Identify

Identify the gentleman who has been encircled in the image:






















Cracked by 14 people - NKOB, paritosh, John Rebus, Kaushik, fathima, me, Ameya, Kabir, v.chandrashekar, Guneet, Navin Pai, Pankaj, Raveesh Mayya and mit

Answer: Nathuram Godse - Source

Connect

One word connects the 18th century Briton and the second image:











































Correct answers from Mainak, John Rebus, mit and Ameya.

Answer: Serendipity - Quoting John Rebus, "the pic is of Horace Walpole, who coined the word serendipity, which he derived from a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip, which is set in the island of Serendip, which is the old Persian name of modern Sri Lanka."

Identify

Identify this former F1 team owner, who achieved a first of sorts in 1990.






















This one went unattempted.

Answer: Aguri Suzuki, who became the first Asian on the F1 podium when he finished 3rd at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. He was also the owner of the Super Aguri F1 team that participated from 2006 to 2008.

Some Quiz Announcements

Corporate Quiz at SSCBS's Crescendo 2010

Participation: Team of 2. Open quiz. Corporates, students, etc. open to all, no reservations (like 3+3 which sometime becomes 4+2 & quizmaster says 'Can't do anything about it'), mixed teams allowed (even a corporate & a student can form a team), No entry fee.

Quizmaster: Rishabh Banthia

Date, Time & Venue: 6th Feb 2010, 12:00pm, Auditorium in Dilli Haat, Pitampura (5 mins walk from Netaji Subhash Place metro station)

Prizes: 1st - 10k; 2nd - 5k

Inter-college General Quiz (SSCBS Crescendo '10)

CRESCENDO 2010, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies
Annual Inter-college General Quiz - Intelligentsia 2010

Day & Date : Saturday, 6th February, 2010
Venue : Dilli Haat, Pitampura
Time: Registration begins at 10:00 am, Prelims at 10:30 am

Participation in teams of 2.

Kutub Quizzers Meet
Quiz Theme: Wikipedia (Todays) Featured Picture(s) (and surrounding periphery)

Venue: IIT D, 2L-II

Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010

Time: 2 pm

Quiz by: Sid Sen

Obligatory questions for the Kutub Quiz:

1. Architecture columnist Robert Campbell described this building as, “the ________ is always going to look unfinished. It also looks as if it's about to collapse. Columns tilt at scary angles. Walls teeter, swerve, and collide in random curves and angles. Materials change wherever you look: brick, mirror-surface steel, brushed aluminum, brightly colored paint, corrugated metal. Everything looks improvised, as if thrown up at the last moment. That's the point. The ________'s appearance is a metaphor for the freedom, daring, and creativity of the research that's supposed to occur inside it.” Id the fairly iconic building, subject matter of very strong opinions on either side.

2. This is possibly one of those multilingual puns, scientist names element after his native land, which just so happens to be the latin of his name. Id. scientist and element.

3. Id place and give the etymological contributions of this place

Answers below (select below to see hidden text)

1. MIT Stata Center (Wikipedia Featured Picture of the Day : Stata Center, Sunday 12 September, 2004)

2. Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran and Gallium: name originates either from "gallia" after his native land of France or possibly named after himself, as his name, "Le coq", is the French for "the rooster ", the Latin for which is "gallus". (Wikipedia Featured Pictured of the Day: Gallium, Tuesday May 18, 2004).

3. The Great Geysir, in the Haukadalur valley, Iceland, is the first geyser ever described in a printed source and the English word geyser derives from Geysir. (Wikipedia Featured Picture of the Day: Geyser, Saturday May 29, 2004)

Are those seven words?

Simpler and more workout-able. Whose tombstone is this?



Cracked by 10 #$%&s :)
Answer: George Carlin

Ab karo solve

1) A is the author of the book in the image shown above.

2) Originally a Hungarian, A married an Indian and converted to Hinduism.

3) A is mostly known for a very specific contribution, namely designing a famous award.

4) B was the first person to receive the award designed by A.

5) Coincidentally, B was A's son-in-law ( as per some sources, daughter's brother-in-law).

6) C is a well known actress. C, alongwith co-actor D have acted in the well known play E, which is directed by F.

7) The play E is the first Indian play to have been specially screened at the United Nations. It is running since its debut in 1993.

8) F is a well known theatre personality who has also directed only one movie - G.

9) The main supporting actor in G is played by H. H,apart from being a theatre actor , is also a stockbroker.

10) H's most famous role apart from the one in G is that of a bhakti poet I who features in the book whose image is given.

11) H is married to J, a well known TV personality. J played the role of Savita Virani on a famous TV show.

