Online Quiz Results

Online Quiz Series 2013 are as follows in the order of positions secured:

1. Dipesh Gogia
2. V K Handa
3. Alpana Saha

Winners are requested to mail their name, contact number and residential address to nsitqc@gmail.com by 9 PM, 17th March, 2013 so that the prizes can be sent to them.

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Answers to Online Quiz Series: Day 5:
1. Zorro
Inspired by Robin hoodHe had horses named Tornado and PhantomInspired the Batman character.
2. Countries/empires where the former formal deliberative assemblies were called "Diets"

3. Bethlehem Steel , Founded by Joseph Wharton, and now headed

and controlled by Arcelor Mittal Inc.

Online Quiz Series: Day 5

1. Connect:

2. Connect:

3. Connect:

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Answers to yesterday's Online Quiz Series: Day 4
1. Trident. It represents the Toaist triad. A subclass of gladiators used them. Fishermen in older times used it and its on the flag of barbados. (The yellow thing is the royal standard of barbados)
2. These are the only films for which Steven Spielberg has only been nominated for Academy Awards which were not for Best Direction.
3. Celebrities with pieces of legislation named after them. Snooki, Steven Tyler, Tim Tebow, Britney Spears.

Online Quiz Series: Day 4

1. Connect:

2. Connect: 

3. Connect:

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Answers to yesterday's Online Quiz Series: Day 3

1. This connects to the plays written by Woody Allen.

Pic 1 : The Floating Light Bulb.
Pic 2 : From A to Z
Pic 3 : Don't Drink this Water.
Pic 4 : Central Park West (A TV series poster is given here, which shares the same name ) 

2. Nectar

3. Debt free nations - Palau, Liechtenstein, Brunei, British Virgin Islands, Macau

Online Quiz Series: Day 3

1.  Connect to a personality:

2.  The word X is derived from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning “defeat” and “death”. Though talked about famously in mythology, now it lends its name to a lowly substance, though of great importance in its own field.All twenty normal amino acids are found in various varieties of X. What is X?

3. Connect

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Answers to yesterday's Online Quiz Series: Day 2
1. Twin towns or Sister cities of Delhi
2.  HP Lovecraft
ST Joshi -  Lovecraft expert

Stephen King - deeply inspired by Lovecraft

DT - The Dark Eternal Night is based on Nyartholep, by Lovercraft

Chaosium Inc - makes the series of games “Call of the Cthulu”, based on Lovecraft’s Cthulu mythos

Supernatural - Lovecraft makes an appearance as a character in season 6
3. Queen’s Park FC of Scotland and Newell’s Old boys of Argentina are the only two clubs to have had all their players represent the national team(i.e. , Argentina for NOB and Scotland for QPFC) in a single game

Online Quiz Series: Day 2

1. Connect the various cities marked on the map attached at the following link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rwsmmamr7tr9k03/map.jpg
or
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BydhUORV1NNeamd6YTlDbU9KMTQ/edit?usp=sharing

                                       

2. Connect:

                                              

3. What unique distinction do these two clubs have in common?

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Answers to yesterday's Online Quiz Series: Day 1

1. X - Brajesh Desai

    Y  - Owner of Rajhans Group. 

    Z  - Sachin Tendulkar. And the consignment in question is Sachin's Ferrari. He bought it   from the little master back in 2011.

2. Actors who were posthumously awarded/nominated for the Best Actor/Actress Academy Award.

3. These are the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature. Clockwise from top: Water Margin, Romance of the three kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West. The fifth one The Plum in the Golden Vase has been banned from most of its existence because of it's explicit descriptions of sex. Hence, controversially inexhaustible. 

Online Quiz Series: Day 1

1. X happens to be leading a Gujarat based Y Group since its inception. He is first-generation entrepreneur, and has been an instrumental force behind the success of Y Group.

Back in 2011, X hit headlines for inking a deal, with another famous Indian Z. When asked about the details of the deal, X replied that I and the other famous Indian had a right to privacy. When X's consignment was being driven to his place, it generated a lot of public curiosity. The public excitement reached such a high, that X had to shift the consignment to a remote and undisclosed place.
Id X, Y, Z.

