Year End Quiz -2008

Dear All

This Quiz is all about 2008 happenings. It covers all topics, mostly visuals as people can use their EK to find the answer. Answers should reach by Wednesday 2PM. don’t worry if you don’t get all the answers; there are people who will not send all correct answers.

1. To start this quiz ,
Connect these Planet Earth, Languages, Potato, Sanitation, Frog.

2. Who is this famous tennis player

3. Who’s Logo?


4. The Central Government of India launched a conditional cash transfer scheme for the girl child on 3 March 2008. As per the unique scheme, the family of the girl child will be provided a significant amount of money if the child fulfills certain conditions. One such benefit is an insurance cover of Rs.1 lakh will be provided to the girl child at birth. What is this scheme called as?

5. What is this map?

6. Who is this person?

7. In association with??

8. His profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power got him a special reward from Columbia University in New York City which gives out Pulitzer prizes. Who is this musician?

9. Famous in history of mountaineering, who is this person?

10. Identify this music band which created records in 2008 ?


11.Who is this indo American?

12. Which famous couple is along with the Queen?

13. Raja Shahabuddin, Amar Naik, Jaggu Shetty, Sadhu Shetty, Kundan Singh Rawat, Zahoor Makhanda were all victims of which famous hero ?

14. Which airport?

15. Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century is a book by which famous Techie?

16. Who is this foreign lady?


17. Famous War Hero …

18. What is this gadget?

19. What’s this?


20. Who is this CEO?


21. True Legends, Identify both of them.

22. What is the significance of this logo? ( hint : Children’s day )


23. We are extremely proud of this movie, name this movie ?

24. To much complicated Gadget, name this.

25. To end the Quiz with a real simple one, who used this?



Happy Quizzing.

Here Are the Answers :

1. Connect is the Year 2008
2. Jo Wilfred Tsonga ( French Tennis Star)
3. New logo of Union Bank
4. Dhanalakshmi
5. Map of Oxford Cambridge Boat Race
6. Raul Castro , Brother of Fidel Castro
7. Tata Tea & Janaagraha
8. Bob Dylan
9. Sir Edmund Hillary
10. Cold play ( Received More number of nominations for This year's Grammy Awards)
11. Bobby Jindal
12. Sarkozy & Bruni ( Got married this year )
13. Vijay Salaskar
14. Hyderabad international airport
15. Nandan Nilekani
16. Taslima Nasrin
17. Sam Manekshaw
18. The Gadget is the Samsung Camera for the blind. ( Time Magazines best invention)
19. Structure is EGG , also called as National Centre for the Performing Arts
20. Chandra Kochhar , ICICI Bank's CEO
21. Pt. Bhimsen Joshi ,the latest Bharath Ratna awardee and Smt. Gangu bai Hangal
22. World Diabetes Day
23. The Dark Knight ( The 2008 Batman Movie)
24. LHC (Large Hadron Collider )
25. Obama's Campaign logo ( Was in news for most of the year 2008 )

Venus and Jupiter pair up in the night sky

The most spectacular celestial sight was witnessed today as Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets, draw closer together. Venus, Jupiter and a sliver of a crescent moon formed a spectacular, tight triangle in the early evening sky, near the horizon.

Here are some snaps taken from my camera...

Wee Quiz continued

Dear All

Due to some official work, posting was not done for a long time. This post includes 3 weequizzes that was held at our office. Pretty simple Q's , have a go at them ...

1. what was the Russian nuclear submarine's name which killed 20 people this week?

2. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck was in news recently , why ?

3 . which missile system was tested by India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) this week ?

4. Who/what is the connect of MAHE, Indigo nation & Stump vision ?

5. Which telecom giant entered Indian market this week by buying stake in Tata Teleservices?

6. What are the names of Barack Obama's daughters?

7. Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life is referring to which company?

8. The name of this company in the native language is known as "Great House" or "Great Universe". Which company?

9.This company was named after the founders Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn. which company?

10. K M Mammen Mappillai in 1946 started this company with a toy-balloon manufacturing unit at Tiruvottiyur. It has very famous sportsperson as it's brand ambassadors. Which company ?

11. A company must have issued at least 1.25 million shares of stock worth at least $70 million and must have earned more than $11 million over the last three years. This is a requirement for a company to be listed on _____________.

12. If the acquisition of a public company is done by a private company to bypass the lengthy and complex process of going public what is this referred as?

13. If you are visiting the site http://www.sgx.com/, which stock exchange’s site are you entering into?

14. What is this Formula?

Index Value (In local currency) * Base rupee-US$ rate
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- =
Current rupee-US$ rate


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Happy Quizzing .....

Happy Diwali

Dear All

Wish u all a very Happy Diwali.
Some of the snaps which i took from my cam.

Dasara Fireworks Snaps.

Welcome to Mysore.


One blast.


One More.


Too Dull :(


What a Blast


Final One.....

Gopals Trip photos

Team Photo


Stone Rock


Scary Movie -5


View of Gopal's : tyre View


One more for the Album



Nilgiris



Nilgiris part 2




It's not a Quiz.



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Quiz - o -Meter Prelims

Hi All

I had organized a quiz for L&T Mysore employees today, here are the dry questions of prelims round. Try your GK now. there was a good response with 77 teams participating in the event.

