Dearest Readers,

I am very sorry for the delay in the next post as I was very busy for all the end-sems and everything but I am now back with new energy and much more to enjoy about.So please Enjoy!



Q1) Which Indian politician has been invited by UK’s Warwick Manufacturing Group to come on board as a professor to apparently teach international affairs because of his vast experience in the matter.

Ans: Jaswant Singh

Q2) Where in India (specific location) is the TJ Brand of Confectioneries (including Potato Chips/Wafers) manufactured?

Ans: Tihar Jail


Q3) He graduated with degrees in Economics and Sociology from Bombay University before going on to Oxford to complete his post graduation. He played for the Oxford cricket team alongside Michael Atherton and averaged 27.75 from 7 matches. Who?

Ans: Rajdeep Sardesai


Q4)Connect

Connection is Roger Corman

He received an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University. He began his career in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, and began directing in 1955. A number of important and influential filmmakers and actors had their first big break with him.
A few of them shown here are James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese.


Q5) Identify all and connect them

Connection is UEFA Team of the Year 2006

1. FrankRijkaard-Coach
2. Fabio Cannavaro
3. Gianluca Zambrotta
4. Carles Puyol
5. Ronaldinho
6. Cesc Fàbregas
7. Gianluigi Buffon
8. Samuel Eto'o
9. Steven Gerrard
10. Philipp Lahm
11. KAKA
12. Thierry Henry

Q6) In 1969, Karsanbhai Patel started manufacturing a detergent powder at home and offered it at less than one fourth the prices of the then available products. This brand has since become a bestseller and is a close competitor of Hindustan Lever Limited in this segment. Which brand are we referring to?

Ans: Nirma


SCORERS for SET4

Akshay Anantharaman--Got 5 correct
Mayank--Got 5 correct
gr8 job done

This time around the response was very less and the reason may be exams....
However,
Mayank- Got 5 correct
Girija Panda- Got 5 correct
Niraj Narayan Bhatta- Got 5 correct

Tonmoy Ghosh- Got 4 correct

Dear readers there was a long break.Now i m back and enjoy!!!!

Q1)One of the first questions Nelson Mandela asked on being released from prison in 1990 was, “Is Sir ________ still alive?” Who?

Ans: Sir Don Bradman


Q2) He was so interested in mathematics that he learned on his own. He found out new formulas for solving mathematical problems and wrote articles about them. Professor Hardy a scientist in the Cambridge University saw one his article and impressed by his knowledge, took him to England. The most outstanding of his contributions was his formula for p (n), the number of 'partitions' of 'n'. Who is he?

Ans:Srinivasa Ramanujan

Q3)Soccer: He made his début, on October 23, 2003, in a League Cup tie at home to Rotherham United. In doing so he became his team’s youngest ever first-team player, aged 16 years and 177 days. He then became the youngest goalscorer in his team’s history in a later round of the League Cup. Although the team went on to win the league unbeaten in the 2003–04 season, he was not given a winner's medal. Then he also became the team’s youngest ever goalscorer in a league game. Who is this soccer player and why he was denied a winner’s medal?

Ans:Cesc Fàbregas and he was denied the winner’s medal because he did not play in a single league game at that time.

Q4) Who was the first bowler to be noballed for throwing in Test cricket?

Ans: Ernest Jones was noballed by Umpire J Philips during a Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 1898

Q5) In 1999, the TV show David Copperfield was aired in the USA. The cast included a star studded ensemble including Bob Hoskins ,Ian McKellen etc. Who played the role of the young David Copperfield?

Ans: Daniel Radcliffe who played the role of Harry Potter in the whole series

Q6)Connect the following:


Click on the pic for a larger view:
(Hint: A single word)

Ans: The toughest one!!!!

Connection is Volante.

Pic1:Volante was the name given to the groups of Brazilian government armies and police soldiers whose job was to hunt and kill the cangaceiros.

Pic 2:The Volante is the University of South Dakota's campus-based newspaper.

Pic 3:Car's name is Aston Martin Volante.

Pic4:In Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, a football defensive midfielder(Dunga) is called volante.

1st-- Aakash Mittal & Monika Rout (Got all 6 correct)

The following got 5 correct (each)

2nd--Girija Panda
Sharky
Mayank
Dillip Sarangi

and the following got 4 correct (each)

3rd--Niraj Narayan Bhatta
Sneha Ghose
Rajesh Behera

The answers are out as has been promised....