12) C's father K is a well known Indian poet.

13) Roads named after B and K lie adjacent to a fairly well known institution in Delhi - L.

Identify A-L

Answers

A is Savitribai Khanolkar, born Eve Yvonne Maday de Maros. She designed the Param Vir Chakra.
B is Major Somnath Sharma .
C and D are Shabana Azmi and Farooq Sheikh in Feroz (Abbas) Khan's (F) Tumhari Amrita (E).
G is Gandhi, My Father. H is Darshan Jariwala. I is Narasimha, or Narsi Mehta. J is Apara Mehta. K is Kaifi Azmi.

Kaifi Azmi Marg and Major Som Nath Sharma Marg lie adjacent to Delhi Public School, RK Puram.

Additional Trivia - The person on the cover of the book is Sant Jnanadev.

Cracked completely by John Rebus and Sudhakar Gupta. 5 others were nearly there too.

Belated Happy Republic Day to all !

QUIZZES AT INNOVISION

NSIT is organising its annual Technical festival INNOVISION from 29-31th January 2010 and as a part of the technical fest there are a series of quizzes.

CORPORATE QUIZ - The Business Quiz
Team Size: 3 or less Prizes: Rs. 5,000/-

GRAND QUIZ - The General Quiz
Team Size: 3 or less Prizes: Rs. 5,000/-

The schedule of events has been posted at http://inno.co.in.

A few other quizzes like AV Quiz , Science Quiz will also be taking place.

For additional info, contact Ankit Dhul @ 9899600423.

Build, Bond, Paste

Identify game and company that makes it.



Uncracked. Apologies for two back-to-back 'gotcha' questions.

Source: Pluggd.in
Answer: Farms by ibibo. Clearly plagiarised from Zynga's Farmville.

Episode One

Page taken from the first episode of which comic? Apologies for a somewhat NSFW question. [click on image to see full page]



Ankit and Ankit Mahendru were reading the right stuff. Many others went for the obvious wrong answer.

Source: Like you don't know
Answer: Saath Kahaaniyan - the new comic series from the Savita Bhabhi team

Give me 'X'.

Give me 'X'.Easy.

Itne daag kyun?

What is this? Where is it located?

Answer: This is Oscar Wilde's tombstone at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The tradition goes that his admirer's go kiss the monument while wearing lipstick, as is evident if you take a closer look at the picture.
An impressive lone crack by Pranita.

Identify

Identify.

Good Luck-> Bang-> Tough Luck

This is the supposed ancestor of which game ?

Answer :

This is a screenshot of The Cube, that is supposed to have inspired Minesweeper

Went unanswered..

Titanic gone bad, really bad. :-)

Sharat was perhaps right when he said he'll never be able to see Titanic the same way again after seeing this.
But for now, simply ID the person. :P

Answer: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs it is.
Cracked by Sarthak, Gokul and Kaushik.

Kutub's Quizzing Test Match

Kutub Quizzers invite you to the first of its kind, Quiz Test Match to be held at 2 LT2, IIT Delhi on Saturday, 9th Jan at 1:30 pm. Teams of 3.
Rules will be explained at the venue. Please mark this one down in your calenders, as this is a first of its kind.

Quizmasters:
Kunal Malhotra and Dr Bhattacharya

For further queries, call Kunal at 9871831718

Sutra - The Quiz Series at Mridang, IIM Indore

IIM Indore is organising their annual cultural festival Mridang from 15-17th January 2010 and as a part of the cultural fest there are a series of quizzes.
---------------------
Sŭtra - A Long Series of Questions [7 Quizzes in all]

Two Open Quizzes. 5 Inter College Quizzes. Series of Online Quizzes. Tons of Informals.
Team Size: 3 or less
Cross-college teams allowed
Registration Fee: Bring a pen

Open Fire - The General Open Quiz
Quizmaster - Arul Mani
Team Size: 3 or less. Open to all irrespective of age or affiliation
Sunday 17th Jan 2010
Prizes: Rs. 18,000/-

Tech-No-Prisoners – The Science and Technology Open Quiz
Tech-No-Prisoners is open to all irrespective of age or affiliation. Team Size: 3 or less
Prizes: Rs. 5,000/-

