Quiz @ Over 4

A simple quiz, guys...

1. Other than Rafael Nadal, who is the only other player to beat Roger Federer in 2006?
2. For which movie did Mohammed Rafi record his last song?
3. There’s a particular feature of all Bobanum Moliyum cartoon strips, a common factor. Can you name it?
4. Which is the fastest production car in the world?
5. Who was the founder of T-series and Super Cassettes?
6. Which is the first car produced in India?

Musically Yours

A quiz after a long time in this blog..

1. A simple one to begin with, ‘Wish you were here’ by Pink Floyd is a ‘calling’ to a very special person. Who?

2. This ‘kid’ I’m talking about topped the list of "25 Greatest Short Dudes of All Time" [MAXIM]. Who am I talking about?

3. Its all right - One of the greatest hits by G’NR is a cover of which band’s ‘mild’ hit?

4. This album was fully conceived and done completely in hotel rooms, where the singer, with his guitar, and his sound engineer, with his computer, stayed during his tours. The name of the album is also reflected on this fact. Give the album and singer?

5. X, a rap group on its way to the top in the 80’s. One of their great successes was a cover of Y [“Walk this way”] a rock group who were then ridin’ high and now one of the legends in rock music. Nearly twenty years later, Z, a rap legend in makin’ asked Y to lend their music to his song bringing the circle to complete! Identify X, Y and Z.

6. This highly influential punk rock group released just a single album in their lifetime. Their songs were considered to be tight and extremely vibrant with the fury reflected in their live performances. Their album cover was in top 100 album covers of all time by VH1. During their last gig, the lead singer, in true punk, just dropped the mike and left, signaling the end of the band after a mere three years of existence. Now which band am I talking about?

7. This singer made his debut in film music as a singer in 1966 with Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna. He holds the Guinness record for having sung the most number of song recordings by any single male singer. Who?

8. At just 16 years old, he produced television serials for TV which included serials such as “Andaz” & “Amar Prem”. His first big break came when Salman Khan gave him the chance to be a music director for the movie “Bandhan” along with the composer Anand Raj Anand, though this was not his first but it was first film in which he was billed. Identify?

9. This composer I’m talking of was a habitual chain smoker of cigarettes. A diagnosis of throat cancer led his doctors to recommend a new and experimental treatment called radiation therapy, which was being offered in Brussels, Belgium. He died there on November 29, 1924 from complications from the treatment. Uncontrolled bleeding led to a heart attack one day after undergoing surgery. News of his death reached Rome during a performance of La bohème. The opera was immediately stopped, and the orchestra played Chopin's Funeral March for the stunned audience. Name?

10. Name all musicians ‘associated’ with Pamela Anderson (Officially)?

Calicut University D-Zone Quiz Prelims

Calicut University D-Zone Quiz Prelims – 24th January, 2006

Questions:
Underlined questions were tie-breakers.


1. Whose autobiography is “Spirit of St. Louis”
2. Which snake (land) is considered to be the most poisonous in the world?
3. Which perfume was named so because its formula was perfected on May 5?
4. Who was the captain of Pakistan in India’s first test series at Pakistan, Lala Amarnath being the Indian captain?
5. Identify the company from logo?

6. Which famous philosophical statement will one find in the essay “Discourse on methods”, and who is its author?
7. Who is the first person to be inducted into both Country Music Hall Of Fame and the Rock Music Hall Of Fame?
8. How do we know Archibald Leach better as?
9. Who coined the term ‘Francophonie’ to denote all people and countries using French in a variety of circumstances?
10. Who is the second youngest winner of Nobel Prize?
11. Which word meaning ‘a person who completely dominates and controls another, usually for selfish or sinister motives’ came from George du Maurier’s 1894 novel “Trilby”?
12. What are Chatreux, Maine Coon, Japanese Bobtail, British Shorthair types of?
13. This game was originally called ‘mokshapat’ (good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births) created by Saint Gyandev is forerunner of which popular game with kids?
14. Recently Zheng He, Chinese mariner and explorer, is claimed to have discovered the N. American continent before Columbus after some maps were found which gave details of N. American continent. Another explorer is also in this exclusive ‘list’ of explorers who is said to have come before Columbus. Name this other guy?
15. For what purpose was the guillotine originally designed?
16. What first has Kate Warne to her credit (in USA)?
17. This church has been celebrating Christmas on 30th of October since 1999. With 20,000 people from as far as Iceland and Vietnam have become church members via the official web site. Name the church?
18. Who’s the wife of the fishmonger, Unhygenix, the character in Asterix comics?
19. Who was the captain of the Titanic on its first voyage?
20. The DuPont archives reveal that the other names suggested for it were Duparooh (from DuPont pulls a rabbit out of a hat). Later they settled for a more sedate name. What?


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Answers To 'Quiz@Over 3'

1. Simple one: Tell me, how many members were there in ICC before India became a full member of the ICC (then Imperial Cricket Conference).
Ans. England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand (I believe ya’ll can count)

2. His books include: The Appeal of Cricket; The Modern Game; My Spin on Cricket. Many feel that he has no peer in his analysis of cricket. Identify this Australia’s beloved son?
Ans. Richie Benaud.

