[buck_was]

Returning to this threads after a long time...

Who was Hema Malini gonna get married to, jus wen Dharam Paaji married the 'Dreamgirl' ?

[donB]

Originally Posted by buck_was

Returning to this threads after a long time...

Who was Hema Malini gonna get married to, jus wen Dharam Paaji married the 'Dreamgirl' ?

wud that be jeetendra or sanjeev kumar?

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1. In 1989

[donB]

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[buck_was]

Originally Posted by donB

wud that be jeetendra or sanjeev kumar?

Jitendra it indeed is!

Wot is the scientific name for the device used to measure blood pressure? A common device, with a not-so-common name...

[umbilical]

boys gear up

this is not a biz quiz but a quiz nevertheless....

1.SPECIFICALLY,WHICH INTERNATIONAL CRICKET TEAM WAS REFFERED TO AS "WHITE FERNS"

2.WHOSE BIOGRAPHY IS "SONGS MY MAMA TAUGHT ME" (GUESS THIS ONE AND I WILL BOW DOWN)

3.THIS PLACE IN NORTH AMERICA GETS ITS NAME CUS THE FRENCH SAILORS WHO SAW THE HIGH RISING ROCKS SHOUTED 'WHAT A BEAK'?

4.CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING COMMISION OF INDIA?

5.COMPLETE THE GROUP:RUMA GUHA THAKURTA,YOGITA BALI,LEENA CHANDAWARKAR......

6.WHOSE OSCAR SPEECH WAS VOTED AS THE MOST MEMORABLE SPEECH OF THE LAST 30 YEARS?

7.ORIGINALLY THE NAME OF THIS PARTY MEANT "REBIRTH" IN ARABIC.ORIGINALLY THERE WAS JUST ONE PARTY,THEN IT SPLIT INTO TWO,ONE EACH IN SYRIA AND IRAQ.NAME THIS.

8.A COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR APES??

9.WHO MADE THE LARGEST FOREIGN ACQUISTION BY AN INDIAN EVER?

10.MOON HAS THREE FLAGS ON IT.THE FLAG OF US,THE FLAG OF USSR,..................??

11.WHAT IS 'VENUSTROPHOBIA'?(NOW THATS AN EASY ONE)

12.WHICH COMPANY SHIFTED TO ITS ACRONYM BECAUSE OF THE NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS ATTACHED TO ITS MIDDLE NAME?

13.'GREASE' MADE JOHN TRAVOLTA A STAR.WHO WAS HE PAIRED AGAINST?

14.BEFORE BEAUTY CROWNS AND MOVIES LARA DUTTA FIRST FACED CAMERA IN AN OBSCURED VIDEO OF AN EVEN MORE OBSCURE SONG "TUU CHALU HAI RE"
WHO SUNG IT?

15.ZIZOU OR ZINEDINE ZIDANE IS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS.FROM WHERE DID HIS PARNTS IMMIGRATE TO FRANCE?

16.HE WROTE A BOOK "A SALMON OF DOUBT" BEFORE HIS DEATH.HIS BOOK HAS VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS LIKE

TV,RADIO,COMP GAMES,BATH TOWELS.ITS BEING MADE INTO A MAJOR MOVIE.HIS NAME?

17.WHO FOUND GENERAL MOTORS?

18.ON DEC 21ST,1989 AT WANKHEDE STADIUM ACTIVISTS OF THE BOMBAY SARVODAYA MANDAL,STREE MUKTI SANGHATANA,JANMUKTI SANGHARSHA VAHINI AND OTHER SUCH GROUPS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THE MILLION POURED INTO AN EXTRAVAGANT WEDDING OD RESHMA TO THE SON OF DIAMOND MERCHANT KISHORE MEHTA.WHO WAS THE FATHER?

