are meticulous :-)

Back to profiling these quizzers to whom we have been introduced to,

Dr.Bhattacharya aka Bhatta aka The Grand Daddy of Delhi Quizzing-----A legendary quizzer,whose best friends through time have been Lincoln,Hitler and Monroe...Jokes apart,his Business quiz at SRCC was a great job done(review follows)..very workable and the gyaanvardhak....is seen at College quizzes too often...but a knowledgable man,desrervedly starting this list.

Sayeed-----Dethroned by Sharat and Manan last year at Miranda,he is a force to be reckoned with.If he doesn't qualify he eats all the audience chocolates...Best of luck fo the IAS mate:-)

Kunal...not Funny---Seen him around,in the First Family of New Delhi Quizzing,The limited part of the Sports Quiz I saw was very good.Aagey dekhte hain..more experiences should follow...

Rawat----Anang/Anirvan/Anand.....eats up all the questions in infinite bounce,is committed to DD,eats the costliest item on the menu....George Soros in the making

DD---aka Debasish aka DD jee....It may seem convoluted but the guy is not..straight,mufat,in your face,great at cracking sexual in-ur-endoes....Debasish is not the average 4th year...after all he had his first peg....a big earner mind you...though with money he is Ebenezer Scrooge...sabka paisa khaaya hai

Jaideep Shankar Jagannathan----aka JJ The name takes a line....NSIT/DCE topper legend....he is famous for making two member teams as Jaideep and Jagannath...Qualifies convincingly always...Authority on Western music and Literature..Most of the time I just nod along

Abhimanyu---aka Abx....he is seen only on the big money events....bachchon ke liye baaki choti moti cheezein chhod dete hain....IEEE also eats up his time...but the only great 3rd year quizzer I know.

Sharat---Naughty Nambissan aka Shararat aka Nasty Nambissan aka Shadymaster....his run this year has been exhillarating...he looks at posters with disdain and says yeh tau jeet hi liya...aur posters dikhao....authority and my nemesis in Indian mythology---he will surely pickup Cindy Crawford-like someday with Answers like Sushma and Bones of Dadichi....

Manan----IIT Kanpur..he travels along with the NSIT troupe and helps us gain respectability....and few wows around...is an Aamir Khan fan with his scarf...forms one half of the shady brothers along with Sharat....Pustak Mahal and Wildlife king....Nice quiz chooser....Paise waala again

Ankit ka Bhavanaon ka aadmi aka Wise techie....A committed quizzer with biz and tech leanings...Tech wise guru...a Mach 3 worshipper...Debasish fan..Has his quizzing ethics in place and has nice blogs...there...more money for you now..:-)

Kishan aka ICE Shadymaster----A hard worker,committed but seen rarely these days due to his projects/padhai(?)...Talks passionately of cantilever bridges...All in all he is another Southie in the Quizclub...Need to see more of him...

Harish Alagappa---Writes in Chaos Verse...a Radihead junkie...A "Do you know this" man..Averse to losing...has the best hair...Own the copyright to 42

Nitesh Bhasin....Bhasin the sutta man...Bollywood ka Boss.....can describe George Clooney as Gay and the singer and the sunglasses but cannot identify Careless Whisper...knows parinda,Gardish and what not...Intent on finishing his degree on time...IIM seems a step away with his intense GD preparation..Note:- He knows Manohar Comics too

Kaustuv---The "Bura" Bengali man who manages to qualify everywhere even if he is alone...but is tricked into splitting his money with DD...Hindu's last Samurai as people note

Rishabh Banthia---The CBS lad who knows just about everything in the Biz world and manages to not be in your face and obnoxious about it...A good CBS lad...thats a rarity you see

Lohit..CBS...is disappointed by normalized Business quizzes...passionate...though sometimes he faces an overflow of emotions crisis...

Rohit/Nikhil......Master Bates and the small guy...Inhein fight maarni aati hai...They are schizophrenic like John Nash and think that they are the only ones that qualified...Famous quote---"I know this"...Good guys though

Neha...CBS..dunt know her though Ma'am if you are reading this..it is spelt ADAM SANDLER

Justin/Stephens lot--seniors---The "What happened man" in their fluent Malayalee accent they manage to disarm and win you over...A force to reckon with..

