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)