Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Question Of The Day: 13th September, 2006

After a couple of extremely low-scoring questions, time to push the accelerator. This is a sitter by most quizzing standards, but please remember that you will be given points ONLY if you can connect the three men with the lady who is the hint. Get cracking!

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com with 'Answer of the Day' as the subject line.

Answers over IM will NOT be considered.





And The Correct Ans. Is

Forrest Gump

These were the three presidents with whom Forrest meets and the lady in question is Robin Wright Penn, the actress in the movie.

The presidents in the pictures are: John F Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 2
No. Of Correct Answers: 2

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Vandana M ( 2 points, 10 hours:45 minutes)
Smitha P


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 20

No. Of Correct Answers: 16

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Rahul Paul ( 2 points, 0 hours :03 minutes)
Bee Gee
Vivek Karthikeyan
Mitesh Vasa
Goutham Lakshminarayan
Amitangshu
Chirag Mutgi
Ashish Agarwal
Shobhit Jain
Arun Warrier
Ameya Mardolkar
Bhavin Vora
Shreyas Joshi
Varun Raina
Abhishek Borah
Harikrishnan Vijayan

Question Of The Day: 12th September, 2006

Sports question but with a difference, just be a bit careful about the hints. So who/what connects the following and how?

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Ayerton Senna

Picture 1) Roland Ratzenberger, who was killed on the same day as Senna during practice.

Picture 2)Logo of the 1994 soccer World Cup, Senna died in 1994

Picture 3) Williams F1 team Logo, the team for which Senna drove in that season.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 6
No. Of Correct Answers: 0

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 1

No. Of Correct Answers: 1

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Vinesh Kumar ( 3 points, 20 hours :22 minutes)[LONE WARRIOR]

Monday, September 11, 2006

Question Of The Day: 11th September, 2006

Happy Monday:) The question is a sitter if you can identify these gentlemen, otherwise.... So who/what comes in place of the question mark. Hint: 1980s

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Answers over IM will NOT be considered.

Today's question has been originally framed by Anal Ghosh and modified by yours truly.





And The Correct Ans. Is

The Personal Computer

They were the TIME person's of the year fro 1980-1983

1980- Ronald Reagan
1981 - Lech walesa
1982 - Personal Computer
1983 - Rinald Reagan and Yuri Andropov


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 1
No. Of Correct Answers: 1

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Arjun K ( 3 points, 9hours :44minutes)[LONE WARRIOR]

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 18

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Vinesh Kumar ( 2 points, 0 hours :13 minutes)
Ravi Ramakanth
Rahul Paul
Rajat Hazra
Vivek Karthikeyan
Bee Gee
Sanjeev Jayakumar
Amit Singh
Shobhit Jain
Arun Warrier
Ashish Agarwal
Anusha Rao

Sunday, September 10, 2006

This Roo Packs A Punch!

The internet unlcoked the entire world's information for all of us, but the only condition was we had to be 'online'. This changed the way we lived and we actually have become so dependent on the net that the little time we cannot access it, e.g. in flights, shopping malls, drive to work etc. we feel helpless.

And that is where help came in, in the form of Webaroo. This product realized the need to make the net available even when we are off-line, and thus in effect get the internet into our machines. To read all about Webaroo you can check out the article on it in wikipedia.

I have personally been using this since it's first version, and found it particularly helpful during the World Cup nights. That was before I got broadband back home, and the webaroo webpacks on World Cup which I downloaded and installed on my machine helped me find answers to the various questions arising as and when the matches were being played.

One of Inquizzitive's regulars, Pratyush Prasanna, is an integral member of the Webaroo team. If you have any questions regarding Webaroo you can send them to me and I will forward them to Pratyush.

This product is definitely worth a try.

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Question Of The Day: 8th September, 2006

It's been a long time since framing a question gave so much satisfaction! Please connect the following, and come to think of it the question is actually quite simple:) Have a great quizzing weekend ahead. See you on 9/11.

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com with 'Answer of the Day' as the subject line.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Sherlock Holmes/ Arthur Conan Doyle

They were all names of Holmes' stories/novels.

Picture 1) Devil's Foot (Devil's Advocate - Advocate + foot)

Picture 2 (left hand bottom) The Sign Of Four in Braille

The remaining 6 pictures were those of Napoleon ( The Adventure of Six Napoleons)

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 8
No. Of Correct Answers: 2

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Arjun K ( 2 points, 12 hours :30minutes)
Jeena J

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 22

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Bee Gee ( 2 points, 2 hours :23 minutes)
Sobhanjeet Rath
Vinesh Kumar
Shobhit Jain
Latish Venugopal
Ashish Agarwal
Ravi Ramakanth

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Question Of The Day: 7th September, 2006

I am having some serious problems with my internet connection, and thus QOTD may be a little irregular over the next few days.

