Friday, February 29, 2008

Answers to 15 Minutes

The answers are:

1. The one and only my favourite, A R Rahman (From top left in clockwise manner: Trinity College of Music from where he graduated with a degree in Western Classical Music; Panchathan Record Inn, his recording studio in Chennai; The Lord Of the Rings, Rahman composed the music for the LOTR theatre production with Finnish group Varttina; Padma Shri, Rahman is a padma shri recipient ; Save the Children Foundation, one of the charities that Rahman supports.)


2. Kosovo or Republic of Kosovo which recently announced its independence from Serbia.

The Truth Seekers for this round are:

Chetan Prusty - 3 (early bird)
Saket Ranjan - 2
Thomas Mathew - 2
Varun - 1
Venkatasubramanian Ramachandran - 1
Vipul Dassani - 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 soon.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Winner Takes It All...

Most of you have known me as a quiz blogger for the past 4-5 months. But before these blogs happened, I was involved with a quiz group(I am still involved with it now though less physically) with a bunch of enthusiastic beings who were up for almost any challenge in the field of quizzing. At the time of its inception, we had set a time frame of 5 years to get the group to the forefront of quizzing in eastern India. But it is thanks to their commitment that we are a force to reckon in less than the targeted time frame. In fact I am writing all this to congratulate two of my group mates Manjit Mohanty and Nishit Ganatra for winning the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz, Kolkata Edition and thus becoming the first ever team from Bhubaneswar to qualify for the National finals. If you are not aware of the level of quizzing/competition in these events check out Tathagata's blog or the Tata Crucible site for more details. And don't go by the podium standing of these two guys on my blog; you can safely put your money on them. Well I'll speak for myself, congrats Nishit and Manjit ... you guys have made me proud and justified my faith in our quizzing club/culture.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

15 Minutes

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 28 February, 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 28th Feb.

Here we go...

1. Connect.





2. Identify this country/region whose flag is shown below. (clue: It was very much in news recently)


Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Answers to Saturday the 14th

The answers are:

1. Dream Team (From top left in clockwise manner: The Dream Team Movie starring Michael Keaton and Christopher Llyod; The Dream Team WWF tag team comprising of Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake and Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine; The Marvel Comics Dream Team comprising of American Dream, FreeBooter, Crimson Curse and BlueStreak; The US Basketball Team at 1992 Olympics nicknamed Dream Team consisting of legends like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Larry Bird etc.)


2. Maitri, India's second permanent research station in Antartica built after Dakshin Gangotri got buried under ice.(I have awarded points to those who have mentioned either of the two names or Antartica)

The Truth Seekers for this round are:

Sudarshan Mohan - 3 (early bird)
Brian D'Souza - 2
Varun Agarwal - 2
Sandipan Chakravarty - 2
Mathew Vargese - 2
Karan S - 2
Pratik Shukla - 1
Shishir Shivhare - 1
Mohammed Zuber - 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 next Tuesday.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Saturday the 14th

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 12th February, 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 12th Feb.

Here we go...

1. Connect.





2. Identify this building/place, even mentioning its importance would do. (clue: Think India)