Question Of The Day: 31st March, 2006

A slightly tricky one to end the week and the month. Where will you find the following thing, character and person(and its nowhere near an exhaustive list)?

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Answers over IM will NOT be considered.




And The Correct Ans. Is

All of them, Kermit The Frog, Edwin Aldrin and Disneyland have their stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 9

No. Of Correct Answers: 5

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sreejita D
Radhika R
Vijayaragav RJ
Rubin S
Sumodh T
Tarun M

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 23

No. Of Correct Answers: 9

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Rahul Paul
Rohit Nair
Sandeep B
Raunak Baid
Bee Gee
Pranoti Pawar
Subhash Kasse
Karthick Viswanathan
Venkataraman S
Deepak Karamungikar
Shashank Rath

QOTD Will Be Back Tomorrow, Happy Ugadi

Hello Quizzers,

Today being Ugadi, New Year in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and some other states, we have a holiday in Google Hyderabad. So there will not be the 'Question Of The Day today. It will be back tomorrow at 1330 hours IST. Happy Ugadi to all of you.

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

P.S: Those of you interested in face recognition software can try out riya.com, its definitely worth giving a try.

Question Of The Day: 29th March, 2006

The logo is probably a give-away hint, but I think no one minds a sitter! Anyway please connect the following pictures.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Wikipedia

The person in the picture is Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. The logo is that of Wikimedia Foundation. And the graph shows the no. articles from July 2001 when it was started.


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 3

No. Of Correct Answers: 1

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 20

No. Of Correct Answers: 17

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee
Bharat Jain
Naseer Ahmed
Rahul Paul
Rohit Nair
Deepak Karamungikar
Murali Duggineni
Badry Sarathy
Dipankar Goswami
Karthik Viswanathan
Balakrishna Kanukollu
Khader Abbeb
Mit Chowdhury
Karthick Viswanathan
Mitesh Agarwal
Sivakumar MPT
Avishek Dey

Question Of The Day: 28th March, 2006

Connection question as usual, and only hint is that the answer is SomeThing and NOT SomeOne. All the best.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Harvard University

Veritas is the emblem/insignia of Harvard. The person in the picture is Lawrence Summers the present president. And Tom Hanks is playing the role of Robert Langdon in the movie Da Vinci Code, and Langdon is a professor of Symbology at Harvard (though no such subject actually exists in Harvard)

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 16

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Arjun K
Shyam K
Supriya N
Sumant S
Sathy J
Tarun M
Rubin S
Vinitha N
Kavita G
Sumodh T
Sreejita D
Shyam P

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 24

No. Of Correct Answers: 18

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Rahul Paul
Bee Gee
Raghu Gopalan
Avishek Dey
Pratysuh Prasanna
Mitesh Agarwal
Deepak Karamungikar
Supriya Agarwal
Rohit Nair
Bharat Jain
Sandeep B
Pradeep K R
Karthik Viswanathan
Aneesh Jain
Mit Chowdhury
Saff Malk
Tarun Madan
Vivita Sequira

Question Of The Day: 27th March, 2006

From today we start the external tracks of 'Question Of The Day', and a sports question to begin with. Connect the following to a very famous sportsperson.

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And the Correct Ans. Is

Lance Armstrong

He won his last Tour De France with Team Discovery Channel. Made a guest appearance in the movie Dodgeball. And Nike brought out the 10/2 line of sportswear along with him, as he was diagnosed with cancer on that day.


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 15

No. Of Correct Answers: 11

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M
Vikas S
Sumodh T
Shilpa T
Sriranjini L
Ranjana B
Anand P
Arjun K
Sundar K
Radhika R
Sumant S

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 23

No. Of Correct Answers: 23

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee
Aneesh Jain
Rahul Paul
Deepak Karamungikar
Prateek Vijayvargia
Oranje Oranje
Rohit Nair
Priyambad Pattanayak
Karthik Vishwanathan
Neelakantan E
Pradeep K R
Supriya Agarwal
Tarun Madan
Bharat Choragudi
Pratyush Prasanna
Shashank Rath
Mit Chowdhury
Raghu Gopalan
Sandeep B
Nitish Khadiya
Karthik Narayan
Bharat Jain
Santanu Dey

Rules and Regulations

Hello Quizzers,

The following are the main rules and regulations of Inquizzitive. Besides point no. 1 none of the others are going to affect Googlers.