A classic and pure trivia connect question. Go ahead.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Polydactyly (The possession of more that the normal number of fingers/toes.)

All of them have/had extra fingers on their hands.

They are: Gary Sobers, Hrithik Roshan and Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins)


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 11
No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Shyam K ( 2 points, 9 hours :17 minutes)
Vikas S
Sumant S
Smitha P
Vandana M
Rubin S

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 15

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Bee Gee ( 2 points, 0 hours:11 minutes)
Vinesh Kumar
Rahul Paul
Mitesh Vasa
Mayur Narasimhan
Vivek Karthikeyan
Pallavi Roy
Amitangshu
Ravi Ramakanth
Shyamal Mishra
Arun Warrier
Archana Satpathy

No QOTD Today

Hello Quizzers,

As it is already very late, I am calling off today's QOTD. Inquizzitive will be back tonight at midnight IST. Hopefully Blogger will be in a position to allow me to upload the picture then!

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

Monday, September 04, 2006

Question Of The Day: 5th September, 2006

Connect the following to one person. Please don't take the usual route because one of the hints is slightly lateral in nature.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

George Bernard Shaw

Picture 1) Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles where the Oscars are presented. GB Shaw won the Oscar for the best screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938.

Picture 2) 1925 was the year when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Picture 3) Poster of the movie Pygmalion.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 9

No. Of Correct Answers: 3

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Shyam K ( 2 points, 11 hours :45 minutes)
Jeena J
Vandana M


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 22

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Bee Gee ( 2 points, 1 hour:49 minutes)
Vikram Hiray
Rajat Hazra
Vikram B
Jitaditya Narzary
Rahul Paul

Question Of The Day: 4th September, 2006

Connect the following three pictures with proper logical backing.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Blogger/Blogspot

Pic 1: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger.com.

Pic 2: Google acquired Pyra Labs in February 2003.

Pic 3: Screen shot of 'Inquizzitivegoogle', just a decoy. An example of a blog published on blogspot.com.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 12

No. Of Correct Answers: 5

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Rubin S ( 2 points, 0 hours :09 minutes)
Arjun K
Shyam K
Smitha P
Jeena J


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 21

No. Of Correct Answers: 10

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Arun Warrier ( 2 points, 0 hour:11 minutes)
Bee Gee
Vinesh Kumar
Archana Satpathy
Venkateswaran Vishwanathan
Ravi Ramakanth
Shyamal Mishra
Kapil Kant Kaul
Shyam Naren
Kunal Singh
Pallavi Roy

Friday, September 01, 2006

Question Of The Day: 1st September, 2006

End of yet another week, and this time I am resorting to a purely cryptic (yet quizzing) question after a long time. All you need to tell me is what are these and what's special about them? Happy weekend:)

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com with 'Answer of the Day' as the subject line.

Answers over IM will NOT be considered.



And The Correct Ans. Is

These words (read them backwards) have all the five vowels in the order a,e,i,o and u. The words are

Facetious, Abstemious and Arsenious

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 18

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sumant S ( 2 points, 0 hours :03 minutes)
Vikas S
Shyam K
Nagalakshmi V
Supriya N
Arjun K
Sasidhar A
Smitha P
Ranjana B
Jeena J
Vandana M
Vishal Vignesh


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 43

No. Of Correct Answers: 36

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Aneesh Jain ( 2 points, 0 hours :08 minutes)
Bee Gee
Arun Warrier
Ankit Jain
Anal Ghosh
Venkateswaran Viswanathan
Gautham Ravichander
Vikram Hiray
Sanjay Gianchandani
Rahul Paul
Shashank Rath
Rajat Hazra
Vivek Karthikeyan
Prateek Vijayavargia
Vinesh Kumar
Devender Gupta
Deepak Karamungikar
Naveen Venkataraman
Amitangshu
Niranjan
Ravi Ramakanth
Shobhit Jain
Kunal Singh
Ashish Agarwal
Shyamal Mishra
Anusha Rao
Archana Satpathy
Megha Jain
Sobhanjeet Rath
Naseer Ahmed
Kapil Kant Kaul
Ingit Tibrewal
Naveen Nathani
Ishani Chakraborty
Gautham Krishnamurthy
Shreyas Joshi

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Question Of The Day: 31st August, 2006

Today a little bit of lateral thinking is required and you will know what connects the following pictures. Hint: Literal Thinking.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Shantaram

Pic 1: Do Aankkhen Barah Haath, this classic film was directed by V.Shantaram. He also starred in it.

Pic 2: Gregory David Roberts(born Gregory John Peter Smith) .He is the author of the bestselling book 'Shantaram'.

