Anyway here are some q's...
Q: Originally a talisman against evil, this symbol was used in the courts of Vikramaditya and Akbar. Now it is also used to classify specific Public Sector Undertakings. What?
Q: His nickname which he initially disliked came about in the 60s when he was in his youth and he was given the job of collecting his band's nightly pay and distributing it amongst the band members. Consequently the rest of the band jokingly referred to him as "___
____". Name him.
Q: The word for island or peninsula in Arabic is used to refer to many things, including the Arabian peninsula, a settlement in Sharjah and a major Arabic television network and channel based in Qatar. Which national capital also gets its name from the same root?
Q: In March 2008, he became the third man (after Richard Gere and George Clooney) and the first sportsman to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine. His appearance in a King Kong pose created controversy about stereotyping blacks as gorillas. Who?
Q: Raja Maharaj Singh was the first post-independence Governor of Bombay. He has also played one first-class cricket match, captaining Bombay Governor's XI against a touring Commonwealth XI, in which he was dismissed by Jim Laker for the score of 4 runs. What first class record does he thus hold?
Q: The bricks used to build this building were brought from Burma. The building had seven wings, with a central tower. The wings forked out of the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. A large bell was kept in the tower to raise an alarm in any eventuality. What nickname did this building have, which evoked the deep seas and a sense of exile?
Q: Which company was created by the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories, both Swiss pharmaceutical companies with long histories, and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland?
Q: When the West German stand at the Delhi Industrial Exhibition of 1959 folded up, parts of their equipment were offered to the Govt. of India. Using this equipment, what was started on Sep 15, 1959 within a 25km radius of New Delhi?
Q: The place of his birth was an important garrison town for the East India Company forces. Located on the Grand Trunk Road, it is now a well connected industrial center. His dad represented United Provinces in Ranji Trophy. He played most of his cricket in a town about 55 miles east-southeast of London, famous as a pilgrimage destination for Christians. Last year he was one of the recipients of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz. And he allegedly is the only man to have witnessed both Brian Lara's innings of 501 not out vs. Durham and Hanif Mohammed's 499 in
Karachi . Identify ?
There is a specific connect I guess..
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August 1, 2010 10:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey guys why are complaining them ..
it's always good to have something new & after all we are all quizzers and we have to crack all the ciphers and codes.
Right ?
Anyway here are some q's...
Q: Originally a talisman against evil, this symbol was used in the courts of Vikramaditya and Akbar. Now it is also used to classify specific Public Sector Undertakings. What?
Q: His nickname which he initially disliked came about in the 60s when he was in his youth and he was given the job of collecting his band's nightly pay and distributing it amongst the band members. Consequently the rest of the band jokingly referred to him as "___
____". Name him.
Q: The word for island or peninsula in Arabic is used to refer to many things, including the Arabian peninsula, a settlement in Sharjah and a major Arabic television network and channel based in Qatar. Which national capital also gets its name from the same root?
Q: In March 2008, he became the third man (after Richard Gere and George Clooney) and the first sportsman to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine. His appearance in a King Kong pose created controversy about stereotyping blacks as gorillas. Who?
Q: Raja Maharaj Singh was the first post-independence Governor of Bombay. He has also played one first-class cricket match, captaining Bombay Governor's XI against a touring Commonwealth XI, in which he was dismissed by Jim Laker for the score of 4 runs. What first class record does he thus hold?
Q: The bricks used to build this building were brought from Burma. The building had seven wings, with a central tower. The wings forked out of the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. A large bell was kept in the tower to raise an alarm in any eventuality. What nickname did this building have, which evoked the deep seas and a sense of exile?
Q: Which company was created by the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories, both Swiss pharmaceutical companies with long histories, and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland?
Q: When the West German stand at the Delhi Industrial Exhibition of 1959 folded up, parts of their equipment were offered to the Govt. of India. Using this equipment, what was started on Sep 15, 1959 within a 25km radius of New Delhi?