3. This person was 27 years before he - or anyone else - realised that he was a uniquely gifted fast-medium bowler (he switched from off-breaks to fast in middle of a county match); 28 before he had the opportunity to demonstrate the fact; and 29 before he played a Test match. His father after a rather sorry episode in his only test (he dropped a decisive catch; then when the team needed 8 runs to win, scored a four and was bowled!) said, “Never mind, I've got a little kid at home who'll make up for it for me." Identify him?
Ans. Maurice Tate. His life is really wonderfull, really gifted, it's a dream life.

4. In the first recognized test match i.e. Australia v/s England, Australia had two brothers playing (debuting obviously). This cricketing family had 6 brothers all playing cricket; five from the family played for Australia and two from the family were captains. Name the two brothers?
Ans. Dave Gregory (captain) & Ned Gregory (Others are Syd Gregory (captain), Harry Donnan & Jack Gregory).

5. Australia v/s West Indies, Brisbane, 1960-61 & Australia v/s India, Chennai, 1986-87. Connect the two epic matches (There are two answers to this; I don’t want just the obvious one, so give me both or the ‘less’ obvious one)?
Ans. Obvious one - Only two tied tests in the history
Not so obvious one - Bob Simpson; He played in one Australian team and managed other Australian team.

6. Identify this person
Ans. Rahul Tondulkar - He broke Kambli's school record of 345 . He scored 357 and next highest score was 130 (remember the genius who partnered Kambi in that knock!)

Quiz@Over 3

I am posting this quiz for putting one Q - the last one. The ans will be put on 16th of Jan 2006, provided Calicut University don't postpone any exams:).

To the Q's :-

1. Simple one: Tell me, how many members were there in ICC before India became a full member of the ICC (then Imperial Cricket Conference).

2. This person was 27 years before he - or anyone else - realised that he was a uniquely gifted fast-medium bowler (he switched from off-breaks to fast in middle of a county match); 28 before he had the opportunity to demonstrate the fact; and 29 before he played a Test match. His father after a rather sorry episode in his only test (he dropped a decisive catch; then when the team needed 8 runs to win, scored a four and was bowled!) said, “Never mind, I've got a little kid at home who'll make up for it for me." Identify him?

3. His books include: The Appeal of Cricket; The Modern Game; My Spin on Cricket. Many feel that he has no peer in his analysis of cricket. Identify this Australia’s beloved son?

4. In the first recognized test match i.e. Australia v/s England, Australia had two brothers playing (debuting obviously). This cricketing family had 6 brothers all playing cricket; five from the family played for Australia and two from the family were captains. Name the two brothers?

5. Australia v/s West Indies, Brisbane, 1960-61 & Australia v/s India, Chennai, 1986-87. Connect the two epic matches (There are two answers to this; I don’t want just the obvious one, so give me both or the ‘less’ obvious one)?

6. Identify this person.

Answers to 'Quiz@Over 2'

The answers are a 'bit' late, I believe. Not intended to be like that but was kept 'busy' or should I be honest - I forgot). Anyway, its better late than never. So the Ans:-

1. As I said, its a sitter - "Veni, Vedi, Veci" or "I came, I saw, I conquered"

2. Cypress trees have underwater roots (in swamps). Their roots have put out extensions called a "knees".

3. Tateinda Taibu.

4. Def Leppard.

5. In honour of T. C. Yohanan's record of 8.07 m (He was an employee at tata motors)

6. There are many variations to this - Toyota is considered luckier than Toyoda in Japan, where eight is regarded as a lucky number, and eight is the number of strokes it takes to write Toyota in Katakana.
Another which I dont know is true is - Toyota sounds better (than Toyoda)!

Quiz @ Over 2

1. Easy to start with, in 57 BC, Julius Caesar, on defeating the forces of Pontus, sent a curt dispatch to the Roman Senate describing his campaign there. What did it say?

2. Cypress "knees," which are often used for decorative carving, are found on what part of the tree?

3. ‘Thank you’. That’s what this really talented and tenacious cricketer’s name means? Who?

4. Identify this band. This bands drummer met with an accident and lost one of his arms. Unlike other bands of that era, they decided to call of the shots until he became alright. Now he is still with the band and uses a special drum designed to be used with his feet. This band’s albums have sold multi platinum all over the world and are going still very strong.

5. This question is not mine but from a biz quiz I had gone for, but it’s a class question. Why did Tata motors give their truck the name/number 807?

6. “Toyota” was not initially called “Toyota” but “Toyoda”; they changed it for some reasons. Give me reasons behind the change of name?

Answers to 'Quiz @ Over'

1. A doubly landlocked country is one that is separated from an ocean or an ocean-accessible sea by two intervening countries. Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only countries that fit this definition.

2. "Francophonie" is a term coined by Onésime Reclus, French geographer, in 1880, to denote all peoples and countries using French in a variety of circumstances.

3. X is Trachea and Y is Bronchi
[Excerpt from some medical text - .....The trachea or windpipe is a cartilaginous and membranous tube, extending from the lower part of the larynx, on a level with the sixth cervical vertebra, to the upper border of the fifth thoracic vertebra, where it divides into the two bronchi, one for each lung....]

4. Vidkun Quisling

5. Pico Iyer

6. Sarfraz Nawaz