Thursday, July 02, 2009

Sportsquiz Group Anniversary Quiz

I had prepared this quiz as part of the anniversary celebrations of the SportsQuiz Group.I am cross posting it on my blog.

Answers can be sent to my mail id .Only those who attempt the quiz are eligible to get the answers


1.This football tournament started in 1941 and the trophy is named after Sir Manmatha Roy Chowdhury,the erstwhile ruler of region now in Bangladesh.Identify.

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2.Which recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award,has also served as a Member of Parliament (Loksabha).Incidentally the person lost in the 2009 Loksabha elections?

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3.In 1987 an industrialist Ravi Mammen set up an academy for nurturing a special class of sportsmen.The idea of academy, which also paid all expenses of its students,was met with lot of skepticism.Proving its critics wrong it went on to become a huge success both nationally and internationally.Identify.

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4.In October 1899 a Swiss accountant and sports columnist,Joan Gamper,advertised in a newspaper about his intention to start a football club.Eleven players responded to the advertisement , and after a meeting the football club was founded in November 1899.This is the history of which Europen football giant?

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5.There are 3 colours of balls officially allowed to be used in this sport. white,yellow and optic yellow .Which sport?

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6.At which sporting venue will you find, "Tea Olive","Pink Dogwood","Flowering Peach", "Flowering Crab Apple","Magnolia","Juniper" and "Pampas" together.(List not exhaustive).

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7.Identify the company from its logo.

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8.Michael Jordan had appeared on the cover of this magazine a record 49 times.What is the significance of the cover shown here.

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9.Identify this French tennis player who won the Wimbeldon and French Open half a dozen times each.

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10.This erstwhile monarch of an Asian country lends his name to a sports trophy.Who?

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Saturday, April 04, 2009

FYEO QUIZ 1

FYEO stands for "For Your Eyes Only". As is evident from the name this series of quizzes will contain only questions based on visuals.So do keep your eyes glued to the screen :).


28 people replied to the quiz.The highest score being 9.Congratulations !! to Rabi.
Answers have been mailed to those who left their mail ids with the answers.Those who are yet to recieve the answers kindly drop me a mail .

Scores can be accessed here


1.The actress in the visual along with music composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System." in 1942 ,but the invention could be implemented only 1962.Identify the actress and what was the importance of this patent?

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2.This chain operates in 89 countries with around 30832 franchises.The visual shows one of its branch in Dar Es Salam,Tanzania.Identify.

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3.This financial institution,( headquarters shown in the visual below) celebrates its birthday on All Fools day.This year it turned 75.

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4.In the 1970s the compnay ran an advertising campaign where the following mathematical formula was displayed on a piece of paper.The result was that they received several inquiries from the scientific community for the meaning of the formula, as they could not figure it out.Who was behind this unusual advertising

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5. Identify the flag shown here.

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6. Identify the author,whose work reaches daily through some newspapers.

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7.This logo was recently replaced.Which Indian company's logo was this.

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8.What technology is being demonstrated in the visual below?

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9,Identify this British motor sport engineer ?

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10.The visual shows an ad of The Zimbabwean newspaper.What has been blanked out from the visual

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Answers will be mailed to those who reply to the quiz.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

QUIZZARDS ANNIVERSARY QUIZ - SCORES & UPDATES

After nearly 3 months and 8 quizzes covering a wide range of subjects the Anniversary Quiz Series finally comes to an end,The 5 year completion of the group was indeed celebrated in a grand fashion.

The Anniversary Quiz series saw an overwhelming response of 115 people.

The time has finally come to announce the winners.

The Top 10 performers are

1. Harshal Modi
2. Swarun Krishna
3. Animesh
4. Mariam Ahmed
5. Anit
6. Nikhil
7. Chanchal Pati
8. Anubhav Chatterjee
9. DK
10. Shrey

The complete results can be accessed here

My sincere thanks for the tremendous work put in by all the guest Quiz Masters -
Chanchal Pati,Anubhav Chatterjee,Karthik Narayanan,Prateek Vijayavargia,Arghya Mukherjee and of course Souvik Basu of Team Quizzards.

Keep watching this space for the next series of Quizzes