19.IN DEC.1985,TWO TEENAGE BOYS,JAMES VANCE AND RAY BELKNAP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON A CEMETERY.BELKNAP DIED BUT VANCE SURVIVED ONLY TO DIE OF DRUG COMPLICATIONS THREE YEARS LATER.ON TRIAL IN 1990,THE BOY'S PARENTS ALLEGED THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR SUICIDAL IMPUSLSES.THOSE MESSAGES WERE BELIEVED TO BE HEARD IN SONGS "BETTER BY YOU BETTER THAN ME","BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH",BOTH ON A 1978 ALBUM "STAINED CLASS"
OF A BIRMINGHAM BASED BAND WITH ROB HALFORD AS LEAD SINGER:GLENN TIPTON AND K.K.DOWNING WERE ON THE GUITARS.THE NAME OF THE BAND????
(ROCK FANS COME ON!)

20.WHICH ARTIST IS CREDITED FOR SKETCHIN AND DESIGNING A HELICOPTER AS EARLY AS IN 1483?

[falcon348]

Originally Posted by umbilical

2.WHOSE BIOGRAPHY IS "SONGS MY MAMA TAUGHT ME" (GUESS THIS ONE AND I WILL BOW DOWN)


5.COMPLETE THE GROUP:RUMA GUHA THAKURTA,YOGITA BALI,LEENA CHANDAWARKAR......

6.WHOSE OSCAR SPEECH WAS VOTED AS THE MOST MEMORABLE SPEECH OF THE LAST 30 YEARS?

9.WHO MADE THE LARGEST FOREIGN ACQUISTION BY AN INDIAN EVER?


11.WHAT IS 'VENUSTROPHOBIA'?(NOW THATS AN EASY ONE)

13.'GREASE' MADE JOHN TRAVOLTA A STAR.WHO WAS HE PAIRED AGAINST?

14.BEFORE BEAUTY CROWNS AND MOVIES LARA DUTTA FIRST FACED CAMERA IN AN OBSCURED VIDEO OF AN EVEN MORE OBSCURE SONG "TUU CHALU HAI RE"
WHO SUNG IT?


17.WHO FOUND GENERAL MOTORS?

18.ON DEC 21ST,1989 AT WANKHEDE STADIUM ACTIVISTS OF THE BOMBAY SARVODAYA MANDAL,STREE MUKTI SANGHATANA,JANMUKTI SANGHARSHA VAHINI AND OTHER SUCH GROUPS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THE MILLION POURED INTO AN EXTRAVAGANT WEDDING OD RESHMA TO THE SON OF DIAMOND MERCHANT KISHORE MEHTA.WHO WAS THE FATHER?

19.IN DEC.1985,TWO TEENAGE BOYS,JAMES VANCE AND RAY BELKNAP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON A CEMETERY.BELKNAP DIED BUT VANCE SURVIVED ONLY TO DIE OF DRUG COMPLICATIONS THREE YEARS LATER.ON TRIAL IN 1990,THE BOY'S PARENTS ALLEGED THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR SUICIDAL IMPUSLSES.THOSE MESSAGES WERE BELIEVED TO BE HEARD IN SONGS "BETTER BY YOU BETTER THAN ME","BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH",BOTH ON A 1978 ALBUM "STAINED CLASS"
OF A BIRMINGHAM BASED BAND WITH ROB HALFORD AS LEAD SINGER:GLENN TIPTON AND K.K.DOWNING WERE ON THE GUITARS.THE NAME OF THE BAND????
(ROCK FANS COME ON!)

20.WHICH ARTIST IS CREDITED FOR SKETCHIN AND DESIGNING A HELICOPTER AS EARLY AS IN 1483?

2. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Madhubala
6. Mother Teresa?
9. Tatas?
11. Fear of beautiful Women
13. Olivia Newton...
14. Abhijeet
17. Billy Durrant
18. Harshad Mehta?
19. Judas Priest?
20. Da Vinci?