1. Who is the first travel agent who offered tourist trips by air? Thomas Cook
2. His favorite slogan was “roti, kapada, makan, bijli and bandwidth”, which epitomized the needs of the emerging 21st century Indian. Who is this famous personality? Lt.Dewang Mehta
3. They built their kingdom on the ruins of the Vakataka dynasty who themselves had built up their state on the remains of the Satvahana Kingdom. Can you name this dynasty that had Vatapi as its Capital? Chalukyaas.
4. Which was the company to have it’s product on Moon & Mt.Everest? Motorola
5. This item is tailor-made at the Dharwad Taluk Garg Ketriya Seva Sangh, in Karnataka, and qualifies for official government use. What am I talking about? Indian National Flag
6. Ángel Valodia Matos Fuentes (born December 24, 1976 in Holguín) is a Cuban taekwondo athlete. He received a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and added another at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio De Janeiro. At the 2008 Summer Olympics where Matos kicked a referee after being disqualified in the bronze medal for a particular reason what was that? He Kicked referee
7. Complete the series : Ronald Ross, Rudyard Kipling , Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman , Hargobind Khorana , ______________ , Mother Teresa , V.S. Naipaul , Tenzin Gyatso, Amartya Sen. [ S.Chandrashekar ]
8. Born as Vishwanath ___X____ in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dankar ___X____ (a painter) and his wife Sangana ___X____. He is an alumnus of the Sir J. J. institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai. During his college years he was active in inter collegiate dramatics. After graduating he has starred in a number of Bollywood movies with some of the most prominent film directors of Bollywood. He is married to Neelakanti and they have a son Malhar . Who is this _____ X ? Nana Patekar
9. Motor Industries Company is located in the Indian city of Bangalore. It is the largest producer of spark plugs in India. Motor Industries Company is located on Hosur road on National Highway 7. It was founded by Kamal Jeet Singh. How do we know this company now? MICO
10. Which is the most tattooed product in the world? Harley Davidson
11. Research in Motion has a famous product , what is this product ? (series of them have been released to market , I would love to have one) Blackberry's
12. Who was known as Pancham Da in Indian Film industry? R.D.Burman
13. This festival was started in the year 1997 and was the brainchild of 69 year old Pandanda Kuttappa who was an ex-employee of State Bank of India. He conceived the idea of creating a platform in which the different Kodava families can get together. What festival? Kodava Hockey festival
14. Which were the two profitable teams of Indian Premier League? Raj royals , KKR
15. G V Mavlankar was the first one to hold this post May 15, 1952 - February 27, 1956 and was followed by M A Ayyangar, Manohar joshi held this post from May 10 2002 to June 2 ,2004. Who is holding this post now? Mr.Somanath Chaterjee , Loksabha speaker
16. The test showed high levels of both oxygen and sulphur, which implies that the steel was semi-kilned low carbon steel, made using the open-hearth process. High oxygen content leads to an increased ductile-to-brittle transition temperature, which was determined as 25 to 35°C for the steel. Most modern steels would need to be chilled below –60°C before they Exhibited similar behavior. High sulphur content increases the brittleness of steel by disrupting the grain structure The sulphur combines with magnesium in the steel to form stringers of magnesium sulphide, which act as "highways" for crack propagation. What is being Explained here? Sinking of Titanic ( Thanks Mr.Arul Mani for this Q , this is the only q in the prelims that went uncracked.)
17. The main news in London on July 7th 2005 was the bombing. What was the main news item the previous day? London winning Olympics bid.
18. Indra, the king of devtas (gods), had lost his kingdom to the asura (demon) Vritra. At the behest of his Guru Brihaspati, Indra's wife Shachi tied a thread around her husband's wrist to ensure his victory in the upcoming duel. Which festival originated from this? Raksha bandhan.

Organizing Team Photo... (Me along with Bhanu , Satnam ,Ashwathy , Martin, Jeena )

Happy Quizzing :) ,

Questions of Independence Day Special -2008

1. This personality’s original name was Manikarnikka at birth; she was born to a Maharashtrian Karate Brahmin family sometime around 1828 in Varanasi. Her father was Moropant Tambey and her mother was Bhagirathibai. Who am I talking about?

2. This was the only photograph of lesser known Indian king, who is this king?


3. Whose flag was this ?


4. The Indian Statutory Commission had seven British Members of Parliament who were sent to India in 1927 to study constitutional reforms. How do we better know this commission as?

5. Identify this famous freedom fighter.



6. “Better than the entire world, is our Hindustan,
We are its nightingales, and it (is) our garden abode


If we are in an alien place, the heart remains in the homeland,
Know us to be only there where our heart is.



That tallest mountain, that shade-sharer of the sky,
(It) is our sentry; (it) is our watchman

In its lap frolic those thousands of rivers,
Whose vitality makes our garden the envy of Paradise.

O the flowing waters of the Ganges, do you remember that day
When our caravan first disembarked on your waterfront?

Religion does not teach us to bear ill-will among ourselves
We are of Hind, our homeland is Hindustan.

In a world in which ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all vanished without trace
Our own attributes (name and sign) live on today.

Such is our existence that it cannot be erased
Even though, for centuries, the cycle of time has been our enemy.

Iqbal! We have no confidant in this world
What does any one know of our hidden pain? “

What is this??????

7. Connect the following 4 images



8. Identify this famous place which has a huge significance.




9. Who is the person whose face is circled?


10 What is this front page cover of time magazine depicting?