Sujay/Noel/Siddharth etc..Stephens...Facchas..last seen creating a ruckus at LSR...they are zealous about quizzing,demand their Lays and they are the future of Stephens quizzing
Iitains...Backdoor entry..they make the quizzers wait for eternity...put up a good fight...But great "fight" maarne waale...Rendezvous,4 quizzes,good standard,and Aatma=Arul Mani (KQA) was an experience though.
Fachchas
Udit---Jaideep in the making...his percentage,meticulous question noting down and Western music knowledge is anything to go by...his winnings have been growing day by day...and all fachchas to trouble him if you can't get anything off the stingy seniors..His prelims curse is broken and is more famous for the Hey Gorgeous quote

Sahil/Ankit Mahedru---tipped to be Manorama quizzers..they don't go with the crowd:-)...Jamia champions...they are shady but need tuning
Surya/Rohil/Peter...need to see more of them....wish them luck for the IIT..or maybe they have a much better social life than me:-)

ME=Roshan= "I am what I am" or "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh"

If you want any others mentioned...comments are open...Reviews and questions of the quizzes held in this the quizzing season,in a week

Ek sawaal
Courtesy (Biz quiz SRCC-Dr.Bhattacharya)
Name the now non-defunct clothing company,which has in its family line a test cricketer of yesteryears and explain why it was in demand during the making of BR Chopra's Mahabharata:-)

As Anirvan=Rawat pointed out...Answers when you answer...modifications/additions when you comment.

Roshan

Question of the day
Identify this machine, give its purpose and also tell why it was in news recently.
Clue: It was mentioned at one of the quizzes recently.

Hi all. Due to the unfortunate break-up of me and my quiz partner I am in search of a ‘decent’ quizzer from NSIT. I know this post is not suitable for the blog but please understand the gravity of the situation (bhavnao ko samjho).
My specialties--> Sports, India, politics, bollywood.
Any interested guy should be preferably good in English music and movies, literature, mythology. Do leave in your comments if you are interested.

One Shot

X was uncertain about the resurrection of Jesus and demanded to feel Jesus' wounds before being convinced. This is the origin of the phrase Y. After seeing Jesus alive and receiving the opportunity to touch his wounds, X professed his faith in Jesus. X is said to have landed in India in AD 52 and was the first to preach Christianity in India. Give me X and Y.

Quiz At Venky - Review

Well, at the start of it, there were no real expectations from anyone with regard to the standard of quizzing... u know, "IMS Sponsored, prizes worth 12000 bucks..etc.." make you think at best one can get some discount coupons for IMS Courses or some cheap chinese made gadgets as prizes. Also, being IMS sponsored, there was always that element of extremely vague and fact-based questions to be expected and, although the prize on offer was cash, but the questions were pretty shady....

The entire seminar hall was completely packed when the prelims started.
1st Ques: Name the school in Gurgaon where the recent killing of a student took place". That itself set the tone for how the quiz was going to progress. The prelims had a mixed bag of easy questions and some extremely shady questions... Several questions on Boris Becker were asked along with many on film trivia during the course of the quiz.

The prelims and finals were separated by a Group Discussion taking place in the same area. The prelims were at 1130hrs while the finals started at 1600 hrs. The entire scene resembled a fish market but provided some much-needed humor to endure the endless wait.

7 members (3 teams and 1 mixed team) from NSIT made it to the finals. The finals were also a mixed bag, where on one hand we had questions like the full form of SUN in SUN Microsystems, there were questions like what is the capital of Maldives and Seychelles. A uniform standard was not maintained throughout and that made it a little disappointing.

The 1st prize went to Harish (amity) and Nitesh (BVCOE) while there was a three-way tie for second place.