Pic 3: Actor Johnny Depp. He is supposed to star in the upcoming film 'Shantaram' based on Gregory David Robert's book of the same name.


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 11

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sumant S ( 2 points, 0 hours :10 minutes)
Rubin S
Shyam K
Arjun K
Shyam P
Vandana M
Jeena J

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 38

No. Of Correct Answers: 35

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Aneesh Jain ( 2points, 0 hours :01 minute)
Bee Gee
Arun Warrier
Archana Satpathy
Apurva Dubey
Vikram Hiray
Dhiraj Ramakrishnan
Vinesh Kumar
Oranje Oranje
Rahul Paul
Prasan S
Ashish Agarwal
Viswas Nair
Ravi Ramakanth
Vivek Karthikeyan
Ameya Mardolkar
Gautham Ravichander
Deepak Karamungikar
Naveen Venkataraman
Jitaditya Narzary
Shreyas Joshi
Shobhit Jain
Priyadarshan Shirodkar
Kunal Singh
Shyamal Mishra
Shyam Naren
Shiv
Sudharshan Narayanan
Megha Jain
Kapil Kant Paul
Prakash Nair
Amitangshu
Saroj Nayak
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Dipankar Goswami

Question Of The Day: 30th August, 2006

A moderately simple and straightforward one. Classic connection question. Please do the needful and send me a mail:)

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com with 'Answer of the Day' as the subject line.

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And The Answer Is

Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Pic 1: Babulal Gaur, Minister for Gas Relief under the Madhya Pradesh Government.(He recently announced a 17 crore scheme for the 13 gas hit localities of Bhopal)

Pic 2: The Logo of Eveready Battery.In 1994, Union Carbide India Limited(UCIL) responsible for the gas leak was taken over and renamed as Eveready Industries India Limited.

Pic 3: A still from Mahesh Mathai's film 'Bhopal Express' .


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 4

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Shyam K ( 2 points, 8 hours :41 minutes)
Arjun K
Shyam P
Vandana M

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 21

No. Of Correct Answers: 18

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Vinesh Kumar ( 2 points, 0 hours :04 minutes)
Naveen Venkataraman
Gautham Ravichander
Ameya Mardolkar
Samrat Mukherjee
Ravi Ramakanth
Bee Gee
Vivek Karthikeyan
Rahul Paul
Supriya Agarwal
Vikram Rai
Prasan S
Siddharth Mishra
Shyamal Mishra
Neha Malhotra
Kunal Singh
Archana Satpathy
Abhimanyu Sanghi

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Question Of The Day: 29th August, 2006

Today's QOTD doen't have one specific answer, but there is an overall coherent connection. Please give me the connection.

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com with 'Answer of the Day' as the subject line.

Answers over IM will NOT be considered.

Today's question has been originally framed by Saumyadeep Hembrom and modified by yours truly.





And The Correct Ans. Is

Picture 1) Gary Oldman

Picture 2) Nokia N93

Picture 3) Doughnut (Donut)

Gary Oldman, who played the role of Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula, made the world's first feature film on a mobile phone (the Nokia N93). This movie was called Donut.

Another version of the answer was provided by Arun Warrier, which was as follows:

the first picture is of gary oldman playing dracula in the movie of
the same name
nokia has brought out a game called dragons and dracula
in a simpsons episode , in which bart becomes a vampire there is a
reference to a forbidden doughnut which is some kind of parody.

Since this answer was also perfectly correct, he got full points.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 5

No. Of Correct Answers: 5

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Shyam K ( 2 points, 7 hours:12 minutes)
Arjun K
Sumant S
Shyam P
Zubin N

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 17

No. Of Correct Answers: 13

List Of Correct Answer Givers



Arun Warrier ( 2 points, 7 hours :49 minutes)
Ravi Ramakanth
Prasan S
Shashank Rath
Supriya Agarwal
Vivek Karthikeyan
Vinesh Kumar
Tarun Madan
Shyamal Mishra
Kunal Singh
Ameya Mardolkar
Devender Gupta
Archana Satpathy
Sobhanjeet Rath

Monday, August 28, 2006

Question Of The Day: 28th August, 2006

Who connects the following pictures and how? A relatively simple one actually.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Mother Teresa

Picture 1) The flag of Macedonia. She was born in Skopje, the present capital of Macedonia.

Picture 2) The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, awarded to her in 1985.

Picture 3) Dominique Lapierre, who worked closely with Mother Teresa during the research of his book City Of Joy. He also got rights from her to write a book on the Missionaries Of Charity.


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 0

No. Of Correct Answers: 0

TheGoogle offices in Hyderebad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai were closed for a holiday.


