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 quizzing, Danny. Quiz#26 #1) Spectacular clouds isn’t it? Now identify the cloud type? J #2) This is a sacred plant in Hindu belief. Many Hindus have this plants growing in front of or near their home, often in special pots or special small masonry structures. Traditionally, it is planted in the center of the central courtyard of Hindu houses. Which plant am I talking about? (Courtesy: Toony J ) #3) If the pictures represents the cabs of the world, identify to which country does the last cab show in question mark belong to? #4) India has launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier this month(August 2013), joining the world’s military elite. The keel of the home-built Indian ship is almost completely constructed from high-quality, indigenously-produced steel.  It has the capacity to hold 36 fighter planes, with the time interval between take-offs from the vessel as low as three minutes. Now give me the name of this ship / aircraft carrier? #5) Identify this aircraft? #6) How do we better know the company founded by this person ‘Thirukkurungudi Vengaramaswamy Sundram Iyengar’ as? #7) Identify this exotic location? #8) A trivia for my Chennai makkal. It was started as the south Asia's first departmental store in 1863 by Charles Durant and J. W. Spencer, and owned by Eugene Oakshott in Chennai. In 1983, the original building was destroyed in a fire. The present building was constructed in early 1990's by the Mangal Tirth Estate limited. Until recently, it remained the second best place to hang out, next to the Marina beach. What am i talking about? #9) Yummu sandwich isn’t it? A southwest 737 in-between a Qantas & United 747’s. Now identify this airport? (Clue: It was in the news recently) #10) ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) is one of Android OS version names. A very simple question. What’s the latest Android OS version called?

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 quizzing, Danny. Quiz#25 #1) This song was said to be a favourite of King George V and Mahatma Gandhi (and my favourite song as well J). It is also often sung at Christian funerals. In the aftermath of the sinking of RMS Titanic, survivors reported that the Titanic's band played the hymn as the ship was sinking. Which song am I talking about? #3) This mode is available on many mobile phones, smartphones that when activated suspends many or all of the device's signal transmitting functions, thereby disabling the device's capacity to place or receive calls or use text messaging – while still permitting use of other functions that do not require signal transmission. What am i talking about? #4) Identify this place? #5) A sitter! This spicy starter / entree is a famous dish introduced in 1965 at the Buhari Hotel (Buhari, Mount Road) in Chennai, by it's founder A.M.Buhari. Though there are many different stories for how the name came into existance, the hotel director claims that it was the 65th item on their menu and the fry was made from a 65-day-old chicken. Which dish am I talking about? #6) Identify this aircraft? #7) This iconic car commenced its life in Britain as the Morris Oxford car. Eventually, with a quick rechristening the car went on to become one of India's most enduring vehicles. Very recently BBC Top Gear voted this car as the world’s best taxi. Which car am i talking about? #8) Yet another sitter! What does ITPL stands for? (Clue: think IT, think Bangalore J ) #9) A sitter again. In automobile parlance, what does ABS stands for? #10) Identify this object?

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 quizzing, Danny. Quiz#24 #1) During the English East India rule, this town in Madras was the home of ‘Chrome Leathers’ & that’s how the town got it’s name. The company is now re-christened as "Durable Chrome Factory" and is a leading manufacturer and retailer of fine leather goods & accessories. Now give me the name of that town? #2) A sitter! Connect the images #3) A brand new aircraft manufacturer was in the news recently because it had to ground all it’s recently delivered aircrafts owing to some battery issues which was rectified recently & it started operating again. Now give me the name of the aircraft & it’s manufacturer. #4) Identify this aircraft? #5) Identify this person? clue: checkout the song below & now give me the name of this person. It's one of my favorite song & so i've included the lyrics as well. Have fun :-) Lyrics: Thuli thuliyaai en idhayathai kanneeril karaiththu anupinen Kaatril kalandhu avai Un swaasamaai maari un azhagiya idhayathil kalandhuvidum endru Tholaindha oru iru thuligalai Theda manam ennakku illai- Sollaadha pala kodi varathaigalodu avai Ezhudhapadaadha en kadhal kadhaiyil serndhuvidum.. (Translation) I dissolve my heart in those little tear drops And scatter them in the wind, hoping- That when you breathe, they would become one With your heart, that which I long to be mine.. I will not search for the lost drops- for they Along with all the unspoken words, Would find their place- In the unwritten story of my love.