MELA-ge à trois – The Movies, Entertainment, Literature and Arts Quiz

Quizmaster: Satyajit Chetri
Saturday 16th Jan 2010
Prizes: Rs. 18,000/-

Akela – The Lone Wolf Quiz
Team Size: 1 Prizes: Rs. 4000/-

Sawaal Street - The Business Quiz
Team Size: 3 or less Prizes: Rs. 5,000/-

Khel Raiser – The Sports Quiz
Team Size: 3 or less Prizes: Rs. 5,000/-

Bharat Ek Khoj - The India Quiz
Team Size: 3 or less Prizes: Rs. 5,000/-

Googly - The Online Quiz Series

More details at http://www.iimi-mridang.com

Contact:
Debasish Misra | quiz@iimi-mridang.com | 92291-78900

The Shadys 2009

[Brought to you by The An(n)als of Improbable Quizzing at NSIT]

[Earlier Shadys here and here]

Firstly, a very Happy New Year to all of you. We return again with 2009's Shadys list.
There is much that we missed in 2009. We didnt go to Motilal Nehru , IP College for Women, or Gargi. I am sure they might have helped augment the list. For now, here goes :

Best Quiz Name

'Jigsaw' Jigyasa at JMC. X marks the spot, indeed.

Best Team Name "Why the hell is Roshan Shankar here?" - a very relevant question by Azeez and Shankhayan from IIT Delhi.

Yudhisthira Ashwathama Moment of the Year
Manimugdha , telling the Bawana Boys Katoch and Pande that "The connect is (in)exhaustive." The boys were leading by a slender margin with 85 points till the LVC round but got mixed up and ended quite far from the podium. Other teams who didnt bother listening to the quizmaster scored as many as 130 points in the round alone.

Agyaat Vaas Award of the Year
Sonia Gandhi, for managing to look like this at some point of time in history.




Best Connect of the Year

At SRCC's Crossroads festival, the quizmaster asks "Connect Patel Chest and a place in Mumbai where it all started." The Answer being Crossroads. Go figure, again.

Answer of the Year

Not an attempt at self-glorification, but this fluke was nearly on the scale of the Escape from L.A. basketball scene [Watch it here]. The Question [at the WQC 2009] was "The world’s longest reigning monarch was Pepi II (total reign 94 years). Places 2 to 5 in the list of longest reigning monarchs go to kings from Korea, China and Swaziland. At No6, with a total reign of over 72 years, who is the best known westerner in the list?" This is the thought process that followed :

"Ok, think of a random European King....hmmm....Louis,Henry,Charlemagne...Louis sounds fine...I guess there should be a number too....hmm...which number...hmmm...14 seems fine...Louis the XIV then.

And Louis the XIV it was.

"Karo Zyada ka Iraada" Award aka "Tere Baap ka Kya Jaayega" Award- To all of you (should I name them?) who so very gracefully cheat in prelims.Oh so sorry-are inspired by others' prelims sheets.

Most Trying Hard Quizzer Award for the Year (aka Martin Scorsese Award for Excellence )
A couple of years ago, there was a cash prize for this award at select colleges. We pay homage to those glorious times and award it to Harish Alagappa , for his Nobel Quiz solo charge, where he turned up with 2 non quizzers, qualified for finals, and ended a commendable 4th. Very Reminiscent of Anang Rawat's performance mentioned here.

Steve Bucknor Silent Assassin Award-goes to Abhinav Katoch for killer answers,a killer smile and a silent demeanour. Abhinav Katoch is also awarded the Chhupa Rustam award for his work in other fields :)

Kate Winslet "The Reader" Award for the best books read-goes to Mr.Soumya Pande for reading Erotica along with Franz Kafka's The Trial. Reason offered:-"Heavy Book hai yaar,thoda pressure relieve karna padhta hai"

Black Mamba Chamakta Sitaara of the Year-Miss Varunie Shashni of IIT Delhi,for making quizzers across Delhi,to come up with reasons to talk to the Quiz Secretary of IIT
Delhi,for things other than prize money and certificates :)

Best Actor

Avinash Mudaliar for the portrayal of a certain man whose pet dialogues would be "Brilliant", and "Put your Hands together !!", all mouthed in an unmistakeable South Indian accent; at the FMS Fiesta Quiz. Indeed, we did put our hands together.

Best Prediction of the Year

Dr. Bhattacharya [At the FMS Fiesta Quiz hosted by Avinash Mudaliar] - " And now he'll say that a lot can happen over a cup of coffee. "

30 seconds later,

Avinash Mudaliar - "A lot can happen over a cup of coffee".

Best Recommendation Taken of the Year-to Mr. Joy Bhattacharya who apart from yelling "I have a Super Answer.I know this" at quizzes,took advice on the best "websites" for "stuff" around.Kolkata Knight Riders might truly have something different in their "training videos".Too many quotes used :)

The "It Boy" of Delhi Quizzing-for the third year in a row-Mr.Udit Anand from NSIT for being an honest man,nice guy,compulsive question noter and a sweet looker. :)

Best of Luck for Even Semester Award and Rising Entrepreneur Award-both go to Mr.Nitesh Bhasin.Self Explanatory.

