the underdog$$$

New Year, Old Quiz

2010-01-02T09:52:00.000+05:30

Happy New Year to everyfolks...

Below is what sums up what New Year means to a lot of people...

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to"
- Bill Vaughn

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
William Thomas

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.
Jay Leno

One of the first ad for which company?

In which brand would you find all the logos shown below?

In the mood for Quiz???!!!

2009-12-04T08:33:00.000+05:30

"The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, bethought himself to say 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society"

- Rousseau, The Social Contract

I wish if Civil Society is as simple as Rousseau's.

Let's just start.

1. Id this.

2. A crystalline version, swarovski to be precise, of what.

3. The Man who sold the world...Who is this handsome young man?

4. Microscopic-Angstrom view of what virus?

MEGAWHATS????

2009-11-24T08:52:00.000+05:30

"Everyone has a photographic memory… some just don’t have film".

"Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough."

"All people have the right to stupidity but some abuse the privilege."

Nothing much to say. Read the poem below, and try to answer the Questions. (the idea is simple: THINK)

"The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead—
There were no birds to fly"

- Adpt. from "The Walrus and the Carpenter", Lewis Carrol

Ok, here we go again, folks...

1) Surgical view of what?

2) Artistic despcriptions of what imaginary/mythical creature/figure, first mentioned in the Bible.

3) Just connect it.

The Quizzard of Ozz

2009-11-16T01:13:00.000+05:30

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

- "Grizzly Man" (2006) (Werner Herzog)

The other day I was reading a news item on a down-to-earth (read no hit movie) actress being engaged to a Prince from Jaipur. There is also the Gay-Prince icon. Then there are the MPs from Gwalior, Jodhpur etc. who are still refer to in someway or the other as Prince/ss. This year we also saw the passing away of a Maharani (Gayatri).

Even after 59 years since the passing of the Constitution, and 62 years after the Indians are allowed where Dogs aren't, we are still fixated with the idea of "blue-blood", more so by the press. Art. 18 clearly abolishes such titles.

How we end up only time will tell.

So, here's the Quiz. All the Best.

1. Id this picture.

2. Prototype of what???

3. This picture was taken when she was 18 years old. Id this legendary woman.

4. Connect the Pictures below...

That's all folks...

2009-10-19T08:19:00.000+05:30

"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication"

Abraham Maslow

Happy Diwali to all of you, and please convey my greetings to your families.

Exams finally over???!!! I wonder, if there is any pleasure that can be derived from pain, as in the case of exams...

U folks deserve a really good laughter for the hard works and the fireworks (Diwali)...

Short of cash??? (read Manzar /and disseration)

Any comments from your Research Guide????

Your Quiz time starts now...all the best...

1. Give him a connection...

2. No hint required...what popular video game is being parodied here???

3. Below is the time edition in the 1930s (not mentioning the exact dates, for fear of goggling for answers). On its cover is the then World's richest man. Also, the first person from his country to ever host the cover of TIME. Named him, and his country.

(In many of the Quiz shows they would ask u why he is featured, who, where from??? At least I am making concession...he he he)

That's all folks...Enjoy your vacation...Do keep writing in...

My regards to all

GUN$$$ & POSES

2009-09-30T22:05:00.000+05:30

Every Picture has a story to tell...I believe. "Pictures Don't Lie", they say.

Just for Laugh Gag$$$...

2009-09-30T09:51:00.001+05:30

Just how can a job be so well done...respecting the rights of nature to exist as well...

Babies are the most innocent portrayal of our real lives...hi hi h

Do u still remember the Lord's prayer???Or You have shifted to this one???

JUST FOR LAUGH GAGS

2009-09-28T09:45:00.003+05:30

Just laugh for sometime, don't be so serious also???!!!

Do u know what it takes to be a girl or a boy?

this may not be applicable for anyone in particular, but just laugh over it....

Let's Connect Back to the World Again

2009-09-23T18:08:00.005+05:30

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs;
And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"

- Saib-e-Tabrizi

Hellooooo folks...I heard from some, that they really need a break. I was trying to put quizzes for the past two weeks, but then I backed off, thinking everyone will be busy. This will be, I promise, the last quiz for this Semester...after that I wouldn't bother you all again...he he he...and here is the much deserved break

This pic. is to cheer you up...damn funny...Isn't it?

Here we goooo....back to my favorite...connect ho jao...