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#23 #1) A couple of doodle's & a sitter to start with. Identify & on what occasion were these put up? #2) This Airline based in India goes by the Callsign "IFLY" & has only Airbus A320 Aircrafts in it's fleet. Identify the Airline ? #3) This Airline based in India just has only 2 types of Aircrafts in it's fleet of 40 Aircrafts - "Bombardier Dash 8 Q400" & the "Boeing 737". The names of each Aircraft goes like "Ginger, Rosemary, Vanilla, Pepper" & the like. Identify the Airline that flies these birds? First officer, Nithin Prashant & yours truly at the Chennai International Airport #4) Identify this picture below? #5) The khadi-duck is an unconventional type of weave that meshes three threads into a weave as compared to two weaves used in conventional weaving. This type of weaving is extremely rare, and there are fewer than a dozen weavers in India professing this skill. The guidelines also state that there should be exactly 150 threads per square centimeter, four threads per stitch, and one square foot should weigh exactly 205 grams. These are the finely crafted measurments of a very famous thing. What am i talking about? #6) Identify this famous personality? #7) Air India with the slogan "Your palace in the sky", usually christens it's aircrafts with the names of famous Kings like Emperor Ashoka, Emperor Vikramaditya, Emperor Kanishka & the like or some famous landmarks like "Kanchenjunga", "Konark", "Tanjore [My hometown, i'm proud :-)]". A very simple question. Air India one or AI 001 (equivalent of Air Force One) is a fleet of 3 aircrafts. Name them ? [I'm not looking for the aircraft make & model here :-)] #8) A Trivia for my Chennai makkal. Identify the location? (Courtesy: Rajeev - Bonevlion) jkhjdvvxv #9) Yet another trivia for my Chennai makkal. How do we better know this person Parthasarathy Iyengar M. O. & also his contribution to our city? #10) If you were eating a plate of Chicken Biriyani at this location - (17° 27' 0" North, 78° 30' 0" East), where on earth would you be sitting/ standing or whatever :-) ?

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#22 #1) A doodle & a sitter to start with, Identify this Google doodle & on what occasion was this put up? #2) A trivia for my Chennai makkal :-) In ancient times, Iyers, along with Iyengars and other Tamil Brahmins, lived in exclusive Brahmin quarters of their village which in sanskrit means Shiva at the end or tip because Shiva and Vishnu temples were usually situated at the ends of such Brahmin quarters & people wash their feet first with water on entering the house. Now my question here is, how do we better know such Brahmin quarters as? (Courtesy: Cartoon :-) smiley smiley) #3) A sitter ! Identify this logo #4) Yet another trivia for my Chennai makkal :-) Where in Chennai would you have a Hindu shrine, a Buddhist shrine and a church in one place? #5) Identify this awesome beast colloquially known as the "Queen of skies" & i love to fly it someday :-) #6) RIM's (Research In Motion) most popular product recently got into a controversy with many countries, including India regarding the data & encryption level. India has given Research In Motion, the maker of this popular product, until Aug. 31 to comply with a request to gain access to encrypted corporate e-mail and messaging services or those services will be shut. What product am i talking about ? #7) Identify this landmark marked by a red arrow. [Sorry, as i couldn't draw an arrow better that that :-) ] #8) How do we better know these most famous red busses of London as ? #9) In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, with the help of Jesse Kops, a fellow scientist, accidentally developed a "low-tack," reusable pressure sensitive adhesive. What am i talking about? (Clue: Refer the pic below) #10) It is the biggest festival in the Indian state of Kerala. It falls during the first month of the Malayalam calendar (August–September) and marks the homecoming of the legendary King Mahabali. Intricate flower carpets, elaborate banquet lunch, snake boat races, Puli Kali, and the kaikottikkali dance all play a part in the festival The festival lasts for ten days. What am i talking about?

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..?

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#20 1) A doodle to start with. Identify..? 2) A question for my Chennai makkal..! As usual... :-) X was built initially by the Armenian Merchant Khojah Petrus Woskan connecting Chennai to St.Thomas Mount in 1728 at the cost of Rs. 1 lakh. It was called the Marmalong Bridge then and now it is called the Maraimalai Adigal Paalam, but most of us know it as X. Identify X..? 3) A sitter..! Identify this person who was shot to fame recently..? 4) Yet another sitter. Expand PHP..? {Quiz can get no easier than this... :-)} 5) Founded by Ferruccio, it started out as a tractor building company in the Italian village of Sant'Agata Bolognese. However, his priorities changed when he went to meet Enzo Ferrari at the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy, to complain about the quality of the clutch in his Ferrari 250. Ferruccio received a dismissive answer from Ferrari, who said that "the problem is not with the car, but rather, the driver," and suggested he look after his tractors leaving sport cars to others. A resentful Ferruccio returned to his factory, and the rest is history... What am i talking about..? 6) Identify the game being played here...? 7) If A is for Alpha, and B is for Bravo, then what is for : P ..? W ..? 8) Identify this logo. (Clue: Think SI units) 9) Which phrase originates from the British Military practice of playing the drums when someone was court marshaled? 10) When one is using the Gmail service, they will notice that it has a new option, named "Gmail Autopilot" in which the service would analyse an email. The program could be customised to contain certain types of grammatical or spelling errors, as well as complexity and length of the sentence. It also has a way of responding to relationship related messages, such as if someone spoke aggressively, even in a humorous way, the system would "terminate relationship." What am i referring to...? (Courtesy: Pratima, Atlanta) 11) Identify this most widely used trainer aircraft..?

