[Ranjitha]

Originally Posted by simon

4. Paul Simon, Billy Joel, baseball

guessing - Mrs Robinson?
(don't ask me to explain )

[thedragonreborn]

Originally Posted by simon

Anyone gearing up for the Landmark Quiz on Aug15th? :smile:


Gimme the connections between the following :

2. Tornado, Hero, Bucephales

3. Plato, Stephen King, Anthony Hopkins

2. All horses. I mean names of horses.

3. All three are slightly eccentric, loony, famous blokes who are generally revered as granddaddies.

cheers!!!

[brat]

Gimme the connections between the following :

1. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Buzz Aldrin, Avis - 2nd place?

2. Tornado, Hero, Bucephales - Horses of (Zorro, Phantom, Alexander)

3. Plato, Stephen King, Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal?

4. Paul Simon, Billy Joel, baseball -

Joe Dimaggio (the mrs. robinson song, we dint satrt the fire, self explanatory)

[simon]

1. Second place....., yup, Brat got it right!
Rathore came up with a silver medal at Athens, Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, Avis, of course, was the company which famously used their second-place tag to their advantage........ :smile:

2. Names of horses...., spot on, dragon!
Tornado - for Zorro
Hero - for Phantom
Bucephales - for Alexander

3.I was thinking of Atlantis :smile:
Plato was the first to describe the continent, Stephen King wrote 'Hearts in Atlantis', Anthony Hopkins played the lead role in the movie version

4. Joe DiMaggio...., Brat again, though I would have loved Ranjitha to have explained a bit further
DiMaggio appears in 'Mrs. Robinson' and 'We didnt start the fire' and of course, baseball!

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by simon

3.I was thinking of Atlantis :smile:
Plato was the first to describe the continent, Stephen King wrote 'Hearts in Atlantis', Anthony Hopkins played the lead role in the movie version

lack of intellectual capital & time made me n Intellectual Fart discard this particular option. darn! i owe klogy an apology

P.S. simon..the questions had simon printed all over them, specially the last one, but brat got it anyway

[simon]

Back from the Landmark Quiz, and as usual, good fun to watch the usual suspects slog it out on stage in the finals. :smile: Surprise this time around was the quizmaster, Derek O'Brien ....he definitely kept the audience involved

OK, so before its too late, let me get to some of the questions I can still remember :smile:

1. Which is the second largest international organisation after the UN?

2. Fill in the blank
Necessary Evil, ------- , Great Artiste

3. Who would you see wearing shoes called tutus?

4. Where wud your mails go if u sent it to a postal address in Canada numbered H0 H0 H0 H0?

5. Who gave Gandhi the title "The Father of the Nation"?

6. "It is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses"-Voltaire ....what is 'it'?

7. Nike has a merchandise called '10/2'. Why the name?

Happy figuring out!

[Stefan R]

Originally Posted by simon

Back from the Landmark Quiz, and as usual, good fun to watch the usual suspects slog it out on stage in the finals. :smile: Surprise this time around was the quizmaster, Derek O'Brien ....he definitely kept the audience involved
1. Which is the second largest international organisation after the UN?


5. Who gave Gandhi the title "The Father of the Nation"?

Happy figuring out!

1. Al-Qaeda, according to CIA.

5. SC Bose?

[estranged_gnrs]

Originally Posted by simon

1. Which is the second largest international organisation after the UN?

2. Fill in the blank
Necessary Evil, ------- , Great Artiste

3. Who would you see wearing shoes called tutus?

4. Where wud your mails go if u sent it to a postal address in Canada numbered H0 H0 H0 H0?

5. Who gave Gandhi the title "The Father of the Nation"?

6. "It is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses"-Voltaire ....what is 'it'?

7. Nike has a merchandise called '10/2'. Why the name?

Happy figuring out!

ok..am just trying to hone my quizzing skills...so googled for a few( or all)...
1. pagalguy.com???
2. Little boy or Enola Gay?
3. ballet performers?
4. locked threads ?
5. a guy whose name starts with F. forgot!!
6. religion
7. 2nd October...the day Lance Armstrong was diagnosed as having cancer

[simon]

Just 2 replies?........disappointing :sad:

Anyways, the answers........ :smile:

1. Which is the second largest international organisation after the UN?
Interpol, but yeah Rohit, guess PG is getting there

2. Fill in the blank
Necessary Evil, ------- , Great Artiste
Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the first atom bomb. The other 2 names were the planes which flanked Enola Gay during its operation. 'Little Boy', by the way, was the bomb dropped from Enola Gay.

3. Who would you see wearing shoes called tutus?
Ballet dancers, yep!

4. Where wud your mails go if u sent it to a postal address in Canada numbered H0 H0 H0 H0?
Santa Claus, actually!

5. Who gave Gandhi the title "The Father of the Nation"?
Subash Chandra Bose, Stefan got it right...and Rohit, were you maybe thinking of Louis Fischer?...coz I certainly was

6. "It is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses"-Voltaire ....what is 'it'?
Religion it is.

7. Nike has a merchandise called '10/2'. Why the name?
Yep, in memory of the second of October, 1996, when Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer.

[live_n_let_live99]

Jus takin a break frm the normal serious quizzing n now plungin into our passion no. 1...aka CRICKET

N even these mite prove to b useful in all those entrance tests, u nevr know...do u?...

Rite then, here r the questions...


1. Who was the 1st Indian cricketer to have endorsed a product?

2. Who was the 1st batsman to b given out courtesy the 3rd umpire?

3. Whats common to David Boon, Shane Warne n Ricky Ponting? (Proper ans xprected)

4. Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Peter Kirsten n Mark Greatbatch were the losers. Who was the winner n to which event m I referring?

5. Which were the only 2 teams to have participated in the Cricket competition of the 1900 edition of the Olympics held at Paris?


Rite then...More later...

Regards,
Brij.