Some of the questions of the finals are given below:
1. Connect: T.V. Serial Rajni, the movie Disco Dancer and the movie Girlfriend.
2. On which rivers are Melbourne and Adelaide situated?
3. He was nicknamed 'scarface' during the 2006 fifa world cup and has become a hot property these days. Also, he recently converted to Islam to marry his Algerian girlfriend. Give his converted name and also the name of his wife. (!!!!!!!!)
4. What is the name of Saif Ali Khan's character from Omkara in the original Othello.
5. The constituency from where Pranab Mukherjee contested elections for Lok Sabha seat.
6. What products did the movie Gardish promote, supposedly the first time such promotion was done.
7. Jascha Richter is the lead singer of which band. It has toured india sometime in the past 3 years, specifically Shillong.
8. In IT lingo, expand NOISE
9. Who is said to be the father of local self government in India
10. The largest selling english daily in Guwahati.
11. The automaker that was the main sponsor of the Australian Open last year.
12. Yanam, Mahe, Karaikal, __________ Fill in the blank.
12. The first disco in Delhi.
13. The song 'wish you were here' was based on whom?
14. The song With or Without You is from which U2 album
15.What is the Munchausen syndrome?
16. In which prodcut is mercaptan used?
17. The writer of one of the english versions of Arabian Nites.
18. The movie that was promoted during the 1986 Australasia Cup.
19. The movie with the advertising tag-line "List is life".
20. Joe Elliot is lead singer of which band?

Quiz at Hansraj

At last I struck gold in the quizzing circuit, the last one from NSIT quizzers to do so. What I am going to tell you may shock you. The quiz organizers stated the rules. 15 questions in 90 seconds. Yes, you have read it right, 6 seconds per question. After the prelims, we were tied with 2 other teams for the 3rd and 4th places on stage. So there was a tie breaker...the quizmaster told me to whisper the answer in his ear...another absurdity which was ended by me by suggesting the idea of writing on sheets.
In which country were dogs worshipped as gods?(even its an anagram).
Another one followed, Which country has the lowest GDP? How the hell am I supposed to know that?

I literally had a fight with the quizmaster over this question.
Q. A body moving in a circular motion has ________ acceleration.
Our answer >>> centripetal.
Their answer >> > variable.
After that what followed were lines like ' decision of the quizmaster is final'....'please don't create a fuss'...
What is the cash prize given to a khel ratna awardee? I was insane enough to know that ... ...a laptop belonging to one of the teams had to be fixed for the visual rounds (proof that the team was surely involved in the preparation of the quiz)...but it couldn’t be done... so, Round Cancelled...before the last round at my request the scores were announced and not surprisingly we had been allotted 10 points less. At the end we were 2nd at 80 points...adrift from the bugged team of hansraj by 10 points (the same which weren't given to us for the acceleration one). At the end the quiz master still had the guts to invite me for the quiz next year too. I am seriously thinking of taking his cell number and pasting it in one of the DTC buses under the tagline..." khujli, khansi, petdard ke liye sampark karein"...
And now i am revealing the names of the culprits. They are from the 'Zoological and Botany Society ' of hansraj...slap them where ever you see them. They are a menace to the society who organize events so pathetically.

** The best thing about the quiz was the refreshments of Mc aloo burger.


For full report visit my blog.

Q. What is common to the following footballers?-
Ronaldinho (FC Barcelona)
Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy)
Francisco Fonseca (UANL Tigres)
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
Lukas Podolski (Bayern Munich)
David Villa (Valencia)
Kaká (AC Milan)
Juninho (Olympique Lyonnais)
Tranquillo Barnetta (Bayer Leverkusen)
Kim Nam-Il (Suwon Samsung Bluewings)

Question of the day

Connect:

Today Trivia

Today is this man's birthday. Identify him. And after you do, read about him on the net.

Questions

1. Connect the following:

a)

b) Woolwich

c)

2. Again connect:

a) Manchester United

b) Zwickau (Hint: Its a place in Germany)

c)

Quiz Review-Fusillade 2007 at FMS,Delhi

After a long pounding at the nearly month-long semester exams, I was more than eager to grab a good quizzing opportunity. This quiz seemed to be perfect- a b-school host, a fairly well known quizmaster and of course- good prizes. Hence, one didn't expect the quiz to disappoint as it did.


The Prelims were fairly good. Some questions:
1. What did Rippan Kapoor, an airline purser establish in 1979 with Rs.50 lying on his mother's dining table?

2. What is the Portuguese term for 'bat'?(Very Good Question)

3. This company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A specific scheme of the company was banned way back in 1993 since it greatly increased the no. of traffic violations. The scheme still continues in India. name the company and the scheme.(Another good question)

4. Identify the Brand


The finals were quite disappointing, since they were a strange mix of terribly easy questions and some very obscure trivia. Sample this:

1. This person graduated from the London International School of Business and Technology. He is better known for his marital exploits. Who?

