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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?
Sify Forums
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.
peekay2n
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?
sarvshwet
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?
sudoku
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?
sgx100
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?
libocta
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?
billybolimeeaaaw
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?
khotahimachali
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?
zephyr..
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.
rajat_nda
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?
amitnsitian
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?
Infractions
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
PAGALMUMBAI - the SMS group
14. If the Pune PG Community Service was named Ehsaas, where does Mumbai still conduct CS activities?
NASEOH - a sitter... for some people who'd still want to score a minimum one mark
15. Holi 2006. A prank is played on the forum, regarding someone getting married. Who?
Allwyn... I wanted this precise answer. Pagalguy's real name is Allwin, so the prank was on the community that Allwyn was getting married...
Scores:
utsav_s1986: 13
sarvshwet: 12. [Q. 3 - where's the answer
... just kidding, its 13.]
deep_agrawal: 10
ljv: 5
diablorulez: 13
murty001: 13 - And the only one to get the last answer right!!!
Having decided that Questions 13 & 15 were tie breakers, only murty001 got 1 tiebreaker correct. Hence he wins this edition. Congrats.
Cumulative scores:
krsh.vik: 2
anandv: 3
ljv: 5
deep_agrawal: 10
shivam_01: 13
sarvshwet: 19
murty001: 28.5
utsav_s1986: 28.5
diablorulez: 29
Regards,
Grondmaster
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