The Coimbatore Quiz Circle.

1. Neil Patrick Harris+Bruce Willis+Julia Roberts

The connect is that they played a role as themselves in a movie.

->Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts played themselves in Oceans 12.

->Neil Patrick Harris played himself in Harold and Kumar movie series.

Other people would be Kamal Haasan(Nala Damayanthi), Singer P.Susheela (Don’t remember the name of the movie though 😛 )

2.That is the logo for WIKILEAKS. Its a website which releases secret,sensitive documents and also a lot of Gossips 🙂

3.Almost everyone cracked this one. George W. Bush

4.Serena Williams+Bono

The connect is that their clothing lines are spelled backwards.

Serena-Aneres

Bono-Edun 😉

5.Only Uttara got this right. The person is Manoj Desai. He owns the theatre where the movie Dilwale Dunhiya Le Jayenge is running for more than 500 weeks.

6.A picture of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose without glasses should have been sufficient to crack this one. It is an advertisement for Bausch and Lomb Contact Lenses.

7. Only Sharanyan cracked this question (He didn’t comment on the blog page 😛 ). But a wonderful guess by Yopai

That is Rita Hayworth who was considered the sex bomb of the 40’s. When the United States tested the first atomic bomb, her picture was stuck on the bomb and then tested. (Sex bomb+Atomic bomb. I don’t understand the irony either 🙂 ). The second picture was the logo of the Manhattan Project.

Hence the connect is the Atom Bomb/Nuclear Bomb 🙂

Ciao 🙂

1.Connect

This is not an exhaustive list.

2. This is the logo for which product?

3. At school, he formed a stick-ball team called the Nads (providing him and his pals with a chance to shout “Go Nads”). At Yale, he was famous for doing the alligator, a dance that involved falling on the floor and rolling around. At Harvard Business School, he wore cowboy boots and chewed tobacco. Who am I talking about ?

4. Connect.

5.Identify this personality and what is his claim to fame?

6. Identify the product being advertised in the picture.

7. And the final connect is…….

The last informal quiz was hosted by vidyuth, and here’s what he had to say, 😉

“hey all,

Hello Fellow Quizzers,

Announcing that the Fifth session of the Coimbatore Quiz Circle  meet will be held this Sunday,November 2nd at the PSG Sarvajana School on Avinashi Road right next to PSGIM.

This time the quiz will be conducted by Mr.Vidyuth a seasoned school quizzer who is just fresh into college and will be followed by a Recap of the ‘World Last Week” by Ms.Atulaa. 

Also simultaneously there will be a informal written school quiz conducted by Mr.Ashwin Murali and yet to be confirmed great prizes for this.

Apart from this on the agenda is the selection of members for Different Posts in the working committee and also the finalization of the CQC logo and Caption. 

Hence please make this a bigger success by your presence and whole hearted participation at  PSG Sarvajana on the above said date at 4.00 p.m.

Also please spread the word around and bring in as many people as possible. 

A quiz by Mr.Senthil Kumar. Whose email ID I forgot to add to the users list. My bad. From next time on, he will post directly. 🙂

GO!!

1. What is the word for a person summarized thus: “He ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: he comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”

1. In film language, what would you call “a segment which uses rapid editing, special effects and music to present compressed narrativeinformation”

1. In Greek mythology what is the offspring of Poseidon (the God of Sea) and Medusa (the Gorgon) called?

1. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!” – This one is a famous quote from a famous film and has not been swept away by the winds – Name the film.

1. Which company won this award “Safest and Most Environmentally Conscious Indian Shipping Company” for the year 2007?

1. The use of what has been found to significantly decrease the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)?

1. I started my career with “Terry Web and the Spiders” then moved to “Crawling King Snakes.” However, I am most remembered for the work I did with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page. Who am I and what was that band called?

1. This one is a dead giveaway…Identify the bird
2. 

1.  Who am I?
   1. I was the lover of Aphrodite
   2. I swam the Hellsponte every night to be with her, but was drowned in a storm.
   3. I share my name with a famous Tennis Player’s first name

1. If you had erythrophobia what would you be afraid of?

1. Which country once banned Donald Duck comics because he doesn’t wear pants?

1. What is “Olympic Javelin” with respect to the London Olympic Games of 2012?

1. If you went to a “chirotonsor” what would you get?

1. What is “Saturday night paralysis?”

1. To end, this one should be easy. What is a “pangram?”

1. I was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. and was known more for my  trade mark goggles and sky hook shot. Who am I?

