Roman Holiday

It's been a hectic year of quizzing since this blog got reincarnated into its current form. Having seeing almost 9 quizzes, 18 questions, 49 contenders on the podium and more than 1500 hits, the blog is still asking for more. I have no intentions of disappointing it. However since I'll be on vacation for last part of this year, the quizzing will get restarted in the first week of Jan, '08. Sandi is still enjoying the top spot but he is getting some tough competition from Nishith. But next year do watch out for these dark horses who have risen the ranks pretty swiftly - Ullash, Chetan and VIAC. As for the others, you very well know how a couple of early bird entries can change the podium standings. So there is plenty to watch out for next year. Till then, here's wishing a Happy New Year in advance.
Every beginning has an ending but this ain't the end because soon I'll be back.

Answers to Ocean's Eleven

The answers are:

1. All these movies are based on poems. (From top left in clockwise manner:- The Grinch based on Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole the Christmas; Troy based on Homer's Illiad; Beowulf starring Christopher Lambert and Rhona Mitra based on the Anglo Saxon epic poem Beowulf; Pumpkinhead based on Ed Justin's poem Pumpkinhead.)

2. Vinton Gray Cerf who is famously referred to as "Father of Internet". He was one of the brains behind TCP/IP and currently is the chief internet evangelist for Google.

The TRUTH-SEEKERs for this round are :-

Nishit Ganatra - 1
Ullash Gutgutia - 1
Batty Bryant - 1
Nishanth Jayarajan - 1
Shyam Naren - 1
Manjit Mohanty - 1
VIAC - 1
Sandipan Chakravarty - 1

No early birds this time. Still congratulations to all of truth-seekers. Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link. I am taking a break for a week. So I will be back with the next round on 18th Dec.

Errata - Part Deux

This is a clarification for the answer no. 3 posted in the PART DEUX quiz . The question had three pictures - Anil Kumble, Debashish Mohanty and Subhash Gupte and it was a connect question. The answer that was mentioned by me was that they were the only Indians to have picked up 10 wickets in an entire innings on Indian soil. One of my blog readers, Mit Choudhary points out that they weren't the only ones. In fact considering only first class matches, there two other Indians who have achieved this feat. PM Chatterjee took 10/20 in a Bengal vs Assam match in 1956-57 while P Sunderam repeated the act picking 10/78 in a Rajasthan vs Vidharba match in 1985-86. Thank you, Mit for this great piece of information.

Ocean's Eleven

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 11th December, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 11th Dec.

Here we go...

1. Connect the movies.

2. Identify him. (Clue: He is known as father of something)

Answers to Starter for 10

The answers are:

1. The one and only Sachin Tendulkar.(From top left in clockwise manner:- Ferrari 360 Modena, that was presented to Sachin by Ferrari for equaling Don Bradman's feat of 29 Test centuries and which later got into a Tax row with Indian Govt.; Ramakant Achrekar, Sachin's Coach; Lashings World XI with which he made a comeback from his tennis elbow injury with a outstanding average and strike rate above 100; Virgin Comics, who are in talks for creating a superhero based on him)

2. The Color Purple, a critically acclaimed movie by Steven Spielberg and starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. This movie was nominated for 11 Oscars but couldn't win even a single one, a record it shares with The Turning Point.

The TRUTH-SEEKERs for this round are :-

Manish Achuth - 3 (early bird)
Sandipan Chakravarty - 1
Nishanth Jayarajan - 1
Ullash Gutgotia - 1
Vibhash Awasthi - 1
Nishit Ganatra - 1
VIAC - 1
Parag Lokhande - 1
Shrinidhi Rai - 1
Susilkumars Sundaravaradan - 1
Ajay Sahoo -1
Vivek Acharya - 1
Chetan Prusty - 1
Souvik Mandal - 1


Congratulations to all of you. Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link. I will be back with the next round tomorrow.