QuizOManiac

Answers for Quiz-o-maniac series are as follows: Quiz#1 1. Teamgeist. 2. The indian festival 'Holi.' 3. The i-Pod. 4. Kansai international airport view, Japan. 5. Milau Bridge, France. 6. Lombard street, San Francisco. 7. Charlemagne, King David, Julius caesar and alexander.(The four kings in a deck of playing cards) 8. Melblanc and the epitaph is "That's all Folks" (...Remember this in looney tunes). 9. Microsoft. 10. Carrefour logo. Quiz#2 1) The combination of Ctrl+Alt+Del keys that causes the system to retart. 2) Mr.Bean. 3) Nokia. 4) The Hollywood sign. 5) Winter Olympics. 6) SPA FRANCORCHAMPS(Belgian Grand prix). 7) R.K.Lakshman's common man. 8) Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. 9) Lamborghini. 10) Infosys. (Dedicated to all our infy guys of our college) Quiz#3 1) Teacher's Day. 2) The mouse. 3) Rule of Thumb. 4) Michael Moore (Director of Fahrenheit 9/11). 5) Larry page and sergey brin.(Founders of google) 6) Thinking out of the box. 7) When viewed from the top, the building represents Dubai written inArabic. 8) Original passages from which Kavya Vishwanathan has been accused ofcopying. (Plagiarism) 9) Turning Torso, Sweden. 10) first Cd to come with copy protection i.e. it cannot be played orcopied on the PC. Quiz#4 1) Leap year. 2) Google. 3) Volkswagen Factories. 4) All werew bus-conductors at some point of time. 5) Blockbusters6) Television for Information, Music, Entertainment and Sports (TIMES) 7) The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were named through a student essaycompetition. The winning entry was by Sofi Collis, a third grade RussianAmerican student from Arizona. 8) Japan conquered Korea and made it K so that in all International listsKorea would appear after Japan. 9) To shoot a commercial for Nike. 10) Pizza Hut Quiz#5 1) Because Bill G wanted to show everyone, how the world would be withoutwindows. (That's why he took them into a submarine during the Windows 95release) 2) Google's 8th birthday. 3) Luciano Benetton and Guiliana Benetton of Benetton family who startedthe United colours of Benetton. 4) The (Oresundsbron) Oresund Link is a bridge tunnel connecting Sweden toDenmark. 5) The ticker symbol on NYSE for ACN is Accenture. 6) It's Alcatel. 7) Hilton group of Hotels. 8) The Singer sewing machine. 9) Patricia Cecile Dunn, a.k.a. Patricia Cecile Dunn-Jahnke, is theformer chairman of the board of HP, a position she held between February2005 and September 2006. She succeeded Carly Fiorina as chairman. 10) It's the tech spec of a Maruti 800. Quiz#6 1) Louis Braille's Birthday. (The man who invented Braille for the blind) 2) Michael Schumacher. (Hats off to you Schumi....) 3) Microsoft Office helpers. 4) James Cameroon. 5) Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt. 6) The ringtone "Nokia tune." 7) Corus, which was recently taken over by the TATA steel. 8) Sony's robot models. (Aibo is Sony's pet robo-dog while Qrio is thehumanoid robot. 9) DreamWorks Animation. 10) The man who hold a sign of stop and 1st gear in the pit to let off the car. Quiz#7 1) Manjunath Shanmugam Trust which recently launched RTI helpline. 2) Hotmail.com 3) Albert Einstein's Birthday. 4) This was how the world famous "Happy birthday song" came intoexistance. 5) Saidapet which literaly means "Syed-oda-petai." 6) Philips. 7) Band –Aid. 8) Smileys / Emoticons. 9) Yes. That is Bill Gates and Microsoft's early crew. 10) breadcrumb trial. Quiz#8 1) Birthday of Edward Munch, a Norwegian Symbolist painter for his most famous painting Scream. 2) Wipro 3) Saddam Hussain 4) Gate way of india, Mumbai. 5) Jet Airways (Javed Akhtar, Yash Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan are among its directors) 6) Electronic Arts 7) Platform 9¾ at Kings cross.(King's Cross features in the Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express. The platform actually used for filming at King's Cross Station is Platform 4. 8) i.e "that is" Abbreviation for id est. 9) Neuschwanstein served as the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. 