the first question is for the football lovers..

Q.1 Born on 9/11 1968, this person has been regarded by the National Team Coach Rankings as the second best national coach after Brazil's Dunga. In his playing times, he won the third place medal at one of the ditions of the World Cup. He even holds a degree in law and has also recorded his country's official song for the Euro 2008 titled, Vatreno ludilo" ("Fiery Madness"), with his rock group, Rawbau. Who is he?

Q. 2

Complete the sequence :

Special Edition, Telstar, Telstar Durlast, Tango, Tango Espana, Azteca Mexico, Etrusco Unico, Questra, Tricolore, Fevernova, __________________

Q.3 A sitter....

This company was started by Ranjit Singh and Gurbax Singh in 1937 as a distributor for a Japanese company Shionogi. Eventually, in 1961 Bhai Mohan Singh bought the company from his cousins. The company went public in 1973 and its first joint venture was set-up in Lagos in 1977. The company's second market division Stancare was initiated in 1987. The company's current CEO also happens to be the largest shareholder in Fortis Hostpitals, Escorts Heart Institute and Religare Enterprises Limited. Name this company...

Q.1 X is the world's fastest supercomputer. Developed in Los Alamos, the US$133 million X is designed for a performance level of 1.026 petaflops peak. It is a hybrid design with almost 6,912 AMD Opteron dual core processors and almost 12,960 IBM PowerXCell[6] 8i CPUs in special designed TriBlades connected by Infiniband.
DOE plans to use the computer for simulating how nuclear materials age and whether the aging nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States is safe and reliable.

X is also the more common name of a bird belonging to the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, native to North and Central America. These birds are known for their speed and agility.

What is X?

Q.2 A voting was conducted amongst the public as to decide which names to choose. The three options were Zigi and Zagi , Flitz and Bitz , ____ and _______. However it was ______ and ______ that got more than 36% of the votes and hence got chosen.....

Fill the blanks....

Q.1 X is an acronym which relates to a summary of what happens whenever valid data is passed through an organisation that, whether deliberately or accidentally, disregards or ignores its significance. X is also the Japanese word for Hope.
Hint : It has been in the news very recently....

Q.2

What does the picture depict?

Q.3 The winner of which sporting event is awarded the 'Musketeer' Trophy ?

Q.4 Name and connect..

He was a very famous French aviator and World War I pilot......

He was was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.

She is considered to be a legend in her sport....

Her younger brother Randy Moffitt grew up to become a professional baseball player, pitching for 12 years in the major leagues for the San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, and Toronto Blue Jays.

She has been an outspoken advocate against sexism in sports and society and one of the first prominent female athletes to admit that she was gay.

This football club founded in 1911 is the only club to have to have won both the professional and amateur versions of the FA Cup when they beat Liverpool in 1988. Nicknamed The Dons; Wombles;The Crazy Gang, this club spent most of its time in the first and second divisions, although appearing in the premiership from 1986-2000. The club used to play at Selhurst Park. However they moved to Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

The Tournament begins....

I shall be posting da questions just as i make them....sum may b simple othrs mite b tough...bt i guarantee tht none of the questions will b insanely stupid...like of the ones we c on the nsit blog site.. ;)..


Q.1 What term was originally coined by Englishman Richard Owen, which is derived from two greek words whose translation in english means 'Terrible Lizard'?


Q.2
Schultze and Schulze in German
Jansen and Janssen in Dutch
Hernández and Fernández in Spanish
Douponte, Doupone in Persian
Citserono and Tsicerono in Esperanto
Skapti and Skafti in Icelandic
Tik and Tak in Arabic.
Dupond and Dupont in Swedish
Dupond and Dupont in Danish
Uys and Buys in Afrikaans
Johns and Johnes in Welsh

_________ and __________ in English ?


Q.3 X is an alcoholic and tempermental person who served as the captain of the merchant vessel, the Karaboudjan. However, his first mate Allan Thompson used the ship for drug smuggling without his knowldge. X is the owner of the palatial house the Mouilnsart. His father was the captain of the legendary vessel, the Unicorn. Who is X?

Q. 4 This item known for its pallatable and medicinal value was intially used in its native land as a means of currency. Its name is derived from a derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl. It was used for ceremonial purposes and also was believed to fight fatigue. The process of manufacturing the finished item from itss native form involves the following steps: harvesting,blending,conching and tempering. Modern research on this item has revealed anticancer, brain stimulator, cough preventor and antidiarrhoeal effects apart from boosting the circulatory system and preventing heart attacks. Name this item.

Expect questions daily...so log on regularly and keep answering!!

Lets not let this blog die out....Planning to hav a series of online quizzes...one of us posts...and the othr answer....we'll hav points and scores and lets c who emerges out as the final winner...lol :p

RULES
Rule no.1 Do not google or wiki....
Rule no.2 Do not look at othr's answers and copy them...
Rule no.3 Stick to rule 1 and rule 2
Remeber the BIG BROTHER is always watching u.... roflmao...hahahahah

MahaQuizzer 2008

All the Thapar guys missed this year's MahaQuizzer, I believe, owing to exams. I did go, and I narrowly missed out on getting listed in the top 100 on KQA's official website (same marks as the last few people, but fewer starred questions). The questions were good, so you can have a look at:
Questions: http://kqaquizzes.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahaquizzer_2008_qns.pdf
Answer Key : http://kqaquizzes.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mahaquizzer_2008_ans.pdf

There is going to be another KQA event on June 7 in IIT Delhi. More on that later...

INDIA QUIZ Continued....

Finally, the wait is over. Here is the first post after a long long time......

1. What is the contribution of Sir William Hawkins in the history of India and may be without whom the history of India would have been completely different?
(don't use internet for the above question)

2. A Greek described this city as 16 km long and 5.5 km wide having a 40 km long peripheral wall made of wood and fortified by a 180 m wide moat. The wall had 64 gates and 570 posts. Name this ancient Indian city?
3. Connect: Henry Rebello, Milkha Singh, Sriram Singh, P.T. Usha, Gurbachan Singh Randhawa, Anju Bobby George, Rajwinder Kaur, Satti Geetha, K. M. Beenamol and Chitra K. Soman.
4. In 1888, an elephant carrying sleepers for Assam Railways for laying tracks, was found to have dark coating on its legs. What did this incident lead to?
5. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was the second Indian actresses to feature on the cover page of Time Magazine. Who was the first?
6. On which currency note, does the signature of RBI Governor not printed?
7. This organisation, which employs only women, was started on a borrowed sum of Rs. 80. The women are known as 'sisters' and each employee is a part owner. Which organisation?
8. The 'Dharwad Taluk Garg Khetriya Seva Sangh' is the only organisation to manucture what in India?
9. What in India is housed in Pheeroze Jeejeebhoy Towers?
10. The Maharaja of which Indian pricely state donated the Ranji Trophy?
11. Who the only was Viceroy to be assassinated in 1872 by an afghan prisoner in the Cellular Jail, Andaman & Nicobar Islands?
12. This Governor General also led British soldiers in the American Revolution. It was his defeat in the Battle of Yorktown which led to American Independence and him being dispatched to India. Name this famous G.General?