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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Weekly Trivia #4

# This set is really a sitter one.You van still attempt the Music set .There are 15 qstns in the set covering various fields,The scorings are decided later.The ans will be uploaded in a week time.








1.Letz begin with a sitter.Just Connect these Cricketers,

A
























B






















C


















A-Fred Spofforth(first test hatrick)
B- Jalaludheen (first wc hatrick)
C- Brett Lee (first t20 ht)

Connect - First Hat Tricks in each version of cricket....












2.X was a boxer.The boxing brothers Y and Z were often nicknamed X.The band A was inspired by something related with X.And moreover X was potrayed by B in the screen.Identify X-Z & A-B.


Y-Z














A















B














X-Ivan Drago of Rocky
Y,Z- Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko
A-If He Dies He Dies
B-Dolph Lundgren










3.How was this young chap immortalized soon after his death???


















Ans : Stanford University was named after this kid













4.Identify the logo.














Ans: ICC U/19 World Cup 2008













5.An intresting question.Just connect the 3 images.

(Connect to a world famous person)


A (Logo of an indian org)









B (Which famous incident)













C (A famous character)
















It was toughie ..Perhaps

Connect-Aldous Huxley

He was very well associated with Vedanta Society(Logo 1)
John F Kennedy Assasination on Nov 22//he too died on d same day..Beside C S Lewis,
famous writer also died on the same day...











6.Identify the two nobel winners.















Nikolay Semyonov & Pyotr Kapitsa

















7.Connect A and B to the field of Comics.

A















B



















Ans :John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes lend their name to the famous comic strip characters CALVIN N HOBBES





















8.Connect A and B to C and D.(Connect the places to persons)

A























B






















C





















D


















Connect-Fantastic 4 series....

A-42nd Street
B-Madison Avenue
Their head quarters were located here..

They were created by Stan Lee(D) and Jack Kirby(C)










9.Connect

A














B
















C














Connect-Benjamin Franklin

Join, or Die: This political cartoon by Franklin urged the colonies to join together during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War).
Bifocal Lens and Glass Harmonica created by him...








10.Google Doodles celebrating what ?




A










Ans : Birthday of Dr Suess





B












Ans : Charles Darwin






11.What was the claim to fame of this book????




















The first book Amazon.com sold - Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.











12.Connect with one word.

A

















B






















C
















Ans : All are named after TANTALUS
A-Element...B-Special jar of the same name..
(Tántalo, by Goya...Painting)













13.Connect to legendary personality.

A























B


















C




















D
























Connect-Rudyard Kipling

"IF" world famous poem was inspired by Dr Leander Starr Jameson(A) who in 1895 led a raid by British forces against the Boers in South Africa

He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh(B) on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaibgher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum.---KIM

Kim Philby,famous spy named after Kim

Coat of Arms of Mayo College designed by Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling













14.Whose Memorial???




















Ans : P B Shelly
















15.A sitter to end the set.Again just connect...

A


















B






















C












Connect - Nautilus

Robert Fulton who invented the first submarine named "Nautilus"
The Nautilus, as pictured in The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
A Mollusc named Nautilus




SCORES

Jyothi-10
Abhiram-7.5
Incognito-9
Johny Walker-4
Vikas-4

8 comments:

  1. 1. a-fred spofforth(first test hatrick)
    b- jalaludheen (first wc hatrick)
    c- brett lee (first t20 ht)

    2.x-ivan drago of rocky (4?)
    y,z- vitali and wladimir klitschko
    a-If He Dies He Dies
    b-dolph lundgren
    3.
    4.icc u/19 world cup 2k8

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  2. 5.lyndon b johnson?
    6.
    7. CALVIN AND HOBBES (c&h ROCKZ!!!!!!!!!!)
    8.A-chrysler tower,nyc?
    b-newyork city?
    both locations for marvel comics movies.
    c-jack kirby
    d- stan lee

    marvel comics

    9.benjamin franklin.
    the cartoon,bifocal lens and gran harmonica
    10.a- dr seuss's birth day
    b- darwin's birthday
    11.first book to be sold on amazon.com
    12.
    13rudyard kipling
    (zamzammah,kim philby,mayo college etc)
    14.pb shelley
    15

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  3. 2)vitaly and wladimir Klitschko nicknamed ivan drago played by dolph lundgren in rocky IV and the band is if he dies he dies
    4)champion's league T20
    6)watson and crick
    7)john calvin and thomas hobbes lend their name to the famous comic strip characters
    8)prbly new york which is the setting for spiderman by stan lee.the other guy is jack kirby famous for captain america
    9)benjamin franklin
    10)a-dr seuss' b'day
    b-charles darwin
    11)first book to be sold on amazon.com
    13)rudyard kipling
    14)P.b.shelley
    15)jules verne

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  4. 1. fred spofforth, jalal-ud-din and brett lee: d frst cricketers to take a hat-trick in tests, one-days and 20-20's respectively.
    4. icc u-19 cricket world cup
    5. jfk assassination, miranda. no idea abt d connect... :(
    7. calvin and hobbes.
    8. jack kirby was born in new york city, while stan lee was born in manhattan.
    9. benjamin franklin
    10. A. dr. seuss's b'day, B. darwin's 200th birthday.
    11. first book sold on amazon.
    13. rudyard kipling.
    14. p b shelley.
    15. jules verne? :O

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  5. 1. fred spofforth, jalal-ud-din and brett lee: d frst cricketers to take a hat-trick in tests, one-days and 20-20's respectively.
    4. icc u-19 cricket world cup
    5. jfk assassination, miranda. no idea abt d connect... :(
    7. calvin and hobbes.
    8. jack kirby was born in new york city, while stan lee was born in manhattan.
    9. benjamin franklin
    10. A. dr. seuss's b'day, B. darwin's 200th birthday.
    11. first book sold on amazon.
    13. rudyard kipling.
    14. p b shelley.
    15. jules verne? :O

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  6. 1. first to get hatrick in each form of cricket
    4. u-19 wc
    5. shakespeare
    7. calvin and hobbes
    11. first book on amazon

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  7. 9. Everything created by Benjamin Franklin
    10. Dr. Seuss Birthday and Charles Darwin b'day
    11. The first book to be sold on amazon.com

    Tat's all I know man!!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Oops yea,

    14. P B Shelley, already sent..dun remembr..

    4. ICC T20 world cup 2009, Some ICC 2009 tournament 4 sure..

    ReplyDelete