Weekly Trivia #2 -Sports

This set too sitter;perhaps

1.Identify & Connect

A











B









C










A-Rod Laver(Australian open)
B-Arthur Ashe(US Open)
C-Roland Garros(French Open)

Connect-Grandslam final stadias named after them







2.What is the importance of this poster???





















Ans : This was the poster when cricket was played in 1900 Paris olympics till date the only instance cricket was an olympic sport.















3.Again connect(This is a sport special,juz dont forget it)

A) What was the claim to flaim of this guy???


















Ans : James Brendan Connoly,the first OLYMPIC medallist









B) Just identify the movie???

















Ans : JUNIOR






C) Which super model of car???











Ans : AUDI A4





D) Which breed of dog???















Ans : AFGAN Hound



Connect-All nicknames of Mark Waugh



4.Identify the athlete & also the official in his right side.













Ans : Dorando Pietri in 1908 London Olympics & the official was Arthur Conal Doyle





5.Connect (A real sitter) ..

A













B












Ans : Kolkata Knight Riders & Sri Lankan Army which leads us to the magical spinner
Ajanta Mendis


Scores:

Ijaz Aslam-A clean sweep-5(Welcome to the blog.)
Bharath-2.5
Nakul-1.5
Abhijeet-2.5
Manjil-1
Abhiram-4
Manjith-3
Prateek-3

March Special

In this section you can score maximum 4pts .
{0.5 for each ans/0.5 for the theme/1 for perfect answering]

1.Only known photograph of a famous incident.Which one???

Ans : The Gettysberg Address by Abi Lincoln (Watch the picture carefully)

2.Connect & who comes next in the list?

1

2

















3














They are Charles Lindberg(1927),Walter Chrysler(1928) & Owen D Young(1929)
Connect-They are first three TIME Person of the year,The next one will be none other
than MAHATMA GANDHI

3.Connect these Actresses.

A

B

C

Ans : A- Theda Bara
B- Claudette Colbert
C- Liz Taylor
Connect-All of them have potrayed the role of CLEOPATRA in various movies.

4.Just identify

Ans : Lee Harvey Oswald,The assaisin of John F Kennedy

5.Just Identify the play.

Ans : Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw based on Joan of Arc

6.Theme/Connect????

All of them are the main characters of animation series CLONE HIGH


















Scores

Abhiram(Prince)-4 (Cracked everything!!Superb Job)
Jyothi-4(Welcome Back!Great Perfomance)
Manjith-1
Nakul-1

Trivia 26

Again a saturday special
Trivia 25 will be opened today too.Here it goes.......
Answer these 5 simple qstns & give me a connect/theme (0.5 for each + 1 for the theme)






1.Whose Memorial ?














Ans : Guglielmo Marconi Memorial in Washington, D.C






















2.Commemorating What? Put fundaes!!

















Ans : International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) taking place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei


















3.Who has been inspired in this icon?








Ans : The Vitruvian Man by Davinchi (This is Gnome desktop accessibility icon)













4.Identify the book.


















Ans : Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino which mainly deals with the narration of Marco Polo

5.Just Identify this director .

Ans : Federico Fellini








6.Theme/Connect ???
The theme was obviously simple.
All of them have Italian Airports named after them.
Marconi - Bologna
Galileo - Florence
Davinchi-Fiumicino
Marco Polo-Venice
Fellini -Rimini (10km from Sanmarino)
Hope these questions are easy and the connect too
You can score maximum 3.5 marks in this qstn.

Trivia 25

A Special question.
(0.5 for each & 1 point for the Theme/Connect) Total - 2.5 marks

1.Whose logo? (Think IT)











Ans : Duke,the Mascot of Java











2.Identify the Monument.(Itz in Asia itself)














Ans : Bali Blast Monument

3.Which flower?(Largest of its kind)

Ans : Titan arum (world's tallest and largest inflorescence flower) grows only in the wild in the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra

4.Theme/Connect???

Different species of Tiger or Indonesian Species of Tigers will do.

No response at all.Anyhow VIK (Vikas Bai) gets half credits.Scores are uploaded in the Hall O Fame.

Trivia 21

Without him our lifestyle would have changed!!!!

#Identify the guy and What was his claim to fame?
















This is Levi Strauss the guy who created Jeans!!
Cracked by Sumeet & Happy Jack!! Well Done!!

Monthly Set - 1( Part 2)

#Same procedure as the first set,answers can me mailed or can be posted
as comments.No of questions are shotened into 4.So total there are 10
qstns & 15 points can be scored.Answers for both the sets are to be posted
together.Answers and scores will be uploaded on Feb 8

7.Connect all (Be specific)

They are James Potter,Sirius Black,R J Lupin & Worm Tail...........

Popularly known as The Maruaders

8.All these are named after X.Just Identify X.(there r enough clues in the picture)

X

Ans : Humboldt Penguin,Humboldt Bay,Humboldt River & Humboldt Current named after

Alexander Von Humboldt

9.What was this county cricketer's claim to fame?

Ans : The term is "Soccer" coined by Charles Wreford Brown,A victorian cricketer

10.Connect and Explain

Ans : Connect is Popeye

The comic strip Popeye was created by E C Siegel (A) & the second one is that of the Popeye

Village in Malta Island

Monthly Set - 1 (Part 1)

#This is the first Monthly Set in our blog.All are requested to attempt
the questions.Answers can be posted as comments or Mail them to
quiz4rithu@ymail.com .There are 2 parts for the monthly set and the
second part will be uploaded soon.Each part contains 6 questions which
will give you 10 points each.Hurry Up!! Happy Quizzing !!!

1.Whose Tomb?

Ans: Anwar Sadat

2.A is nicknamed B after C.Identify A,B&C

A

C

Ans:Curtis James Jackson III (A) was nicknamed 50 CENTS after criminal Kelwin Martin (C) who was popularly known as 50cents to the Underworld.

3.A and B ,one of the greatest comic strips of all was created by C . Identify A, B & C.

A

B

C

Ans:Buster Brown (A) & The Yellow Kid (B) were created by Richard F Outcault (C)

4.Whose Portrait & by Whom?

Ans:Portrait of Igor Stravinsky by Pablo Picasso

5.Inspiration for which famous character??

Ans:This is Epimendes who has been an Inspiration for Rip Van Vinkle!!!















6.Which word in English Language was contributed by this person?













Ans: Boycott named after Captain Charles Boycott!!!

The set continues in the next post.So answer both the sets.

Happy Quizzing!!!

Trivia 16

# A + B will give you a person's name.How is he/she related to C ?


A















B



























C

A- FlorenceB- NightingaleC- HW Longfellowthe phrase 'Lady with the Lamp' was coined by Longfellow in the poem Santa Filomen...

Cracked only by Sumeet,credited 2points for this!!!Well Done!!Keep Going!!

Trivia 10

A sitter!!Identify the Statue & Commemorating what?

Cracked by Sumo the Nayak and Vigneswar

Motherland calls statue in Volgograd Russia commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad .

Trivia 9

#Identify the painting and the artist.(Look carefully!!Young guys will crack it)



























Cracked by Debasish & Jyoti
The Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler (of Bean Film fame)
Scores will be updated by the end of the month.