Q: The place of his birth was an important garrison town for the East India Company forces. Located on the Grand Trunk Road, it is now a well connected industrial center. His dad represented United Provinces in Ranji Trophy. He played most of his cricket in a town about 55 miles east-southeast of London, famous as a pilgrimage destination for Christians. Last year he was one of the recipients of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz. And he allegedly is the only man to have witnessed both Brian Lara's innings of 501 not out vs. Durham and Hanif Mohammed's 499 in
Karachi . Identify ?
There is a specific connect I guess..
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Mahesh Nair
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August 1, 2010 10:31 PM
Anonymous said...
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Q:1Id the community..
Range: Population concentrated in rainforest regions. Outlying clans have been detected on each continent and in subarctic, swampland and mountainous regions.
Anatomy Smooth skin is iridescent, cyan color. Long, prehensile tail. Skull is proportionately small, high cheekbones, feline ears and a protruding, snout. Bioluminescent markings for identification, mood display. Average lifespan is similar to that of a human. Despite skin color, red blood.
Feeding Ecology Omnivore. Hunter and gatherer with incipient agriculture, including brewing.
Size Average male is three meters tall, females slightly smaller.
Notes Generally peaceful, but ferocious in defense of home, clan and family.
Q:2What connects:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Harry S. Truman
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Gerald R. Ford
Apart from the fact that they were all Presidents of the USA.
Hint: Carl Vinson and John C. Stennis are the only two people who could be attached to the list as well but they remove the President of USA connect.
Q:3 CONNECT:
Carmen Electra
Holly Madison
Aubrey O'Day
Hope Dworaczyk
Lisa Rinna
America Olivo
Olivia Munn
Heidi Montag
Kiera Gormley
_____________
Q:4Where will you find an English translation of a passage from The Libation Bearers, by Aeschylus together with a quote from More Fruits of Solitude by William Penn?
August 1, 2010 10:38 PM
Anonymous said...
Q; XY.com is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of movies. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing Y and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. Its owned by Newscorp. Which site?
Q This one time Sheriff of Calcutta (1961) served on the Boards of SBI & ICICI. He also served as the President of the Bridge Federation of India & The All India Lawn Tennis Association. He authored two books - ' Indira Gandhi : Reminiscences' and ' Partners in Progress - Collection of Selected Speeches and Writings ' ?
Q This greatly pleasing or entertaining web service was started by Joshua Scachter in 2003.Having more than 5 million users its primary use is in storing,sharing and discovering bookmarks on the internet.Identify.
Q Bristol, London and Southampton were declared to be the ' fittest cities ' in the UK, by the fitness magazine - Men's Health. Incidentally, the European online auction site TeleBid, found that the residents of these cities bought more copies of 'X' than other cities. The charm of X, cut across all demographic profiles, so much that its manufacturer found it difficult to keep up with the demand. Identify X ?
Q X has written two autobiographies. I Am Not Y (1977) was the first. X's stated intention was merely to remind the public at large that Y and X were not one and the same. His second autobiography was entitled I Am Y (1995), meant to communicate that he finally realized that his years of portraying the Y character had led to a much greater identification between the fictional character Y and him . Identify X and Y
Q This is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by a film. Launched in 1996 by Viacom Consumer Products and the Rusty Pelican Company, this became the first theme restaurant inspired by a film.There are now twenty locations, all located in the United States and Asia.Name the movie and the restaurant chain.
This is an interesting connect:
Q Connect Chief, Burger, Doctor, Bhola, Shankar .
Q Ancient Roman shepherds used a kind of pointed stick to drive their cattle. The reaction of the animals to the stick was as expected, i.e. to avoid coming in contact with it. What was that stick called? It is now a common English word.
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August 1, 2010 10:43 PM
Anonymous said...
Q; XY.com is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of movies. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing Y and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. Its owned by Newscorp. Which site?
Q This one time Sheriff of Calcutta (1961) served on the Boards of SBI & ICICI. He also served as the President of the Bridge Federation of India & The All India Lawn Tennis Association. He authored two books - ' Indira Gandhi : Reminiscences' and ' Partners in Progress - Collection of Selected Speeches and Writings ' ?
