Sept 27 - Daily Quiz

Today only 3 questions
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1) Identify and link

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B








2) Identify and Link... A conceived and idea and B made it a reality.

  





A

B

3) What monument am i pointing to? This question is linked to one of the previous questions...

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UPDATE : Answers

1) A is the St. Lawrence Cricket Ground, Canterbury. It is one of the two cricket grounds to have a TREE within the boundaries of the ground.

    B is Robert Key, English cricket player.

    Robert Key is the current captain of the Kent County Cricket Club. St. Lawrence is the home ground of this club.

2) A is Doane Robinson and B is Gutzon Borglum.

    A concieved the idea of creating the Mount Rushmore and Gutzon Borglum made it a reality.

3) It points to Mount Rushmore near South Dakota, United States of America

Sept 26 - Daily Quiz

First of all i would like to inform all that as of today, this blog has been added to the site QuizBlogs.com

And now, back to the action...

1) Link the names... this may be too easy

A

B





 2) Identify and Link

A

B









3) Where is this place? Its a building. Its in the US

4) Which famous place is shown in the picture? This place is crowded with people even though 'it' doesnt exist

5)  What is the name of the house where Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi used to live when he was practicing as a lawyer in Africa?


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UPDATE : Answers

1) A is Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States. The image says 'I Want You For The US Army'.

   B is Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky in the movie 'Transformers'.

   Well, yeah i know its stupid, but the link is Sam :)

2) A is Kevin Warwick and B is, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator.
    Kevin Warwick can be said to be the world's first human Cyborg. His arm is fitted with cyborg technology enabling his nervous system to be connected to a computer.

3) It is the Mirage Habitat in Las Vegas.

4) Well... It is the Platform 9 and 3 quarters... :)

5) The Krail

Sept 25 - Daily Quiz

1) What is the link between A and B. There are 2 links for the same reason. Name both

A

B






2) A is a roman goddess. Daughter of Saturn and wife of Jupiter(Possibly his sister too). Her Greek equivalent is Hera. Why was she in the news lately along with B.

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3) What is the link?

• Panvel
• Parshuram
• Panaji
• Honnavar
• Manglore
• Kannur
• Kozhikode
• Ernakulam

4) What are Apoyando strikes, Tirando strikes, Travis picking, Clawhammer and Rasgueado?

5) Identify and find out what is common to A, B and C.

A

B

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UPDATE : Answers

1) A is René Goscinny and B is Albert Uderzo. The famous Asterix and obelix stories were written by Goscinny and illustrated by Uderzo. 'Goscinny and Uderzo' is what will be written on every book. They have also worked together on the comic Oumpah-pah.

2) A is Juno and B is Carl L Hardy. Carl L Hardy was the person who discovered the asteroid Juno.

3) The places are the one on the NH 17 Route in India

4) They are styles of playing the guitar.

5) A is Sam Neill as Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic park.
    B is Sean Connery as Pierce in The First Great Train Robbery.
    C is Paul Walker as Chris Johnston.

These are movies based on Michael Crichton's novels

Sept 24 - Daily Quiz

.Only 3 questions today. I got an exam. By the way, Sept 23 Daily Quiz is still on. Click Here

1) Identify and link

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B

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2) Identify and Link

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B

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3) Identify and Link

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B







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UPDATE : Answers

1) A is Marc Warren - Dracula (2007)
    B is Frank Langella - Dracula (1979)
    C is Robert Pattinson - Twilight (2008)
    All three played vampires in these movies.

2) In the Universal Studios' "Transformers", Bumblebee (B) turns into a Chevrolet Camaro 1969 model and later on into a 5th Generation Chevrolet Camaro, designed by Sangyup Lee (C).
Link is Chevrolet Camaro

3) A is Sir David Paradine Frost(English Journalist) and B is Richard Milhous Nixon(Former US President) . Frost's famous interview of Nixon was portrayed in the 2008 movie Frost/Nixon.

Sorry for delay

Answers to Sept 23 Daily Quiz will be published today evening only. Inconvenience regretted.

So you still got time to send answers to those questions

Sept 23 - Daily Quiz

1) What is the link between these

2) What is the occasion?

   








3) What was common to A and B before July 2nd 2008?

(A)

(B)

4) Find the link

   









5) Where in the world can one find The Eiffel Tower, The Taj Mahal, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Colosseum, The Tower Bridge of London, The Opera House and more than a hundred other Monuments, all in ONE place?


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UPDATE : Answers


1) Ubuntu versions are named after them.

• Hardy Heron
• Intrepid Ibex
• Jaunty Jackalope
• Karmic Koala

2) Feb. 29, 2008 - Leap year

3) Nelson Mandela and Osama Bin Laden were  in the U.S terrorist list. Nelson Mandela was removed from the list on  July 2nd 2008.

4) Robert Frost and the First line of his poem 'The road not taken'

       "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"

5) Window of the world, a theme park located in the western part of the city of Shenzhen in the People's Republic of China. It has about 130 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 48 hectares.

Sept 22 - Daily Quiz

1) Id the personality.

2) Connect the following picture to google

3) This car claims a mileage of 100km per litre of gasoline. Identify the model?

4)Fill in the blank and mention why

• Mandiyú of Corrientes (1994)
• Racing Club (1995)
• __________________(now)
  

5) Malayalees love this High Billing resturant. Why?

 

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Update : Answers

1) Ajay Bhatt...

   

   This is just an actor

2) Google acquired reCaptcha. reCaptcha is a company which creates Captchas such as the one shownin the question

3) It is a Chevrolet Volt. A hybrid car. Other cars in the category are the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight

4) Argentina

    They are the teams coached by Maradona

5) The Harbour Market restaurant is owned by Mohanlal. One of the leading movie stars in Malayalam movie industry

Pilot: Sept 21 - Daily Quiz

1) Relate the rightmost bee in the picture to the aircraft. Please...please don't say they both fly!!

2) If 'deja vu' is the feeling of familiarity, what do you call the feeling of unfamiliarity?

3) This disease is nicknamed 'The divine disease' because the sufferers experience auditory and visual hallucinations and feels as if they are seeing god. Identify the disease.

4) Identify

5) Identify this person

• Former Miss India
• Former National level swimming champion
• Acted in several Bollywood films
• Acted in a Malayalam film with one of the veteran actors
• She is a social worker and contested in the Lok Sabha elections from South Kolkata

6) Sept. 19th was Software Freedom day. So here goes. If Ubuntu has 'Ubiquity', what does Fedora have?

7) Digital Fortress, Angels and demons, __________________. What all comes next? Fill in chronological order.

8) He was deaf, But he gave us light. What am I talking about?

9) "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision". Who quoted this?

10) A German psychiatrist and neuropathologist diagnosed Auguste Deter with this disease and successfully described it. Identify the disease and the Day dedicated towards it.

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Update : Answers 
1) The rightmost bee in the pic is a male bee - called drone
    The aircraft is a remotely controlled one - also called the drone

2) Jamais vu

3) Temporal lobe epilepsy

4) Basilisk (HP fans, shocked???)

5) Nafisa Ali

6)  Ubiquity is the Ubuntu installer
     Anaconda is the installer for Fedora

7) Deception Point, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol

8) Thomas Alva Edison Inventing the light bulb. He was deaf. Still he had 1093 US patents in his name.

9) Helen Keller

10) Alzheimer's disease, Sept 21, Thats  today :)

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