1) Connect it...

2) The Forgotten Connection...Connect this also...

3) Anti-Connect...the 3 images have something in common...what?

4) Who is this famous personality, the Afro-American, sitting in the middle of everyone...?

That's all folks...enjoy it...just for 5 mins...

PIQxies

2009-09-10T16:40:00.003+05:30

"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."

— Gaylord Nelson
former governor of Wisconsin, co-founder of Earth Day

"Only when the last tree has been cut down,

Only when the last river has been poisoned,

Only when the last fish has been caught,

Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten".

— Creek Indian Prophecy

1) What is this????

2) ID her...

3) The maxim of this "law" is thus stated as: "If u really want to if you really want something and truly believe it's possible, you'll get it". This law became hugely popular after the cinematic release of "The Secret", in 2006, and the release of the book "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne in 2007. Those supporting it claimed that the law is derived from Quantum Physics, which physicists have vehemently disagreed to. This law is also found in the writings of Annie Besant in 1919.

Name the law...

PIQZZZZZZZ

2009-09-08T17:55:00.002+05:30

JUST ID....

1) Which Couple????

2) Id A and B....

3) Ad for what???

Qs and Qs

2009-09-05T09:45:00.003+05:30

"Though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake".
- LOTR, The Return of the King

This time, not so much foreword, or preword, but liets go directly into Quizzing. Are you with me? Lets go....

1) A freshman at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to the alarmists practising junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In this project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical “_______”. And for plenty of good reasons since:

· It can cause excessive sweating and vomiting;

· It is a major component in acid rain;
· It can cause severe burns in its gaseous state;
· Accidental inhalation can kill you;
· It contributes to erosion;
· It decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes;
· It has been found in tumours of terminal cancer patients.

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical. 43 said “Yes”, 6 were “Undecided”, and only 1 knew what was going on.

ID the Chemical “_______”?

2) Identify this man...

3) Whose signature? (no clues here...if u still want, think Bell-430)

THAT'S ALL FOLKS...ALL THE BEST IN YOUR ASSIGNMENTS AND THE QUIZ

QUIZZARD OF OZ

2009-08-09T17:58:00.007+05:30

"A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave".

Ibsen

Hey folks, lets QUIZ again, with ur permissions. Nowadays so many assignments needs to be done, but there has been a spurt in movie watching, by me.

The "Hangover" is simply good. It's been quite a while that I laugh so much while watching a movie. "Gone Baby Gone" was quite touching...innocent children, I longed for that stage back. "Lost in Translation" proves that the magic of Francis Ford Coppola will be carried forward by his daughter Sofia Ford Coppola. "My Left Foot" will remain one of my favorite movie of all time, now. Thanks to the unimaginable performance by Daniel Day Lewis as the handicapped Christy Brown. A Citizen Kane rating from me.

All the Best for your ASSIGNMENTS, and Happy Independence Day, if I didnt post a new one for Independence Day.

1) “la propriété, c'est le vol!”

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in his “What is Property?” (1840), mentions this trademark statement which was very much in vogue during the heydays of the Utopian Socialists, and from which, it is believed, Karl Marx derived a lot on his theory of property. (No matter the controversy about the “philosophy of poverty” thing)

Give me the English translation.

2) Amartya Sen was to describe a person X, when he was asked to write a mini biography of himself by the Nobel Prize Committee, to be preserved in the Academy, in this way:

It was not long after Kenneth Arrow's path-breaking study of social choice, Social Choice and Individual Values, was published in New York in 1951, that my brilliant co-student X drew my attention to the book and to Arrow's stunning "impossibility theorem" (this must have been in the early months of 1952). X too was broadly attracted by the left, but also worried about political authoritarianism, and we discussed the implications of Arrow's demonstration that no non-dictatorial social choice mechanism may yield consistent social decisions. Did it really give any excuse for authoritarianism (of the left, or of the right)? I particularly remember one long afternoon in the College Street Coffee House, with X explaining his own reading of the ramifications of the formal results, sitting next to a window, with his deeply intelligent face glowing in the mild winter sun of Calcutta (a haunting memory that would invade me again and again when he died suddenly of a heart attack a few years ago).

Identify X. (Clue: Prof. Mohan Rao calls him: "the greatest Indian economist").

3) What is being parodied here?... (think of something recent)

QUIZ AS U ARE...

