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1) Formed by the fusion of the Aryan language Marathi and the Dravidian languages Kannada and Telugu and whose base is Punjabi, though now a dialect this was once an accepted language. What language?

2) A lion and a tiger’s roar were recorded and played backwards.What did this result in?

3) Connect
and Till , Cardamom, Coriander, Turmeric, Chilli, Saffron, Fennel, Cinnamon!!!














4)
In September 2007, the RAF and BSF were called to quell riots in Siliguri, West Bengal. The trouble started when supporters of Y attacked supporters of X.(X had just beaten Y to something). The violence was later exacerbated by a Delhi radio DJ who made allegedly “insulting” comments about X. Identify X, or what X&Y did.

5) Take up the _______________--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

6) There was only one vote against Mother Teresa in the election of Superior General in the Missionaries of Charity in 1989. Who cast the vote against her?

7) When Ram was in exile with Sita and Laxman, the local woman cast aspersions on Sita for living with two men. Sita in return cursed the women that they will have multiple husbands. Which place (according to one of the versions) gets its name from this?

8)
What are these (Be specific)

* 1990: bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H.W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
* 1991: mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
* 1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
* 1993: information superhighway
* 1994: cyber, morph (to change form)
* 1995: Web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer)
* 1996: mom (as in "soccer mom")
* 1997: millennium bug
* 1998: e- (as in "e-mail")
* 1999: Y2K
* 2000: chad (from the 2000 Presidential Election controversy in Florida)
* 2001: 9-11
* 2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
* 2003: metrosexual
* 2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the 2004 presidential election)
* 2005: truthiness, popularized on The Colbert Report
* 2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)

9) One of the biggest revenue earners for the island country of Tuvalu is it's - (think internet and stuff....), which it leased for $50 million in royalties

10) Connect
1. Cedric Pioline (Cedric comes from the Welsh Godric)
2. Hagar's wife
3. Rowena, from Ivanhoe (also Lady Ivanhoe)
4. Antonio Salazar

INDIA QUIZ Continued.....

starting with an easy ques. which everyone can answer no matter who he is but it needs a bit of brain usage....
1. It has an annual turnover of about Rs. 500 billion, out of which Rs. 200 billion is expected from exports. It produces about 1000 units annually. What am I talking about?
2. "Agar firdaus bar rooe zaminast-haminasto haminasto haminast". What does this mean and where would you find it written?
3. Which Indian president was a member of Sinn Fein, participated in the freedom struggle of Ireland, even serving a jail sentence for it?
4. He was born in Tamil Nadu. He was the second child of his parents. His father was a professor in mathematics and physics. He was also selected for financial civil services but he changed his career to ________. His nephew repeated his uncle's feat in 1983. Who is he and his nephew?
5. Set up in 1865, this bank is the oldest public sector bank in India and has a network of over 2000 branches. Name the bank.
6. FILL IN THE BLANKS:
Veer Chand Gandhi-Jainism
Gyanendranath Chakraborty-Theosophy
B.B. Nagarkar-Brahmo Samaj
_____________-Hinduism
7. The chairman of which group calls himself 'Managing Worker' and the level of employees are called 'karamyogis'. Name the chairman and the group.
8. Whose first published story was "Sansar ka sabse bada anmol ratna"?
9. Rabindranath Tagore wrote an essay called "My Interpretations of Indian History". What is so special about thi essay?
10. Which country was defeated by India by a record margin of 24-0 in hockey?

INDIA QUIZ

I think this is going to be a "khatarnaak" quiz. Some questions will be easy and some of them will be quite tough. So get yourself ready to face a volley of questions from the $UPER $TRING.....HAPPY QUIZZING.........glhf!!!

