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 )