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#19 1) A doodle to start with.. Identify...? 2) Hussein, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He attended most of his schooling in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu and did the rest of his schooling until his graduation from high school in 1979. Following high school, he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Then he worked at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group and later moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization. He was shot to fame recently. How do we better know this person today..? 3) What is the claim to fame of this picture..? (Clue: think computers.. Probably you can find this on every desk and in every home ) 4) George Safford began his career as a teacher of telegraphy. To supplement his teaching income, he started selling pens for the John Holland Pens Company. In fact, his telegraphy students were his main customers. When the pens he sold malfunctioned, he felt obligated to fix them. Soon overwhelmed with repair work, he decided to invent his own version of the fountain pen. Thus, his famous idea of "making a better pen" came to life. How is his invention known to the outside world..? 5) A dog may be man's best friend but a gleaming new car is often man's pride and joy – and never the twain should meet. But careless canines now face a shock if they do their business over their owner's new car. Electric shock technology unveiled in the latest model of its car should ensure no peeing poodle feels too cock-a-hoop after cocking a leg. A pet who relieves itself over the new model's wheels will get quite a buzz out of it – as an unpleasant 200 volts shoots through its body. Which automobile giant cameout with this innovative concept of keeping the pets at bay..? 6) What is depicted in this pic..? Good at words..? Well..Think again... 7) A question for my dreamzzz.. Which airliner based in India uses only Embraer aircrafts in its fleet..? 8) In media parlance, expand SKG in Dreamworks SKG..? 9) A question for my Chennai makkal.... It was known as (தமிழ்: பொழில் வாய்ச்சி) "Polil Vaichi" in ancient times which means "The land of natural wealth and prosperity". This historic town was once known as Mudi Konda Chola Nallur during the period of Kulottunga Chola III. The Subramanyar temple here is an ancient one, with a history that goes back for about 8 centuries. There is another story with the Origin of name, "Porul Aatchi" (தமிழ்: பொருள் ஆட்சி), which means "The land of wealthy Government". Its said that everything is sold/bought in the market(including elephants) except ones parents, in the olden days. In present day, it is a Picturesque town with almost all kinda natural resources like forest, wildlife sanctuary, National parks, Dams within the town and it is picture perfect and worth visiting. What am i talking about...? 10) Identify this aircraft..? Best AD of this week. enjoy with your sounds ON :-)

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. :-) Complete Quiz-O-Maniac archives: QuizOManiac.googlepages.com Happy landings, Danny AV8R. Quiz#18 1) Identify this google doodle..? 2) How do we better know this personality 'Marathur Gopala Ramachandran Menon' as....? 3) I’am sure everyone must have heard of ISBN, the standard book identifier. In this context expand ASIN {the actress is a strict no-no ;)} 4) You leave a large Company 'A' to work at smaller Company 'B'; you gain experience at the smaller Company 'B' that is hard to get at large Company 'A'; you stay at smaller company 'B' as it grows; you eventually get rehired at the large Company 'A' several levels above your previous position. So how do you term this one as, in Silicon valley lingo...?[Courtesy: Vaishnavi, Bengaluru for Q's 3,4. Also thanx a ton for guiding me to Yeshwantapur :-) ] 5) Here's a sitter..! Identify this awesome aircraft..? 6) Here's a question for my tamil makkal... :-) The name of this place is derived from the Tamil words literally meaning 'spearcity' or 'city of spears'. Ancient history shows that it was basically a battle field where the warriors used to fight. Due to the geography of the place, it was always left with the used weapons like spears all around the year. It is considered to be one of the oldest surviving cities in South India. What am i referring to..? 7) _________ is the occurrence of deep vein thrombosis/ deep venous thrombosis in air travelers. It's causes is probably due to a combination of immobilisation, dehydration and underlying factors. Additional environmental factors during air travel may possibly include reduced or sudden decrease in atmospheric pressure with consequent desaturation. Patients with disease that predisposes them for thrombosis, such as antiphospholipid syndrome or cancer, are probably at a much greater risk. The highest risk groups include the elderly, pregnant women, those suffering serious medical conditions such as cancer and those with recent orthopedic surgery. What am i talking about..? (Clue: Think aviation) 8) Yet another sitter..! Identify this logo..? 9) ____  has become a slang reference for a confidence trickster. Section ____  of the Penal Codes of both India and Pakistan cover such activity. The Penal Codes of both countries are inherited from the Indian Penal Code of 1860 instituted by the Anglo-Indian government of the Indian subcontinent. Fill in the blank and what am i talking about...? [Sorry; no more clues.. :-( ] 10) Identify this young entrepreneur from south india...?( Hatsoff to him. I wish i could be like this someday)