2009-07-14T22:24:00.003+05:30

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver"".

-- Jack Handy

Time flies so fast and we are into the new socially-excluded-GIS-space semester with a new how-can-I-learn-this self doubt, which is nowhere near to Mahatma's self doubt. The enjoyable items (read Megh Mudra, whateva dat means, et al) are depleting at an unimaginable rate, and everyday we are coming closer to reality again.

So folks here is something to cheer you up.

The Only Commandment: Thou shalt not googled!!!

1) Connect the 3 images below...(clue: think of Tamil Nadu)

2) X suffered a setback on January 27, 1984, which was to have repercussions for the rest of his life. While filming a Pepsi Cola commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, he suffered second degree burns to his scalp after pyrotechnics accidentally set his hair on fire. Happening in front of a full house of fans during a simulated concert, the incident elicited an outpouring of sympathy. X had his third rhinoplasty shortly afterwards, and began treatment to hide the scars on his scalp. It was during this period, friends say, that he began using the painkillers to which he later became addicted. Pepsi settled out of court, and X donated his $1.5 million settlement to the Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, CA, which now has a "X Burn Center".

Name this legend, X.

3) Read this bio-data carefully, and answer the Q.

Your favourite virtue ... Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man ... Strength
Your favourite virtue in woman ... Weakness
Your chief characteristic ... Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness ... To fight
Your idea of misery ... Submission
The vice you excuse most ... Gullibility
The vice you detest most ... Servility
Your aversion ... Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation ... Book-worming
Favourite poet ... Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe
Favourite prose-writer ... Diderot
Favourite hero ... Spartacus, Kepler
Favourite heroine ... Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust]
Favourite flower ... Daphne
Favourite colour ... Red
Favourite name ... Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish ... Fish
Favourite maxim ... Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me]
Favourite motto ... De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted].

A father’s reply to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura.

Name this loving father...

4) Hypoglycemia, dehydration, acetaldehyde intoxication, and vitamin B12 deficiency are all theorized causes of symptoms. It may last up to two or three days.The term was originally a 19th century expression describing unfinished business—something left over from a meeting—or ‘survival.’ In 1904, the meaning that we now associate first surfaced.Dehydration, fatigue, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, weakness, elevated body temperature, hypersalivation, difficulty concentrating, sweating, anxiety, irritability, sensitivity to light and noise, erratic motor functions (including tremor), trouble sleeping, severe hunger, and lack of depth perception are the visible symptoms. Ther no "proven-remedies" though many have their insightful opinions on it. What am I talking about??

5) X is a term used to describe a force regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path. It is especially applied to a large machine or collectively to a team or group of people working together. In the United Kingdom, it is most commonly used as an alternative name for a large articulated lorry. X is derived from Lord Y. Tell me X and Y.

That's all folks... Try your best...If there are no stupid questions I wonder what do the stupid people like me asked???

FINALLY....

2009-03-31T16:23:00.004+05:30

"You do your job and you do it well. Or else, it's gonna be Hasta la Vista Baby..."

- Arnold Schwarzenneger

Exams are done and we are again busy with new things...

For the time being, lets Quiz again in this qutopian world, if u can exquizzz me for the time being...

Lets start right away...

1) . Regarded as the incarnations of Avalokitesvara, the title was first bestowed upon a person named Sonam by the Mongolian ruler Altan Khan in 1578. Because he was the third member of his lineage, even his two earlier incarnations were conferred with this title posthumously. What is being referred to?

2) This one singly deserved a treat, from me, if u can answer it honestly without surfing the net...The line is completely borowed for the title of a hollywood movie (one of ma fav. movie).

Complete this excerpt from the poem ‘Eloisa and Abelard’ by Alexander Pope:

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
____________________________
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.

3) Whose pic is the one that I whitened it? (sorry for the poor editing). A legendary athlete... ( Clue: here he finished fourth)

4) Which well known band's name is derived from this plane shown below?

That's all folks...Tata...Hope to meet u all again in "Blaze of Glory"...

SWEET QUIZZES ARE MADE OF THIS

2009-02-17T22:12:00.006+05:30

Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet! - Groucho Marx

Hey folks, hope you all are doing well with your assignments; that 'short, nasty and brutish' assignments that one could ever imagined...