1. Which Indian tv series was the first in Asia to win the prestigious "Green Oscar"?
2. Rahmat Ali coined the name Pakistan. It was actually an acronym of five states. Name them.
3. Which cricketer scored fewer runs and took more wickets in test cricket?
4. Which city did Nehru refer to as "An expression of India's faith in future"?
5. CONNECT: MIT, NASA, Queen Elizabeth Liner, Broadway Theatres, Maybach, Philips.
6. Before the British, which country occupied Andaman n Nicobar Islands?
7. What has 14 parts named after former Rajput princely states?
8. Who said,"We owe a lot to Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made"?
9. Which Indian brand literally means "contentment of the soul"?
10. Gaive Nagpurwala was the only Indian officiating at the 2000 Olympics. Which sport did he judge?
11. This Indian went bald for playing a role in Star Trek and was the first to present an Oscar. Name the person.
12. Which Indian president was once a professor at Oxford and the Chairman of UNESCO?

to be continued....

BIZ QUIZ

I found these questions in a magazine called "Living Digital"

1. What was make of the camera used by Neil Armstrong on the moon?
2. Connect: CNN, TNT and ATLANTA BRAVES
3. It was established by Goro Yoshida and his brother in-law, Saburo Uchida in 1930. Initially, it was named Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory and it's purpose was to develop a 35 mm rangefinder camera.`The company changed it's name to current name in 1937 to reflect a more modern image. The current name also means scriptures and implied "accuracy" which is desired in the product made by it. Name the company?
4. What was created first in 1897 in the small village of Ibach, Switzerland by a company called Victorinox?
5. Which drink started in 1965 as a nutritional supplement for of University of Florida?
6. Where is Asia's largest computer market located?
7. What did Charles Darrow conceive as his contribution to time-pass?
8. This brand was never going to be a threat to Nokia. So, it had Malaika Arora to endorse it to be 'significant'. Name the mobile phone brand?
9. Connect: Roger Federer, Thierry Henry, Tiger Woods and Rahul Dravid.
10. Prince Alwaleed-Bin-Talal, the saudi billionaire is the world's first private customer of what?
11. Richard Branson's first successful business venture was at the age of 15. What did he do?
12. Founded by Cecil Rhodes, headquatered in jo'burg, currently headed by Nicky Oppenheimer-what am I talking about?
13. Think. Computers help people help people. Solutions for a small planet. These slogans are associated with which company?
14. It is the world world's largest package delivery company of the world and its nicknmed "The Big Brown Company". Which company is this?
15. The members of the HOG community are owners of what?
16. The first time two people did this in India was in 1995. One of them was Mr. Jyoti Basu. What did they do?
17. The world's largest fleet of eco-friendly buses operates in which city?
18. Identify this famous place:

LEARNING is a never ending process...

hi guys ........for mi 1st post i choose dis heading just coz after d recently concluded TATA CRUCIBLE failure i realised dat der are MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP....
!) easy one to start wid.......connect

2) dis one is 4 arkantos.....connect

a)

b) dis guy created a character on whom a first person shooter video

game named 'ED HUNTER' is based

c)666

d) these ladies are a tribute to the answer of dis question

India quiz

I found these set of questions from a quiz called chak-de-india...

1. Her mother's name is Bonnie Pandya, a Slovenian American. She is the
second person of Slovenian descent to be sent to space. She apparently
likes Samosas! Who?

2. What is full form of T.T.E as in the guy who checks the tickets
on our trains?

3. Bulgar, Gansu, Taklamakan Desert, Kashgar, Kokand, Karakum
Desert, Merv. Connect the above terms with a music group.

4. In Hindi it is called Saunf what is it called in English?

5. Born to Narayan Paglu Rao in Maharashtra, she received her degree from Mooljee Jaitha (M.J.) College in Jalgaon. In 1962, she was also voted the "College Queen" in M.J College. She also excelled in Table Tennis and had won various inter-college events. She is currently married to Devisingh Ransingh (her third marriage). Identify her.

6. One of the origins of the name of this place is from the word Kalikshetra, meaning "Ground of the Goddess Kali." Which place?

7. Complete the sequence :

A Peepal tree

A banana tree

An idol

____________

8. What do you have to do to make your life jingalala? (thankfully this was not a crucible question!)

9. In Vedic times, a Brahmin boy was considered equal to an animal until a certain event took place. What was that event?

