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?