Q This greatly pleasing or entertaining web service was started by Joshua Scachter in 2003.Having more than 5 million users its primary use is in storing,sharing and discovering bookmarks on the internet.Identify.
Q Bristol, London and Southampton were declared to be the ' fittest cities ' in the UK, by the fitness magazine - Men's Health. Incidentally, the European online auction site TeleBid, found that the residents of these cities bought more copies of 'X' than other cities. The charm of X, cut across all demographic profiles, so much that its manufacturer found it difficult to keep up with the demand. Identify X ?
Q X has written two autobiographies. I Am Not Y (1977) was the first. X's stated intention was merely to remind the public at large that Y and X were not one and the same. His second autobiography was entitled I Am Y (1995), meant to communicate that he finally realized that his years of portraying the Y character had led to a much greater identification between the fictional character Y and him . Identify X and Y
Q This is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by a film. Launched in 1996 by Viacom Consumer Products and the Rusty Pelican Company, this became the first theme restaurant inspired by a film.There are now twenty locations, all located in the United States and Asia.Name the movie and the restaurant chain.
This is an interesting connect:
Q Connect Chief, Burger, Doctor, Bhola, Shankar .
Q Ancient Roman shepherds used a kind of pointed stick to drive their cattle. The reaction of the animals to the stick was as expected, i.e. to avoid coming in contact with it. What was that stick called? It is now a common English word.
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Mahesh Nair
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August 1, 2010 10:44 PM
Anonymous said...
Rahul Varma..
Bvm eroor:
Complete:
Zaibatsu , Loonies, Yakuza , SRS , Rednecks , Russian Mafia , __________
also enquire ithink the older type of scoring was better...
But i also agree with Mahesh..
August 1, 2010 10:56 PM
Anonymous said...
rahul varma
Here are some gud q's
Q The following excerpts are from the April 26th 1996 edition of the New York Times:
"Bill Gates gets the credit but somebody else did most of the work'.
'For the first time in this decade something from Microsoft has been shipped on time'.
'Regardless of the problems with this one calling Microsoft Support won't help'.
'For at least another year it'll suck.“
About what ?
Q This word is derived from the 1960 film La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer played by Walter Santesso. In his book Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito . What am i talking about ?
Q What are the names given to the two decks of the chinese abacus?
Q This was a brief from the agency to the musician - "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental and emotional, etc" a whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long." The musician's name at birth was Brian Peter George. How do we know him better and identify the piece he created ?
Q The name of which company means "Leave luck to heaven" in Japanese ?
Q Founded in 1923 in Berlin as "Ideal" , this company changed its name in 1938 after a bluedot on its headphones ? Name the company .
In Latin, this word means a female animal used for breeding. It was first used in English in the 16th century to refer to the uterus or womb. In biology, it is the intercellular substance of a tissue, and in geology it is the natural material surrounding a metal or gem or fossil embedded in the earth. Commonest use is however in mathematics. The word?
Q Born in 1954 in Hamburg, she graduated with a doctorate in physics from the University
of Leipzig, after which she worked in the field of quantum chemistry. Since 1998, she has
been married to a Berlin chemistry professor Joachim Sauer and has no children. Her
doctoral thesis was entitled The Calculation of Speed Constants of Elementary Reactions
in Simple Carbohydrates. Who is this newsworthy person?
Q The very first patent issued in Thomas Edison's name was for what?
Q What was so unique about the dismissal of Jim Burke (Australia) in the Old Trafford Test of the 1956 Ashes?
And @ mahesh:
Ans:1) Na'vi from Avataar.
2)They all have Aircraft Carriers in the US Navy named after them.
3)The Answer is Marge Simpson . These are playboy Cover Girls for 2009
4) The Epigraph of Harry Potter and the Death Hallows
August 1, 2010 11:06 PM
Anonymous said...
rahul varma
Here are some gud q's
Q The following excerpts are from the April 26th 1996 edition of the New York Times:
"Bill Gates gets the credit but somebody else did most of the work'.