2. How will you interpret a merger between Baidyanath and a company that started off as an Indian one?

The first one is very obscure and the other is damn simple. I'll let everyone have a shot at them.

Some more questions:-
3. Which company has started the "Little Drops Of Joy" campaign and why?(No marks for guessing the company)

4. What in the World of Cuisine is known as a 'Heat Wave'?(This question earned Nitesh Bhasin his audience prize)

5. A pic of an Air India plane with blue lines painted in the middle. This was a plane taken from Czech Airlines. There are 3 terms associated with this kind of a process. Name all 3 and what they mean.

Rest assured, by the time the answers to these are posted, you will know why exactly the quiz final was a long drawn-out affair.

One Shot

A. Jacques is a painter who runs into Marthe as she is about to commit suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris.
B. Mario, a shy man new in Venice sees Natalia crying on a bridge and then they start talking.
C. The story of - A happy go lucky guy, ___ and ______ is narrated by a prostitute with a heart of gold.
Connect all three.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Teen Sawaal

1. Britannic,Olympic,X
2.Marathon,X,Artemisium
3. Pipelines under the Oceanwas a WW2 operation by British scientists, oil companies and armed forces to construct underseaoil pipelines under the English Channel. The scheme was developed by AC Hartley, after Admiral Mountbatten initiated the concept. Allied forces on the European continent required a tremendous amount of fuel. Pipelines were considered necessary to relieve dependence on oil tankers, which could be slowed by bad weather, were susceptible to german submarines.The Operation was known via a more famous cartoon character.Who?
Answers when you answer
R

Quiz Updates

1. Hans Raj College, DU
General Quiz
Quizmaster: Manimugdh Sharma
Date: Saturday, December 8 2007
Time: 0900 h
Total Prize Money: Rs. 10k

2. Faculty of Management Studies, DU
Business Quiz
Quizmaster: Gautam Bhimani
Date: Sunday, December 9 2007
Members Per Team: 2
Total Prize Money: Rs. 50k.

Yl Goog

1. The word X is a portmanteau of Y and Z, referring to those who profess Y's philosophy in a robot-like manner. An X believes that Y has never done anything wrong and every idea which spawned from Y's head, no matter how mundane the issue, is gospel. Give me X.

2. Some background on A: His father, a medical researcher, is considered a leading authority on intestinal gas. (He bills himself as "The Man Who Gave Status to Flatus and Class to Gas.") One of A's great uncles, Robert May, wrote "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-the book, that is; another great uncle, Johnny Marks, later wrote the song.
In 2006, he was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World". Identify A.

3. Has anybody won both the Oscar and the Nobel? If yes, name the person(s).

4. Many of us have read X's essays in school. X had this to say on Sikhism: That if some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the only means of guiding them.
X played himself in a 1967 anti-war movie Aman. He won the Nobel in literature in 1950. Identify.

5. In Japan, what are ‘Soft Beckhams’, ‘Popular Beckhams’ and ‘Hardcore Beckhams’ types of? (Question Credit: indiauncut.com)

6. This controversial parliamentarian was sent to a seminary after schooling, to train as a priest. The rigours of priesthood did not suit him, however, and he rebelled against the authorities of the seminary. He was the first Defence Minister to visit the Siachen glacier, and subsequently visited the glacier 17 more times and took necessay steps to lessen the burden on soldiers patrolling the glaciers. Identify.

Question of the Day

Since I seem to be hunted down for my source ;-)...My previous 2 unformatted questions and my next 8 Question of the Day series will have questions...cogged word to word...from Hutchinson Encylopedia 2005 Home Edition..History/Music/Arts/Sports section..Any other info?

Here it is:-)

A quote by X

"The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God."

X got the prize from a New York City hotel owner Raymond Orteig for $25,000 for doing Y.Y then took 20 hours 21 minutes.X also invented an "artificial heart" between 1931 and 1935. He developed it for a French surgeon Alexis Carrel and biologist whose research included experiments in keeping organs alive outside the body. X was also nicknamed "Lone Eagle" apart from a more famous play on his name.
Identify X and Y.

