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2010-02-12T23:24:00.000-08:00

Logo of? Hint - was in the news some 3 weeks back due to a major acquisition by a Indian company

QOTD 13.02.2012

2010-02-12T23:19:00.000-08:00

Who is he? What unique record did he create on this day 62 years ago?

Answers to QOTD dated 11.01.2010:
1. Barbie modeled on Kim Clistjers and her daughter Jada. Answered correctly by selebratinglife, Nilaj, Gaurav, Ramki and Rajan
2. KN Raj. Answered correctly by selebratinglife, Ramki, SM and Celebrating Life

2010-02-11T00:46:00.001-08:00

Who?

2010-02-11T00:44:00.000-08:00

1.

Put Fundae.

Answer to yesterday's question: New Orleans Saints
cracked by selebratinglife, mysore and Celebrating Life

2010-02-09T01:02:00.000-08:00

Whose logo?

Answer to yesterday's question:
A - Mohit Chadda (Dulha Mil Gaya)
B - Rohit Chadda (needless to say - a good friend of mine :))
C - Merril Lynch
D - Zee Cinestars Ki Khonj
E - Yuvika Chaudhury (Om Shanti OM,Toh Baat Pakki)

Awesome crack by Ghochang-fu and partly cracked by selebratinglife

QOTD 08.02.2010

2010-02-08T03:53:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the absence of two days. Was busy with the quizzes at Carpe Diem at IIM Calcutta. It was a pleasure launching our own Quiz Company with the Football Quiz at IIM Calcutta.

So, we will have a A-E questions for today. The scores and the leader-board till 5th February would be updated soon.

Answer for QOTD of 5th February - Ben Bernanke.

A made his debut in a SRK-Sushmita Sen starrer. A's brother B is a IIM-Calcutta graduate and an I-banker with firm C. A finished runner-up in a nationwide talent hunt contest D. His co-finalist E also made her debut in a SRK movie and has a movie slated to be released on 19th February 2010. Identify A-E (1*5=5)

QOTD 05.02.2010

2010-02-04T22:03:00.000-08:00

Who is this man who never seems to go our of news?

Answer to yesterday's question: (well, all got one wrong - by "Bigg Winner" - I meant Vindoo, who also was in Kambakth Ishq, adn of course, he was the "Bigg Boss Winner" (incidentally, some say Akki and Bebo lobbied hard to see him win. The correct answers:

A= Kareena Kapoor
B= Bebo
C= Kambakkht Ishq
D = Do Knot disturb
E = Akshay Kumar
F = Vindoo Dara Singh
G = Andaaz
H = Blue

Quizzes in Kolkata over the weekend

2010-02-04T09:27:00.000-08:00

Open Quizzes in IIM Calcutta
IIM Calcutta Quiz Club will be conducting three quizzes as part of IIMC's annual cultural fest Carpe Diem. The details are as follows.

1. Entertainment Quiz
11 AM, February 6, 2010

2. Football Quiz
11:30 AM, February 7, 2010

3. General Quiz
3:30 PM, February 7, 2010

All the 3 quizzes will be open to public.
Team size – 3.
Total prize money is worth 30K.

In case of any queries, please contact
Atul V. Nath (atulvnath83@gmail.com , 09748857128)
Sreekanth Reddy (sreekanth.puppala@gmail.com , 09748662209)

Nostalgia Open Quiz
2-member teams, Great Prizes for teams and audience

Date:
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Time:
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Sakher Bazar, Behala, Borobari, Kolkata 8

QOTD 04.01.2010

2010-02-04T08:46:00.000-08:00

Yesterday's answer - Madhu Kannan, BSE CEO. He is trying to pump liquidity into the BSE system. Uncracked

Today's question:
A is a Bollywood actress with nickname B. Two songs titled B were released in two different movies C and D in 2009. A acted in C with actor E, the movie also starring a bigg winner F. The lead actress in D (and on whom the song has been pictured) started her acting career with E in a movie G, and also acted in another movie with E in 2009 named H. Identify A to H. (0.5*8=4 points)

2010-02-02T23:02:00.000-08:00

Who is he and what's he trying to do? Well, we both have had the good fortune of having breakfast with him at the Taj Bengal :)

Answer to yesterday: well, yesterday was a toughie, we accept it. He is Chilkur Balaji Temple popularly known as Visa Balaji Temple or Visa God. We would give 0.5 points for Krishna / Balaji / Govinda. However, we would accept only the first given answer. 0.5 points for Nihar and mysore. celebratinglife - Vishnu in Udupi won't be accepted as he is in Chilkur

2010-02-01T22:21:00.000-08:00

Who is the deity?