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 13

No. Of Correct Answers: 10

List Of Correct Answer Givers



Bee Gee ( 2 points, 0 hours :31 minutes)
Rajat Hazra
Vinesh Kumar
Ravi Ramakanth
Megha Jain
Anusha Rao
Archana Satpathy
Provost Zakharov
Ashish Agarwal
Aneesh Jain

Friday, August 25, 2006

Question Of The Day: 25th August, 2006

Ending the week on a slightly tough note. Well I guess! So please connect the following pictures with a person. Hint as usual is provided in the picture itself. Happy quizzing weekend.

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com with 'Answer of the Day' as the subject line.

Answers over IM will NOT be considered.





And The Correct Ans. Is

Rupert Murdoch

Picture 1: Myspace.com(He bought Intermix Media that owns Myspace)
Picture 2: Peter Mukherjea, CEO of Star TV India.(Rupert Murdoch owns Star TV)
Picture 3: Los Angeles Dodgers.(Rupert Murdoch is the owner of the LA baseball club)
Hint Picture: Fox(Fox Network, owned by Rupert Murdoch)


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 7

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sathy J ( 2 points, 8 hours :17 minutes)
Supriya N
Shyam K
Rubin S
Vikas S
Arjun K
Vandana M

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 16

No. Of Correct Answers: 16

List Of Correct Answer Givers



Aneesh Jain ( 2 points, 0hours: 21 minutes)
Vivekanand
Kaushik Saha
Rajat Hazra
Ravi Ramakanth
Vikram Rai
Rahul Paul
Bee Gee
Shreyas Joshi
Provost Zakharov
Shobhit Jain
Arun Warrier
Abhishek Borah
Ingit Tibrewal
Archana Sathpathy
Ashish Agarwal

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Question Of The Day: 24th August, 2006

Good old cricketing question. One of the pictures is intentionally obscure to make the standard slightly tougher. Please tell me who will come in the place of the ? and the hint is provided.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Inzamam Ul Haq

They are the only players to have been given out, obstructing the field in one day internationals. Len Hutton is the only one in test cricket.

The other two pictures are of Mohinder Amarnath and Rameez Raja, the other two in one dayers.

This falls under Law 37 of cricket.


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 5

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sumant S ( 2 points, 0 hours:09 minutes)
Vikas S
Shyam K
Zubin N
Rubin S


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 25

No. Of Correct Answers: 19

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee ( 2 points, 0 hours :09 minutes)
Oranje Oranje
Vivek Karthikeyan
Ravi Ramakanth
Rajesh Mohan
Prateek Vijayvargia
Rahul Paul
Vinesh Kumar
Srimoyee Chakraborty
Nambirajan
Vivekanand
Arun Warrier
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Shashank Rath
Abhishek Borah
Kumar Vatsal
Shyam Naren
Naveen Venkataraman
Pradeep K R

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Question Of The Day: 23rd August, 2006

Let's not waste much time talking/writing. Who connects the three and how?

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Answers over IM will NOT be considered.

Today's question has been originally framed by Naveen Venkataraman and modified by yours truly.






And The Answer Is

Sophia Coppolla

Picture 1) Poster of Coppolla's movie 'Lost In Translation' for which she won an Oscar.
Picture 2) She played the role of the baby in Godfather, Michael Francis Rizzi and in Godfather 3 she played the role of Mary Corleone.
Picture 3) Nicolas Cage, is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppolla, and the cousin of Sophia.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 8

No. Of Correct Answers: 4

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Shyam K ( 2 points, 10hours :56 minutes)
Rubin S
Amrita K
Sasidhar A


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 25

No. Of Correct Answers: 19

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee ( 2 points, 0hours: 16 minutes)
Viswas Nair
Ravi Ramakanth
Supriya Agarwal
Vivek Karthikeyan
Rahul paul
Prasan S
Kaushik Saha
Arun Warrier
Aneesh Jain
Provost Zakharov
Shobhit Jain
Ashish Agarwal
Abhishek Bohra
Kartik Desikan
Vinesh Kumar
Shreyas Joshi
Vivekanand
Gautham Ravichander

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Question Of The Day: 22nd August, 2006

I am extremely sorry for the delay in putting up the question, but my internet connectivity is to be completely blamed for this. Anyway coming to today's question, hints are essential. And they would be 1. current affairs and 2. a person. The motto under the emblem has been intentionally smudged, but you are free to bring out the Robert Langdon's in yourselves! Please tell me who is the person who connects these three pictures and how.

PLEASE mail the answer to suhel.banerjee@gmail.com

Answers over IM will NOT be considered.






And The Correct Ans. Is

Indra Nooyi

The first picture is that of Steve Reinemund, the present CEO of Pepsico.
The second picture is that of Motorola, a company where Indra worked for quite sometime.
Finally the third picture is the emblem of the Yale School Of Management, from where Indra did her degree in management.

