Wednesday, October 1, 2008

A-QUIZ 33

1. Vick's VapoRub

2. Orkut Büyükkökten

3. They Are The Only Britons To Have Made It To BBC's 100 Greatest Britons List As Well As Channel 4's 100 Worst Britons List

4. The Jurassic Era

5. Coty

6. Dodo Bird

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

A-QUIZ 32

1. Muhammad Ali

2. Haile Gebrselassie

3. Lehman Brothers

4. Penicillin

5. Appian Way

6. Robert Ripley

Monday, September 29, 2008

A-QUIZ 31

1. Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel

2. Pope John Paul II

3. Nikola Tesla

4. Harry Houdini

5. Neil Armstrong

6. Thomas Edison

Friday, September 26, 2008

A-QUIZ 30

1. Velcro

2. The First SMS

3. King Norodom Sihanouk

4. The Hague

5. Raining Cats & Dogs

6. Contact Lenses

7. Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's Wife)

8. Dionysus

9. The Key of Solomon

10. Tattoo

11. Erin Brockovich

Thursday, September 25, 2008

A-QUIZ 29

1. Tupperware

2. Sitar

3. BSE

4. Corn Flakes

5. Cristiano Ronaldo

6. Walmart

7. J.K. Rowling (K - Kathleen)

8. Jaws

9. Calvin Klein

10. Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva

11. Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A-QUIZ 28

1. Snakes & Ladders

2. London

3. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)

4. Elton John

5. T9 (Text On 9 Keys)

6. Hershey

7. The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

8. Pong

9. The Three Muskateers

10. Spoonerism

11. Sidney Sheldon

Monday, September 22, 2008

A-QUIZ 27

1. Magna Carta

2. Badminton

3. Coffee

4. Champagne

5. Mickey Mouse

6. Queen Rania of Jordan

7. Auroville

8. Cartier

9. Sonia Gandhi

10. The Silence Of The Lambs

11. Buick

A-QUIZ 26

1. WALL-E

2. Heinrich Harrer

3. Simon Bolivar

4. Back To Square One

5. Kiwi (Shoe Polish)

6. Joseph Ratzinger (Current Pope)

7. Dick Grayson (The First Robin)

8. The Mafia

9. Big Ben

10. Al-Qaeda

11. Tom Cruise

Thursday, September 18, 2008

A-QUIZ 25

1. Rupiya (or Rupee)

2. The Legend Of Zelda

3. Ocean's Twelve

4. Dolby

5. DVD

6. Adam Smith

7. BBC

8. Spiderman

9. The Simpsons Theme

10. Jimmy Carter For Elvis Presley

11. Aesop

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A-QUIZ 24

1. Hacking

2. Kevin Warwick

3. J. Craig Venter

4. Skull and Bones

5. Martin Luther King Jr.

6. Babe Ruth

7. The Seven Year Itch

8. Kal Penn (Kalpen Suresh Modi)

9. Michael Crichton

10. M. Night Shyamalan

11. Duck-billed Platypus

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

A-QUIZ 23

1. Alex Ferguson

2. Bizarro

3. 10:10 (the time shown on any watch in an advertisement)

4. Diamond

5. Birbal

6. Osho

7. Alfred Nobel & The Nobel prize

8. Humphrey Bogart

9. Macguffin

10. GNU's Not Unix (Recursive Acronym)

11. Agatha Christie

A-QUIZ 22

1. Cisco

2. Panchen Lama

3. The Naked And The Dead

4. Clint Eastwood

5. Ronin

6. Peoples Temple

7. Lilith

8. Don't Be Evil

9. An Automatic Telephone Switch (which became the precursor to an automatic telephone exchange

10. Hedy Lamarr

11. Claude E. Shannon

Monday, September 15, 2008

A-QUIZ 21

1. Palaniappan Chidambaram

2. Noel Gallagher About Manchester City

3. Jack Sparrow

4. The Great Fire Of London

5. The Statue Of Liberty

6. H. G. Wells

7. Dove (soap)

8. The Assassination Of Jesse James

9. A Named 13th Floor

10. A Snow-covered Range On The Equator

11. Mahatma Gandhi

Thursday, September 11, 2008

A-QUIZ 20

1. Diners Club

2. Montblanc

3. A Rolex

4. Old Spice

5. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

6. Russian Roulette

7. Sandwich

8. Pizza

9. The Rolling Stones

10. Jesse Owens

11. Christ the Redeemer at Corcovado

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

A-QUIZ 19

1. OPEC

2. The QWERTY Keyboard Layout

3. David Letterman & Aishwarya Rai Resp.

4. Wiki

5. Copyrights

6. The Smiley Face

7. Bluetooth

8. Reform Club

9. Bubble Gum

10. Gatorade

11. Walt Disney

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A-QUIZ 18

1. Fear Of Friday The 13th

2. Dan Brown

3. Hotmail

4. Genovese

5. Sarah Palin (Republican VP nominee)

6. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

7. Prakash & Brinda Karat

8. Idi Amin

9. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

10. Rugby

11. The Masonic Square and Compasses (Symbol Of The Freemasons)

A-QUIZ 17

1. McDonald's

2. Juggernaut

3. Archie Comics

4. Bata

5. Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro

6. Shane Warne

7. King C. Gillette

8. Chicago

9. Kaka (FIFA World Player Of The Year)

10. Jiffy

11. Hank Azaria

Friday, September 5, 2008

A-QUIZ 16

1. 'Xerox' Co.