Answer to yesterday's question: (quoting notagenius) - The man in the pic is Kunal Vijayakar..who in JO BOLE SO NIHAAL (Sunny Deol Movie)...played a character who used to stammer and pronounce "P" as ''F"..In 2009 same type of character was essayed by Sahid Kapoor as Charlie in Kaminey.

So,
Sunny deol movie-JO BOLE SO NIHAAL
2009 MOVIE-Kaminey
man in pic-kunal vijaykar.

fully cracked by Rita and notagenius, partly cracked by Rahul, s2 and selebratinglife

QOTD 01.02.2010

2010-01-31T21:32:00.000-08:00

This man in a Sunny Deol movie (released in the mid 2000s) did something that was later almost raised to an iconic status in a 2009 movie. Name this man, what did he do,what Sunny Deol movie, and what was the 2009 movie? (4 points - to compensate for yesterday's absence)

Answer to QOTD dated 30.01.2010 - Charlie Chaplin. Cracked by mysore, Nilaj, Joy Dhar and selebratinglife

QOTD 30.01.2010

2010-01-29T20:46:00.000-08:00

Who is the gentleman sitting next to Gandhi-Ji?

Answer to yesterday's question: Priya Sachdev Chatwal, ex-daughter-in-law of Sant Singh Chatwal (I must admit she has been a successful model herself. She is back in the news following the controversies dogging Chatwal, which also includes his son's marriage and subsequent break-up. Uncracked.

QOTD 29.01.2010

2010-01-28T23:46:00.000-08:00

Why is this lady back in the news? Answer to yesterday's question: Ibn Battuta and Abhishek Chaubey, director of Ishqiya. Connect is the song from the movie. Its a brilliant film. Go watch. Cracked by Rita, Nilaj and selebratinglife

QOTD 28.01.2010

2010-01-27T21:53:00.000-08:00

Connect the two gentlemen. Answer to yesterdays question - Saab's logo and Victor Muller, the CEO and founder of Spyker. The recent sale of Saab by GM to Spyker. Cracked by selebratinglife and Rita

QOTD 27.01.2010

2010-01-26T23:00:00.000-08:00

Connect the logo in pic 1 to the gentleman in pic 2. Answer to yesterdays's question - United Stock Exchange, the latest currency futures exchange to be launched in 2010. Uncracked

QOTD 26.01.2010

2010-01-26T08:06:00.000-08:00

Happy Republic Day to all.

I am a trader by profession, and I believe the greatest gift to India in its 60th year of the republic is the power of using Exchange Traded currency futures. This would go a long way in making SMEs self-reliant in managing their own currency risks, and help them grow, much like what the Mahatma had envisaged.

So, today's question of ours is dedicated to something similar: Allahabad Bank, Andhra Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Canara Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab National Bank, Union Bank and United Bank of India, the PSU banks that have been the backbone of our financial systems for years now, recently joined hands for a common cause. What? (P.S. - the list is not exhaustive though)

Answer to QOTD 25.01.2010: The connection is "Pocket Rocket". Gambhir was recently given this nickname by Michael Slater (Lasith Malinga is also famous with the same nickname, but then, I was not paying a tribute to him), while Ranbir Kapoor was recently also given this nickname post his "pocket me rocket hain" song in Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year. Went uncracked

Up-and-coming quizzes

2010-01-25T09:11:00.000-08:00

Nihilanth (Inter IIT-IIM Quiz)2010

Hihilanth-2010 will be conducted along with Chaos (IIM A cultiral festival).

Schedule:

Jan 30, Saturday
1. 10 AM- General Quiz (Joy Bhattacharya)
2. 2 PM- Biz Tech Quiz (Amit Pandeya)
3. Really Long Lone Wolf Quiz (Shamanth Rao)

Jan 31, Sunday
1. MELA Quiz (Rahul Lath)
2. India [+] READ MORE Quiz (Satyajit Chetri)
3. Sports Quiz (G.Krishnamurthi)

Starmark Film Quiz at Kolkata
Date: Saturday, 06 February 2010
Time: 16:00 - 19:30
Location: Starmark's Lord Sinha Road Terrace

Description
The Annual Starmark Film Quiz is back with more fun and funda. Conducted by Devdan Mitra and Pratim D. Gupta, it will be an evening of movies, movies and more movies.
Qpen Quiz (you can be of any age)
Entry Free.
Teams of 3.
Reporting time: 4pm
Preliminary round starts: 5pm
Final round starts: 6pm