Moving away from assignments, you people really need to take sometime to watch movies as well, if you can. I recently saw 'Seven Pounds', starring Will Smith, and it is an awesome, fabulous movie, highly recommended by Lien for viewing. He is so like me, me thought. But that is not the reason why I recommend it. I haven't seen such movie, after a long time. That's too much of me to sound like Mayank Sekhar or Subhash Jha or Khalid Mohammad. Watch it if you can...please...lols...

This time our quiz will be to identify the person or the identity. It will mainly be denoted in X and Y and Z. Its simple. You get X and Y and Z, then you get your answers.
Our time starts again now...

1) X was India’s representative at Bretton Woods Conference which led to the formation of IMF and World Bank. X was also a minister in Nehru’s cabinet from 1950 to 1956 but resigned in protest. X was awarded the Magsaysay award in 1959 for distinguished Government Service. Identify X.

2) The term ‘X’ is an agreement between a company and an employee (usually upper executive) specifying that the employee will receive certain significant benefits if employment is terminated. The first known use of ‘X’ dates back to when creditors sought to oust Y from control of Z airlines. The creditors provided Charles Tillinghast an employment contract dubbed an ‘X’ with protection against the almost definite job loss Tillinghast would have faced if Y had successfully maintained control of Z. The use of ‘X’ has significantly increased in 2008 due to the global economic recession, especially being used by news media and in the 2008 Presidential Debates. What are X, Y & Z?
With Recession setting in and with no signs of setting out, I think this is worth knowing, because one day, sooner or later we are going to be employed...

3) It is usually made of rubber, wood and aluminum. In Afghanistan, craftsmen hammer it together using spent artillery shells. In Cambodia, part of it's rubber components are scavenged from truck tyres.
The story behind the very first design is that a sculptor riding his bicycle got a flat tyre and went to a repairman. The repairman was busy retreading a truck tire with vulcanized rubber, and seeing this, the sculptor got his idea for the ___________.
There were only 59 such __________ being used from 1968 to 1975 but they became popular and were put to much wider use after the Afghan war in the late 1970s. Presently, _________ is sold for around $35 while other competing products(?) cost about thousands of dollars. _______ was never patented.

4) Who/What does this window in a college in Cambridge commemorate?
(This question was asked in a quiz at St. Stephen's a couple of years back. If I am not mistaken 2006, when I was in Second Year?!!!. Correct me if I am wrong.)

5) Connect the two. First identify the name of the Hhindi movie and then the name of the second image and connect them.

6) A print ad for which product...name the product...

7) Identify this personality who had left his footprints all around the world...

8) Formula for what?

9) Whose handsome pic.?

10) Flag of what?

Ok guys this is it for today, I guess.
All the Best.
Put ur comments/answers in the comment box. You can do it anonymously. It gives me updates.
Have a great week.

LETS TRY THIS AGAIN

2009-02-13T08:18:00.007+05:30

"It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Folks, I have to put his one up as fast as possible...for reasons unknown...It just pop out of my head in the morning, the moment i got up...

Only one Question...

Connect the three pictures below:

That's it...

All the Best and have a happy weekend...and as for Valentine's Day, I don't believe in rules that says this is the day for it (whatever)...

STUPID QUESTIONS

2009-02-12T00:17:00.009+05:30

"Stupid is as stupid does" - Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)

Ok guys, I don't think this is the right time to quiz again; assignments are to be done; macro-economics exams are to be held; and we have to save time for sleeping as well; and the most important of all is that the FSM is coming SOON. But Quizs are stress busters, I hope, and it comes naturally when one believe in Obama's 'Audacity of Hope'...

Anyway let's raise a toast to our challenging future, and ALL the BEST to Macro-economics students...poor guys...sob...

Today's Quiz will be as surprising as the older ones. Try it out again.

Sometimes I think I should change the rules, and make you people treat me if you can't answer my question. Pray that this will materialise...lols

1) Find the commonality between them...(don't tell me the answer is 'all of them are famous'...lols)

2) Connection between all these block-buster legendary movies...

3) What is the connection between all of them?

4) Guess whose signature is this (the signature that shape the history of Bangladesh, even though he was an Indian!!!...)

That's all folks...

Our Professors always says, "There ain't stupid Questions, but stupid answers". But, for me in this Quiz, folks I can assure you that there ain't stupid answers, but stupid questions can be there...So never hesitate to send me your answers...It gives one to have a look at another perspective as well...

Remember..."THERE AIN'T STUPID ANSWERS"...