10) The 150 year old P.ORR & SONS at Broadway, Madras(Chennai). Quiz#9 1) The connect is as simple as that. It's the ICC circket worldcup 2007. The pic on the right is the ICC circket worldcup 2007's logo and the pic on the left is 'Mello', mascot for ICC circket worldcup 2007. The Greenfield Stadium, Trelawny, Jamaica will host the Opening Ceremony on 11 March and the Grand finale will be hosted at the celebrated Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados an april 28. 2) Ooty, short for Ootacamund (an anglicized name for Udhagamandalam), is a popular hill resort in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. The name Udhagamandalam is derived from the TODA word "othakal-mund" which means "house in mountains". 3) Neosports:India::Geosuper:Pakistan 4) The connect is St.Petersburg. Pic#1 is St.Petersburg railway station, which is the starting point of the most famous 'Trans siberian railway.' Pic#2 is the most famous "Bronze Horseman" statue, depicting Tsar ' Peter the Great', who founded St.Petersburg. Pic#3 is the flag of St.Petersburg. 5) Business of Ferrets 6) Karlsruhe, Germany. (As you can notice the letter 'D' visible in the registration plate refering to Deutschland. You can also very well see the EU flag right there.) 7) That's how the renowned MTR entered the instant food business, selling ready-to-eat snacks such as chutneys and rasams. 8) It's Gondala. (Obvious from the pic) 9) Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jung-mok is a graphic artist who designs the festive logos or the holiday logos for Google on special days. 10) The Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (also commonly known as simply MTR) is a restaurant on Lalbagh Road, Bangalore, India. The Pic on the left is of MTR's log. The pic on the right is the logo of Orkla Group, which is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate which has recently taken over MTR. Quiz#10 1) Guriji 2) Malcom Speed, CEO of the International Cricket Council. 3) KFC 4) Grand Canyon Skywalk 5) MRF or Madras Rubber Factory 6) The connect is "Spam". The first pic (Clockwise) is Spam from Hormel Foods. The second pic is the album cover of song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of R.E.M.'s song Stand. It is mostly an ode to the canned lunch meat SPAM. The lyrics describe a person who loves to eat spam at his house, at work, or for just a snack. The third is "Electronic mail" which also connect spam and the last pic is the team of a popular Monty Python sketch. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam (in electronic communication, and as of 2006, general slang) is derived from this sketch 7) Velcro 8) The connect is "Balckforest". The first pic(Clockwise) is a Balckforest Cake. The second pic is a cuckoo clock, famous in Balckforest region and the last pic is the map of Germany with the Balckforest region marked in red. 9) The Indian National flag. 10) The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statue stands 38 m (125 feet) tall and is located at the peak of the 710-m (2330-foot) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park, overlooking the city. Quiz#11 1) Superstar 'Rajinikanth', who worked as a conductor alongside with Raja Bahadur, the driver and his intimate friend. 2) The connect is Ghajini. A small part(shown in the video) was inspired from the movie 'Amelie'. The next pic is from the movie "Memento", whose theme was also inspired by the director Murugadoss and used in his movie 'Ghajini' and the last pic is the director himself. 3) Bikini 4) Blackberry communication device 5) The pic on the left is the poster of a documentary "An Inconvenient truth", which throws light on the harmful effects of Global Warming, and presented by Al-Gore. The pic on the right is Al-Gore himself. 6) Equated Monthly Installments 7) Punj Lloyd and it's punch line is " The world is not enough". 8) The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) of Las Vegas Boulevard South. This is where almost all the famous casinos and hotels(given in clues) are located. 