The Spring Club General Quiz at Kolkata
Date - 21.02.2010
Venue - Spring Club
No of members per team - 4
QMs - Shouvik Guha and Jayshree Mohanka
Time - would be notified later

Also, there are 2-3 quizzes at Carpe Diem, the annual socio-cultural fest at IIM Calcutta
Date- 6th-7th February
Other details awaited

Also, a small corrigendum - The winners of the Spring Club Movie Quiz was TNT tears, not TNT Teasers. Inconvenience regretted

Review of The Spring Club Movie Quiz and weekly score updates

2010-01-24T22:02:00.000-08:00

There was a movie quiz organized by The Spring Club Kolkata on Friday, 22nd January. The QM was Mr. Biswabijoy Sen. It was a thoroughly entertaining quiz with lots of new faces in the finals and stalwarts losing out. It was finally won by TNT Teasers and runners-up were Quiz Lovers of Kolkata. Some obligatory questions from the quiz:

1. the 1969 movie "Anmol Moti" was promoted as what first in Bollywood?
Ans - the first underwater movie (not "Blue")

2. Shahrukh Khan, Amir Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Javed Akhtar all appeared in which 2009 movie?
Ans - Luck By Chance

3. The central characters of which 2009 movie were inspired by Spencer Tracy and Walter Matthau?
Ans - Up

4. Vijay Maurya played which character in Anurag Kashyap's "Black Friday"?
Ans - Dawood Ibrahim

5. Whose directorial debut was "A Single Man"?
Ans - Tom Ford

At the end of the first week, the leader-board looks like this:
selebratinglife - 3
Rita - 3
vamnicom -1
mahadevan -1
shounak -1
basab -1
SKT -1
MaNiche - 1
Illuminati -1
notagenius -1
Gokul -1
Abhra -1
Saurabh -1
Gaurav Somani -1
Saurabh -1
Joy Dhar -1
Melkor -1
FatBoySlim -1
Mysore -1

We are now added to www.quizblogs.com ,the largest quiz blogroll in the world.

Coming up - review of Spring Fest quizzes at IIT Kharagpur (to be contributed by Atul V Nath)

QOTD 25.01.2010

2010-01-24T21:41:00.000-08:00

Well, the man in the photo above can never match the man in the photo below in terms of service to the nation, but still, there is something that connects them (it is also applicable to another international cricketer though) - this question is a tribute to the man below for nearly equaling the Don.

Answer to question dated 24.01.2010: Nokia is the correct answer. Cracked by Saurabh, Gaurav Somani, Rita, selebratinglife, Saurabh, Joy Dhar, Melkor, FatBoySlim and Mysore.Nilaj, sorry mate, we accept only the first answer - do keep trying though

QOTD 24.01.2010

2010-01-23T21:33:00.000-08:00

This famous northern European small town company was founded in 1865, originally a manufacturer of Pulp and paper. With the automation and introduction of energy intensive production techniques this company even started its own power plants. This company diversified into a regional conglomerate and ventured into rubber works, integrated cable operations, electronics tires and made its first public offering in
1966. It also expanded into several divisions concentrating on developing Information systems, PCs, automatic banking systems, modems, digital communications systems and mobile phones. Till date this company has maintained a strong foothold in its sector and is a crucial player at a pivotal time for the industry.

Hint: The company shares its name with that of the town in which it originated. (posted by Saswata)

We are now added to www.quizblogs.com ,the largest quiz blogroll in the world.

Coming up - review of (a) The Spring Club movie Quiz at Kolkata (b) Spring Fest quizzes at IIT Kharagpur (to be contributed by Atul V Nath)

Also coming up - the weekly leader board for the week 18-25th January

Review of Infocomm Quiz at Kolkata

2010-01-23T08:57:00.000-08:00

An IT Fest - and a brilliant series of quizzes by Giri "Pickbrain" and Lloyd Saldanha. Kudos to IBM, TI, IBS and ABP Group for the sponsorship. For 4 days, there were a series of "street quizzes" which culminated in a mega-prelims and a wonderful final. The city had a new winner in the form of Mr. SK Dey and runner-up was a former champion Mr. Soubhadra Chakravarty. The third spot went to a 18-year old contestant, Mounik Sarkar. Yours truly eneded up winning DVDs of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and a couple of Tees. Here are some sample questions:

