Saturday 30 June 2012

QC#36


1. In 2002 FIFA World Cup, Argentinian squad's list was returned back by FIFA as the list didn't have a player with no.10 jersey. They gave numbers 1 to 24 for their 23 men squad. FIFA president Sepp Blatter then proposed to give the number to X. But finally the number was given to Y.
Id X & Y ?

2. Which legendary goal keeper was named "Black Panther" ?

3. The South American tour of Budapest Honved FC in 1957 marked a major turn in the club's fate after which they were declared invalid. This caused a major transfer in the European transfer market that took a team to its "goalden" age. What are we talking about ?

4.The no.3 jersey is currently not given to any A C Milan player in honor of their legendary defender Paolo Maldini. But he agreed to revoke this if something happens. What is it ?

5. Keith Peacock was the first to ________?


Answers ::
1. X - Batistuta, Y -  Ariel Ortega
2. Eusebio
3.  Ferenc Puskás was signed for Real Madrid
4. If one of his son want to play that jersy.
5. substitute ever to be used in football league.

QC#35

This happens rarely in a football match where the participating team goes to the ground wearing suits.
Id the situation, teams and why they wore this ?

Liverpool was drawn to wear the away kit in the F.A. Cup Final 1996.  Some people with superstitious mind said that it's an unlucky draw of kit as Liverpool was also defeated to Manchester United in F.A. Cup Final 1977 with the away kit worn then. That is why the white Armani suits were worn prior to the match.

Tuesday 26 June 2012

QC#34


1. Engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor are associated with which invention ?


2. This term was first used by Edward Cave, on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied              material, originally derived from Arabic makazin "storehouses". Id the word ?







3. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Niepce took this photo which was the world's first    photograph. It was taken at his family house through a window which captures the view of a courtyard and outside buildings. What was the name given to this photo ?



4. The album "Smash song hits" was the first album to introduce what ??




5. This term means the consumption of all or part of another individual by an individual of same species. Korowai is one of the tribe which still believes in this by eating human flesh. Identify the term ???????

Answers
1. World's first Microprocessor
2. Magazine
3. Veiw from Window at Le Gras
4. First album to introduce a cover
5. Cannibalism

QC#33

This is world's first X-ray...
Whose hand's X-ray is this ????




ANS : Roentgent's Wife's hand

QC#32

Name the invention and the inventors???
The inventors are the prime name is this field






World's first motorcycle by Daimler

Sunday 24 June 2012

QC#31


Quiz 4 U
1. Which seven-a-side ball game is played in a swimming pool ?


2. Which strait separates the North and South islands of New Zealand?


3. Which New Zealand golfer won the 2000 Australian Masters in Melbourne?


4. What name is given to the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals to make lifelike models?


5. The name of which Roman god means ‘shining father'in Latin ?


Answers
1. Water polo
2. Cook strait
3. Michael Campbell
4. Taxicermy
5. Jupiter



Saturday 23 June 2012

SIB Lions quiz Review


SIB Lions quiz was conducted in 6 centers in Kerala.
The prelims consist of 40 questions, 30 minutes.
I am posting some of them which i remembers....


1. Who is the founder of Lions club ?
2. When was South Indian Bank started?
3. Whos is a South paw?
4. Paulo Coelho belongs to which country?
5. Who won the inaugral Hockey World cup ?
6. Who wrote the book "runs and ruins" ?
7. Which sportman is the father of the twins, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva ?
8. Who is the lyrisict of films Nakashatangal, Vaishali, Madanotsavam etc ?
9. Whose philosophical statement is Cogito ergo sum ?
10. In whic US sate is Harvard university situated?
11. Garuda is the official airlines of which country ?
12. Allium cepa is commonly known as _____?
13. Jenny Shipley,Helen Clark were th PMs of which country ?
14. Which place is known as "Scotland of east" ?
15. Which day is celebrated as national Mathematics day ?
16. Sardar Vallabhai Patel airport is in which Indian city ?
17. Which country's flag has Menorah in it? 
18. Where can you find Zam Zam well ?
19. Which PM of India was also known as Raja Bahadur of Manda ?









Tuesday 19 June 2012

Two new quizzes coming up......


