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Hi everybody, So here's the rules for the Quiz. It's as simple as that... Rule#1: Send in your answers to: quizblogger@gmail.com Rule#2: Never forget Rule#1. :-) Happy landings, Danny AV8R. Quiz#21 Vanakkam Chennai and 'Hello World'. It's been long time since i've posted a quiz. I'm sorry to keep you eagerly waiting. So lets start this quiz with our trademark doodle question... #1) Identify this Google doodle..? #2) A question for my Chennai makkal as usual..! Cenotaph Road is a famous road in Teynampet, Chennai. I'm sure every Chennai vaasii's would be quite aware of that. This road connects Mount Road to Turn Bulls Signal, Kotturpuram and the like. The road has important landmarks like the Russian Trade Embassy, Japanese consulate. ICICI Bank, TPL House (which houses Tamil Nadu Petroproducts Limited, Sasken Communication Technologies, Ernst & Young, etc), a Cafe Coffee Day outlet are other important landmarks on this road. My question here is quite simple. Why is the road named so? (No, Mr. Cenotaph didn't live there) :-) #3) Another one for my chennai makkal. (This one is for the delayed quiz post.. :D) In the 1970s, in the heart of Chennai, adjacent to Mount Road (Anna Salai), a tiny street sprouted with just five shops, dealing with electronic component spare parts. In just five years, this tiny market had 25 shops, with people from all over Tamil Nadu coming here to purchase electronic component spare parts, for assembling various electronic equipments. Colloquially known as the Radio market then, it's now called as "Narasinghapuram street". How do we better know this place as...? (No more clues :D) #4) Connect the below pics. (Clue: Think computer) #5) How do we better know Bayerische Motoren Werke (English translation: Bavarian Motor Works) as..? #6) He was born in the northern coastal town of Velvettithurai on November 26, 1954, to Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and Vallipuram Parvathy. Angered by what he saw as discrimination against Tamil people by successive Sri Lankan governments, he joined the student group TIP during the standardization debates.In 1972 he founded the Tamil New Tigers(TNT) which was a successor to many earlier organizations that protested against the post-colonial political direction of the country, in which the minority Sri Lankan Tamils were pitted against the majority Sinhalese people. He was married to Mathivathani Erambu. They had a daughter Duvaraga and two sons, Charles Anthony and Balachandran. Who am i talking about...? (Clue: Refer the below pic and identify the guy who's getting married) #7) It's a very common misconception that airports use X-rays for scanning baggages and stuff. But unfortunately it's not. What exactly is used for this purpose..? #8) Identify the new logo of an Indian based company..? #9) You can see the picture of Paramount airway's dolphin shaped aircraft. Can you identify the model of the aircraft..? (Clue: Paramount just uses only one model of aircraft in it's fleet, as of now and is now planning to buy 10 Airbus A321 aircrafts) #10) They are categorized according to two proteins found on it's surface: hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). They contain hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, but the structure of these proteins differ from strain to strain due to rapid genetic mutation in the viral genome. They are assigned an H number and an N number based on which forms of these two proteins the strain contains. There are 16 H and 9 N subtypes known in birds, but only H 1, 2 and 3, and N 1 and 2 are commonly found in humans. what am i refering to..? 11) Identify this wonderful piece of architecture..? (Yeah it's in India.. :D) #12) Identify this device..?