Daily Trivia # 279

To foreigners, a ______ is an American.

To Americans, a ______ is a Northerner.

To Northerners, a ______ is an Easterner.

To Easterners, a ______ is a New Englander.

To New Englanders, a ______ is a Vermonter.

And in Vermont, a ______ is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

A rather vague hint: Think of baseball teams

World Quiz Championship 2010

After much googling for venue addresses, I landed up on its main site...WQC2010.

Well, here are the details for this year's World Quizzing Championship in India.

• Format : Solo Written Quiz

8 sections( 'Culture', 'Lifestyle', 'Media', 'World','Entertainment', 'History', 'Sciences', 'Sport & Games') of 30 questions each to be answered in 2 hours.

• Entry fee : NONE

• Date & Time - 5th June 2010, 4 PM

•  Venues :

1. Bangalore

Venue: AUDITORIUM, COMMAND HOSPITAL AIR FORCE , OLD AIRPORT ROAD, BANGALORE
Organizer: ANURAKSHAT GUPTA
919717181665
Email: anurakshat@rediffmail.com

2. Chennai

Venue: PS Senior Secondary School, #33, Alarmelmangapuram, Mylapore, Chennai 600004

Organizer: ASHWIN PRABHU

919840718533

Email: ashwin.prabhu@gmail.com

3. Cochin

Venue: CALICUT UNIVERSITY SEMINAR COMPLEX, CALICUT

Organizer: SNEHAJ SRINIVAS

919895316264

Email: quiz4dreamz@gmail.com

4. Coimbatore

Venue: PSG Institute of Management, Avinashi Road, Coimbatore

Organizer: SENTHIL

919363225581

Email: senthil2play@gmail.com

5. Goa

Venue: Corporation City Hall, Panaji

Organizer: TALLULAH SILVA

919823362217

Email: tallulahsilva@gmail.com

 

6. Guwahati

Organizer: MANI MUGHDA SHARMA

919899303108

Email: quizzicalguy@gmail.com

7. Hyderabad 

Organizer: LATHISH VENUGOPAL
919885802924
Email: lathishdavinci@gmail.com

8. Mumbai

Venue: PINSTORM AGENCY OFFICE, SANTA CRUZ WEST, LINKING ROAD MUMBAI

Organizer: RAJIV RAI

919819218415

Email: rajiv.rai@db.com

Further information: http://bombayquiz.blogspot.com/2010/05/world-quiz-championship-2010-mumbai.html

9. Pune

Venue: Symbiosis Law College Auditorium, Symbiosis Law School, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune 401004
Organizer: SUVAJIT CHAKRABORTY
919370124365
Email: chakrabortysuvajit@gmail.com

10. New Delhi

Venue: 2 LT-1, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

Organizer: B SHRIRAM

919899238968

Email: bshriram@gmail.com

11. Kolkata

Venue: International School of Business & Media, EN-22, Sector-V Salt Lake City Kolkatta

Organizer: GAUTAM GHOSE

919830044093

Email: gautam08@gmail.com

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Daily Trivia # 278

Connect.

Hint- The car is not a Rolls Royce

No answers so far, so here's another hint

Ans: It is Volvo. Ford has sold Volvo to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile. The car shown is a Geely GE. Roger Moore drove a Volvo P1800 in the TV series The Saint and the map shown is the route of Volvo Ocean Race

Daily Trivia #277

Connect

Daily Trivia #276 : Chill down your spine

CONNECT
Hint : Vancouver 




















Answer -Sochi, Russia - Site of the next Winter & Paralympic Olympic Games to be held in 2014.

They're back!!!

A sitter to start with
Connect these Renaissance greats.
(Think: Shells)

Daily Trivia #274

A textual question at last!

Some years ago, 3 guys gave birth to X and sealed its fate on Valentine's Day. Albeit not the first one in its category, it picked up precisely where others failed. Using the same technology which helped create film series like Star Wars and Terminator, it first taught the world a common fact about an animal. And that's, that's cool. X also told us Britain truly has talent.
Its operating costs far exceeded its revenue in 2009.
And that's pretty much all there is to say.
Identify X.

X = Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw 

Daily Trivia # 273

Identify the person in the image and give apt connections with the other two images ?
Hello folks, this is my first ever post on the esteemed Q-BIT blog.....hope it adds to your knowledge arsenal !!!

Daily Trivia #272

Connect. 

Hint: Think code names

Ans- It is Ubuntu. These animals represent the alliterative code names-Hardy Heron, Intrepid Ibex, Karmic Koala, Lucid Lynx, Gutsy Gibbon, Maverick Meerkat

Daily Trivia #271 A parting tribute, but to whom???