ENIGMA




Asha for Education, Bangalore chapter, presents Quizzinga! - mindful quizzing

--- A General Quiz competition offering total prize money worth Rs 45,000!

--- Teams of 2 members each (no cap on no. of teams | mixed corporate teams allowed)

--- Date: July 8th (Sunday) from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Venue: IIM Bangalore auditorium

--- Register at: quizzinga.doattend.com
Registration fees: Rs 1500/- per corporate team
Please bring your ID cards to the venue on the day of the quiz

Monday 11 June 2012

QC#31

One of the rarest incidents....

What has been blanked out ?


Luxor Massacre : Eygpt


Killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, that took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri. Deir el-Bahri is a tourist attraction of Egypt acrosss river Nile from Luxor.
The Egyptian Islamist organization Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya is said to be bhind the attack to devastate the Eygyptian economy and lead the country to a major crisis.


Deir el-Bahri is famous for the mortuary temples which houses the mummies of  Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh dynasty,18th-dynasty female pharaoh Hatshepsut and Amenhotep I.
The temple of Hatshepsut is more spectacular and is known by the name Djeser-
Djeseru.
Djeser-Djeseru



With the tourists trapped inside the temple, the killing went on systematically for 45 minutes and killed 62 people from various countries. The police and military tried to capture them in a shootout but they fled into the hills and all their bodies were found dead in a cave excpet one who was injured in the shootout. They might have committed suicide.

Sunday 10 June 2012

QC#31, Do you know him ???


The ______________massacre was a shooting attack in October 1985 on Israeli vacationers in ____________, a beach resort area in the Sinai peninsula, in which seven Israelis were killed. Egyptian authorities countered that the Israelis bled to death "because this crazy soldier refused to let anyone near the area that some of the victims lay".The gunman killed one of the Egyptian policeman who tried to arrest him.


Fill in the blank and name the crazy gunman in whose memory Iran issued a stamp...

Saturday 9 June 2012

QC#30

The lady in the center was a world champion in free stand gymnastics. Her husband(divorced) was a great USSR football player and 2 time Ukranian parliamentarian. 
Id the lady and her husband?


Lady is Irina Deriguina and her famous husband was Oleh Blokin, the legendary USSR footballer and current Ukranian national coach

Friday 8 June 2012

EURO 2012

EURO fever is back
The 14th European Championship for national football teams organised by UEFA and will be jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine.Qualification was contested by 51 nations between August 2010 and November 2011 to join the two host nations in the tournament. The winner of the tournament gains automatic entry to the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Brazil. 
Final will be held on July 1 in Lympic Stadium, Kiev. The logo of EURO 2012 takes its visual identity from Wycinanki or Vytynanky, traditional form of paper cutting practised in rural areas of Poland and Ukraine. The art form symbolises the nature of the rural areas of both countries.

Slavek and Slavko 
The official mascots of EURO 2012. These twins and represent Polish and Ukrainian footballers in national colours and was designed by Warner Bros.



The official Euro 2012 song is "Endless Summer" by the German singer Oceana.The official Polish song for the tournament is "Koko Euro Spoko" by the folk band Jarzebina.
TANGO
Official match ball from ADIDAS


GROUPS

FIXTURE








The Illustrated Man

" The Illustrated Man " dies at the age of 91

Ray Bradbury

Of all the American science fiction writers, there was a time when Ray Bradbury was the most prized.
He was an enduring author of  fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mysteries. 
He was born on Aug 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois.
He died at the age of 91, on Jun5,2012 which was the Venus Transit Day.
The Washington Post hallmarked several modern day technologies that Bradbury had envisioned much earlier in his writing, such as the idea of banking ATMs and earbuds and Bluetooth headsets from Fahrenheit 451, and the concepts of artificial intelligence within I Sing the Body Electric.

As influenced by George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare as he was by Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Bradbury was an expert of the taut tale, the last-sentence twist. 



Some of his famous works are
Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
 It was named so to represent the temperature at which paper ignites.