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 6

No. Of Correct Answers: 1

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Shyam K ( 3 points, 8 houtrs: 39 minutes) [LONE WARRIOR]


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 16

No. Of Correct Answers: 13

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee ( 2 points, 0 hours: 39 minutes)
Vivek Anand
Rahul Paul
Ravi Ramakanth
Sanjay Gianchandani
Vivek Karthikeyan
Prasan S
Vikram Rai
Praveen Kumar
Shyam Naren
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Rajeev Mishra
Ashish Agarwal

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Question Of The Day: 21st August, 2006

Hello Quizzers,

Welcome back to QOTD. From now on the question will be up every weekday at midnight IST. The scores have all been reset and the rules remian the same, 2 points for the fastest answer and 1 point for the rest. If on a day only one person answers s/he will get 3 points.

Let's start on a puzzle-like note. The question is quite self-explanatory. What 'number' will logically come in place of the question mark?

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Answers over IM will NOT be considered.






And The Correct Ans. Is

1014

The first picture was that of Tintin and Flight 714.
The second of the Kandahar hijack of the plane IC 814
And the third picture was of the first commercial photocopier produced by Xerox, Xerox 914


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sasidhar A ( 2 points, 9hours :32minutes)
Sundar K
Arjun K
Rubin S
Shyam K
Ranjana B

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 36

No. Of Correct Answers: 26

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Aneesh Jain (2 points, 0 hours:08 minutes)
Tarun Madan
Naveen Venkataraman
Shashwat Sehgal
Vikram Rai
Bee Gee
Prasan S
Ravi Ramakanth
Rahul Paul
Supriya Agarwal
Vivek karthikeyan
Sanyukta Jaiswal
Vinesh Kumar
Niranjan
Sanjay Gianchandani
Ashish Agarwal
Tushar Srivastava
Jitaditya Narzary
Rajat Hazra
Shreyas Joshi
Pratyush Prasanna
Navneet Visistha
Naseer Ahmed
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Arun Warrier
Srimoyee Chakaraborty

Googley And Trendy - A New Quizzing Concept!

Hello Quizzers,

Let me introduce you to the Googley and Trendy format of quizzing. I used this for the first time during the tech quiz at SCIT's annual fest this year. The audience response was very encouraging and so I would like to share it with all of you. The concept is quite simple. A chart is shown from Google Trends, with some parts covered and a question is asked on that chart. Reading a little bit about Google Trends may help.

So let's get started with this new round and all the best to all of you for a brand new Question Of The Day series. Answers to these questions will be up on the 21st of August midnight.



Question 1) Which query provides the following kind of a graph with India as the region?





Ans: The word is budget, as it is presented on the 28th of February every year. Thus the periodic spike. The small spike in June-July 2004 was because of the general elections held that year and so a mid-term budget was presented then

Question 2) Why was there a spike for the search on the word bbc in Greece in mid 2005? (Beware of decoys!)



Ans: Greece was just a decoy! The rise in searches for BBC was because of the London bomb blasts in 7/7. The rest is self explanatory I guess!

Question 3) Why the sudden surge in searches for Denmark during that period of the timeline?




Ans: A simple one here, the Prophet Muhammad Cartoon Controversy starting from Denmark.

Question 4) I searched for Justine, Matthew and Ricky and the region was Australia. Why the craze for Justin early on in the timeline?



Ans: Another decoy! The region was selected as Australia and the first names of their top three batsmen were provided, but the actual reason because of the spike in Justin's name was because of the Janet Jackson- Justin Timberlake Superbowl wardrobe malfunction.

Question 5) Murder, Rape and Violence. Why Murder suddenly then?



Ans: M for Murder, M for Mallika! Yes Ms. Sherawat's movie took murder way above rape and violence. Way To Go Ms. Sherawat!

Monday, July 10, 2006

No Question For The Day

Sometimes quizzing comes at no. 2, especially when the French no. 10 announces his retirement and leaves the world stage in such a fashion. I would like to get all your comments on the player, the final, the red-card, the goals or anything else about the world cup.

All of those comments will be up here tomorrow.

QOTD will be back tomorrow.


The emotions conveyed in the mails was unbelievable. Anyway this is what all of you had to say about Zizou and the World Cup.

