Quenching BIT's Quriousity: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Daily Trivia #501: Solve the question with ease and grace, lest they vanish without a trace!

Question courtesy: Sparsh Sinha

Sunday, August 28, 2011

TATA CRUCIBLE JAMSHEDPUR EDITION 2011

Being a Sunday the event saw a good turnout with over 120 teams participating.

The quiz started at 11 with pickbrain emphasing the power of "one" Refering to Anna Hazare .

Extoling the Tatas he made a point there .Tata Crucible is one mega Jamboree for quizzers where they earn quality prizes and goodies without even shelving off a penny.Spare a thought and contribute for the Tata Cancer foundation hospital . The prelims Questions were comparatively easier than last years.

The cut off was very high.

6 teams on stage 1 Team from Jusco,1 from Tata Motors, 4 from Tata Steel. ( Fortunately I was there too with my teammate Abhishek Padhye. We scored 17/20)

Winning team was from Tata Steel,the team of Mr.Sidhharth and Mr.Amit and runners up were the very consistent Runners-UP Mr.Nirmal and Mohit from Tata Steel 3rd spot was a tie between Tata Motors and Tata Steel.

Ladies and Gentlemen..Put yours hands together and take a dekko at the questions below!!

1) X set up Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, an educational institute which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Western India.Which female Indian citizen?

2) Which brand has launched a merchandise called SUBSTORE?

3) With which company would you associate ANTRIX (controversial in the last year)?

4) What is this

5)For which entity is ANAND famous?

6)Which brand of shoes was common for Pele,Lothat Matheus,Diego Maradona?

7) What was introduced by French engineer Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946?Named after an Island.

9) An Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The

It has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy—to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio—now Europe's largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles and the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales

10)Which metal gets its name from the roman God of trade?

11)What analysis was named after this Italian gentleman?

12) Which game means “number place” ?

13) Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper,Sears Roebuck and William Benton. The present owner of this Encyclopædia. is Jacqui Safra, a Swiss billionaire and actor.

14)Who is psephologist?

15) Yahoo mail logo?

16)What is a Japanese for “FAIL SAFE”?

17)Tiger Airlines is a part of which airlines?

18)He was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.

Also founded a famous institution.

19)

Google doodle for what?

Answers:
1 pratibha patil 2 Subway 3 ISRO 4 Android 5 AMUL 6 Puma 7 Bikini 8 Ingvar Kamprad 9 vespa 10 mercury 11 Pareto 12 sudoku 13 Brittanica 14 election results analyser 15 LIAM 16 pokayoke 17 singapore airlines 18 Andrew Carnegie 19 Jules Verne

Some questions asked in the Finals

1)which place witnessed fall in real estate prices and was named after Major James Abbott?

2)Only LUX model to become a Chief Minister?

3) Who was born as Rama Krishna in Haryana and started Patanjali Life Sciences?

In whose honour ? This person has a company named after him?

John Harmsworth designed something in distinctive green bottles. The shape was that of the Indian clubs Harmsworth used for exercise.What?

6)THE face was airbrushed.Which first male model of Christian Dior?

7)Which unlikely agency designed this game for kids

8)which brand?

9)Connect of FIREFOX

10)Connect on RBI governors

11)Connect on Mobile Operating systems

12)connect on ITC products

13)connect on apple

14)connect on AR Rahman

15)What new product is TVS King?

16)which brand gets its name from sandal and turmeric?

Answers:
1) Abbottabad 2) Jayalalitha 3) Ramdev Baba 4) Chase of JPMC 5) Perrier 6) zenedine zidane 7) NASA 8) Godiva 15) 3 wheeler 16) Santoor
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Daily Trivia #500 - A The Slash+RitaHayworth+Nightrod Post!

5 questions for today's special post...look for a bigger connect from the answers to these 5 connects. Inception style!

1st Connect:

2nd Connect:

3rd Connect:

4th Connect:

5th Connect:

Remember, look for the connect between the answers of these connects to get the larger connect!

By Praanshuman, Utsav & Vrashank

Daily Trivia #500 - B With Love From Tatanagar

The special number deserves special attention...so we have divided the 500th post into several parts. This one is by Sneha Ranjan aka shrill! She wishes you a healthy quizzing session with these questions!

1. He started an Indian cosmetic company. Name the company.

2. Connect:

3. What is going on in this image?

Daily Trivia #500 - C Ignoramus Quizzer

And like the previous post, this one is contributed by Prabhakar Kumar aka Ignoramus!
He still finds a lot of time from his job for quizzing which is fantastic. Infact, the 500th Daily Trivia poster was his idea!
Try his questions out too while we sing happy 500 to us!

1. Hrithik,Abhay & Farhan had their version of this in ZNMD.Here, who are making the people run for their lives here?

2. Identify the person on the right.

3. This image was recreated in the building of this company which showed their fear of getting knocked out by the other giant. It also served as the codename for the project which they thought would help me counter the giant.Name this company and the project.

4. When somebody told me that she would have been hot in her college days, I came up with this. Identify her.

5. Which company started with this story?

6. Identify this game and the company which has started it.

7. This image features a cameo by which personality?

Saturday, August 27, 2011

500 Days of Trivia!

Wait for the 500th Daily Trivia post! We're trying to make it sound like Slash, look like Rita Hayworth and feel like the Harley Nightrod!
Tab tak ke liye dekhiye yeh poster, 500 days of summer se inspired :)

Monday, August 22, 2011

Another Quiz In The Hall

We don't need to educate you about entertainment. Bring all your dark sarcasm in the CATroom.Hey! Quizzers.All in all you be there for Another Quiz In The Hall!