9) Didi (famous for his Didi's comedy show or the non-stop nonsense show) 10) Guggenheim-bilbao Museum, Spain. Quiz#12 1) Earth day. 2) Ayngaran International (NRI movie maniac's God). 3) TNEB or the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. 4) X = Web log ; Y = blog. 5) The picture on the left is the logo of "Direction software solutions" which is run by Arun Nair. The pic on the right is the poster of the movie "Bedazzled" in which Arun nair's wife Liz Hurley acted. 6) Arvind Swamy. 7) UNICEF. 8) Henry Irwin, famous for designing the Chennai Central Station and premises. 9) pencil sharpener. 10) Kremlin Russia. Quiz#14a 1) The connect is Satyam cinemas; Kiran reddy is it's MD; The pic on the left is the logo of The Alive foundations, which is a trust established by "Sathyam Cinemas" and "Ecotone" to facilitate environment education through films; The pic on the right is the COO of Satyam cinemas, Tan Ngaronga. 2) It's the logo of BSD or FreeBSD, called the BSD daemon. 3) X is NR Narayana Murthy, Y is Patni Computers and the company he started is Infosys. 4) Michael Bay, the director of the newly released movie 'Transformers'. 5) Korg (makers of musical Instruments); Even A.R.Rahman uses that brand. 6) Australia. 7) The pic given below is of the festival, 'La Tomatina' held on a the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region in Spain. 8) Denim 9) ATR's 10)British Airway's London Eye. Quiz#14b 1) Halloween's day 2007. 2) The famous "Iruttu kadai"(dark shop) Halwa from Tirunelveli. 3) World bank's logo. 4) BSA motorcycles and bicycles company. 5) 007 is the calling code for Russia. That's the trivia for James bond 007. 6) KFC or The Kentucky Fried Chicken. 7) Google earth image of the Hoover Dam. 8) X = BNP Paribas; Y = Paribas. 9) The United Arab Emirates(UAE) 10) Google through the 'Open Handset Alliance' (OHA), which's a business alliance comprising Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and NVIDIA. Quiz#15 1) Earth day. 2) Voltas. 3) Yellow pages. 4) Falkirk wheel. 5) Woodland's Drive-in. 6) Etihad's logo. 7) Memristors. 8) Los Angeles International Airport ? Los Angeles, California, United States. 9) Zeppelin. 10) Nargis(cyclone). 11) Earth Hour. Quiz#16 1) ICICI. A Sitter..! 2) 25 Years of TCP/IP which also happened to be the very start of the year 2008. i.e., January 1, 2008; Belated Happy Newyear.... :-) 3) Budapest( Or even just Hungary'd do) and that was where the first Grand Prix took place, which led to the development of the Hungaroring circuit. 4) The pic on the left is 'The Beluga Whale' or 'White Whale'. The pic on the right is the logo of Airbus which inturn produces the Airbus Beluga, the design of which is inspired from the above said whale. Airbus Beluga or 'The Super Transporter' is basically a cargo carrier which is specialised in carrying aircraft parts to & from assembly line. 5) Ferihegy International Airport - Budapest, Hungary. 6) The Happening directed by M. Night Shyamalan 7) Airbus Beluga or 'The Super Transporter'. Refer Question#4 for more details. 8) Saidapet, derived from the Tamil word "Syed-oda-Paetai" which literally translates to "syed's land". 9) SUN Microsystems. 10) DODGE TOMAHAWK. Quiz#17 1) Invention of the First Laser - May 16, 2008. 2) A First Information Report or FIR is a written document prepared by the police in India and Pakistan when they receive information about the commission of any offence. 3) That's the Procedure followed to get the "Sand for the hourglass". 4) J2ME. 5) The Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), known as the Dreamlifter, is a modified Boeing 747-400 used exclusively for transporting aircraft parts to Boeing from suppliers around the world. 6) Tube Investments is none other than TI cycles which manufactures bicycle and bicycle parts. 7) Chennai Egmore is a railway station in Egmore, Chennai, South India. This station is known in Tamil as Ezhumbur. 8) Lockheed Martin. 9) Complan Boy(Shahid Kapoor) and Complan Girl (Ayesha Takia). 10) They are some of the best Casino's in Las Vegas. Happy Quizzing, Danny.