[deep_agrawal]

Almost all questions were asked in AIPGM.

Hence, I'll abstain from answering them here

Diablo

[grondmaster]

Answers:
1. Which of our mods has been a finalist at the Tata Crucibles 2006 quiz?
Govi. Real name Sachin.
2. One of our oldest members, his old ID (back when PG IDs could be changed) was Ghulam. He has over 2000 posts, but has never groaned at anyone. Who?
Aarav. Real name Rahul Sharma
3. Had this domain name been available, we would not have had PaGaLGuY.com as our meeting point. What was the domain name that PG wanted?
maverick.com
4. Who were Bun, Mike, Tux, Voodoo, King, and Simcat, amongst others?
PG Pets. This was during the karma points seasons, when you could buy pets and keep the on the forum.
5. While registering on the forum, you have to enter your email address. This particular note is displayed there: “Please enter a valid email address for yourself except a ______ address. Due to technical difficulties, we are not accepting registrations with _______ addresses as of now.” Which email address account has the technical difficulty? I'm not sure whether this particular glitch still remains or has been addressed.
yahoo.com
6. PG became famous after the infamous CAT 2004 Results leak. Who started this notorious thread?
lomi
7. We calculate the fame of a person on PG through the number of thanks and groans he or she has got. Long before this was implemented, how were such brownie points calculated?
Karma points. 5 for starting, 3 for posting, you could donate etc.
8. PG is now blocked by many corporate firewalls. One member, CATMANIAC, was the first to complain about this. Which company did CATMANIAC work for?
Progeon, the Infosys BPO co.
9. One of the earliest mods on PG, Barkha, has left the forum. Certain posts of hers still remain, though they don’t have her ID. What ID do these posts have?
Anonymous
10. Which was the first Bschool fest that PG partnered?
IIMA Confluence 2004
11. Which two members of PG were the first ‘PG Couple’ to get married?
capreal26 & D e e p t i
12. The fact that mods and admin are not above rules themselves has been proven twice. One moderator and one admin were once banned temporarily. Name these two, and the reasons for the same.
Mahip - spamming on ShoutBox earned a permaban on SB. Revoked when he became a mod.
estranged_gnrs - banned for a week for profanity.
13. Once voted as the ‘most irritating user’ on the forum, he left to forum and aligned himself with a competitor, Management Paradise, rising there right upto Super Mod level. Who?
gaurav200x
14. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras (located in the ______ series fantasy world of Sanctuary), ______ has the player take control of a lone hero as he or she battles to rid the world of the eponymous Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen dungeon levels to ultimately come face to face with ______ and his demon minions. Which user gets his ID from the villian of this game?
diablorulez
15. Her father loves it, but she’s not much of a fan. She has it as her id, but that is not the reason, and neither is the reason that there is this long philosophy about how life is ______ because you have some boxes filled which decide the fate of other boxes and what will go into them. What’s her ID?
sudoku

Scores:
murty001: 8.5 (Confluence date not given)
sarvshwet: 6
diablorulez: 8.5 (ditto Murty)
utsav_s1986: 7.5 (ditto above)
anandv: 3 (all correct at that )
shivam_01: 5.5 (ditto the other three) - good try for a n00b

The winner is murty001. Diablorulez loses the tiebreaker because this is the second time he is hearing these questions.

I apologise for the delay as a surprise visit to the Idea MSC in Ambala took up the whole of yesterday and today my IT team decided to block PG in office...

Ok...

Next post, some more questions. Will try to keep them easier...

Regards,
Grondmaster

[grondmaster]

Set no. 2...

Easier set of questions. 10 only. Hope to get more replies.

1. In the old system what was the nomenclature of Newbie, Trainee, Expert, Hardcore, Addicted and Certified Pagal? Add the number of posts to get to the required level. And I mean the old system before the present came into place.
2. Who was the first puy to win the Aditya Birla scholarship?
3. Who won the first Coolest Avatar award?
4. Although there have been PG meets before that, the first official PG meet to have been planned, executed and then spoken about on the forum was when? Where was it held? Half points for each correct answer.
5. This Jokaite’s most famous statement is “IITs & IIMs are national wastes”. Name his less famous similar-named clone.
6. Amongst the parties formed for the Coolest Avatar Awards, the most famous has notably been the CPI. Expand this acronym.
7. SB, apart from being a simple chatbox, has been the perpetrator of good deeds as well. What good deed took place on the SB on 29th August 2007?
8. Fill in the blanks:
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the underdogs
9. He took the GMAT at the age of 46, scored 730. He also started the original PG Dream Team thread. Who?
10. He writes, “I was following PG since early 2005, but never really cared to create a nick till CAT '05. And anyone who has taken CAT '05, will never forget a certain Jacques _______. So Enter _______”? Who?

