1. John Travolta
2. Howard Jacobson
3. Spain
4. Mastermind
5. Vertigo
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Kapinjal
Ajay Nene
Nihar
Siddarth Pai
Sumanth Shankar
Friday, December 31, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Answers of Q5/2010
1. Rhodes Scholarship recipients.
2. Logo of Mcgrath Foundation
3. Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
4. Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patent drawing.
5. Time Magazine
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Ajay Nene
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Answers for Q4/2010
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Answers for Q4/2010
1. Lakshman Reddy, Mr World title winner in the Musclemania world bodybuilding pro championship in Las Vegas, USA
2. Prince Charles
3. 2010 Nobel prize winner – Liu Xiabo; Could not attend the award ceremony since he is currently a political prisonor in China
4. Nicole Faria, Miss Earth -2010
5. Comic Heroines of ‘Female Force’ (Latest to be added to the list)
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Rohini Dinesh (all correct answers)
Ajay Nene
Sumanth Shankar
Keerthana Mony
Kapinjal
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Rohini Dinesh (all correct answers)
Ajay Nene
Sumanth Shankar
Keerthana Mony
Kapinjal
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Answers for Q3/2010
1. Julian Assange
2. Highest Test Scores - Nelson, Double nelson and Triple nelson by Shaun Pollock, G.R.Viswanath and Chris Gayle
3. Pike River Coal Mine in New Zealand
4. Tea Party Movement
5. Yana Gupta
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Nat Vora (All correct answers)
Sumanth Shankar
Rohini Dinesh
Dr. Sivaprasad
2. Highest Test Scores - Nelson, Double nelson and Triple nelson by Shaun Pollock, G.R.Viswanath and Chris Gayle
3. Pike River Coal Mine in New Zealand
4. Tea Party Movement
5. Yana Gupta
Answers given by:
Nat Vora (All correct answers)
Sumanth Shankar
Rohini Dinesh
Dr. Sivaprasad
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Answers for Quiz2/2010
1. Kate Middleton
2. Hi-speed rail link between Hong Kong and Guangzhou for the Asian games - sponsored by Samsung
3. Airtel
4. Rao brothers (Balaji & Venkatesh) of Venky's - New owners of Blackburn Rovers
5. Havana
Murali Ramaswamy got all answers correct.
Following got answers for some or most of the questions:
Arvind Kumar
Sumanth Shankar
Keertana Mony
Rohini Dinesh
Uday Vaishnav
2. Hi-speed rail link between Hong Kong and Guangzhou for the Asian games - sponsored by Samsung
3. Airtel
4. Rao brothers (Balaji & Venkatesh) of Venky's - New owners of Blackburn Rovers
5. Havana
Murali Ramaswamy got all answers correct.
Following got answers for some or most of the questions:
Arvind Kumar
Sumanth Shankar
Keertana Mony
Rohini Dinesh
Uday Vaishnav
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Answers for Quiz1/2010
1. Trailer
2. Gossip
3. Enthusiasm
4. Blackmail
5. Gibberish
Keertana Mony got all answers correct.
2. Gossip
3. Enthusiasm
4. Blackmail
5. Gibberish
Keertana Mony got all answers correct.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Quiz1/2010
From my Library - Topic : Word Origin (Send your answers to sujash007@gmail.com
Q1.To understand this word, one has to go back to the days when movies were shown continuously in theaters and the audience was allowed to sit through multiple shows of the same movie – the start times were published, and if you came in late you simply sat through the next showing until you came to the point "where you came in". The coming attractions reel would be spliced onto the end of the last reel of the movie. What word is derived from the above-mentioned practice?
Q2. In merry old England, a godsib was a godparent of either sex, sib being the Anglo-Saxon word for kinsman. When godsibs were together, particularly female ones, no doubt a fair share of idle talk occurred, and the word soon lost its religious context and acquired the meaning of one with whom one chats intimately.
Q3.It is derived from the Greek word ‘en theos’, implying that one who believes that a god is in him.
Q4. The word origin had nothing to do with the post office. Mail in this sense was an old Anglo-Norse term for rent or tribute. During the time of border warfare between England and Scotland, freebooters extorted payment from farmers of the area in exchange for protection and immunity from plunder. As the inhabitants were generally very poor, the tribute was paid in grain, meat, or the lowest coinage (copper), as opposed to ‘silver’. In time the word took on the meaning of any payment extorted by threat of exposure of an incriminating secret.
Q5. The word comes from Islamic alchemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, whose name was Latinized as "Geber“. He invented a strange terminology so that his works could not be understood by others; more importantly, he could not be accused of heresy, which was punishable by death. The second explanation is from the British colony Gibraltar (from Arabic Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq), whose residents frequently speak in Spanish and English during their conversations. Gibraltarians will often start a sentence in Spanish and switch to English halfway through, making it difficult for non-locals to follow.
Q1.To understand this word, one has to go back to the days when movies were shown continuously in theaters and the audience was allowed to sit through multiple shows of the same movie – the start times were published, and if you came in late you simply sat through the next showing until you came to the point "where you came in". The coming attractions reel would be spliced onto the end of the last reel of the movie. What word is derived from the above-mentioned practice?
Q2. In merry old England, a godsib was a godparent of either sex, sib being the Anglo-Saxon word for kinsman. When godsibs were together, particularly female ones, no doubt a fair share of idle talk occurred, and the word soon lost its religious context and acquired the meaning of one with whom one chats intimately.
Q3.It is derived from the Greek word ‘en theos’, implying that one who believes that a god is in him.
Q4. The word origin had nothing to do with the post office. Mail in this sense was an old Anglo-Norse term for rent or tribute. During the time of border warfare between England and Scotland, freebooters extorted payment from farmers of the area in exchange for protection and immunity from plunder. As the inhabitants were generally very poor, the tribute was paid in grain, meat, or the lowest coinage (copper), as opposed to ‘silver’. In time the word took on the meaning of any payment extorted by threat of exposure of an incriminating secret.
Q5. The word comes from Islamic alchemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, whose name was Latinized as "Geber“. He invented a strange terminology so that his works could not be understood by others; more importantly, he could not be accused of heresy, which was punishable by death. The second explanation is from the British colony Gibraltar (from Arabic Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq), whose residents frequently speak in Spanish and English during their conversations. Gibraltarians will often start a sentence in Spanish and switch to English halfway through, making it difficult for non-locals to follow.
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