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.

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

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:)

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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!