2. Onion

3. The Shroud Of Turin



4. The Tree Of Tenere

5. Never Say Never Again

6. Mankaded (After Vinoo Mankad)

7. Warren Buffett

8. Ocean's Eleven

9. Palm Islands In Dubai

10. John Adams (The Second President Of The USA)

11. Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man)

Thursday, September 4, 2008

A-QUIZ 15

1. Nike Swoosh

2. Leaked 9 unreleased Guns & Roses songs

3. The Default XP Desktop Wallpaper 'Bliss'

4. Jay Leno

5. Hercule Poirot

6. Superman

7. Freddie Mercury, Lead Singer Of Queen

8. Ben Kingsley

9. Pokemon

10. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

11. A Tasmanian Devil

A-QUIZ 14

1. Vladimir Putin (TIME magazine person of the year list)

2. William Randolph Hearst

3. Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

4. Radcliffe Line

5. Alyque Padamsee & Ayn Rand Respectively

6. Nazca Lines

7. Steve Jobs & John Sculley Respectively

8. Borobudur

9. Henry David Thoreau

10. John Wilkes Booth

11. Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A-QUIZ 13

1. Gustaf V of Sweden

2. Rabindranath Tagore

3. Arthur C. Clarke

4. SEGA (SErvice GAmes)

5. Ctrl-Alt-Del

6. Marie Curie

7. HMS Cornwallis and HMS Minden (built by Jamshedji Bomanji Wadia)

8. J'accuse

9. Rice

10. The Oscar Statuette

11. Li Ka Shing

A-QUIZ 12

1. Colin Cowdrey

2. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

3. Wal-Mart

4. Brokeback Mountain

5. Vaseline

6. Joe Biden, Obama's VP candidate

7. Copenhagen

8. Lenovo

9. Joanne Woodward

10. Pfizer

11. Apple

Monday, September 1, 2008

A-QUIZ 11

1. London

2. A poisonous mushroom (mainly, but not exclusively)

3. Real McCoy

4. Spouses of Elizabeth Taylor

5. Scindia Steamship

6. Ismail Merchant

7. Found the Inverted Jenny

8. Harvard

9. Polo

10. Super Glue (Crazy Glue)

11. Salvador Dali

Sunday, August 24, 2008

A-QUIZ 10

1. Wales

2. Wah, Pakistan

3. World Records broken for the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay in a single Olympics held by Usain Bolt (previously done by Carl Lewis in the 1984 Olympics)

4. Zambia

5. Pervez Musharraf

6. Mario, after Mario Segale, the landlord :)

7. The first Christian Roman Emperor

8. The New York Times

9. Khalil Gibran

10. Omar Khayyám

11. Leonardo Da Vinci

A-QUIZ 9

1. Standard Oil

2. Wal-Mart

3. Abercrombie & Fitch

4. Michael Dell

5. Warner Bros.

6. UPS

7. Sears, Roebuck and Company

8. Motorola (Akash you should know)

9. Alcoa

10. Deere & Company

11. Adriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek AKA Mercedes

A-QUIZ 8

1. Mohun Bagan (Indians used to play barefooted, which led to their inability to participate in the 1950's World Cup)

2. Roman Sebrle

3. Joe Louis

4. Georg Cantor, Concept of Infinite

5. Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago

6. Bob Dylan

7. William Butler Yeats

8. The voyage to America, by the Pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower

9. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 'Father of Microbiology'

10. Mousetrap

11. 2012 London Olympics

Friday, August 22, 2008

A-QUIZ 7

1. Mauritius

2. Drew Barrymore

3. Alexander Fleming

4. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo

5. Six Sigma

6. Queen Elizabeth II

7. Willis Haviland Carrier

8. P.T. Usha

9. Katherine Aurora "Kitty" Kirkpatrick

10. Responsible for the excavation that lead to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro

11. Arthur Conan Doyle

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A-QUIZ 6

1. Head of The Sphinx

2. Bar Codes

3. Faberge Egg

4. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

5. Wife (Kasturba)

6. Neutron Jack (in ref. to the neutron bomb for eliminating employees while leaving buildings intact)

7. Florentino Perez, Ronaldinho, David Beckham respectively

8. Indian Constitution

9. Air India

10. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Iran, 1943 (During The Big Three Conference)

11. Michael Crichton

Monday, August 18, 2008

A-QUIZ 5

1. Schindler's list

2. Star Wars: Episode V

3. Memento

4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

5. The Last Emperor

6. Rear Window

7. Raiders of the Lost Ark

8. Pulp Fiction

9. Doctor Zhivago

10. Casablanca

11. Angelina Jolie

A-QUIZ 4

1. Steffi Graf

2. Odious Little jerk

3. Product RED

4. Pepsi

5. Glenn T. Seaborg

6. Sydney Opera House

7. Silicon Valley

8. Texas Instruments

9. Roberto Goizueta

10. Dr. Benjamin Spock

11. C. K. Prahalad

A-QUIZ 3

1. Indair

2. First Trans-Atlantic wireless message sent by Marconi

3. Tarzana (Tarzana, California)

4. Jubal (a descendant of Cain)

5. Medusa

6. Shania Twain

7. Winston Churchill

8. George Bernard Shaw

9. Dr. Pepper

10. Fuwa (good-luck dolls)

11. Desmond Tutu

A-QUIZ 2

1. Laotian Rock Rat

2. Maverick

3. George Bush

4. Buenos Aires (Boca Juniors & River Plate)

5. Pathogen

6. Russia

7. Spaceman Spiff

8. Samuel Colt

9. Rotary

10. James Achilles Kirkpatrick

11. Black Stone of Mecca

A-QUIZ 1

1. Montpelier, Vermont

2. Ray Kroc, the messiah behind McDonald's

3. Halle Berry

4. Muhammed Iqbal; writer, Ravi Shakar; music

5. Anant Pai

6. Christian Dior

7. Penicillin

8. Stretch or yawn

9. Strepsils

10. Heroin

11. Parthenon, at Athens, Greece