1)What is the missing from the list Length, Width, Depth, and ? – Time (4th dimension)

2)Ichthyology is a study of what? Fish

3)If I have landed on Mother Teresa International Airport which city am I in? – Tirana, capital of Albania

4)What does SoHo, a type of business enterprise, mean? – Small Office-home office

5)What are Annie Awards presented for? Animation

6)Which Nobel Prize winning writer died in France in 1960 with a unused train ticket in his pocket, actually planned to travel by train, but at the last minute accepted his publisher’s proposal to travel with him in his car? - Albert Camus

7)Which Nobel Laureate in English who spent the large part of her life in China is know as Sai Zhen Zhu? – Pearl S. Buck

8)Niccolo Machiavelli in medieval Europe divided governments into two types: Principalities ruled by a monarch and another type ruled by the people what is it? – Republic

9)What is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop known as according to the Roman Catholic Church? – Diocese

10)Which 1976 film was Mithun Chakrabarty’s debut film and also won him the prestigious National Film Award for Best Actor in 1977? – Mrigaya

BTW, we are now part of the quiz blog, www.quizblogs.com ,the largest quiz blogroll in the world.

Coming back to the answer of QOTD 21.01.2010. It was a toughie, went uncracked.The jersey is that of Manchester City, who were given given a huge sponsorship by Etisalat. The child is Amir Khan, who recently signed a deal with Etisalat as their brand ambassador. The connection is the telecom giant "Etisalat"

QOTD 22.01.2010

2010-01-21T23:43:00.000-08:00

Connect the two pics (give a business connection)

Answer for yesterday: VK Murthy

cracked by Rita, selebratinglife, notagenius, Gokul and Abhra

Quiz at Spring Fest, IIT KGP and a corrigendum

2010-01-20T22:53:00.000-08:00

Corrigendum: If called Sudha in Bihar, Avin in Tamil Nadu, and Milma in Kerala. How do we better know it? Ans: Amul Milk

There has been a mistake as pointed out by Mr. Sumant Srivatsan. Avin under the aegis of The Tamil Nadu Milk Cooperative is a completely different organization. Thanks Sir for the update.

Also, as pointed out by GG Sir, Inmaniacs, not Octette, finished second in the quiz at IIM Calcutta.

Now for all student quizzers, here is some good news. IIT Kharagpur is going to have its cultural fest from 21st to 24th January 2010. There would be 5 quizzes at the event. You can check them out here: http://2010.springfest.in/intellectual_capita

Again, IIT Kharagpur is going to have its techno-management fest from 28th-31st Jan 2010, and there are going to be 3 quizzes as part of the fest. You can get the details here: http://www.ktj.in/#quizzard

QOTD 21.01.2010

2010-01-20T21:17:00.000-08:00

Id the gentleman shown in the pic. Easy current affairs question

Answer to yesterday:
Benzaiten, as she is known in Japan. We know her as Goddess.Saraswati in India. (yesterday also happened to be Saraswati Puja. MaNiche got it right.

Please not that only the first answers would be accepted in case of multiple tries

QOTD 20.01.2010

2010-01-19T23:36:00.000-08:00

Today's question: Who is she? how do we know her in India?

Answers to yesterday's question - Jyoti Basu, ex-cm of West Bengal

Correctly cracked by selebratinglife, Rita, vamnicom, mahadevan, shounak, basab and SKT

QOTD

2010-01-18T23:40:00.000-08:00

Today's question - identify the gentleman

The answer to yesterday's question was Mr. Gaurav Arora and the company is Jaypee Capital :)

2010-01-18T01:37:00.000-08:00

Identify the entrepreneur and the company he founded.

We have decided on a change of format - we would go for a question a day instead of 5 a week to make the competition interesting.

Put in your answers as comments

2010-01-18T01:24:00.000-08:00

We are uploading the questions that were asked as prelims at Quizzical, part of "Intaglio:, the annual B-School fest at IIM Calcutta. We are also attaching a short review. The questions from the finals would be out up next week.

