MB Quiz December Week 1 Quiz 2 (Results):- Seniors - S/10/Dec/10/02

Results:-
No. of entries :- 51

1. The name for it is derived from the Greek phrase meaning ‘under one’. Conventionally used in yoking two words or two halves of the same word separated by lineation. Also used in compound nouns when they perform an adjectival function. What?

2. Which term associated with exponential decay is also the title of one of the largest selling computer games?

3. Novax, Rickenbacker, Washburn, Steinberger, Ibanez, Höfner, Gretsch etc. are manufacturers of what item?

4. Connect a fruit, a rabbit in the Richard Adams novel Watership Down, and a yuppie gadget.

5. The species name for the tree that bears the spice cinnamon is the Latinized version of the former name of the Asian country where it originated. Which country?

6. Her real name is Nilanjana Sudeshna. A schoolteacher, who found her given name too long, used her nickname instead and it stuck. She wrote under that name; her first work has a character who was supposed to have a “good name” sent by his grandmother in India which gets lost in the mail. Who?

7. Connect a ship in Tintin comics, a Roman goddess, the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, an

astronomical phenomenon and the collective noun for Polar bears.

8. Amitabh Bachchan has acted in two movies with the same title, but with very different story-lines

and released 29 years apart. What title?

9. She is the only person to learn The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, a method by which an assailant can be killed by quickly striking the 5 pressure points around the heart. She faked her own death ,lived in rural Texas under name of Arlene Machiavelli and was engaged to Tommy Plympton. Name the character and movie.

10. Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5° E longitude, which is just west of the town of X, near Allahabad. X is a small town also famous for it's carpets and brassware.

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Top 10 are:-

1. Promit Sharma IX-C (7)
2. Pollock Mondal IX-G (7)
3. Saiket TAlukdar XI-A (7)
4. Probal Chowdhury IX-C (6.5)
5. Soumya Das IX-C (6)
6. Pritam Guha IX-E (6)
7. Anindya Dey Roy IX-C (6)
8. Chayon Mondal XI-A (6)
9. Akash Nath IX-F (5.5)
10. Arpan Roy Choudhury (5.5)

Answers :-

1. Hyphen
2. Half-Life
3. Guitars
4. Blackberry
5. Sri Lanka
6. Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Aurora
8. Deewar
9. BEATRTIX KIDDO AKA THE BRIDE, KILL BILL
10. Mirzapur

Happy Quizzing!! 

MB Quiz December Week 1 Quiz 2 (Results):- Juniors - J/10/Dec/10/02

Results:-
No. of entries : 125

1. Who proposed the name Akashbani for the radio transmission in India?

2. Which country has a currency equivalent to Indian rupees valuation and known as Ngultram?

3.      A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, lumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

4. Which is the only country with no words but only music in the National Anthem?

5. Yankee is often the nickname referred to the people of which country?

6. What is the most advertised (most common) time shown in a watch advertisement?

7. Who made a debut in the Walt Disney production Steamboat Willy?

8. What mystical creature is often referred as Nessi?

9. Connect a fruit, an IT company, Adam and Eve, doctor’s prescription.

10. In which story you will find characters like Mr. & Mrs. Darling, Tinker Bell, Anna, Wendy, etc. ?

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Top 15 are :-

1. Suman Ghosh VI-H                    8
2. Saikat Dey VI-D                        8
3. Shweta Shaw VI-F                    8
4. Sudipa Guha VI-D                     8
5. Aditya Narayan Sen VI-C          8
6. Arnab Chandra   VI-F                7
7. Sabyasachi Ganguly VI-C           7
8. Shiwanish Kashyap VII-B           7
9. Sandipan Dhar VI-G                  7
10. Ankita Dhar VI-F                       7
11. Raunak Roy VI-D                      7
12. Vivek Kumar Bhagat VI-H         7
13. Chirag Chaudhuri VI-F                7
14. Ramyak Kumar Bose VI-D         7
15. Sayan Chakraborty VI-D            7

Answers:-

1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Bhutan
3. It was day time
4. Bahrain
5. America
6. 10 past 10
7. Mickey Mouse
8. Lochness Monster
9. Apple
10. Peter Pan

Happy Quizzing!