2. In which Asterix book did Thompson and Thomson (from Tin Tin) appear?

3. What is it called when a person trades a security while in possession of non-public information?

4. By what term is an economy with moderate growth, low inflation and less unemployment called? (hint: The Three Bears)

5. In business parlance, who or what is a chainsaw consultant?

6. She was employed in TELCO after having written to JRD against gender discrimination in recruitment at TELCO. Excerpts of her last conversation with JRD:

      JRD: “So what are you doing, Mrs Kulkarni?”

      X:         “Sir, I am leaving Telco.”

      JRD: “Where are you going?”

      X:         “Pune, Sir. My husband is starting a company called ________ and I’m  shifting to Pune.”

      Identify the company and X.

7. In Formula I racing, which flag is waved to signify that there is only one more lap to go before the end of the race?

8. Who is the creator of this mascot called ‘Gattu’?

9. Which tagline did Adidas carry during the Cricket World Cup?

10. After this event, Ratan Tata said it was an ‘unbelievable experience and a terrific, terrific ride.’ What is the event he was talking about?

11. How would words such as brunch, Wikipedia, sysop, slithy, chocoholic etc. be termed?

1.What is presently known as ‘X’ ought to have been named after the first resident of that street.

 It was the usual practice then to name streets after the first resident irrespective of their class, caste or contribution.

When civil authorities approached him for his formal approval the humble, religious and self effasive gentleman requested it be named after a famous temple deity.Identify ‘X’.

2. Who are they?

•          Max Ray – ‘Brilliant’ Sea Operations Commander

•          Jake Rockwell – ‘Rugged’ Land Operations Specialist

•          Ace McCloud – ‘Daring’ Air Operations Expert

3.To whose memory did Albert Uderzo dedicate this character fro Asterx and The Falling Sky?

4. In the most common versions of the story, he is an English barber who murders his customers with a cut-throat razor (or “straight razor” in American English),and turns their remains into meat pies. His establishment is situated in the historical Fleet Street of London.

    5. This dessert in Italian means “pick me up” but can be translated figuratively as “make me less sad/happier”.

•          The first documented mention of this dessert in a published work appears in a Greek cookbook.

•          Some claim that it was first created in Northern Italy during the First World War. Women made these desserts for their men to take with them as they were being sent off to war. They might have believed the high caffeine and energy content of these desserts would give their men more energy to fight and help bring them home safely.

6. ‘X’ is a very rich source of Iron, vitamins and anti-oxidants essential for human nutrition.Also known as Puntikura,comes in two varieties, green stemmed leaf and red stemmed. The red stemmed variety is more sour than the green stemmed variety.Identify ‘X’.

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Match

She’s the Man                                   A comedy of errors

10 Things I Hate About You              Taming of the shrew

Clueless                                                                   Twelfth Night

Lion King                                                                   Othello

Omkara                                                                     Emma

Angoor                                                                      Hamlet

8. Which company owns the brand Dettol ( parachlorometaxylenol ) ?

 9. Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd started its first cafe in Brigade Road,Bangalore in 1996.Today it is spread across 69 Indian cities and has around 436 outlets.How are their cafe’s better known as ?

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Identify t he Band

    11. Where can you find these places?

•          Kabir Lane

•          Vinayak Mudali Street

•          Mempi Hills

•          Frederick Lawley’s Statue

 12. Complete this quote “Shoot all the bluejays you want , if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin ————“

13.Kishore Biyani in his autobiography-”It Happened in India ” says “You might think that X was inspired from Sam Walton’s Wal-mart but the truth is everyone joining us had to spend a week in Y to learn the system.”Identify X and Y

14.Who’s the pokemon character Hitmonchan inspired from?

15.The only known ingredient of this drink is mistletoe.Lobster may be added for flavor.It comes in many other flavors including cheese omelette and vegetable soup.Identify the drink

16.DURING Don Bradman’s Australian cricket team’s tour of England in 1948, someone asked dashing, handsome all rounder Keith Miller to name the three most wonderful sights in England. Without any hesitation, Miller replied, “The hills of Derbyshire, the leg sweep of Denis Compton and ‘X’.Identify ‘X’.