Answers when you answer.
R

Quiz at JMC

A History Quiz is being organized at Jesus and Mary College as part of their fest(6-7 Dec, 07)
Date: 6th December, 2007.
Subject: General History for prelims and "History of Delhi and Places of Interest in Delhi" for finals.
Time: Registration starts at 11 am, quiz starts at 12p.m.
Teams: 2 members per team and max 2 teams per college.
Prizes - 1st Prize - 2500Rs.
2nd Prize - 1500 Rs.
3rd Prize - 1000 Rs.
For any other details, contact:
Nivita - 9891883763


Obligatory Question:
Which brand’s baseline was initially “Making flying as affordable as a pair of jeans”?

Quiz at Hindu : Quark

A general quiz at Hindu : Quark being organised by the Physics Department.
Prize money is Rs. 3000.
Date : 6th Dec.
Timings are 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Contact : Arka , 9968283081

Question
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What do Fulham, West Ham United , Everton and Sporting Lisbon have in common ?

Connect

Midnight Dilemma

hi all,

This is Rishabh a.k.a Rusty , 3rd yr kiit bhubaneshwar .
My first set of ques thru rohil.


1.This was found by the KGB in the 1960's as a part of ingenious spy equipment with Francis Gary Powers whose U2 plane was shot over the Soviet Union while on a espionage mission.
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly bought this product to promote its new drugs.
The sales of this product fell almost by 50% after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

What are we talking about ?

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2.In 1998 a french hacker named Jerome Rota and a German hacker Max Morice decide to reverse engineer a Microsoft codec. Their work in this led Rota to start working on what would become a standard in this field. what product did he help develop ?

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3.straight and simple:what was saddam hussain's codename while in us custody??

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4.------ is a Taiwanese company specializing in the manufacturing of computing, communications, and consumer electronics devices.
their corporate motto or vision is bringing enjoyment and quality to life.

The company was established in 1984, initially known as Acer Peripherals Inc then Acer CM (Communications and Multimedia), and finally rebranded as in December 2001

(easiest of the lot)

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5.The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as ------ , is the rustic 125-acre (0.5 km²) mountain retreat of the President of the United States. ----- is part of the Catoctin Mountain Park recreational area in Frederick County, Maryland, 60 miles north of Washington, D.C. It was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Shangri-La and later renamed after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower.

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6. ------ was originally part of the punk rock scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Their early releases for independent label Lookout! Records earned them a grassroots fanbase, some of whom felt alienated when the band signed to a major label. Nevertheless, their major label debut Dookie became a breakout success in 1994 and eventually sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone. As a result,----- was widely credited, along with fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States. immediate follow-up albums did not achieve the massive success of Dookie,but they were still successful.
info:Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums).

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7.Located on the "desert coast" of the U.S. state of Florida, X is described as the world's largest private estate; "cost: no man can say" . Built on an immense "private mountain" constructed from twenty thousand tons of marble, the estate boasts a forest of one hundred thousand trees, a championship-quality golf course, a Venetian-style canal with gondolas, and an extensive zoo and aquarium stocked with a menagerie of animals. Central to the estate X proper, the castle-like mansion (reportedly built from stones taken from other, lesser palaces) that serves as Z's home and repository for his enormous collection of paintings, statues, and other antiquities and objets d'art.

In X did Y

A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:

who or what or where are X,Y,Z?

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Answers in a day =)

A Few Posting Guidelines

Since many new members have joined and finally the qc is witnessing a flood of posts. I'd like to put in a few posting guidelines:

1) Do not cut/copy questions from another application like Word/Notepad or any other site to blogger, or if you do, make sure the font uniformity is not changed. (Roshan-this is mentioned keeping your previous "Question of the Day" post in mind.)

2)Avoid excessive use of Capitals, unless felt absolutely necessary. If you wish to highlight anything, try the bold or italics or italics-cum-bold option. It looks much better.

3) As seen in a few posts, it is not a bad idea to give out useful links for information within the questions or with the answers, but avoid excessively long links-unless they are worth it.

4) For the sake of being scrupulous- mention the sources of your questions. While answering- mention where you got the answer from(e.g. googled/wikied).

5) Try keeping pics as small as possible. However they should be distinguishable to the naked eye ;). And of course- do rename the pics so as not to give away the answers outright.

