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)

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

For more :  http://solarimpulse.com/

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 ?

LOQ 3.0

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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

QC#27

Id the director of this movie

Back to Online Quizzing

Time : 7pm to 7.20 pm
Date: June 6, 2012
General quiz

QC#26

Identify him ???

Michel Owen : A talent spoiled by injuries

Former England striker Michael Owen is all set to leave ManU..


He enjoyed a tremendous growth while he was with Liverpool from 1996-2004. But his ,move to the Spanish giants Real Madrid spoiled his career with injuries always affecting him. Then he moved to Newcastle United and from there to ManU...




Liverpool   96-04
Real Madrid   04-05
Newcastle United   05-09 
ManU   09-12

Qsenate challenge..prelims answers

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Q senate challenge open 2012 finals

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Day 2 Day

 It is one year back this Royals Kiss took place

QC#25

He began his career in 1995, won the AFC Player of the Year in 1997 and 98 and in 2005 he was made the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity for improving the image of his country overseas.
He played in 3 FIFA WC and 2 Olympics.
He played in Italian Serie A and ended his career in EPL.
Who is he ????

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