INDIAN CONNECT!!!

Miley Cyrus,
Victoris Beckham,
Kim Kardashian,
David Beckham
and Paris Hilton.
Just add an Indian to this list . Give me the connection.

The Qubicle (Online Quiz Series of XIMB)

Xquizzite – The quizzing association of XIMB proudly presents The Qubicle – The online quiz challenge. The first part of The Qubicle goes live on 22nd September 2009.This quiz challenge aims at bringing together, on the World Wide Web, the best quizzing talents of the country and beyond. In short this quiz series is open to all. The Qubicle will be a no holds barred quiz which will test the Q-Quotient of the best quizzing brains, irrespective of campus, organisation or profession.The Qubicle is a series of three online quizzes to be held from 22ndtill 24th September 2009. The quizzes will start at 10 PM every night and continue till 11 PM. The winner of each quiz will receive Rs 2000 cash and the runners up Rs 1000, apart from the certificates of course.The detailed itinerary is as follows:
22 Sept - Biz Quiz
23 Sept - Sports and Entertainment Quiz
24 Sept - India Quiz
Rules and Regulations:
Registration is open for everyone.
Participants can play the quiz individually or in teams of two.
Questions will be uploaded at 10 PM sharp.
Answers to be sent by e-mail to xquizzite@ximb.ac.in by 11 PM.
Answers will be mailed to only those who attempt the quiz.
Detailed rules will be put up shortly.

Contacts:Swarup Kumar Kar, 9777686344Udaya Satapathy, 9238305258
Email - xquizzite@ximb.ac.inBlog - http://xquizzite.blogspot.com/

Cheers,Team Xquizzite

P.S: And to get you started here are some aperitifs

1. The secret recipe for which popular food product is kept in a safe in the city of Louisville in the United States ?
2. It does'nt matter what your second name is ,What matters is what you do with your first. - Karan Johar . 1972 - Rest is History. Which ad ?







Answers
1. Kentucky Fried Chicken; the recipe consists of eleven herbs and spices.
2. Timond Watches. Luxury watch brand 'Timond' has director Karan Johar as its worldwidebrand ambassador

Biz Games!!

The older name of this company, is an acronym formed from a Dutch phrase which literally means: "through united co-operation everyone regularly profits". Probably not just by chance, the new name formed by shortening the older name means "save (money)" in Afrikaans, Dutch, Danish, German and Norwegian.The older name in Dutch also means "the fir tree", hence it's logo.What company is being talked about here??

A Beautiful Mind

Which prize's first edition was won by this gentleman who is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur?






Ans:Kamal Rathi,Inquisitive and Sijut were bang on target.It is Manindra agrawal.He is the first to be chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize in association with the National Institute of Advanced Studies in India.

Word Origin!!

This word was first used during World War II to refer to bombs. This word was Air Force slang to refer to large bombs weighing as much as 8000 pounds. These bombs were so powerful that they were capable of destroying an entire city, hence the term.













Ans: Blockbuster

From the Insignia's Kitchen....

1. What is the contribution of the below mentioned temple to the world of Indian Politics?

Cursed Couple!!

There is a famous Chinese myth about a women named X who is said to live on the moon. The basic story is that she and her husband were once immortal beings who were made mortal because of their bad behaviour. This women lends her name to something famous which is also called X. Give me X!!

For the lack of a good title!!

X is a play in three acts by Tom Taylor. The play is a farcical comedy whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish American to his aristocratic English relatives. It premiered at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City on October 15, 1858. The play concerns the adventures of an American, Asa Trenchard, first played by Joseph Jefferson, who goes to England to claim the family estate.


The play's most famous performance came seven years later, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Halfway through Act III, Scene 2, the character Asa Trenchard (the title role), played that night by Harry Hawk, utters a line considered one of the play's funniest:

"Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap..."

During the laughter that followed this line, something very iconic happened.

Give me X and the "thing" that happened!!














Ans:The play is "Our American Cousin" and the "thing" that happened was Lincolns assasination.

An absolute sitter

Based on the Scandinavian life as presented in Henrik Ibsen's play The Vikings at Helgeland, its main protaganist X is an overweight, red-bearded Danish Viking who regularly raids England and sometimes France.He has been described both as a fierce warrior and a family man. His family includes his nagging wife Helga, their brilliant son Hamlet, their pretty daughter Honi, Helga's pet duck Kvack, and X's dog Snert.
Identify X!!










Ans:Hagar the Horrible

Connect..

These two philanthropist have started something similar. Name them. What is their idea which is helping thousands of poor across India and other parts of the world?




John Breen, the creator of freerice.com and Vikas Sutaria, the creator of bhookh.com --- The websites which donate food to poor people based on the number of hits received on their websites.

Slumdog indeed lost!!

Slumdog refering to the Indian children living in slums lost and so did "Jai Ho"-an Indian exclamation signifying victory or accomplishment.The losers list also includes
"Chaddi"=the indian term for underwear, "cloud computing", "carbon neutral" and "NOOb" a derogatory term from the gaming community for a newcomer.
If these were the losers then who won and what was the list about??













Cracked by one and all. The winner is the word web 2.0 and it was recently crowned the millionth word in the english dictionary

Connect!!

The answer I was looking for was the apparel brand S.Kumar's. Shahrukh Khan is the brand ambassodar of its sub brand Belmonte. S kumars has been in the fray for acquiring Hartmarx whose most famous customer is Barrack Obama.