I believe thats it. If anyone has any points to add, then please do comment. Should I end the post on a dry note? Nah.

1)Connect the following:(try doing this one without googling, its quite easy)

Slats, Jackie,Tanner,The Fourth, Leo.

Another One-

2)Identify this Gentleman. Yes, he is Indian.

Quiz at JMC

Theres an Art and Architecture Quiz ---Dharohar at Jesus and Mary College(JMC) on the 6th of December 2007 starts at 11am I think.Teams of 2.Be punctual :-)

R

Connect

Alright. Connect these 3 pics. Wont be very hard I guess.

Sitters, once again

1. X massacred the bowling attack comprising Bishen Singh Bedi and Prasanna in an Irani Trophy game during the 70s, which prompted the commentator to compare his big hitting to C K Nayadu. Hence, the nickname Y was born. Give me both X and Y.

2. David Cameron has driven the G-Wiz, though he didn't really comment on it. G-Wiz is a favourite punching bag of Jeremy Clarkson. Not only has he made it lose to the Renault Alpine A610, but also to a wooden table. :)
One guy has called it the "sweetest four-wheeled self-propelled invention to hit the London streets since the first horseless carriage arrived at the end of the 19th century." How do we better know it back home.

3. Z's lines from a Pepsi ad: My name is Z. I hope you haven't forgotten me. Whatever happened, why it happened I do not know... On the field or outside the field, I won't keep quite. Hu ha...
Identify Z. [Some text has been removed from the lines.]

Question of the Day

Connect these three if they are in order the most famous examples of something in 3X-2X-1X order.
Hint:-NSIT 1st year code 106

Anwer when you answer:-)
Roshan

THE CURSED QUESTIONS

No ,not these are not questions that are “macho” in any way!!!Gyaan-vardhak prashnon ka samooh!!!

1. If you intend to play the strongest man on Earth, you will either die or end up in the weakest position possible.

This is the statement of the M curse.What is M?

2. Aramaic word---for disappear

Latin word ---“I command with authority”

Latin word----“I torture”…Sitter…What is this group called?

3. A curse is an apparent curse on odd-numbered A films that dooms them to poor reception in terms of drawing power and/or critical opinion. In contrast, even-numbered A films seemingly "can do no wrong" in either department.
4. The curse of the X is the superstition that any composer of symphonies, from Y onwards, will die soon after writing his or her own X.Give me both X and Y.
5. The Z curse refers to a series of unfortunate events that have happened to the famed Z family.While these events could have happened to any family, some have referred to the continual misfortune of the Z family as a curse. Several members of the Z family have died from unnatural causes.What is Z?
6. The name, applied to team or individual scores of 111, 222 etc, is thought to refer to X's lost eye, arm and leg (Nelson actually had both of his legs intact, the third missing body part is mythical) Also, some consider that '111' represents the three stumps without the bails, which symbolizes being out.X?

7. William Henry Harrison Abraham Lincoln James Garfield William McKinley Warren Harding Franklin Roosevelt John Kennedy Ronald Reagan make up this exhaustive list to this curse.Name the curse and what it signifies.Hint:-Some people hope George Bush joins this list ;-).Links are purposeful for you to read about these presidents.

8. Robert Johnson, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain are all believed to have been affected by the curse of L. L is a number.Read through the links too!!

9. Identify this famous movie curse object and the movie.

10. The N curse is the most famous curse in professional snooker. The World Snooker Championships held at N Theatre at Sheffield.The curse is that no one since 1977 has successfully defended the title here. Vague hint:- J.R.D.Tata

Until next time
Answers in 2-3 days
Roshan

ANSWER OF THE DAY:-)

I know you might kill me for this:-)
The connect of the 7 pictures.....

1- is a premier elecric guitar brand called Univox.This is specifically called the Hi-flier.Bangalore Hi-Fliers.

2- Is the Madurai deity Veeran.------Chennai Veeran.

3- Asiatic Lion.Sher----------Sher-e-Jallandhar..

4- Faraday's Dynamo.-------Chandigarh Dynamos

5- Sultan Azlan Shah----Hockey connect---Hyderabad Sultans.

