Agnitio Philia

The New Year Quiz !!

2010-01-01T00:46:00.000-08:00

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

2009-06-25T00:03:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-17T23:22:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-15T22:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-13T04:35:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-12T11:07:00.000-07:00

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....)

Random

2009-06-11T04:04:00.000-07:00

Random question...

Connect the pictures below :

The Third General Quiz

2009-06-11T00:05:00.000-07:00

Here goes some more brain curry ;)

1. Identify this gentleman :

2. Read the following carefully and answer(Parental Advisory) :
In my first version I was fully topless and had a fully visible double fish tail. In fact I was almost like a mermaid or a fish woman. In my second version my chest was covered with flowing hair, my fish tail was slightly cropped but my navel was still visible. However in my current version, my chest and navel are not visible at all and only vestiges remain of the fish tail. In 2006, I was called the 'twin tailed siren' from Greek mythology.
Who am I ?

3. Connect the pictures below :

4. Identify this brand/company :

(Clue - Its still planning on entering India....and it is a revolutionary concept)

5. Whose statue is this ?

(Clue - that is Lake Geneva in the background)

6. On 22 November 1978 _________ was arrested and charged with her murder. ______ said they had fought that night, but gave conflicting versions of what happened next, saying "I stabbed her but I didn't mean to kill her", then saying he didn't remember and at one point arguing she had fallen onto the knife.
Fill in the blanks.

(You know what to do...)

The Second General Quiz

2009-06-10T21:56:00.001-07:00

Ok....the answers to the first except the 5th question are there in the comments (posted by Twisted Dreams...(yours truly))

Here goes the second set :

1. Kelly Clarkson was the first. Then came Justin Guarini & Nikki McKibbin and the rest. What am I talking about ? (sitter)

2. Connect the 2 pictures :

3. "We never forget who we are working for" is the tagline of which company ?

4. Who is the person who replaces the question mark below :

5. Fill in the blanks :

Nebula, Hugo, Sidewise, Locus & __________

(As usual...leave your answers in the comments or mail me - ray.mnnit@gmail.com)

The First General Quiz

2009-06-10T05:08:00.000-07:00

1. Which is the only Indian Movie to be featured in the TIME Magazine's 100 Best movies of all time in 2005 ?

2. Connect the following :

3. PETA had launched a new Ad-campaign featuring Jiah Khan with the tagline - "Cut the ________-coated ________, not wings". Fill in the blanks.

4. The BAFTA Acting award has been awarded to only one Indian till date. Who ?

5. (tough one) Connect the following pictures :

(Mail your answers to ray.mnnit@gmail.com or leave it in the comments)