QUIZZARDS ANNIVERSAR QUIZ #5

PENTATHLON EPISODE 5

QM- Prateek Vijayavargiya

This is the fifth among the series of quizzes we have planned as part
of the celebration of 5 years of the Quizzards_2k4 yahoo group.This is a Sports Quiz.

This edition saw 18 people attempting thw quiz.Sports being a favorite among most enthusiasts saw a high scoring quiz.

1.Identify this Indian boxer, who made headlines in 1998.

Ans.Dingko Singh (Won Gold at the 1998 Asian Games)
2.Who is the quickest driver to get a fine in F1, being fined $1,000 nine seconds into his career, after speeding in the pitlane and is also the youngest driver to score points in a Grand Prix, youngest to win pole position and also the youngest F1 race winner?

Ans.Sebastien Vettel

3.Connect this billionaire to the world of cricket.

Ans.Allen Stanford

4.Who is the only Indian athlete to have broken Milkha Singh’s 400 M record?

Ans.Paramjit Singh

5.Which boxer nicknamed "The Bayonne Bleeder”, served as the inspiration for the character of Rocky Balboa in the “Rocky” movie series?

Ans. Chuck Wepner
6.In 1845, Alexander Cartwright of New York City led the codification of an early list of rules (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules), from which today's rules have evolved. Which sport?

Ans.Baseball

7.X reached the Junior final at the 1958 Wimbledon Championships. He played on the India Davis Cup team from 1959 until 1973. His best Grand Slam singles performance was reaching the round of 16 at the 1962 Australian Championships. In doubles, his best Slam performance was reaching the Quarterfinals at the 1962 Australian Championships and 1973 Wimbledon Championships, both times with Jaidip Mukerjea.
Simply Identify X.

Ans.Premjit Lall

8.Which sport, which literally translated means "goat grabbing" is the national sport of Afghanistan?

Ans.Buzkashi

9.After Sir Don Bradman and Wally Hammond, who became The Next Batsman to Score Double Centuries in successive Innings?

Ans.Vinod Kambli

10.The author of “Unlimited Challenge”, which player’s World Championship Match in 1984 with Anatoly Karpov stretched over 5 Months and 48 Games?

Ans.Gary Kasparov

Scores for this edition:

Sands 4 ,Juggernaut 10, Priyadarshan Babu 10,
Somnath 10,Anubhav Chatterjee 4,Nirad 5,
Ankur 8,Prashant Mannur 4,Animesh 9
Prasoon 7,Swarun Krishna 9,Jaideep Kumar 6,
Anand Shankar 3,Harshal Modi 8,SR 9,
Shishir 4,Partha SG 9,Kamal Rathi 9

QUIZZARDS ANNIVERSARY QUIZ #4

PENTATHLON EPISODE 4

QM-KARTHIK NARAYAN

This is the fourth among the series of quizzes we have planned as part of the celebration of 5 years of the Quizzards_2k4 yahoo group.This is a quiz based on Hindu Mythology

This edition had 10 people attempting the quiz.


1. Only one of the five Pandavas had the courage to suggest to Yudishtra that Lord Krishna should be the first person to be honored before the Rajasuya Yagna could be performed. Who?

Ans.Sahadeva

2. King Indradyumna was a great devotee of Lord Vishnu. When he retired from Royal duties, he became a sanyasi and renounced everything including the sense of speech. In silence, he meditated on the Lord. His intense concentration made him miss out on honouring Sage Agastya who stood before him as he meditated. As usual, anger blinds all other senses; Agastya lost control and cursed the King-turned-ascetic. "blinded by ignorance and haughtiness, the king
has ignored me completely. May you be turned into ____". The curse was eventually lifted when the King in his new "avataar" became an even greater devotee of Lord Vishnu. This story of the new avataar and how he was liberated is forever etched in all our bed time tales.

Ans.Gajendra, the elephant devotee of Lord Vishnu

3. Who first identified Vamana as an avatar of Lord Vishnu?

Ans.Sukracharya, the chief priest of the asuras

4. It is said that Hiranyakashipu had irritated Lord Narasimha so much that his anger never subsided. Who eventually calmed him down?

Ans.Prahlada pacified the Lord with prayers. A simple "Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya" did the trick!

5. This one is for the Month of Marghazhi, the greatest month in the Tamil calendar! What are the days of the marghazhi month named after?