Rules

1. Every week from Monday to Friday, a fresh question will be up on the blog at 00:00 hours (Indian Standard Time). The question will remain open till 23:00 hours.

2. All answers to be mailed to me at: suhel.banerjee@gmail.com
[NOTE: Henceforth answers over IM will not be considered]

3. I will be sending out a mail at 00:00 hours everyday with the link to the question and the detailed answer of the previous day's question and the list of correct answer providers. To get this mail you will have to subscribe to:

Jigyasa: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/jigyasa/


Membership is open for all, so you will require only your Gmail or Yahoo id's

NOTE: The following settings are recommended, as there will be just one mail per day in these groups:

Yahoo Group: Individual emails - Receive individual messages.

4. We will be having Daily, Weekly and Monthly Statistics, like the fastest answer provider, Quizzers of the week, Lone Warrior (If only one person provides the answer etc).

5. Scoring will be as follows: 1 point for every correct answer. 2 points for the fastest answer every day. And 3 points for the Lone Warrior (If Any).

Hope to see a lot of you taking part in the 'Question Of The Day' series. And yes, if you have any questions which you think should be up on the blog (with the visual/connection format in mind) please mail them to me. Due credit shall be provided:) For any clarifications please shoot all your questions to: suhel.banerjee@gmail.com

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

Question Of The Day: 24th March, 2006

These otherwise obscure hints are connected by a very famous Computer game. Just name the Game.(A little research will be slightly more helpful than Random Guessing!)

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Max Payne

The first picture is that of Valkyr, The Valkyries of Norse mythology were warrior-women and heralds of death and it was also the drug used in the game. Project Valhalla is the government-funded conspiracy that created Valkyr. In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the festhall in the afterlife to which some of those who died in honorable battle are assigned after death. Finally The nightclub Ragna Rock is a play on the word Ragnarouk, the Norse battle between the Aesir and the giants (and their allies) that results in the death of many deities and the rebirth of the world.

Total No. Of Attempts: 12

No. Of Correct Answers: 1

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumant S

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Sayan Ghosh
Pratyush Prasanna

Question Of The Day: 23rd March, 2006

Connect the following as usual. The person's profession should be a give away hint.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Dennis The Menace

The cartoonist shown in the picture is Hank Ketcham. The snapshot of a weather phenomenon was of Hurricane Dennis, named after Dennis the Menace and He was initially called the pickle.


Total No. Of Attempts: 11

No. Of Correct Answers: 5

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Arjun K
Manjusha N
Anand P
Sumodh T
Radhika R

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Bee Gee
Rahul Paul
Pradeep K R

No Question Of The Day Today

As I will be out of town today, so there will not be any Question Of The Day. It will be back tomorrow as usual at 12:30 PM IST.

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

Question Of The Day: 21st March, 2006

Connect the following. [HINT: 8 letter English word]

Today's question has been framed by Rikhiya Banerjee

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Raincoat

Aishwariya Rai acted in the movie Raincoat, which was inspired by the story 'Gift Of The Magi' written by O.Henry (the person in the picture) And Macintosh was provided as its a synonym for the word Raincoat

Total No. Of Attempts: 12

No. Of Correct Answers: 0

List Of Correct Answer Givers



Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Venkataraman
Rajib Saha
Karthick Vishwanathan

Question Of The Day: 20th March, 2006

Back with a classic connection question. Which international leader connects the following.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Charles De Gaulle

The first person is Frederick Forsyth, whos book The Day of The Jackal was based on an assassination attempt on Gaulle's life. The second picture is that of a jackal and the country whose outline and flag was provided is Algeria, and Gaule was the Fench President when France handed over independence to Algeria.