Message-board Quiz December Week 1 Quiz 1 Results and Answers :- Seniors J/10/Dec/05/01

No. of entries:- 57

Top 12 Entries:

1. Souvik Banik XII A          5
2. Abhishek Sengupta IX C     5
3. Anindya Dey Roy IX C    5
4. Anuran Ganguly IX C     5
5. Saiket Talukdar XI A       4
6. Chayon Mondal XI A       4
7. Soupal Das XII A           4
8. Rajdeep Paul IX D          4
9. Probal Chowdhury IX C           4
10. Soaham Chakraborty  XI A       4
11. Promit Sharma IX C             4
12. Pritam Guha IX D            4

Answers to the Seniors Quiz:-

1.      The black cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca

2.      They danced to the tune of “Dheem Tanana” from Om Shanti Om

3.      Curious Chloride or Curium Chloride.

4.      X is ‘software”, Y is “bit”

5.      Pyaasa

6.      Archery

7.      Peter Shilton

8.      All are nebulae

9.      Elastigirl (accept Elastiwoman)

10.  Orlando Bloom

Message-board Quiz December Week 1 Quiz 1 :- Seniors - S/10/Dec/07/01

1. To make the kiswah, you need 670 kilograms of pure silk. This quantity is turned into

47 panels of cloth, each of a length of 14 metres. Other requirements include 120 kgs

gold and about 50 kgs silver for lettering. The kiswah measures 658 square metres and

costs about 17 million in the local currency. What is the kiswah?

2. At Beijing 2008, in the Rhythmic Gymnastics group event for women, the Israel didn’t

win any medal. The team comprising of Olena Dvornichenko, Katerina Pisetsky, Maria

Savenkov, Rahel Vigdozchik & Veronika Vitenberg finished 6th, but got much media

attention in India. Why?

3. If FeCl2 is Ferrous Chloride, what is CmCl3?.

4. John Tukey was the co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm along with James Cooley. He designed polls to predict and analyze election for NBC. He also coined two terms, X and Y, which are now ubiquitous. X was coined in a 1958 American Mathematical Monthly article about electronic calculators, predicting X of the calculators would become atleast as important as the “tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like”. Twelve years earlier, while working at Bell Labs he coined the term Y. What are X and Y?.

5. Which is the only Hindi movie OF THE 60’S to feature in the recent Time Magazine list of the 100 best movies of all time?

6. The term 'second-string' comes from the fall-back measure taken by players of a particular sport in medieval times. What sport (National Sport of Bhutan)?

7. Who was the opposing team's goal keeper when Maradona hit his (in)famous 'Hand of God' goal in the 1986 FIFA World Cup?

8. Connect: Bug, Stingray, Ant, Twinjet, Crab, Egg, Red Rectangle, Dandelion Puff, Cat's eye (among others).

9. She is a member of the Doom Patrol, a DC Comics team whose adventures were published from1963 to 1968, as well as in a new series that started in June 2004 after her renewed popularity. Shares her name with the main character of the movie The Incredibles. Who are we talking about?

10. Who connects the movies Troy, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, Ned Kelly and Kingdom of Heaven?

Message-board Quiz December Week 1 Quiz 1 Results and Answers :- Juniors J/10/Dec/07/01

No. of entries :- 109

Top 10 Entries are:

1. Ronit Banerjee VI H             7
2. Swastik Guha VI F          7
3. Debapriya Bhattacharya  VI E         7
4. Agniva Chakraborty VI F          7
5. Hemansh Kashyap VII B           6
6. Debayon Roy VI F            6
7. Shweta Shaw VI F                  6
8. Suvayan Roy VI E             5
9. Snehasish Chakraborty VI F        5
   
10. Vivek Kr Bhagat VI H         5

Answers for the Junior Quiz:-

1. Garfield.
2. Indiana Jones IV
3. Times of India
4. Enid Blyton
5. Doctor’s Day
6. The loudest sounding insect
7. Bullfighting
8. Madhuri Dixit
9. Pele
10. IBM

Message-board Quiz December Week 1 :- Juniors - J/10/Dec/07/01

1. Which comic strip character is a masterpiece creation of Jim Davis?

2. What is the blockbuster sequel from the joint production of two legendary directors Steven Spielberg and Gorge Lucas?

3. With what you can associate Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd.?

4. This famous author was the creator of the series Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Five Found-outers, and Malory Towers  and died in London in 1968 while suffering from Alzheimer. Who is she?