Googlers

Sumant Srivatsan

I don't agree that Zidane's stupidity was the sole reason for France's loss in the World Cup final. If the deflection had not dropped behind the line, his shot would have been dismissed as arrogance. While he was good, his performance this time around was not deserving enough to win the Golden Ball. France's dependence on Zidane is more a figment of the media's imagination than representated in their performance on the field. The biggest influence in France's resurgence in this World Cup finals: Claude Makalele, with Patrick Vieira coming in a close second. Henry and Ribery did more in front than Zidane did. Too much of the spotlight was on Zidane because it was his last appearance at the WC. He collected two yellow and one red card, missed the game that sparked France's transformation into a contender in this year's WC. That was Vieira's game, and it proved that France was a better team without Zidane in the lineup. Much is made of Henry's sub-par performance in this event, but let's face it - if the French had let him have the ball a bit more, he'd have done a lot more.

Zidane is a certified hothead, with a history of losing his head at crucial moments. I'm not going to deny that he was one of the most talented players of his generation, but he was also one of the most volatile. Let's also not imagine that one man could make such an impact on a team's fortunes. We will never know what prompted the head-butt; it is something that happened on the field, and it should stay there. It is between two players, a game within the game, something that happens in every sport, at every level. However horrible the taunt, nothing can justify Zidane's reaction. This is as bad as him stamping on the Saudi Arabian guy, as vicious as Cantona's kung-fu kick, as disgusting as watching Beckham spit at the ref. It's bad for the game, and it's positively revolting that FIFA found it necessary to give him and France a consolation prize in the form of the Golden Ball. The man, admittedly, has deserved such an award in the past, but this time, not at all.

Fabio Cannavaro should have won. FIFA screwed this one up.


Manu Rekhi

FIFA was wrong in thos gesture. Another thing FIFA should have done is announce the use of instant replay to review controversial referee calls. American football finally caved in. When will FIFA put an end to "Oscar" performances on the field.


Anil T

I never much bothered about personalities except to sympathise with
them since they are so royally screwed by the media, "but one step
from the sublime to the ridiculous." But after what I saw yesterday,
I'm proud to say that I've become a fan of the Monk forever. Just to
imagine myself in his place and feel the passion of the moment, if
someone had sworn at my mother or father or nation, to jaunt a few
paces ahead, turn back, look the enemy in the eye, and then ram my
skull into his solar plexus, and feel the breath knocked out of the
worm--ah! sublime. Live life beautifully. That's more than playing
football beautifully. Imagine, as the captain of a nation, playing the
world cup final, if I can show a finger to the rules, masses,
analysts, commentators, moralists, judgmentalists, and all those 3rd
party bystanders who have nothing at stake, and say to the world that
'Yes, I'm right. I will take some things personal, damn the
consequences!" I would have lived a worthy life. That is passion for
me.

Remember guys, it is us who will remember Zizou for a long time, not
for football but for something that has been taken to a higher level.
Zidane, we love you.

And one must learn to differentiate between cunning (referred to as
gamesmanship in the sporting world) and good old gumption that warms
the cockles of every red-blooded heart. I don't know what the Saudi
did, but I saw the Italians resort to some slick 'gamesmanship' last
night. And if Beckham did spit at the refree, wow, I just love that
man! God, it is football for god's sake!

Shyam Krishnan

Genius can't be quantified, and the reason people can't appreciate a player of such caliber is when they start to think in terms of goals and fouls and not inspiration and sheer mastery of football.

I will take Zidane over all the goal scoring wannabes.

Anand Padmanabhan

Zizou's a genious! Undoubtedly one of the most talented footballers to walk the path of soccer glory.
But, how much did he deserve the FIFA Golden Ball? Maybe A lifetime achievement award equivalent? Yes! Or even "The most powerful header on a Defender's Torso" award? Yes! Definitely not the Golden Ball this time around, not just for his unsporting behaviour on the field, but also for the fact that he was definitely not as effective for his team as Cannavaro and Makalele were for their respective teams.
Zizou's genious definitely came through in this edition of the WC, but still wasn't good enough to help his team win when it mattered. Sentiments apart, did he deserve the Golden Ball? Pfft!


Kushagra Shrivastava

It's just one episode that will haunt Zidane for the rest of his life. But to me and millions of others he will remain to be a source of inspiration. I still remember my school days when i used to wear Zidane's Real Madrid Jersey to practise football. As I said earlier he is a legend and his legend will live forever.

It was awesome to read responses from everyone, but at the end of the day, Zidane remains my Hero. He has given a lot to the game. I just wish he had a better farewell.


Bennet Abraham

The greatest is right here at home.... Baichung Bhutia.

P.S. I'll miss Zizou.

Supriya Nair

whether or not Zinedine Zidane deserved the Golden Ball: I don't think so. He has genius and he's a beautiful player, and dang if that headbutt wasn't the most sublime headbutt a man ever delivered another man, but since we aren't talking about the checks and balances of soccer here, I'd like to side with Sumant and say that the Golden Ball belonged to a man who made this World Cup's best captain. He held his team together, he played with pitch-perfect control and skill right from the start, and showed the world that Italian strategy wasn't necessarily all about catenaccio. If anyone proved that playing beautiful is not necessarily all about goal-scoring, it was him. Zizou's cool reached its limits, but his didn't. And while the enduring image of this Cup final will be Zidane and his various headers for a lot of people, for me it will be of Fabio Cannavaro's stoic face as he watched his men cheat history and score a perfect set of penalties at the end of a long, consistently successful tournament for Italy.