1) If called Sudha in Bihar, Avin in Tamil Nadu, and Milma in Kerala. How do we better know it? Ans: Amul Milk

2) Who follow the 29 principles of Jambeshwarji? Ans – The Bishnois (20-Bish, 9-Noi)

3) If Holmes stalking ground mostly in London then from where does Inspector Rebus operate? – Edinburgh ( by Ian Rankin)

4) Manic, Mogul, Fearless are characters of which game? – Mafia Wars on Facebook

5) Name the phone introduced by HTC & Google. Ans - Nexus 1

6) This 1959 novel by Richard Thomas Condon supposed to be the original conspiracy theory novel which was later made into a film in 1962 and 2004. Which Novel? Ans- Manchurian Candidate

7) In Rio de Janeiro – name the statue on Corcovado Mountains overlooking the city. Ans- Christ the Redeemer

8) Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto adopted a Czech sounding name when we wanted to be an author. What name did he choose? Ans – Pablo Neruda

9) Clarissa Laurd, Marianne Riggins, Elizabeth West are the first 3. Who is the 4th? – Wives of Salman Rushdie, 4^th of which is Padma Lakhsmi

10) In which movie did Dharmendra say for the first time his legendary dialogue “ kutte main tera khoon pee jaunga” ? Ans - Yadon Ki Baraat

11) Pirates, Penguins, Steelers are sports teams based out in which city? Ans - Pittsburgh city

12) “No it wasn’t the airplanes. It was the beauty that killed the beast” – Last line of which novel / film? Ans - King Kong

13) “My Battle with Alzheimers” is a serial column by which writer/novelist/fantasy writer? Terry Pratchett, 59

14) Garry Player, Johnny Cash, Hugh Brenner are the golf players who were paid tributes in which Hollywood film of 1997? Ans - Men in Black

15) Michael Malone wrote a book called “ Infinite Loop” about an organization. Name the organization. Ans - Apple

16) Big hit of 2009, by Ranjan Rao, Ogilvy and Mather and Prakash Verma, Nirvana Films. What? Ans -Zoo Zoo ads

17) In the book “Superfreakonomics” in the subtitles, the last two words –"Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy X. What is X? Life Insurance

18) On which list do Aston Kutcher, Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres form the top 3? Ans – followers on Twitter

19) Bernie Taupin collaborated with which famous singer musician? Ans - Elton John

20) When Roger Bannister ran the famous sub-4 minute race, the announcement of his record was made by whom? Ans - The stadium announcer for the race was Norris McWhirter, who went on to publish and edit the Guinness Book of Records.

21) In “Kath and Kim” he was Prakash, in Office, he was Sadiq, in Bones he was Hamid. However, in 2009, what catapulted him to fame?– Ans –Chatur of 3 Idiots. The person is Omi Vaidya

22) Recently there was a viral campaigning on Facebook in which women stated colors as their status messages. What was the campaign all about? Ans - Breast cancerawareness campaign

23) Statue of Liberty is supposed to be married to a statue in Barcelona. Who? Ans - Christopher Columbus

24) In Indian Film History which game are the characters of Mir and Mirza associated with? Ans – Chess. They are the 2 “Shatranj ke Khiladis”

25) On 17^th May 2009, who, along with his son Charles Anthony was killed? Ans – Prabhakaran of LTTE

26) Who or what was killed by the Beamish Boy? Ans – Jabberwock of Jabberwocky

27) Matt Busby while watching Salford Rigby Club, liked their attitude and was inspired enough to imbibe a two-word epithet into his own team. What epithet? Ans – Red Devils. Salford were originally called “The Red Devils”

28) Post the Champions League T20 bash, quite a few teams have started to take their domestic T20 leagues seriously. South Australia who hasn’t done well in the last season, hired two overseas recruits for this season to quality for the C’ships trophy. Who are they? Ans – Shahid Afridi and Kieron Pollard

29) Sukumar Sen was the first person to hold which constitutional post in India? Ans – He was the first Chief Election Officer

30) Whose New Year resolution was to have a bigger butt (sorry, but a Joy Bhattacharya special question) ? Ans – Sherlyn Chopra

The quiz was a typical Joy Bhattacharya one with loads of humor and tributes to Rakhi Sawant, Sherlyn Chopra, SRK and Mulayam Singh Yadav. The winning team was "Byapok Byatha", Kolkata winners of KQA Megawhiz and the runner-up was Octette, again the Kolkata runner-up of the same.

Quizzes

2010-01-15T03:31:00.000-08:00

This is our Quiz Blog.

Who are we?
Kaushik Saha - an avid quizzer
Saswata Das - a part-time quizzer

We are amateur QMs too, and would post 5 questions every week starting Monday 18th January. You can post answers as comments till Friday. They would be moderated and answers and scores given out on the following Monday.

Happy New Year. Happy quizzing.

BTW, if you need quizmasters for your quizzes, you can contact us in this blog, or mail us at
kaushiksaha.iimc@gmail.com
saswatadass@gmail.com