Dear Readers and quizzers please enjoy and comment

Q1) While travelling on a train through Bulgaria, he was arrested for talking to a passenger about capitalist ideas on the train, and was put in jail. After 2-3 days, he was released because India was considered a 'friendly' country by Bulgaria. This was a major blow to his faith in Communism and then he determined to start an enterprise that combined the best features of capitalism and socialism. Who is this person and what enterprise did he start?

A---N.R Narayan Murthy and enterprise is Infosys

Q2) Sitter: Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman were offered the McMurphy role in this 1975 movie but they turned it down. The movie was a block-buster hit winning 5 oscars. Which movie and who was the actor who finally did the role?

A--- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Jack Nicholson

Q3) Which film first featured a mobile phone?

A---The English film 16 Candles. It featured the DynaTAC 8000X.

Q4) What does this advertisement signify?
A---This advertisement was published to start a football club which came out to be FC Barcelona.

On 22 October 1899 Joan Gamper placed an advert in Los Deportes declaring his
wish to form a football club. A positive response resulted in a meeting at the
Gimnasio Sole on November 29. Eleven players attended: Gualteri Wild, Lluís d'Ossó,
Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Josep Llobet,
John Parsons, and William Parsons. As a result Foot-Ball Club Barcelona was born.

Q5) USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was not Marconi but someone from India. Identify him.

A---Prof. Jagdeesh Bose (a sitter!!)

Q6) Identify everyone and connect them!!!

Click on the image for larger view


A---Connection is Camp Nou-home ground of FC Barcelona

It has a capacity of 98,772 - making it the largest stadium in Europe.
Its official name was Estadi del FC Barcelona (translates as FC Barcelona Stadium)
until 2000, when the club membership vote to change the official name to the
popular nick name Camp Nou.

Pic1:Ronaldinho--Star Player of FC Barcelona

Pic2:Great British architect Sir Norman Foster,whose company was selected to "restructure" the Camp Nou.

Camp Nou has been host to other important events outside the sphere of football

Pic3:Pope John Paul II celebrated mass with a congregation of over 120,000 at
Camp Nou on November 17, 1982.

Pic4:Michael Jackson who has also performed over here

Enjoy!!!

1st--:Tonmoy Ghosh(got 6 correct)
The rest got 5 correct
2nd--:Sharky
3rd--:Aakash Mittal
4th--:Mayank
5th--:DDemolisher

Dear readers The answers are out

Q1)Cricket: What is the connection of Shiv Kumar Thind with Pakistan cricket?

Ans--:Shiv Kumar Thind, a Canada-based Indian, who had been allowed into the ground armed with a megaphone, taunted Inzamam in the Toronto Sahara series.

Q2) Present chairman of “_______” Group of companies. He left India at the age of 17 to enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Management from the Sloan School in 1963.Whom are we talking about?

Ans-- :Adi Godrej

Q3) Sitter: What was the first product to be advertised on TV?

Ans--:The first television advertisement was broadcast in the United States at 14:29 on July 1, 1941, when the Bulova Watch Company paid $9 to New York City NBC affiliate WNBT (now WNBC) for a 20-second spot aired before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. It simply displayed a Bulova watch over a map of the U.S., with a voiceover of the company's slogan "America runs on Bulova time!"


Q4)The Koh-i-Noor diamond is one of the largest diamonds in the world, but what does Koh-i-Noor mean?

Ans---:Mountain of Light

Q5)Vikram Batra and Somnath Sharma belonging to the same village, Palampur, in India's Himachal Pradesh state have something in common to claim about what?

Ans--: Recipient of the "Param Vir Chakra"

Q6)Identify everyone and find the connection



Ans---:Connection is Francis Ford Coppola.

1st Pic: The lady is Sophia Coppola – daughter of Francis Ford Copolla
2nd Pic: Coppola is uncle to Nicolas Cage. As the nephew of filmmaker "Francis Ford Coppola", "Nicolas Cage" altered his last name to avoid accusations of nepotism. (He chose "Cage" both out of admiration for avant-garde musician "John Cage" and en homage to comic book hero Luke Cage)
3rd Pic: The gentleman in the picture is Joseph Conrad-the famous novelist. Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now is based on a novella of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.



Q7)Soccer:Who scored the winning goal in the 2004 / 2005 FA Cup Final with his last kick for his club?

Ans--Patrik Vieira

Answers to be published on Nov 3rd 2007

So hurry up!!!!!