6- Steel process---Orissa Steelers

7- Chhatrapati Shivaji-----Maratha Warriors.

All PHL teams.

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Q.

This work’s final movement slows to poco andane after the eighth variation, a double fugue based on a theme the composer had earlier written as a contredanse. English horns figure prominently in the third movement trio and in a fugue that follows the trio in the second movement’s Funeral March. A solo horn also announces the recapitulation in the first movement before the rest of the orchestra. It opens with two short E-flat major chords and concluding with a set of variations on a theme used in The Creatures of Prometheus. Identify this piece originally dedicated to Napoleon.

PS---Search all the terms you don't know in this sentence...:-)Introduction to Western classical.

IDENTIFY AND CONNECT. PLEASE BE SPECIFIC

A very good resource link

Hi all

I happened to stroll over to this link over here which contains the info about India's latest quizzes and their questions as well. Do check the linked quiz sites which contain some amazing quizzes. I had lot of fun trying them. Maybe we will ask them to add our blog into that list as well.

http://rohitnair.wordpress.com

Enjoy

Updates

A few updates are in order:-

1.Kurtosis-2007 at Hindu College-General Quiz-I'll describe it like Sharat in a cricket match's manner.

First T-20 match between India and Pakistan.Pakistan with Misbah's help cruising at a good pace.Last over by Sreesanth.2 to win off 2 balls.Misbah is run out and Pakistan is "bowled out" by Uthappa,Sehwag and Bhajji---the unusual Suspects.

Same thing with me and Udit.Qualified.Oscillated between 1st and 2nd for the entire quiz and then on the last 2 questions.Bam.4th.Painfully 4th yet again.

Some questions

1.What part of clothing was invented for and after the Charge of the Light Brigade-Oct 25,1854?This war is also the inspiration for the Trooper btw.
2.Daughter of Himavan and Meena,brought to earth by Bhagirath?
3.Perfect number in Maths is 6,Whats the perfect number in Literature?
4.Code name given for Germany's invasion into Russia/Soviet Union?
5.First Hindi speech at the Un General Assembly.
6.Indian winner of Arthur C Clarke award in science fiction for 1997?Book and person?
7.Name of Indian camp at Antarctica in 1982?
8.Band which inspired Led Zeppelin's name.
9.Pink Floyd name origin.
10.Stanley Kubrick/Norman Miller based questions.

Quizzes coming up:-

1.Some biz quiz/eco quiz at Stephens....on 4th of December...find out details from someone and please post.

2.GENERAL QUIZ AT HINDU ON 5th DEC
THE ZOOLOGY SOCIETY ,"GENESIS" OF HINDU COLLEGE IS ORGANISING ITS FEST ON 4 TH ND 5TH DECEMBER. GENERAL QUIZ details
date:5th DEC
time:12:30
PRIZES WORTH RS 3000 TO BE WON.

Thats all Folks.

Roshan

Sitters.

1. X: I'm X, I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
[laughter and applause from audience]
X: I don't find that particularly funny.
Identify X.

2.
Identify the movie and the lead actor (female).


3. Steve Wozniak : iWoz :: Steve Jobs : ?

4. AFAIK, only two Indian actors have done advertisements for both Pepsi and Coke. Name both.

5. "Oh, I love Tom & Jerry. I have grown up watching Tom & Jerry, and that's where I got a lot of ideas for doing action. I think I have learnt a lot from Tom & Jerry. It's surprising, but a lot of my earlier action was copied from Tom & Jerry.

"In ______ ______ ______, there's a scene in which I'm hanging from a helicopter and then I swoop down and pick up ______ ______ off the ground. This is what I saw when Tom puts on wings and comes down and picks up Jerry and he wants to eat him. The eating part I missed out; that I didn't do. So I used to imagine the whole thing and make and adapt the cartoon figures for real life and try and do it."
Whose quote?

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Since no one seems to answer my last connect..Heres te answer..the first picture is that of a Mockingbird,2nd of Random birds,Third is the rear window of a car and the 4th is Champagne...So To kill a Mockingbird
Birds
Rear Window
Champagne

Masterpieces by Alfred Hitchcock.

DOUBLE SHOT FOR DECEMBER DAY 1

1.Connect and explain the 3 pictures.



2.Connect again these 7 pictures.