P

[Ranjitha]

Originally Posted by umbilical

boys gear up

2.WHOSE BIOGRAPHY IS "SONGS MY MAMA TAUGHT ME" (GUESS THIS ONE AND I WILL BOW DOWN)


5.COMPLETE THE GROUP:RUMA GUHA THAKURTA,YOGITA BALI,LEENA CHANDAWARKAR......

7.ORIGINALLY THE NAME OF THIS PARTY MEANT "REBIRTH" IN ARABIC.ORIGINALLY THERE WAS JUST ONE PARTY,THEN IT SPLIT INTO TWO,ONE EACH IN SYRIA AND IRAQ.NAME THIS.

13.'GREASE' MADE JOHN TRAVOLTA A STAR.WHO WAS HE PAIRED AGAINST?

15.ZIZOU OR ZINEDINE ZIDANE IS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS.FROM WHERE DID HIS PARNTS IMMIGRATE TO FRANCE?

16.HE WROTE A BOOK "A SALMON OF DOUBT" BEFORE HIS DEATH.HIS BOOK HAS VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS LIKE TV,RADIO,COMP GAMES,BATH TOWELS.ITS BEING MADE INTO A MAJOR MOVIE.HIS NAME?

17.WHO FOUND GENERAL MOTORS?


20.WHICH ARTIST IS CREDITED FOR SKETCHIN AND DESIGNING A HELICOPTER AS EARLY AS IN 1483?

2. Marlon Brando

5. Wives of Kishore Kumar; Madhubala

7. Ba'ath

13. Olivia Newton-John

15. Algeria

16. Who else? Douglas Adams

17. huh?

20. This has to be Leonardo da Vinci

PS- go easy on the caps, please

[QuintEssence]

2. bob dylan ??

3. quebec

6. charlie chaplin

10. flag of UN ?

13. olivia newton john

15. algeria

19 easiest..Judas Priest


cheers
QE

P.S. do not post in CAPS..

P.P.S later edit..dint see q20..it is leonardo da vinci as ranjhu has posted

[simon]

Originally Posted by umbilical

boys gear up

this is not a biz quiz but a quiz nevertheless....

1.SPECIFICALLY,WHICH INTERNATIONAL CRICKET TEAM WAS REFFERED TO AS "WHITE FERNS"

4.CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING COMMISION OF INDIA?

8.A COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR APES??

13.'GREASE' MADE JOHN TRAVOLTA A STAR.WHO WAS HE PAIRED AGAINST?

15.ZIZOU OR ZINEDINE ZIDANE IS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS.FROM WHERE DID HIS PARNTS IMMIGRATE TO FRANCE?

19.IN DEC.1985,TWO TEENAGE BOYS,JAMES VANCE AND RAY BELKNAP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON A CEMETERY.BELKNAP DIED BUT VANCE SURVIVED ONLY TO DIE OF DRUG COMPLICATIONS THREE YEARS LATER.ON TRIAL IN 1990,THE BOY'S PARENTS ALLEGED THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR SUICIDAL IMPUSLSES.THOSE MESSAGES WERE BELIEVED TO BE HEARD IN SONGS "BETTER BY YOU BETTER THAN ME","BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH",BOTH ON A 1978 ALBUM "STAINED CLASS"
OF A BIRMINGHAM BASED BAND WITH ROB HALFORD AS LEAD SINGER:GLENN TIPTON AND K.K.DOWNING WERE ON THE GUITARS.THE NAME OF THE BAND????
(ROCK FANS COME ON!)

20.WHICH ARTIST IS CREDITED FOR SKETCHIN AND DESIGNING A HELICOPTER AS EARLY AS IN 1483?

1. New Zealand?

4. Its always the PM, right?.....so Dr. Manmohan Singh

8. Shrewdness

13. Olivia Newton John

15. Algeria

19. I didnt get the qn.......who was on trial?....the boy's parents?.. the band?...:smile:

20. Leonardo da Vinci