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