Review of Infocomm Quiz at Kolkata

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

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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"