"Main hoon Al Gore,Environment ko saaf karoonga door to door" Award to Mr.Dinesh Kapur,who has left quizzing effectively for greener pastures.

Lewis Hamilton "Taa-lainnt Hai Ismain" Award-to Mademoiselle(spelling learnt :P) Krittika Adhikary.Talent hai ladki main.

"Bulla Rakhta Hoon Khulla=Open Quizzer of the Year"-goes to Kunal Malhotra, for his continued dedication to Kutub Quizzers and for umm... breaking some tags.

Please do attend The Quizzing Test Match - a quiz with a unique format, being organised by Kutub Quizzers tentatively on 9th/10th January at IIT Delhi.

Syed Burhanur Rehman Award for Lifetime Achievement

And the award goes to Syed Burhanur Rehman. When you are the Dadasaheb Phalke of Shady DU Quizzing, it is only fair that the award be named after you. And also awarded to you.

Battle Cry of the Year
Rallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !

Originated by Anang Rawat, has become the word for all NSIT quizzers when a few rounds of quizzing are over and the points tally is looking unfavorable.

Not that we have forgotten our beloved BKM. He is lurking, waiting for his moment to arrive. :)

Miscellaneous Awards

Intolerable Cruelty Award

Arul Mani, for asking us to make a choice out of C(38,8) combinations and then connecting those 8. He continues with his ways at Go Ogle 2010 .

Baara Mulkon ki Police Jisse Dhoond Rahi Hai Award

goes to Zizzyphus from the Daly Haal for answering questions no man has answered before.

Users may add more to the comments section of this post. But for now, this is all we have.We'll meet you same time, next year!

One more.

Connect:

Hint: See labels, now and then.

One Shot

1969- Bhuvan Shome
1972- Bawarchi
1977- Shatranj Ke Khiladi
1989- Batwara
1996- Tere Mere Sapne
2001- Lagaan
2003- Khushi
Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost
Fun2shh
2004- Rudraksh
Insaaf
2005- Parineeta
2007- Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2008- Jodha Akbar

All above films have one common element to them. What?

NTPC Electron 2009 - National Round Review

NTPC Electron 2009 conducted its national round on 23rd December, with 15 teams from all over the country, at the Power Management Institute, Noida.

The Quizmasters for the evening were Andrew Sloat (Semi-finals) and Derek O’ Brien (for the finals). 3 Sets of semi-finals were held, from where the top two from each set qualified for the finals. Andrew did a fair job of conducting the semi-finals.

After the semi-finals, the finalists included ISB, Hyderabad; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; NM ITM, Mumbai; SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai; NSIT, Delhi and ICFAI Business School Hyderabad.

Derek O’ Brien did a good job of conducting the finals. Even though the content was poor at some places and decent at best, he does manage to pull it off nonetheless. Full marks to him for making it an ‘inclusive’ quiz, if I may call it so, in the sense that the audience was kept involved and in good spirits, even if that meant the content of the finals was ‘HR-theme based’ questions, in Derek's words and disappointing, in mine.

The standard was not very uniform, and that can hurt a lot in a big quiz. Nonetheless, ISB Hyderabad ran away with the quiz right from the start, with a fabulous display of quizzing. ICFAI Business School came 2nd, SP Jain came third, followed by NSIT, Jadavpur Univ and NM ITM respectively. Belated best wishes to the ISB team, who had exams starting 2 days after the finals. :-)

ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad were represented as always by Raja Satish and co. (whose annual sightings at NTPC have been documented here). Later, Raja Satish went on to say, "I won't be coming next year. I'll be graduating as this is my 2nd year." We wish him all the best for his graduation, but I won't be surprised to see him again next year, considering his great love for NTPC Electron and the graciousness with which NTPC continues to welcome him year after year. Anyway, peace.

Sample Questions:
1. What is a ganga-jamuna saree?
2. What was made by Fariborz Sahba by importing marble from Greece?
3. In royal kingdoms, certain recipes were considered to be closely guarded secrets, so much so that women of the house were not even allowed to enter the kitchen. Why was this done?
4.Complete the quote: The only way of making money in Las Vegas is to _____.
5. ID the Book.














6. ID the movie cover:














Happy New Year to all! :-)

What's for sale?

Answer: Cracked by Rohit, Manu, varun. mit, nikhil, Vinay and paritosh.