5. How first of July is celebrated dedicating to what profession worldwide?

6. What is the unique specialty of the insect Giant Cicada?

7. What is a matador in bullfighting?

8. Name the film personality of Bollywood, on whom a famous lake of North Eastern India in Arunachal Pradesh is named.

9. He was called Corporal Luis Fernandez in a movie called Escape to Victory. His visit to the city Lagos in Nigeria in 1967 to play a friendly match resulted in a halt to their civil war for 2 days. Who is this sports superstar?

10. If  ‘Vaio’ is to Sony, ‘Lenovo’ is to what?

Message-board Quiz November Week 4 Quiz 2 Results and Answers :- Seniors S/11/Dec/05/02

No. of entries : 61
Top 10 are:-

1. Saiket Talukdar XI-A
2. Probal Choudhury IX-C
3. Promit Sharma IX-C
4. Pritam Guha IX-E
5. Akash Nath IX-F
6. Subhomoy Sarkar IX-G
7. Anuran Ganguly IX-C
8. Anindya Dey Roy IX-C
9. Arijit Karmakar IX-C
10. Pollock Mondal IX-G
 

Answers of Seniors Quiz :

1.      Mohun Bagan

2.      The Social network

3.      Victor Banerjee

4.      Do & Die by Manini Chatterjee

5.      Cuba

6.      South Africa

7.      The Calcutta Session of National Congress  27 December  1911

8.      Rishi Aurobindo

9.      Slazenger

10.  Belgium,Netherlands,Luxembourg

 

Message-board Quiz November Week 4 Quiz 2:- Seniors - S/11/Dec/05/02

Questions

1)Connect the following to get something famous :-

Manchester city fc, Eden Garden, SAIL , Mohan Das Karam Chand  Gandhi:

2) Where would you get the tagline :-

“You don’t make 500 million friends without making a few enemies”.

3) Who was the only Indian to present an award at the Oscars ?

4) “Khelein Hum jee jaan se”- from which book has this movie been adapted & name the author ?

5) Guantanamo Bay is the infamous place where the Americans keep the International Terrorist.

In which country is this Bay located ?

6) The world’s Biggest Zoo is the Kruger Zoo. In which country is it situated ?

7) Our National anthem “Jana Gana Mana ”was sung for the First time at ?

8) “Vande Mataram” was originally written by Bankin Chandra in Sanskrit. Who translated it into English ?

9) The tradition of using official football in the world cups started from 1966. From 1970 till date ADIDAS has been the official manufacturer. Who was the official manufacturer in 1966 ?

10) BENELUX  is the official economic Union of which three European Countries ?

Message-board Quiz November Week 4 Quiz 2 Results and Answers :- Juniors J/11/Dec/05/02

No. of entries :- 118

Top 13 are:-

1. Subhaditya Mukherjee VI-C
2. Satyajit Debnath VI-C
3. Aditya Narayan Sen VI-C
4. Swagata Laxmi Kayal VI-E
5. Ronit Banerjee VI-H
6. Sumon Ghosh VI-H
7. Saikat Dey VI-D
8. Suvayan Roy VI-E
9. Sayan Karmakar VI-C
10. Ramyak Kumar Bose VI-D
11. Arnab Chandra VI-F
12. Rhitankar Topdar VI-D
13. Debanjan Roy VI-F 

Answers:-

1.      Pankaj Advani

2.      He desined the new Symbol for the Indian Currency

3.      Rose

4.      Chicago Airport (John F Kennedy Air Terminus)

5.      Yet Another Hierarchically Organised Oracle

6.      Roald Amundsen. (Norway)

7.      Graeme  Smith

8.      Vedanta

9.      Mohun Bagan Atheletic Club

10.  Blackburn Rovers

Message-board Quiz November Week 4 Quiz 2 :- Juniors - J/11/Dec/05/02

Questions

1.  Who was the First Indian to win the Gold medal in the Asian Games 2010 ?
2.  Why is Uday Kumar Yadav in the news recently ?
3.  Like Eagle is the National Symbol of the United States. What is the National Symbol of England ?
4.  Which airport has the heaviest air traffic in the world?
5.  What is the full form of YAHOO ?
6.  Who was the first person to lead a successful expedition to the South Pole ?
7.  Who was scored the highest number of runs as the captain in test cricket ?
8.  The Upanishads are also known as :
9.  Which famous club was formed in 15^th August 1889,at 14 Balaram Ghosh Street in Kolkata ?
10. Venkateshwarya Hatcheries has acquired which famous EPL club very recently ?

