The New Year Quiz !!

Hello ppl,

Its been a loooong time since i posted a quiz. Thought the 1st of January 2010 would be a good time to resume old habits and take new resolutions. So be it. Here comes a pure media and entertainment quiz ! Go ahead ! Make my day :)

1.

Identify the gentleman in the picture above.

2.



What connects the two gentleman in the picture above ?



3.


Identify. (Clue - He has a lot to do with movies )


4.



Identify the movie poster.


5.



Identify. (Clue - A famous Indian Author)

6.



(Sitter) Which Movie ?


7.



Which Indian Rock band is this ?

8.



What connects these 2 individuals ?



Answers in the comments.
Yennjoy !!

Answers

The following are the answrs to only those questions which people here have answered incprrectly maximum number of times.


1. Georg Solti - The winner of the highest number of Grammy awards till date - 31.

7. The asnwer is NOT Ramanujam. The answr is actually the name of an award called - The Wooden Spoon - is an award (a mockery award) given to the person with the lowest marks in mathematics. It was started in Univ of Cambridge and the last wooden spoon award was given to was awarded to Cuthbert Lempriere Holthouse, an oarsman of the Lady Margaret Boat Club of the University of Cambridge.
So the pic of the university is of cambridge, the picture of Pi is a clue to something to do with Mathematics and the last pic is of a wooden spoon (in the real sense of the term).

8. Product Red is a brand licensed to partner companies such as American Express, Apple Inc., Starbucks, Converse, Motorola, Gap, Emporio Armani, Hallmark, Microsoft, and Dell. It is an initiative begun by U2 frontman Bono and Bobby Shriver of DATA to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

9. The answer is - Telengana. Here's how :

The pic of the gentleman on the right is Telengana Rashtra Samithi chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
The pic of the gentleman on the left is of Gautam Ghosh. He directed his first Telegu fil, Maabhoomi, which was based on the Telengana Rebellion of 1940s.



Until next time then.....keep it simple people !! :)

The 6th General Quiz

1. Identify the person in the picture below :


Clue - He has recieved the highest number of awards till date in a certain award function which honors people like him.

2. Which building in India is modelled after the Stand Hans or the Cloth Hall, in Ypres, Belgium ? (sitter)

3. The following pic is of Yitzhak Rabin.



He is the only Prime Minister in the history of Israel to __________. Complete the sentence.

4. Identify the character below (I want the name) :




5. A Certain famous Bollywood actor said the following words when he landed in Mumbai :
"Mr. God, if you don't make me an actor and a star here, I will swim the seven seas and go to Hollywood".
Identify him.

6. The movie ________________ is a autobiographical graphical novel wirtten by Iranian born ____________, during and after the Iranian Revolution. Its a coming of age novel of the protagonist during the revolution. The novel and its sequel are categorised in the _____________ genre.
Complete the sentnce b y filling in the blanks.

7. Connect the pictures below:





8. Connect the pics below :


9. A certain event in Indian History joins these two personalities together. Identify that event.



10. What started out as an Experiment in November 2004 by Rose, Byrn, Gorodetzky & Adelson and has now become a universal phenomenon ?


[Pour in your answers....]

Answers to hitherto unanswered questions

Ok.
Here goes the answers to some unanswered questions till now :

Set 3 :

1. The pic is of Bindheshwar Pathak. Founder of Sulabh International.

4. The logo is of a company called Blyk. Its a revolutionary company because it is going to introduce the concept of revenue generation in cellular phone services with advertisements for consumers. Which means, you wont have to pay for your talk time - you just have to click on advertisments Blyk sends you and the revenue generated from that click (a certain percentage of it) will be added to your talktime.
It will be launched in India soon.
For more info head to this url - http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/07213002/UK8217s-free-mobile-service.html?h=B

Set 4:

4. The picture is of Allwin Agnel - founder of Pagalguy.com - India's larget MBA prep resource site. He was rejected by IIM K by the way...... and thats why he went on to greater heights and did his MBA from Wharton. Kudos to the man.


Watch out for the next edition of the general quiz.... I plan to make it longer and more interesting than the previous 4.

The Fourth General Quiz

Help yourself :

1. Fill in the blanks in the picture below :



2. Her name was originally after a Biblical character. But due to reasons unexplained, 2 letters in her name were interchanged and she came to have the name by which the world knows her today. She struggled throughout her tormented childhood, undergoing molestation and pregnancy at a very young age. But her determination to succeed carried her through and today her name is a brand in its own. She started her career working in the media and has continued to this day and has become a legend.
Who am I talking about ?

3. Connect the pictures below :



4. Identify the person below : (If you are an MBA or an aspirant...u should nail this)



5. Read the following conversation between Humpty-Dumpty & Alice :

Humpty - "‘Slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy’... You see it's like a __________ are two meanings packed up into one word"
Alice - "‘Mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there's another ___________ ... for you)".
Fill in the blanks. Only one word fills both the blanks.

6. Identify the celebrity in the picture below :




[Happy Searching ..... :).... you knw wat to do...]

Answers and an Amazing One

Hello maniacs,

Well here goes the answer to the 5th question of the 1st set.
The Answer is - Phalange

Here's how :
Regina Phalange is the name of Phoebe's supposed alter ego in the series Friends. Phalange is the other name of the Kataeb Party (the one with the logo - tree) and the third pic is of a movie still from the movie 'Waltz with Bashir' in which Bashir is the leader of the Kataeb Party or the Phalange.


Ok.
Here goes a brilliant question from a good friend of mine, Orthis aka The Unknown Citizen.
Connect the following :





(Do it....)

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Random question...

Connect the pictures below :