2. Connect 

3. What makes the given set of pictures controversially inexhaustible? 

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Online Quiz Results

The results of the Online Quiz Series 2012 are as follows in the order of positions secured:

1. Jayakanthan.

2. Aadish Rakhecha.

3. Guneet Malik.

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Answers to Online Quiz Series: Day 5:

1.Demotion of Pluto to a Dwarf Planet, thus leaving only 8 proper planets in the solar system, and thus the change of the mnemonic from My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas to My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Noodles.

2. Internet fads: owling,teapotting,planking,etc.

3. Rosetta Stone.

4. Movie is Roadside Prophets and the group is Symbionese Liberation Army.

5. Characters from the novel Brave New World.

Online Quiz Series: Day 5

*1. What event in 2006 led to a "cuisine change" from a decidedly Italian menu to the domain of the Chinese?

2. Connect

*3. Connect.

4. Identify the movie shown in the image below and also the name of the group the character shown belongs to.
*5. Connect

The criteria for tie breaker is:
1 The questions 1 ,3 and 5 are star marked.
2 If criteria 1 fails then criteria of sudden death will prevail.

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Answers to Online Quiz Series: Day 4:

1 Write the Future Ad

2 Jeff Kodosky the father of LabVIEW.

3 CHUCK.

4 Hand of God.

5 Music Festivals.

Online Quiz Series: Day 4

1. Connect.

2. Identify the person X who is known as the father of Y. Give both X and Y.

3. Identify the comic.

4. Connect.

5. Connect.

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Answers to Online Quiz Series: Day 3:

1 Theories about the birth/death of the Universe: Birth - Big Bang, Big Bounce; Death - Big Crunch, Big Rip.

2 Molon Labe/Come and take them.

3 Dita Parlo.

4 We Need to Talk About Kevin.

5 Scott Pilgrim.

Online Quiz Series: Day 3

1. Connect :

2. Connect :

3. Connect :

4. Which movie is being parodied here?

5. Connect :

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Answers to Online Quiz Series : Day 2 :

1. Things show in the opening credits of TV series "The Big Bang Theory"
2. Alumni of Mayo College, Ajmer
3. Game Freak
4. Matthew Epstein, created GooglePleaseHire.Me which featured a
famous video resume.
5. Lyrics in the Black Eyed Peas song "Where is the love?" - "In the
U.S.A, the big C.I.A / The bloods & the crips, and the KKK"

Online Quiz Series: Day 2

1. Connect (Inexhaustive)

2. Connect (Inexhaustive)

3. Identify the logo.

4. Identify him and what is his claim to fame?

5. Connect

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Answers to yesterday's Online Quiz Series: Day 1

1. American Progress, Manifest Destiny
2. The New Yorker's first cover illustration and mascot Eustace Tilley
3. Poets of the Fall
4. Trader Vic's
5. Movies starring the lead actors from Friends

Online Quiz Series:Day 1

1. Identify the painting and the belief it depicts.

2. The image served as an inspiration for what?

3. Identify the logo.

4. Identify the restaurant chain.

5. Connect.

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Online Quiz Update

The Online Quiz, being conducted as a part of the run-up to the NSIT Quiz Fest, will start at 8:00 PM sharp on the NSIT Quiz Club Blog (http://nsit-qc.blogspot.in/) on the 5th of February.
RULES AND REGULATIONS:

• 5-question sets will be posted everyday till the 9th of February at 8:00PM.
• Participation is open to all.
• Participants should mail the answers (in a numbered format) to the NSIT Quiz Club at nsitqc@gmail.com anytime in between 8:00 PM on the day of the particular question-set to 6:00 PM the next day. Please do not post the answers in the comments section.
• A scorecard will be maintained (which can be viewed by everyone) which will be updated daily accordingly to the marks you obtain out of 5.
• After the 5 days, the Top 3 cumulative score-holders will get prizes during the NSIT Quiz Fest. In case the winners are from outside Delhi, the prizes will be mailed to them.