Total No. Of Attempts: 12

No. Of Correct Answers: 8

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Arjun K
Bennet A
Vinitha N
Manjusha N
Rubin S
Vijayragav RJ
Radhika R
Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Bharat Jain
Bee Gee

Question Of The Day: 17th March, 2006

After a thoroughly satisfying response to yesterday's toughie here's a simple one to end the week. Please connect the following three picturtes.

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And The Correct Ans. Is


English, August

The person on the left is Upamanyu Chatterjee, the author of English, August. Then its Dev Benegal the director who made the book into a movie. And the cover is that of Mammaries of A Welfare state, the sequel to English August.

Total No. Of Attempts: 12

No. Of Correct Answers: 1

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sreejita D

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Rahul Paul
Dipankar Goswami
Anal Ghosh

Question Of The Day: 16th March, 2006

I will not rate this question as hard or easy or the like. But yes its the most abstract question I have ever framed, and till date my favourite question of this series. It's a person who connects these pictures and please think out of the cube.

[Hint: Hint's already been provided]

Today's Question was framed jointly by Manjusha Ninan and myself.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Pablo Picasso

His works are classified under the following four periods: Blue, Rose, African and Cubist


Total No. Of Attempts: 14

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M
Shyam P
Tanushree B
Sumodh T
Kavita G
Arjun K
Vinitha N

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Bee Gee

Question Of The Day: 15th March, 2006

Connect the following people (besides that fact that they were all US presidents). I will be brave and once again procliam that this is a sitter, so no clues.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Those are the four US presidents whose faces are engraved in Mount Rushmore.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodre Roosevelt


Total No. Of Attempts: 16

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Vinitha N
Bennet A
Sreejita D
Vikas S
Smitha P
Shilpa T
Tanushree B
Tarun M
Vijayragav RJ
Manjusha N
Radhika R

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Bharat Jain
Mit Chowdhury
Pradeep K R
Rahul Paul
Bee Gee
Dipankar Goswami

Question Of The Day: 14th March, 2006

Yet again its been proved that I am a terrible judge of standard of questions. Yesterday's question which I proudly announced to be the easiest ever received one of the lowest no. of correct entries.

So coming to today's question, Identify the 18th century European adventurer whose name has gained a place in all notable dictionaries. If it serves as a hint, during the last stages of his life he was a Librarian.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Giacomo Casanova (of the casanova fame/disrepute).

Total No. Of Attempts: 24

No. Of Correct Answers: 19

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Rubin S
Sreejita D
Tanushree B
Mandar D
Smitha P
Sumant S
Vikas S
Manjusha N
Tarun M
Dinesh J
Vijayaragav RJ
Radhika R
Sundar K
Ashok M
Shyam P
Sharon A
Arjun K
Sriranjini L

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Bharat Jain
Mit Chowdhury
Pradeep K R
Biranchi Panigrahi
Monu Surana
Neelankantan E
Sreechaitanya Garimela
Rahul Paul
Bee Gee
Prateek Vijayvargia

Question Of The Day: 13th March, 2006

Questions rarely get easier than this. Please tell me who should there be in place of the question mark and why. I will not insult anybody's quizzing skills by giving hints for this one!

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Mick Lewis

These are the bowlers who have given away the maximum no. of runs in limited overs cricket. Pictures were those of Blignaut, De Mel, Muralitharan and Snedden. Here's a list of them

http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/ODIS/BOWLING/ODI_BOWL_MOST_EXPENSIVE.html

Total No. Of Attempts: 8

No. Of Correct Answers: 3

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Vikas S
Sumodh T
Smitha P

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Bharat Jain
Mit Choudhury

Question Of The Day: 10th March, 2006

These people were the best in their own chosen fields. But a particular hobby/pursuit connects them. What is it?

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Those three people (Aristotle, Sherlcok Holmes and Edmund Hillary) were all beekeepers.