Ans.The 30 days of the month of Marghazhi are named after the 30 verses of Andaal's tirupaavai.

6. As we all know, when Dhanvantari came out of the Milky Ocean with the amrit (nectar), the Devas and Asuras fought for who would drink the amrit first. Lord Vishnu-Maya came as Mohini and settled the dispute. While the Asuras were totally head over heels on her beauty and charm, Mohini was busy distributing all the amrit to the devas. One asura by name Svarabhanu managed to see through Mohini's game. How do we best know this asura?

Ans.The asura assumed the form of a deva to counter-fool Mohini and succeeded in drinking the amrit. Mohini tried severing his neck with the Holy Discus but the head and body became immortal as Rahu and Ketu.

7. One more on the samudra manthan. When the Asuras finally realised they had been tricked and all the amrit had been drank, they were furious. Mohini simply smiled and handed over the empty vessels to the asuras and vanished. What did the asuras do with the vessels and how do we know the burying of the hatchet, perhaps?

Ans.The vessels were buried in 4 places - Nasik, Ujjain, Prayag and Haridwar. These are the venues where the Kumbha mela festivities are held

8. X boasted that he was the greatest of all time (the then Mohd Ali, I guess) and challenged everybody that he could lift a mountain with his bare hands (Later, Krishna parodied this by lifting a mountain with His little finger!!). Unfortunately for X, the mountain was Kailash, and the Gods as usual panicked. It is said that when the mountain got a new high, Shiva had to step in with his toe, literally. His pressure made the mountain very heavy and X dropped it on
his own fingers. X shrieked, screamed and roared in pain. Even with the pain, X composed the Shiva tandava Stotra impromptu. Pleased with his devotion, Lord Shiva showed his glory self to X and gave him the title Y, by which we know him best. Name X and Y.

Ans.X is Dasamukha (ten headed) and Y is Ravana

9. X goes down in the mythological tales as the world's first ever enclopedia as he had immense knowledge of history, geography and the sciences. X was originally a ghandarva who got into wrong terms with Indra. Indra was overcome with both anger and jealousy (over the Ghandarva's handsome looks) and cursed him. Anger management was at its worst and when Indra struck X with his thunderbolt. The result was that X became as massive as a mountain, sans head or neck, had a mouth with big teeth in his belly. He wanted to be killed at the hands of Lord Rama to get moksha and he got his wish. But before he died, he passed on all the immense knowledge he possessed to Rama. The KT was very useful for Rama for all the events that followed after - meeting Sabari, Sugriva, Vaali, Hanuman etc.

Ans.Kabhanda

10. It is said that this person was not so holy when he began his life. Sage Narada appeared before him and asked him to change his ways. He went to his parents and wife and asked if they would share his sins. They refused it, and his eyes opened to reality. He immediately renounced everything and took up severe penance. Years later, Narada came the same way and saw a huge anthill piled up. Narada realised that the person was inside the anthill and softly
called out his name. Only a two-syllable mantra was heard. Narada released him from the anthill and gave him a new name meaning "one who came out of an anthill". Who is the famous mythological character in person?

Ans.Ratnakara the hunter who became Valmiki, author of Ramayana.

QUIZZARDS ANNIVERSARY QUIZ #3

PENTATHLON EPISODE 3

QM-ANUBHAV CHATERJEE

This is the third among the series of quizzes we have planned as part of the celebration of 5 years of the Quizzards_2k4 yahoo group.This is an Entertainment Quiz with Bollywood as the central theme.

This was the easiest quiz of the series ,hence an extremely high scoring one.This edition saw 30 responses to the quiz.As many of you realised ,question number 5 had the answer inadvertently inserted within the question itself.


Q1.After completing his school from St.James.Kolkata and college education from Presidency college,he joined a band called Chandrabindoo. Before that he formed another band with his Presidency batchmates, called "Jotugriher Pakhi".Now he is an established music director in bollywood.Identify him?

Ans:Pritam

Q2.One of them is a lead singer of Mumbai-based electronic band Pentagram. They also were the mentors of Raja Hasan in Saregamapa 2007, a popular singing contest broadcasted in Zee TV.Identify the duo?

Ans:Vishal Shekhar

Q3.His name is Anwar but he is better known by a different name. His debut song was in 1984.He learnt music form Pandit Ram Prasad Sharma. Was last heard in the movie Ugly aur Pagli.How do we know him?