Have a nice Day

ANOTHER ONE ...TO BE FAIR

2009-02-09T19:39:00.006+05:30

"I can be the best thing that never happened to you" - Sanghai Kiss

The Second Quiz was messed up by me due to my faults...
I am very sorry and plead not guilty...lols.
Anyway this has to be put up like an emergency, because of ma mistake...
Do try this out again... and the treat I promised, will be all yours.
All the Best Again.

1) Protoype or First model of what?

2) Can you identify the man marked"?"..????
Not to be confused with a tough question...

3) Connect the two...

4) What are these two pics suggestive of? They are common... Identify the linkage...

These are trying times ha....
But this is the time to prove your mettle..lols
Thanks to everyone visiting this quiz...

Quiz: Not Good for Health

2009-02-09T18:13:00.004+05:30

"The things that you own ends up owning you" -Tyler (Brad Pitt); Fight Club

Ok Guys/Girls...another fresh round of Quiz again...
The initial response was quite overwhelming to me...
Quiz, if you get the kick, can be addictive. And they are fun, when the answer is very
surprising...therein lies the trick and the kick...More are coming up and enjoy it...All the Best.

Your time starts now:

1) Calvin and Hobbes seems to be ma favorite topic and ma inspiration. Anyway this one is really cool...This Comic Strip from 'Calvin and Hobbes' is the inspiration behind a Bollywood movie.
Name the movie.

2) Whilst giving the funda, where would you find this image and connect it to a Hollywood or a Hindi film (Or connect to another film if you prefer it that way or both if you want to).

3) Connect these people in the picture...the list is not exhaustive....

4)Rumour has it that this painting sold for an unbelievable Rs. 1 crore...The Question is simple (and I hope u find the answer simple too): Who is the "?" in this picture???

Enough of Lien, I overhear someone actually saying it by now...
Let me stop here...and the answers can be mailed to ma email id or it will be better if you can comment on it in the comment box...
All the Best...
Thanks for your time.

Let's QUIZ

2009-02-06T18:35:00.006+05:30

Quizzing was once my passion. My favourite type of quizzing is "connection". It usually involve pictures and you have to connect the two.
Here is an example:

1. The two well known personalities listed down has something in common, by inspiring something. If you get their names, you get the inspiration that they have created. If you don't know them for what they are, you will still know the names they have inspired.

The Q: Connect the two

2. One is the wooden statue of a well known director, the other is a form of designing a bridge.

Q. Connect the two.

Ok! Enough for today...

More will come again...depending on the response from this post.

Those who can answer it, and give the correct ones, can expect a treat from me. Don't forget to mention ur name, on the comment box.

All the Best.

GLOBAL COOL

2009-02-04T15:48:00.000+05:30

"Repent, Repent, Doomsday is Coming"
- T Jayaraman (2009, adapted)
" Saying global warming is bad is arrogant"
- Griffin (NASA Administrator)

A lot of stuffs have been going on around us about global warming, its causes and the supposed implications that can be bestowed upon us, by the Grace of Green House Gases.
Many explanations have I heard about the causes for Gobal warming...they are really funny, but allows you to give a second thought about it.

According to a bizzare expalnation by NASA, and I think which puts a full-stop to all arguments is that, Global Warming happens because of the increase in temperature of the Sun. And hence, the earth.
No offences meant to plumps (they are so good to look at), plumps contribute a lot to global warming

a) they generate more heat than the others

b) it requires more energy to transport them, which results in more generation of smokes and heat

Many more funny explanations are there. You can check it out by yourself.

This is what Lisa Simpson calls "The Irritating Truth"...sorry to Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth"...

what a privilege to be us

2009-02-03T13:22:00.000+05:30

While the lecture goes on, if the door is open, you got a chance to see someone cleaning the parapet, the other sweeping the floor...Do you ever think that they maybe of the same age as us? Why do they do what they do, when they are supposed to sit in the same class with us? These things usually strikes me and to reflect upon myself that how am I so privileged. But as someone said, "Be ashamed to die unless you have done something for humanity".
I don't know what to do, and have no plans yet. But the privileges that we enjoyed are worth exploring, I believed, to see if it can be of any help to someone.
We grumble a lot (I, not an exception), in spite of the privileges that we enjoyed. Sometimes I used to think that when there is no more reason to thank GOD, we should thank him that we are still alive.
All the Best.