[billybolimeeaaaw]

Originally Posted by shub001

Hi guys,
Interesting idea let's quiz ourselves out.
OK here's 1 from my side, (remember no one is allowed to refer anything, Just answer from your memory, the time limit is 12 hours)

Que: Which movie boasts of having a best movie oscar wnner sequel?

godfather ?

[billybolimeeaaaw]

Originally Posted by MavericK

hi
In the 99 world cup...which wicket keeper had the highest individual score..and against which team...???
Easy One....may get it on Google(y)...
anil

Rahul Dravid, Srilanka?

[pendyal]

Originally Posted by pendyal

here are some questions from the latest issue of the Reader's Digest.

1)PLUTO was crucial to the success of the D-Day landings at Normandy 60 yrs ago.what was PLUTO?

2)which city provided the view in E.M.Forster's A Room With a View?

3)what is special abt hte words "abstemious" and "facetious"?

4)who is the only person to have won a Nobel and an Oscar?

5)who said "I had the happiness to command a band of brothers"

bye...

1)PLUTO stands for pipeline under the ocean.it was used to supply fuel to the allied forces during and after the D-Day landings in Normandy.(the name of the operation was operation overlord)

2)it was florence.

3)simon got this one right.they contain all the vowels in the right order(me thinks they are the only two words like that)

4)yep simon got it right again.its George Bernard Shaw

5)it was by the great admiral Horatio Nelson.both of ya got it right QE and simon.

bye...

[pendyal]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir

Hi guys, long time no see. Assorted questions:

[Hints]

Geography
1. This island group is situated off the northwest coast of Africa, is under Spanish administration. Tenerife is its largest island.
[Yellow]

2. Important navigable river of Michigan, rises in Lake Huron and connects it to Lake Erie.
[Cars]

3. What's common to Haridwar, Bijnor, Fatehgarh and Kanpur?

Literature
In which books would you find the following characters? They may appear only briefly.
4. Neil Selden
[Is in the most famous book of this author. Character is minor, even obscure. Has nothing to do with Hari Seldon of Asimov's Foundation series.]

5. Nicholas Kenton Haflinger
[Hero of an Orwellian novel in the 70s. First book in which the word 'worm' appeared to describe the network-clogging virus.]

6. Gwaihir
[Also called Sindaran in a certain ancient language. Has something to do with wind.]

7. Lestrade
[Whisky. Appears intermittently in a series, not solely in a single novel.]

Tintin!
8. What's the first name of Captain Haddock?

9. In The Shooting Star, Captain Haddock is the president of a society named S.S.S., what does it stand for?
[Darn funny]

10. What's the sole way to visually distinguish between Thomson, and Thompson (With a p, as in precise ) ?

11. The Castafiore Emerald was gifted to Bianca by?
[King]

1)canary islands

6)LOTR

7)sherlock holmes

archibald

9)society of sober sailors

11)maharaja of gopal


bye...

[billybolimeeaaaw]

if 12 S of a Z means: 12 signs of a zodiac then what do the following mean:
3 W on a T
13 S in the U S F

[pendyal]

Originally Posted by billybolimeeaaaw

if 12 S of a Z means: 12 signs of a zodiac then what do the following mean:
3 W on a T
13 S in the U S F

13 stripes in the united states flag.

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir

Hi guys, long time no see. Assorted questions:

[Hints]

Geography
1. This island group is situated off the northwest coast of Africa, is under Spanish administration. Tenerife is its largest island.
[Yellow]

2. Important navigable river of Michigan, rises in Lake Huron and connects it to Lake Erie.
[Cars]

Literature
In which books would you find the following characters? They may appear only briefly.

5. Nicholas Kenton Haflinger
[Hero of an Orwellian novel in the 70s. First book in which the word 'worm' appeared to describe the network-clogging virus.]

6. Gwaihir
[Also called Sindarin in a certain ancient language. Has something to do with wind.]

7. Lestrade
[Whisky. Appears intermittently in a series, not solely in a single novel.]

Tintin!
8. What's the first name of Captain Haddock?

9. In The Shooting Star, Captain Haddock is the president of a society named S.S.S., what does it stand for?
[Darn funny]

1. canary islands

2. detroit ??

5. hehe...shockwave rider...classic book ..good choice gwaihir

6. yeh to mera flying eagle gwaihir hi hai.. middle earth mein rehta tha..ab faridabd mein retired baitha hai !!

7. sherlock holmes n inspector lestrade..isn't it??

8. Archibald Haddock

9. Society for sober sailors !!!!!!!!!!

hey gwaihir dude..long time no see....

[nj]

Originally Posted by billybolimeeaaaw

if 12 S of a Z means: 12 signs of a zodiac then what do the following mean:
3 W on a T
13 S in the U S F

3 wheels on a tricycle

[sturdyhunk]

Originally Posted by supervish

dude ... I've already answere ur Q above ....same page... read all posts

Thanks buddy,
I thought U wer kidding..... :!:

[sturdyhunk]

Originally Posted by chosenone

Gary kasparov vs X3D Fritz

IBM

Thanks Chosenone....
I think the s/w also was developed by X3D Technologies(now known as Opticality Corp.).It was deep blue that was developed by IBM which lost 2 Kasparov.