2004

  1. Anup
  2. Dinesh Quiz 1
  3. Dinesh Quiz 2
  4. Dinesh Quiz 3
  5. Raghu
  6. Sumedha
  7. Ranga Quiz 1
  8. Ranga Quiz 2

 

Quiz by Dinesh

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  1. By now, you should have come to expect a question like this to kick off proceedings. Connect the 3 visuals.

    These are the posters Andy uses to cover his escape tunnel in shawshank redemption. The posters are that of Rita Hayworth(but of course), Marilyn Monroe and Racquel Welch. A contrived question but who is complaining?

  2. Connect the flower with the gentleman in the statue.

    Statue is that of Stamford Raffles, founder of singapore. Flower is Rafflesia. The plant was discovered by Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore and renowned explorer of Southeast Asian natural history. Raffles discovered it in Sumatra with his companion Dr Joseph Arnold. The flower is fond only in Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Question dedicated to Cuisine Guruji Ganesh.

  3. Connect the personalities(!!) shown. Albert Einstein and Gandhi also belong to this list.

    The face of ET is supposedly modelled after these ppl. The first visual is hemmingway and the second is carl sandberg

  4. Connect the mask with the book shown.

    Mask is the famous gold mask of agamemnon found in the tomb of tutankhamen. The book cover is that of Dune by Frank Herbert. The hero's name in the book is Paul Atreidas and Atreidas is the name of the house of Agamemnon. There are close parallels between paul's life and that of agamemnon.

  5. Name the 4 sons of Goddess Saraswati

    The four vedas - Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharvana. I am not sure about the authenticity of this one.

  6. The 18th century english poet John Byrom created them for a satire entitled "On the feuds between Handel and Bononcini".
    The rhyme went

    Some say, that Signor Bononcini,
    Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;
    Others aver, to him, that Handel
    Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
    Strange! That such high dispute should be
    'Twixt __________ and ___________. Credit should go to Lewis Caroll, however, for popularising the use of the expressions through his usage in "Alice, through the looking glass". Fill 'er up.

    "Tweedledum and Tweedledee". The pic shows an illustration from the book. You can see dum and dee written on the collars.

  7. This Cartoon was drawn by Clifford Berryman and was titled "Drawing the line in Mississippi". It appeared in the Washington post on November 16, 1902. What did this give rise to?

    Teddy bear - Basically Theodore roosevelt refused to shoot the little bear...This cartoon became very famous and some smart guy started making toy bears named after the president.

  8. Tuva is a small republic on the mongolian border and is popularly known as Tannu Tuva. This country is familiar to philatelists around the globe for their unusually shaped stamps(like the rhomb shaped one in the visual). This famous person used to collect the stamps from Tuva as a kid and wondered one day, "whatever happened to Tannu Tuva?". Out of his curiosity for the country's present state grew international interest in the country once again. The country decided to honour this person for helping it get international fame
    and released a stamp in his honour (first stamp in the visual). Identify the person.

    Richard Feynman. You can see the bongo drums that Feynman loves to play and also a feynman diagram (showing wiggly lines for photons etc) in the stamp

  9. This phenomenon was first discovered by the US Psychologist Stanley Milgram about 30 years back. Milgram was trying to uncover the connections that lurk in our networks of friends and hit upon a novel way of revealing them. He hired people in various US states and sent them each a package, together with some instructions. These revealed that the
    packages were actually intended for two people picked by Milgram, who gave their names and some vague clues about where
    they lived, their occupation and age. What he did not give, however, was a precise postal address. The participants were then told to send the packages to whichever of their acquaintances they judged most likely to know the targets personally and be able to make the final delivery. Keeping track of the postings, Milgram made the stunning discovery that the packages typically reached the two target people after passing through the hands of just five other people. Whatis this phenomenon known as? If possible, connect it to Kevin Bacon.

    Six degrees of seperation - Connect to Kevin Bacon is that legend has it in hollywood that bacon knows the most
    number of ppl there. So, the univ of virginia came up with this idea - check out http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/