10. When Sachin Tendulkar went for his first Test series to Pakistan, he did not sign the contract with BCCI. Someone else signed it on his behalf. Who signed it and why?

11. This hill station is around 64 km from Pune and is also called the “Chikki” capital of India, as there are a lot of local outlets there manufacturing this sweet. Which place?

12. Which Indian actor, who has not acted in any movies in his mother tongue, made his debut in the 1975 Kannada movie Katha Sangama?

13. Lord Vishnu, in all his avatars, has spared the life of only one Asura. Who? This Asura who is still believed to be alive, visits once a year and a festival is celebrated because of his visit. Which festival?

14. Yusuf Nulwalla, Sameer Hingora, Baba Chauhan, Zaibunnisa Anwar Kazi and Aziz Ahmed Mohammed. Who is the sixth?

15. Dada, Abdulla & Co recruited a person on year long contract in the late 19th century and sent him for a posting in South Africa. Who?

16. Kusumpur, Pushpapur and Azeemabad are older names of which city?

17. Below is the photo of the Indian team for a particular sport (a 1998 photo). Which sport?

18. On 31st October 1984, the 2nd ODI in the wills series between India and Pakistan was happening at Jinnah Stadium in Sialkot, Pakistan. Pakistan had won the toss and decided to field. India were 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. The match was abandoned then. Why?

19. Whenever a forest is shown in a movie, it is always accompanied by a chirping sound. This is the sound of the cicada which is quite famous for the noise it produces in dense forests. There is a famous place in Kerala which is called ____ Valley because there are no cicadas in this forest. Fill in the blank.

20. English dictionaries tend to define the word as ‘a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard’. What word?

21. Something made from sugar, corn syrup, corn starch and lecithin was enough to make Zaheer Khan very angry. What?

22. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, A- Alpha, B- Bravo, C-Charlie etc. What does I stand for ?

23. Father: Ramesh. He had 4 kids. Nitin, Savita and Ajit are three of them. Who is the fourth?

24. Americans call it a faucet. What do we call it in India?

25. By doing a wordplay on the acronym html, this BITS Pilani graduate created something which took the world by storm. What?

26. This waterway of around 150 kms width separates the Andaman Islands from the Nicobar Islands. What is its name?

27. A word which has been formed recently. If you are ________, it means that you have lost your job because it has been outsourced to India. Fill the blank.

28. X comes in different sizes like137*63 mm, 147*63 mm, 157*73 mm, 167*73 mm and 177*73 mm. What is X? I would definitely like to have many of the 177*73 ones.

Tata Crucible 2008 Chandigarh edition

Tata Crucible turned out to be a "spectacular quizzing extravaganza". Since it was telecast on CNBC...the stage setting, lighting were very good...As for the quiz..Pickbrain did not disappoint us. It was a quiz of good quality...but was very short..only 4 rounds or so...coz they had to fit it in the time slot of 20 mins on TV. Although we did not qualify for the final round..(on some othr day we cud've easily won it), i enjoyed the quiz.....The only problem was...invariably 50 % of the answers were linked to the tatas and it was very sick to listen to Pickbrain jabbeering about the greatness of Tata again and again....They even called the scorecard as the "Nano Meter"!!!! What an audacious advertising strategy!!!

Well here are some of the questions i seem to remember....

1. Expand SEBI (what a boring question)

2. Name the person or the company with which he is associated.

3. The name of an Indian retail brand that is often confused with a formula 1 team.

4. Name the producers of the movie dus kahaaniyaan.

5. This English word originated from the Latin word 'Bulga' meaning a bag/sack where venetian merchants while travelling carried or kept gold coins or something of monetary value. Name this English word.

6. Which famous construction company built the lotus temple in new delhi?

7. Theis range of jewellery titled 'zoya' was crafted for the crowns of the Femina Miss India 2007 beauty paegant. Which brand has made the zoya collection?

Thr are more questions...i'll put them up as i remember