 The Martian Chronicles (1950)- collection of science fiction stories

The Illustrated Man (1951)







Thursday 7 June 2012

Amazing Facts

Solar Impulse

Flight Report: Madrid - Rabat
TAKE-OFF TIME: 05:22 (UTC+2) 05.06.12
LANDING TIME:  23:30 (UTC+1) 05.06.12
FLIGHT DURATION: 19 H 8 MIN
AVERAGE GROUND SPEED: 51,8 KM/H
HIGHEST ALTITUDE REACHED: 8’229 M (27’000 FT)
FLIGHT DISTANCE: 830 KM

Bertrand Piccard inside HB-SIA


HB-SIA landed in Morocco’s Rabat-Salé international airport at 23:30 (UTC+1) after 19 hours of flight becoming the first solar powered flight to trvel between two continents.
The Solar Impulse team was thus completing a leg of the 2012 "Crossing the Frontiers" Mission.The main reason tovchoose Morocco as its destination is to flyover the Strait of Gibraltar which is a challenge.
Talking of Strait of Gibraltar, it connects Atlantic ocean to Meditteranean sea and separates Spain from Morroco (Africa) and the narrowest portion separating Europe and Africa is just 7.7 Nautical miles of sea.
The flight took off from Madrid airport and after a successful 9hour 18 min journey, it landed in Rabbath airport, the capital of Morocco.
The mission was led by pilot and project founder,Bertrand Piccard whom UNEP nominated for 2012  Champions of the Earth Laureate Award.


Landing  video of HB-SIA in Rabat










QC#29


1.DCM Shriram Consolidated (DSCL) got environment clearance on 28 June 2011 from the Ministry of Environment and Forests for the Kaprion-Ki-Dhani lignite mining project. Which District of Rajasthan is selected for this project?


2. Rana Talwar, who is now the head of Sabre Capital, was formerly the CEO of which bank?


3. Who was the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India?


4. What was the Former Name of World Bank?


5. Some says that it is a part of some religious beliefs.
Some say that he is replicating the style of the animal which is famous in his state, beard like the facial hair of that animal and hair like the tail end of that animal...
About which recent style icon (he is not in fashion world) are we talking


6. The word X is derived from an Old French word , which means a circle dance accompanied by singers. It is a form of music which is generally religious but not connected with church worships.


7. It is a gravity dam on the Narmada River near Navagam, Gujarat, India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project, a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the Narmada River. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. It is the 30th largest dams planned on river Narmada, which was one of the controversial dam too...Id it


8. This was started in early 1940s, during British rule. In the mid 1950s the Board closed down these, due to a policy change. The thrown-out workers then took over the branches, under the leadership of the communist leader A. K. Gopalan. The first one was opened in New Delhi on 27 October 1957. Its has many nostalgic feelings with the shining stars of Malayalam film industry.
What r we talking about???


9. In 1140, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain, said Aurelius Ambrosius built X by bringing the "Dance of Giants" from Ireland. 
Inigo Jones, the 17th-century architect, thought it was a Roman temple.
Id X????


10. Who got the 2012 Champion of the Earth Laureate Award given by UNEP ?




Wednesday 6 June 2012

LOQ 3.0






Loq.q
View more presentations from QuizzCongoz .

Amith Narayan 13
Neville C Philip 8
Harikrishnan 7
Ronnie Raju 7
Khajur baba 1


Appu was late to submit, but he was the top scorer with 16 pts


Hari mailed the ans as he couldn't be able to post in comments.


Answers

1. Painter is Gustave Courbet and movement is Romantic movement
2. V.K.Krishna Menon
3. World Trade Center
     Tribute of Light
4. Blink 182
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
     Speaker is Atticus
6. Jem(TV series). All the three are joint production of Hasbro, Marvel & Sun productions
7. Chinese fishing net
8. Powerpoint Hell or Death by Powerpoint
9. CEO of Twitter and Founded Feedburner
10. Levis
11. Scuba
12. Yellow Jersy given to leader of Tour de France
13. Ticket to travel in Titanic.
14. Anna Kournikva
15. S A Dange
16. Shalimar
17. Sailen Manna
18. Ramses II
19. Nur Jahan
20. Handball







QC#28

Id him








Monday 4 June 2012

QC#27








Id the director of this movie




Sunday 3 June 2012

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