Deadline:
Within the month of August 2008. By 11:59:59 PM, August 31, 2008.

Regards,
Grondmaster

[utsav_s1986]

1) 2 - Cat Newbie
20 - Cat Expert
50 - Cat Guru
75 - CATAHOLIC
125 - Cat Maharaja
200 - Cat Adddict

the other (and prolly the one being asked) system I found was :-

Junior , Member , Senior Member
taking a chance with the number of posts.. upto 29 (Jr.), 30-99 (member), 100+ (Sr.)

2) convolutedsignal
3) Simba
4) peheli meet hi 2 cities mein.. (25/1/04)
answer :- Ispahani centre (Chennai)

IES Dadar (Mumbai) (although, no one divulged its details)

btw, there was a meet in Hydrabad (before these 2 meets) which even though was not planned on the forum, but, was made known..

5) KoolGuru
6) Is it the Chowkidaar Pagals of India
7) BBLT
8 ) intellects
dark horses
9) Arun Agarwal
10) Derrida

[diablorulez]

Set no. 2...



1. In the old system what was the nomenclature of Newbie, Trainee, Expert, Hardcore, Addicted and Certified Pagal? Add the number of posts to get to the required level. And I mean the old system before the present came into place.
ans:CAT Newbie - 2
CAT Expert - 20
CAT GURU - 50
CAT MAHARAJA - 75

2. Who was the first puy to win the Aditya Birla scholarship?
ans:
3. Who won the first Coolest Avatar award?
ans: Simba
4. Although there have been PG meets before that, the first official PG meet to have been planned, executed and then spoken about on the forum was when? Where was it held? Half points for each correct answer.
ans: Bangalore- 11jan 2004
5. This Jokaite’s most famous statement is “IITs & IIMs are national wastes”. Name his less famous similar-named clone.

ans: ViDesiGuru
6. Amongst the parties formed for the Coolest Avatar Awards, the most famous has notably been the CPI. Expand this acronym.
Chowkidar Pagals of India= CI
7. SB, apart from being a simple chatbox, has been the perpetrator of good deeds as well. What good deed took place on the SB on 29th August 2007?


8. Fill in the blanks:
if u want to be with the __intellects_____, apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the _dark horses______, apply to the underdogs

9. He took the GMAT at the age of 46, scored 730. He also started the original PG Dream Team thread. Who?
arun agarwal

10. He writes, “I was following PG since early 2005, but never really cared to create a nick till CAT '05. And anyone who has taken CAT '05, will never forget a certain Jacques __Derrida_____. So Enter __Derrida_____”

[krsh.vik]

2. Mufasa a guess or is it somname :eh:
7. BBLT
9. arun_agarwal

[shivam_01]

after many searches the outcome lets c how many correct

1.CAT Newbie - 5+
CAT Expert - 20+
CAT GURU - 55+
CAT MAHARAJA - 80+

2. CATASTROPHE1

3. Simba

4. In Bangalore on 15 Feb 2004

5. NO IDEA

6. Chowkidar Pagals of India

7.BBLT Team formation
(Bol Bachan team)

8.this was really easy
if u want to be with the intellects apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the dark horses apply to the underdogs

9. arun agarwal

10. Derrida

[murty001]

Originally Posted by grondmaster

Answers:
The winner is murty001.

All right.. answers for next set

1) CAT Newbie - 2 posts
CAT Expert - 20 posts
CAT GURU - 50 posts
CAT MAHARAJA - 75 posts


2) Vivek a.k.a. convolutedsignal

3) Simba

4) IES Dadar- 25/01/2004

5) DG

6) Chowkidaar Pagals of India

7)

intellects, dark horses

9) arun_agarwal

10) Derrida

Cheers..

[grondmaster]