Oahu known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and also the place where the American live-action television series LOST was shot.

William Golding is the Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies. Lost draws many of its initial plot devices and themes from Lord of the Flies.

Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse, the principal screenwriters for LOST, depicted here along with the tropical island dwelling polar bear of season one, in a velvet painting by Paul Scheer. Paul created the website DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com which markets LOST inspired artwork.

Michael Giacchino, the composer for Lost.





Lost Season 6 promo inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper

Connect:LOST

Daily Trivia #270 Flight Of The Century

The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize.

Hotel Lafayette in New York City, whose owner Raymond Orteig (1870–1939) offered the Orteig Prize (won by Lindberg) for the first non-stop transatlantic flight between New York and Paris.

Within 5 years of his historic flight Lindbergh was a rich man. But his good fortune was short lived, when Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was abducted from his home in New Jersey, on the evening of March 1, 1932. The media termed it the "Crime of the Century"; Agatha Christie was inspired by circumstances of the case when she described the kidnapping of baby girl Daisy Armstrong in her 1934 Hercule Poirot novel Murder on the Orient Express. Also made into a film of the same name in 1974. Above is its poster.

Lindbergh studied the perfusion of organs outside the body with Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel; Lindbergh's invention, a glass perfusion pump, named the "Model T" pump, is credited with making future heart surgeries possible; Also in 1938, Lindbergh and Carrel summarized their work in their book, The Culture of Organs described an artificial heart.

Charles F. Muntz, the main antagonist in the movie Up (2009) was inspired by Charles Lindbergh.

Less than three weeks after the flight the U.S. Post Office Department issued a 10-cent "Lindbergh Air Mail" stamp (Scott C-10) on June 11, 1927 with engraved illustrations of both the Spirit of St. Louis and a map of its route from New York to Paris.

Daily Trivia #269

Which car is the latest in the series?

Ans: Its the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG. Tuned versions of all the above cars have been used as F1 safety cars. Porsche 914-the first safety car, Mercedes Benz CLK 63 and Mercedes Benz SLK

Daily Trivia #268 : Hello World

Connect

ANSWER :
 
Ideal Toy Company - Founded by Morris & Rose Michtom, inventor of the first teddy bear, named after Theodore Roosevelt's nickname. Same company commercially exported the first Rubik's cube after renaming it from Magic Cube and buying the rights from Erno Rubik.

DAILY TRIVIA # 267 Hungry Kya???

Hello one and all,
this is my first post here. As you would have noticed, there are new additions to the Q-BIT Team. All of us are from various branches of the 3rd year at BIT, Mesra.

First of all, I want to thank all the seniors for doing a fantastic job at BIT over past few years, not only in terms of this blog, but also all the hugely entertaining quizzes organized by Q-BIT in all the uncountable number of festivals at BIT. If not for Q-BIT I doubt if I would have ever realized my passion for quizzing. Seriously you guys rock!! Wish you all, all the very best in your professional lives. :-)

Secondly, to all the regular readers of this blog: All of us newbies here will try our best to live up the high standards set by team Q-BIT and keep your curiosity quenched!! Also, let us know of anything new you want to see here, be it some genre of quizzing we miss out, or some type/format of questions never posted before.


Here we go, Identify this guy & his claim to fame:



Hints:

DAILY TRIVIA # 266 Forces of Attraction.

Connect.

Question Courtesy: Vrashank Jain.

DAILY TRIVIA # 265 On Pornpular Demand.

Happy Birthday Shrill.(Though not the right post to wish you :(  )
Rated NC-17.Hope this special post dedicated to opium & other friends is not disgraceful enough to be reported for abuse :)
1.Identify these two ladies and for what unique record are they fighting ?

Answer:Danni Ashe & Cindy Margolis fighting out for the most downloaded woman on web.

2.Only mainstream movie done by her and her music band.Name this actress.

Answer:Sasha Grey(Movie:The Girlfriend Experience & the band: Atelecine)

3.Oscar Award for this movie.what's unique about it?

Answer:Midnight Cowboys,only X rated movie to win an oscar for best picture.
4.Connect.

Answer: Watergate Scandal or Deep Throat.

5.Identify the actress and the character she is portryaing in this music video.

Answer: Lisa Ann as Sarah Palin in Eminem's We Made You music video.

6.Identify the movie considered to be the most expensive in its category.

Answer: Pirates.

Daily Trvia #264

logo of which company??

DAILY TRIVIA # 263

who??

daily trivia #262

what on earth is this??