'For the first time in this decade something from Microsoft has been shipped on time'.
'Regardless of the problems with this one calling Microsoft Support won't help'.
'For at least another year it'll suck.“
About what ?
Q This word is derived from the 1960 film La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer played by Walter Santesso. In his book Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito . What am i talking about ?
Q What are the names given to the two decks of the chinese abacus?
Q This was a brief from the agency to the musician - "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental and emotional, etc" a whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long." The musician's name at birth was Brian Peter George. How do we know him better and identify the piece he created ?
Q The name of which company means "Leave luck to heaven" in Japanese ?
Q Founded in 1923 in Berlin as "Ideal" , this company changed its name in 1938 after a bluedot on its headphones ? Name the company .
In Latin, this word means a female animal used for breeding. It was first used in English in the 16th century to refer to the uterus or womb. In biology, it is the intercellular substance of a tissue, and in geology it is the natural material surrounding a metal or gem or fossil embedded in the earth. Commonest use is however in mathematics. The word?
Q Born in 1954 in Hamburg, she graduated with a doctorate in physics from the University
of Leipzig, after which she worked in the field of quantum chemistry. Since 1998, she has
been married to a Berlin chemistry professor Joachim Sauer and has no children. Her
doctoral thesis was entitled The Calculation of Speed Constants of Elementary Reactions
in Simple Carbohydrates. Who is this newsworthy person?
Q The very first patent issued in Thomas Edison's name was for what?
Q What was so unique about the dismissal of Jim Burke (Australia) in the Old Trafford Test of the 1956 Ashes?
And @ mahesh:
Ans:1) Na'vi from Avataar.
2)They all have Aircraft Carriers in the US Navy named after them.
3)The Answer is Marge Simpson . These are playboy Cover Girls for 2009
4) The Epigraph of Harry Potter and the Death Hallows
August 1, 2010 11:06 PM
Anonymous said...
rahul varma
Here are some gud q's
Q The following excerpts are from the April 26th 1996 edition of the New York Times:
"Bill Gates gets the credit but somebody else did most of the work'.
'For the first time in this decade something from Microsoft has been shipped on time'.
'Regardless of the problems with this one calling Microsoft Support won't help'.
'For at least another year it'll suck.“
About what ?
Q This word is derived from the 1960 film La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer played by Walter Santesso. In his book Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito . What am i talking about ?
Q What are the names given to the two decks of the chinese abacus?
Q This was a brief from the agency to the musician - "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental and emotional, etc" a whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long." The musician's name at birth was Brian Peter George. How do we know him better and identify the piece he created ?
Q The name of which company means "Leave luck to heaven" in Japanese ?
Q Founded in 1923 in Berlin as "Ideal" , this company changed its name in 1938 after a bluedot on its headphones ? Name the company .
In Latin, this word means a female animal used for breeding. It was first used in English in the 16th century to refer to the uterus or womb. In biology, it is the intercellular substance of a tissue, and in geology it is the natural material surrounding a metal or gem or fossil embedded in the earth. Commonest use is however in mathematics. The word?
Q Born in 1954 in Hamburg, she graduated with a doctorate in physics from the University
of Leipzig, after which she worked in the field of quantum chemistry. Since 1998, she has
been married to a Berlin chemistry professor Joachim Sauer and has no children. Her
doctoral thesis was entitled The Calculation of Speed Constants of Elementary Reactions
in Simple Carbohydrates. Who is this newsworthy person?
Q The very first patent issued in Thomas Edison's name was for what?
Q What was so unique about the dismissal of Jim Burke (Australia) in the Old Trafford Test of the 1956 Ashes?
And @ mahesh:
Ans:1) Na'vi from Avataar.
2)They all have Aircraft Carriers in the US Navy named after them.
3)The Answer is Marge Simpson . These are playboy Cover Girls for 2009
4) The Epigraph of Harry Potter and the Death Hallows
here is some quiz that enquire people posted as a comment.