Satarupa Joardar

In this day and age of media hyperbole, 'great' is a much-abused, inane label we're ready to bestow it on anybody. Well, Zidane isn't anybody. Agreed.


Sumodh Tharien

Well a game lost because it was taken too personally?.. well there have been others who have been red carded, during the course of a game, with the team still going on to win the game.
The aura that the man had around him made him seem invincible to those around him. On a platform where you have the world's best on display, i simply cant pick any single player who made his opponents go weak with awe.

He may not have scored the most number of goals, he may not have been the fastest on the field...but he was someone who orchestrated the French resurgence, by marshalling his forces admirably, through the course of the match

In the words of Platini - "Technically, I think he is the king of what's fundamental in the game - control and passing," . "I don't think anyone can match him when it comes to controlling or receiving the ball." ..
Even in the words of one of the italians (before the final) if im not mistaken it was the world's best defender- Cannavaro "When it comes to Zidanne you cant contain him, when he's in his elements one can only make the sign of the cross and.... hope".

His human instinct to defend his dignity or the dignity of his near and dear ones, may have cost France the match which clearly oozed of classy organization, but it can never EVER take away the greatness associated with him.

Genius may spark madness, but genius is still human....bound by all its traps.

The Golden Ball is reserved for legends who prove that they are one, every time they step on the field and strike fear in their opponents hearts. The head-butt may have been unsportive and crude, but it can in no way take away the genius of a man who's moment of human fraility knocked over Materazzi and the Cup.

The adidas Golden Ball is always awarded to the most outstanding player, Even if it did ...just that (out-standing player) during the last 8 minutes of the game!


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Prateek Vijayvargia

It was a great final and I must say this will be etched in my memory for years to come.
I was supporting France but they lost. Zidane - he deserved the Golden Ball. We all will miss him. But what he did to Matteratzi was bad and shud not have happened. :-( But even the best can sometimes can lose control and show emotion.

Shashwat Sehgal

i am pretty sure that my comments wont please any die-hard ZZ fans, but the fact remains that he acted like an idiot. He should have known better. simply put, everything is fair in sport and war, and the french should have expected a measuer of gamesmanship from the italians. racist comments or not, the experienced warhorse should have kept his temper in check, and only he is to blame what what ultimately happened. the purists will go on and on about the so called racists slurs(if any). but that wont change the bottom line : france were beaten and the sending off proved pivotal in deciding the outcome. all the demands of FIFA conducting a post-mortem as just vain cries from fans refusing to believe that their GOD is in fact, a mere mrotal. I am no France fan, i am an england fan. But my views are consistent. I also believe Rooney was at fault for his sending off and not ronaldo. Likewise, he should have kept his temper in check on the world's biggest stage and concentraed on winning the game.

Archana Satpathy

I think whatever Zidane did , there must be some valid reason for that.He is still the best.

Praveen Kumar

Zinedine Yazid Zidane and Ronaldo(Luiz Nazario) , for me are the best players of their generation.But it seems now , that even the Gods are prone to a sin.But Zidane is still God , barring that odd moment.There is something very alluring about flawed geniuses , dont you think?

Maradona , Zidane , van Gogh etc..

Naveen Venkataraman

http://seenthrumyeyes.blogspot.com/2006/07/walk-on-zizou-you-are-too-great-to-go.html

Sanjay Gianchandani

http://mere-do-paise.blogspot.com/2006/07/zidane-end-of-era.html

Bee Gee

too disgusted to write anything. this aint football, this is mafia-ball!







And finally my turn to speak up:

Soccer, like most sports, has had it's fair share of geniuses, and many of them have lived life dangerously. To quote some of the commentators from last night "A genius walks a very thin line between greatness and madness." We have had stories ranging from Garrincha driving his car over his father, Bobby Moore and his shoplifting episode, Maradona and his much talked about mafia and cocaine links and so on. How easy life would have been if everyone and everything could be painted in white and black. Unfortunately we have to deal with the various shades of gray in a majority of situations.