Answer to the School Quiz

F/J/10NOV30/A

 1) Line of Control

2) Bob Woolmer

3) A. R. Rahman

4) The Boston Tea Party

5) South Africa

6) False

7) Crossword Puzzles 

8) Dadasaheb Phalke

9) Pandit Ravi Shankar

10) Godfather

F/S/10NOV30/A

1) Hillary Clinton

 2) Sir Alex Ferguson

3) Amartya Sen

4) Only 4 people to have been awarded the Nobel Prize more than once

5) Gregory Peck

6) Spain

7) Sukumar Ray

8) Rogerio Ceni

9) Fencing

10) Jack Kilby and the Calculator

Results of Bi-Weekly Message Board Quiz -- Quiz 01 November Week 4

Quiz: J/10/Nov/04/01

Juniors Results 

 

No. of entries : 113

Top ten are: 

1. RONIT BANERJEE     
2. SAYAN KARMAKAR
3. SUBHADITYA MUKHERJEE 
4. AVIK DUTTA
5. AKASH BOSE
6. SOHAM HALDER 
7. SUVAYAN ROY  
8. DEBANJAN ROY 
9. ARNAB CHANDRA 
10. ADITYA NARAYAN SEN

     

    Quiz: J/10/Nov/04/01

Seniors Results 

 

 No. of entries : 41

Top 10 are :

1. PROBAL CHOWDHURY 
2. SOUPAL DAS  (12-A)
3. PROMIT SHARMA
4. RAJARSHI NATH
5. ADITYA VIKRAM SAMAL
6. ANINDYA DEY ROY
7. AKASH NATH
8. ANURAN GANGULY (9-C)
9. SHIVAM JHA (10-A)
10. PRITAM BANERJEE

For Seniors Code:-F/S/10NOV30/A

1.    If George W Bush = Condoleeza Rice, Bill Clinton = Madeleine Korbel Albright, Barack Obama = ?

2.    Which Scottish was a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry was conferred The Freedom of the City of Aberdeen in 1999 and also knighted? 

3.   His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.In 2006, Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes" and in 2010 included him in their "100 most influential persons in the world" , he is the writer of the book “The Argumentative Indian”. Name him. 

4.   How can you connect Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger?

5.   This Hollywood actor started his career with the 1944 film Days of Glory, he acted in the films The Keys of the Kingdom , The Yearling, The Gunfighter , McKenna’s Gold, The Scarlet and the Black, he received his only academy award for To Kill a Mockingbird , he was often compared with Dev Anand. Name him. 

6.   Which nation has no words but only rhythm in its National Anthem? 

7.   Which was Satyajit Ray’s last released documentary? 

8.   Which football goalkeeper officially holds the record to score the most number of goals in the history of football? (Hint:-Brazil) 

9.  This sport is traditionally played on a mat-like surface that is 2m wide and 14m long. The international governing body for the sport is the Federation Internationale D'Escrime which conducts World Championships every year except during Olympic years. Which sport?

 

10.     It was invented in 1967 by X, Nobel awardee for Physics in the year 2000, in collaboration with Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel with a view to maximizing the market for X’s famous 1958 invention. It  could carry out four basic functions, measured 154mm by 107 mm by 44mm and weighed a little more than a kilogram. Identify X or his invention.

For Juniors (5-8) Code:- F/J/10NOV30/A

1.  You all are familiar with the military term LOC, what does it actually stand for? (It was originally known as "Cease-fire Line")

2. A death of suspense, this former cricketer was born in Kanpur,  India and played 19 tests, 6 ODI’s for England, but was better known as the “LAPTOP COACH”. Name him.

3. Which Indian musician was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on jan 6, 1966, he founded the band Nemesis Avenue?

4. The slogan “No Taxation without Representation” was coined in which historical event in 1773?

5.  Which is the only country in the world to have 3 capital cities?

6.  Mahatma Gandhi was the first Indian to be honoured the  prestigious Bharat Ratna. True or False?

7.  What does a Cruciverbalist design in a newspaper?

8. Who directed the first Indian feature film in 1913? (Hint: Think of awards, film was Raja Harishchandra)

9. “Sare Jahan Se Accha”- written by Md. Iqbal was put into music by which famous living composer?

10.  Which 1972 American Gangster drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola was adapted from a novel of Mario Puzo starring Marlon Brando? 

The answers are to be submitted in the drop-boxes kept beside the school elevator during school hours today.