Total No. Of Attempts: 14

No. Of Correct Answers: 9

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M
Arjun K
Smitha P
Shyam K
Bennet A
Sreejita D
Sumodh T
Vinitha N
Radhika S

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right

Bee Gee

Question Of The Day: 9th March, 2006

The following three pictures are totally unconnected. However one Magasaysay Award winner is connected with all of these. And hint would be each connection is a common question in quizzing circles.

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Congratulations to Bharat Jain, a regular in this column, for having performed extremely well in the Hyderabad round of the Brand Equity Quiz. His team came second after a tie-breaker in the finals. Well done Bharat :)





And The Correct Ans. Is

R K Laxman

He and Bal thackery started their careers as cartoonists together. The opther gentleman is Capt. Gopinath, the founder of Deccan Airways, and R K Laxman designed the mascot of Air Deccan. Finally Symbiosis in Pune has a bronze statue of Laxman's most famous character, the Common Man.


Total No. Of Attempts: 9

No. Of Correct Answers: 5

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Arjun K
Vinitha N
Rubin S
Arijit S
Sumodh T

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Aruna
Bharat Jain
Tanmay Inamdar

Question Of The Day: 8th March, 2006

The answer to today's question lies in the picture itself. And one picture is just a clue. So what connects the three?

Today's question has been framed by Manjusha Ninan

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Jethro Tull

He is the gentleman in the picture, who invented the seed drill, and the rock band whose picture is given is also called Jethro Tull named after him.


Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Arjun K
Vinitha N
Bennet A
Tarun M
Sumodh T
Siddhartha T

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Mithun Kidambi
Deepak Karamungikar

Question Of The Day: 7th March, 2006

A Hardcore cricket trivia question. What unique bowling feat has been achieved by these three players in test cricket?

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And The Correct Answer Is

The bowlers ( J. Lawson, M. Hughes and C. Walsh) are the only bowlers in the history of test cricket to have taken a split hattrick ( a httrick spread over two innings).

Total No. Of Attempts: 22

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bennet A
Aditya D
Vikas S
Dinesh J
Megha G
Radhika R
Rubin S
Siddhartha T
Sumodh T
Sasidhar A
Tarun M
Arjun K

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Shashank Rath
Mit Chowdhury
Bharat Jain
Prateek Vijayvargia

Question Of The Day: 6th March, 2006

There was no 'Question Of The Day' on Friday, 3rd March, 2006 as we were shifting office.

Not really as difficult a connect as it initially seems as. Think about latest developments and you will get it.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

The Academy Awards (Oscar Awards)

PriceWaterhouse has been the auditors of the award since its inception. The gentleman in the picture (red square) is Cedric Gibbons, the designer of the statute. And the lady is the then librarian of the Academy, Margaret Herrick, who is supposed to have said that statute looks like her uncle Oscar and thats why the name.


Total No. Of Attempts: 11

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Tarun M
Arjun K
Vinitha N
Aditya D
Shyam P
Siddhartha T

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia

Question Of The Day: 2nd March, 2006

A connection question again, and to stop you from going into the depths of Hollywood trivia, let me tell you the answer is a person not connected with movies.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Steve Jobs

The movie 'Anywhere But Here' is based on a book by Mona Simpson who is Steve Jobs' biological sister. Monsters Inc. was produced by Pixar which was started by Jobs. And finally the other person in the picture is John sCully, the CEO of Apple at the time Jobs was fired.


Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Arjun K
Tarun M
Sriranjini L
Rubin S
Bennet A
Tanushree B
Sumodh T

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia
Bharat Jain

Question Of The Day: 1st March, 2006

Was going through the Google Quiz Club's e-mails, and this question is a result of pure nostalgia. This was the first question put up by me (and the first of the club) in June last year. Yes its a sitter, and the question has undergone an image make-over from being a dry one to this format. Will be expecting record no. of answers.

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And The Correct Ans Is.

All of them are married to doctors. Sachin Tendulkar, Madhuri Dixit and Waqar Younis.

Total No. Of Attempts: 8

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M
Vikas S
Smitha P
Sumodh T
Mandar D
Sriranjini L

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Mithun Kidambi