So 5th February, 8:00 PM, you just have to be online, and on the NSIT Quiz Club Blog.

The results of the Online Quiz Series

The Online Quiz Series 2011 has concluded and we have a winner! Tanya Mehta of LSR has been crowned the winner of the third edition, fending off very close competition from Guneet Malik of SRM University, who was only a tad late in terms of submission of entries.
The final tabulated scorecard can be found here.

Edit: P.S. However, the NSIT Quiz Club has decided to award prizes to both Tanya Mehta and Guneet Malik, owing to the fact that both performed quite well, and deserved to win. We will be getting in touch with them shortly.

Online Quiz Series: Set 5

1. This picture, taken shortly before her death, made headlines and exposed the inability of the government officials and authorities to respond promptly in an emergency. Identify the girl.

Answer: Omayra Sánchez
2. Identify both.

Answer: Ingrid Bergman and Ernest Hemingway

3. This is the cover of a book to some extent. Gimme fundae on why it was considered eerily prophetic?

Answer: Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan was written in 1898 and written by Morgan Robertson. The story was very similar to how the Titanic sank 14 years later. More here.

4. Identify the actress.
Answer: Tun Tun aka Uma Devi Khatri.

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The Quiz remains open till 8:30 pm on Friday. The winner will be announced shortly.
The quiz is open to all.

The final scorecard has been compiled here. Tanya Mehta has won, though Guneet also had the same score but took longer to submit his entries. Congratulations to Tanya for winning the series. We will be contacting her shortly.

Online Quiz Series : Set 4

The NSIT Quiz Fest is sponsored by Britannia, Punjab National Bank, Indian Oil Corporation and apparel sponsor being Myntra.

This is the fourth set for the online quiz series is as follows :-

Question 1.
Id the creature.

Answer: Vampire Squid. Vampire Octopus also fetches you points.

Question 2:

Connect the following five:


Answer: The song, "Ranaji" from Gulaal. :-) See more here.

Question 3:

X's most famous short story is named after this place in Punjab, Pakistan. Some of his stories were also translated into English in 2009.


Answer: Saadat Hasan Manto

Question 4:

Id the winemaker.


Answer: Coppola Winery Reserves. We're being lenient and giving points for Francis Ford Coppola as well.

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The quiz is open to all.


Updated Scorecard is here.

Online Quiz Series: Set 3

The NSIT Quizfest will now be sponsored by Britannia, Punjab National Bank, Indian Oil Corporation and apparel sponsor being Myntra.

This is the third set for the online quiz series is as follows :-

Question 1 : Identify the comic book from where this panel has been taken from.

ANS 1 - Lone Wolf and the Cub

Question 2: This image has 2 components. A famous lady and a famous designer's style. Identify both.

Ans 2 - Lena Soderberg, artist is Shepard Fairey

Question 3 : A part of this image inspires what?

Ans 3 - The IIM-A logo
Before anyone else points it out, this picture was saved by me ages ago to use at an internal meet as I thought it was a really nice question! So it was a faux pas caused by lack of memory and a rush to get a good question on the quiz series. Apologies and Kudos to the gyaniz guys :)

http://gyaniz.wordpress.com/tag/ahmedabad/

Question 4 : A simple one to finish things off. Identify what is being parodied here.

Ans 4 - "24"



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Online Quiz Series: Set 2

Q1. You MUST have seen at least one hindi movie where his "skills" left you awed beyond belief. A known face down south, Imdb states he has been a part of more than 45 movies. That's a start. Just identify him.



Answer: It's none other than Rami Reddy, of Gunda Fame. If you haven't seen, your existence is inconsequential. :-)

Q2.Answer: This is the Rubik's Triamid.

Q3. A new product from X that made waves recently. Take a good look and identify the company X as well as the gadget.
Answer: Everyone went for the obvious. It is NOT the Apple Magic Touch Mouse. Rather, it is an early prototype of the Microsoft Touch Mouse that created buzz at CES 2011. More details here.
Q4. Identify the chap next to Popeye.
Answer: Harpo Marx.
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