Ans:Anu Malik


Q4.The surname of this duo is Raghuwanshi and Panchal. They won their 1st filmfare award for the music of the movie Chori-Chori.Identify the duo?

Ans:Shankar Jaikishen

Q5.His name is Mohammed Zahur "Khayyam" Hashmi.He last scored for a movie Yatra in 2006.Identify him?

Ans:Khayyam

Q6.His name is Kattassery Joseph but he is better knwn by his surname. In 1980 he established the Tharangni Studio at Trivandrum.Who is being described?

Ans:Yesudas


Q7. They are slowly becoming popular by the title 'Amar-Akbar-Anthony' of Bollywood music.Their last hit was Rock-On! Identify the trio?

Ans:Shankar Eshan Loy

Q8. His father Aparesh was a trained classical singer and his mother Bashabi was a singer trained in Shyama Sangeet..Identify the music director?

Ans:Bappi Lahiri

Q9.He was better known by his 1st name.His complete name was Lal Nagrath.His 1st movie as a composer was Neki aur Badi (1949).His grandson is a superstar.Identify the composer?

Ans:Roshan

Q10. His first movie as a composer was Pyaar Kiya to Darna kya.Before becoming a music director he was a television producer.His forthcoming movies include Kaajra Re,Hey Gujju as an actor etc.Identify this multi talented music director?

Ans:Himesh Reshamiyya

QUIZZARDS ANNIVERSARY QUIZ #2

PENTATHLON EPISODE 2

QM-CHANCHAL PATI

This is the second among the series of quizzes we have planned as part
of the celebration of 5 years of the Quizzards_2k4 yahoo group.This is a General Quiz.

The edition saw 24 replies in all.Scores will be updated soon.

1.“I have worked hard on this. Every single idea in that book is mine. I am going out on a limb here; opening myself up to criticism; people I don’t know can take potshots at me.”.Who said this and about what?

Ans.Nandan Nilekani on his book ‘Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century’

2.The Unique promotion of a Bollywood Movie
To promote the film ‘Rang Rasiya’ a national level art competition is going to be held titled ‘Rang Rasiya – Freedom of Expression Movement ‘. It is the initiative of which corporation headed by Anand Mahendroo and Mehool Parekh.

Ans.Infinity Art Corporation

3.He was born on the 15th of August 1938. He did his postgraduate work in political science and studied fine arts at Sir J.J. School of Arts in Mumbai. He started his career in 1960 with the Daily Milap in New Delhi. Smt. Indira Gandhi published his cartoon book in 1983. He was awarded the ‘ Tirtholi ‘ award in 1982. His comic strips was acquired for display by the International Museum of Cartoon Art, USA.Name this famous cartoonist .

Ans. Pran,the creator of Chacha Chaudhuri

4.Sourav Ganguly along with Rahul Dravid made their test debut at Lord’s in 1996 under Mohd. Azharuddin’s captaincy but this was also the last series for one famous personality. Name him.

Ans. Harold "Dickie" Bird

5.It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame of web browsers.A comic by Scott McCloud was sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features of and motivations for the new software The public stable release was on December 11, 2008.What is it ?

Ans.Google Chrome

6.Why the traditional Red wrapper of the Kit-Kat was changed to blue during 1945 – 47?

Ans.For most of its life, KitKat has appeared in a red and white wrapper. It did, however, change to a blue wrapper in 1945, when it was produced with a plain chocolate covering due to shortages of milk after the war. This blue livery was withdrawn in 1947 when the standard milk chocolate KitKat was reintroduced

7.Who made his acting debut along side Amir Khan (his first role as an adult) in Ketan Mehta’s 1984 film ‘Holi ‘.

Ans.Ashutosh Gowarikar

8.While viewing a school quiz on Doordarshan, X found out that students knew much more of Greek or Roman mythology than Indian mythology . It prompted him to start Y.What are X and Y?

Ans.X – Anant Pai Y – Amar Chitra Katha

9.The result of an experiment at MIT went - ‘Specimen X had a specific gravity of 1.00 Specimen Y had a specific gravity of 1.06. Specific gravity of X is less than Y. ’. What did the experiment prove?

Ans.Y- Blood is thicker than Water -X.


10.Name these two awards instituted by the Maharashtra State Commission for Women

Ans.The Rakshasa award for films propagating violence
The Duryodhan award for bad films and advertisements’