Answers:
1. In the old system what was the nomenclature of Newbie, Trainee, Expert, Hardcore, Addicted and Certified Pagal? Add the number of posts to get to the required level. And I mean the old system before the present came into place.
Post - Level
2 - Cat Newbie
15 - Cat Expert
50 - Cat Guru
75 - CATAHOLIC
125 - Cat Maharaja
200 - Cat Adddict
2. Who was the first puy to win the Aditya Birla scholarship?
Convolutedsignal aka Vivek Mohan
3. Who won the first Coolest Avatar award?
Simba
4. Although there have been PG meets before that, the first official PG meet to have been planned, executed and then spoken about on the forum was when? Where was it held? Half points for each correct answer.
May 2003, Bangalore. Incidentally, it also was the first AIPGM.
5. This Jokaite’s most famous statement is “IITs & IIMs are national wastes”. Name his less famous similar-named clone.
Videsiguru. Koolguru is the wrong answer. This is because the person's ID is Desiguru.
6. Amongst the parties formed for the Coolest Avatar Awards, the most famous has notably been the CPI. Expand this acronym.
Chowkidar Pagals Of India
7. SB, apart from being a simple chatbox, has been the perpetrator of good deeds as well. What good deed took place on the SB on 29th August 2007?
The formation of BBLT, or Bol Bachan Losers' Team
8. Fill in the blanks:
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the underdogs
Intellects
Dark Horses
9. He took the GMAT at the age of 46, scored 730. He also started the original PG Dream Team thread. Who?
arun agarwal
10. He writes, “I was following PG since early 2005, but never really cared to create a nick till CAT '05. And anyone who has taken CAT '05, will never forget a certain Jacques _______. So Enter _______”? Who?
Derrida

Scores:
utsav_s1986: 8
diablorulez: 7.5
krsh.vik: 2
shivam_01: 7.5
murty001: 7

The winner of this set of questions is utsav_s1986...

Cumulative scores:

krsh.vik: 2
anandv: 3
sarvshwet: 6
shivam_01: 13
murty001: 15.5
utsav_s1986: 15.5
diablorulez: 16

The next set of questions follows in the next post.

Regards,
Grondmaster

[grondmaster]

A user-ID heavy question set. Search thoroughly for the answers. Be precise. Be very precise. Even a typo will result in a wrong answer. 15 questions.

1. Allwin Agnel started PG.com because he was frustrated with the other forums available back in 2002 for discussions by MBA aspirants. Which was the specific forum he got frustrated with?
2. This ID is an expansion of the last 3 characters of the user’s Gmail ID. The characters are 2, k, & p. The 2 is there because the person has had 2 Gmail IDs before this, whose passwords he’s forgotten. Oh, by the way, yes, he is a teetotaler. Name the ID.
3. His sister’s name is Shweta. When he tried to make his first email ID, he could not get his name as his ID. So he merged his name with his sister’s, and this ID has never had any conflict anywhere, so he uses it everywhere. Who?
4. Her father loves it, but she’s not much of a fan. She has it as her id, but that is not the reason, and neither is the reason that there is this long philosophy about how life is ______ because you have some boxes filled which decide the fate of other boxes and what will go into them. What’s her ID?
5. Some of the reasons that other puys put forward as the explanation of his username were: Singapore Exchange, Yamaha RX100, Tux, the Linux mascot, & RDX. But the correct reasoning is that the ID is the model number of this cellphone addict’s first phone. Who?
6. This Jokaite’s username comprises of three parts – that he’s a Libran, born in October, and his name starts with an A. Who?
7. His first CAT was in 2004. The format change did him in, and the cat mewed – in his words, it did the cat’s equivalent of barking or squealing, whose english word he did not know. So he created a Hindi user ID, earning him the worst username award in the last PG awards. User ID?
8. His real name’s Puneet. The first part of his name (it has two parts) means donkey. The second part comes from his state, ________ Pradesh. Zango used to think that the name had 3 parts, creating the error that the name meant ‘Donkey which is the Fish”. ID?
9. She thought that her User ID was unisexual, and she could pass off as a boy or a girl, confusing people. No luck, as people realised her femininity. What she likes best is Swiss fresh air. Of course, with a word as known as that, it was already taken. So, she put in a couple of dots behind her name. Who?
10. This person is well known outside of PG as well. His renditions of one of Eagles’ songs are to die for. Usually, he gets frustrated because he is unable to stres upon PG’s influence on his life in the media. Who? Oh yes, he’s living the disciplined life at WIMWI these days.
11. This is another person who’s benefited from PG’s media coverage. A Jokaite, he is one of the few revered people on PG. One of the fallouts of the IIMC v/s XLRI profanity article was that he has stopped coming on the forum. Who?
12. __________ is a warning system that mods can use to warn others. It came up on PG more so because mods were having major trouble with signatures and all which exceed all levels of sanity. If the user continues on the path of rebellion, he might get more of these, and the system bans the user. Else the user is put back on the system after being warned for 'x' no. of days as such. What are we talking about?
13. Other than the internet, this is the first mass communication channel to be employed and run by the forum. Which was the first stream of this channel? Oh, did I mention that the answer has 11 letters – I wrote this question for a crossword previously
14. If the Pune PG Community Service was named Ehsaas, where does Mumbai still conduct CS activities?
15. Holi 2006. A prank is played on the forum, regarding someone getting married. Who?

Deadline: Midnight, 3rd September 2008.

Regards,
Grondmaster