Here we are talking about this one man who has seen it all. He has won the Wolrd Cup for his country. He has seen his team slump to the worst ever defence of the title. He has won the Euro Championships, and lost to an unfancied bunch of Greeks. He has seen the footballing clubs fall at his feet and pay unheard of amounts to have him in their side. He has actually come back from retirement to help a team get through a difficult time while qualifying for the World Cup, and help them do so. He has been mocked at and ridiculed because of below par performances in the first few games of this world cup. He has also risen from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix. But he has also done something which cannot be put under such specific categories. He has Inspired a bunch of people to believe in themselves, he has motivated the team to get the confidence back, he has been the talisman for the team and as Henry said on Zidane's return to the Les Blues side "God has come back to play for us. He is wearing the no. 10 jersey".

That is the kind of 'x-factor' we are talking about here. And once we realised that the 'extra something' that Zizou brought to the field cannot be measured and quantified we can start thinking logically about judging his value as a player for his team and in general. Once we start thinking logically, we realise he is one of those few men who defy logic, who perform 'magic' and not 'hallucination tricks'. If only we could bring down such geniuses to simple statistical figures of goals scored and red cards shown, football would lose all of it's charms.

The best player in the world cup was awarded to the person who deserved every bit of it. It's only once in ages that we get such players who can inspire generations and even outside the soccer world. Whose touching the ball can bring the faith back in a million hearts. Zidane is one of those reasons for which the game is called the 'beautiful game' and his loss is a big set back for the game.

I am not defending his action here, but lets not try and analyse what caused Zizou to do what he did. He knew better than all of us, that just eight minute separated him and immortal glory, and a second French World Cup. It's only because of geniuses like him that we have all the legends and fables in the game of football.

You thoroughly deserved every moment of your glory Zizou, and you shall be remembered for all the joy you provided and not the one moment of 'mystery' which provided the biggest anti-climax in sporting history.


Thanks for everything Zizou



Friday, July 07, 2006

Question Of The Day: 7th July, 2006

Ending the week on a slightly random note. Please connect the following, and I have already given the usual hint, think out of the box! Happy quizzing over the weekend:)

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Ivory

Clockwise from top-left:

James Ivory (of Ivory merchant fame), the flag of Ivory Coast and Ebony and Ivory album cover.


Total No. Of Attempts: 3

No. Of Correct Answers: 2

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Daud C 23:44
Tarun M

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Total No. Of Attempts: 27

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee 0:41
Srimoyee Chakraborty
Ameya Mardolkar
Vivek karthikeyan
Vinesh Kumar
Jitaditya Narzary
Deepak Karamungikar
Ravi Ramakanth
Praveen Kumar
Dipankar Sarkar
Ashish Agarwal

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Question Of The Day: 6th July, 2006

Another easy one I should say. The same routine. Logically connect the three pictures provided below.

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And The Correct Answer Is

Maruti Suzuki

Sanjay Gandhi introduced the car to India, Jagdish Khattar is the present Managing Director of Maruti India and Michio Suzuki was the founder of Suzuki Company, Japan.


Total No. Of Attempts: 15

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Arjun K 11:42
Tarun M
Vrushali D
Rubin S
Vikas S
Daud C

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Total No. Of Attempts: 30

No. Of Correct Answers: 21

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee 0:04
Dhiraj Ramakrishnan
Mitesh vasa
Ameya Mardolkar
Rahul Paul
Oranje Oranje
Vivek karthikeyan
Supriya Agarwal
Arun Warrier
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Pallavi Roy
Narayanan Venkataraman
Manish Achuta
raghu Gopalan
Ashish Agarwal
Deepak Karamungikar
Jitaditya Narzary
Dipankar Goswami
Venkatesh S
Ravi Ramakanth
Dipankar Sarkar

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Question Of The Day: 5th July, 2006

After a couple of toughies to begin the new season, here comes the first lollipop of the season. How will you connect the following actors? ASAT (As Simple AS That), Simple!

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And The Correct Answer Is


They all played the role of Batman in movies.

Clockwise from top left: Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale and Michael Keaton.


Total No. Of Attempts: 20

No. Of Correct Answers: 13

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Sumant S
Supriya N
Tanushree B
Smitha P
Arjun K
Shyam K
Sathy J
Rubin S
Vinitha N
Ravin R
Tarun M
Daud C
Sumodh T

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Total No. Of Attempts: 35

No. Of Correct Answers: 27

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Bee Gee
Arun Warrier
Vinesh Kumar
Lingit Tibrewal
Mitesh Vasa
Niranjan
Ashish Agarwal
Vivek karthikeyan
Dhiraj Ramakrishnan
Raghuram Godavarthi
Ameya Mardolkar
Raghuram A
Rahul Paul
Sanjay Gianchandani
Anirban Baishya
Gautham Ravichander
Ravi Ramakanth
Praveen Kumar
Shiv
Deepak Karamungikar
Jitaditya Narzary
Dipankar Goswami
Nikshep Mehra
Narayanan Venkataraman
Amit Jha
Pallavi Roy
Sharath