Showing posts with label Quiz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quiz. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2007

QUIZ

Try this one,

1. Whose autobiography is 'In Line with Fire' which is going to hit the market within few months?
2. Madhu Koda, Kamalesh Singh, Enos Ekka and Harinarayan Rai were in the news for some reason. Tell the reason??
3. His name is 'Lakshmi Narsimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Rajesh Raman'. He is better known as ---- for Tamil music loving audiences?? (Clue: He is a singer who has worked with ARR, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Coco Lee.)
4. The day of Mahatma Gandhiji's return(Jan 12) to India from South Africa is celebrated as a special day. What is that day?
5. What is the name of the Conch ('Sangu' in Tamil) in Lord Vishnu's hand? (It has a special name just like the Divine Disc in His hand is called 'Sudarsana Chakra')
6. Everyone knows that 'Makkal TV' is PMK's. But PMK has started to publish a Tamil Daily. Name it??
7. Shane Warne has been awarded an honorary Doctorate for service to cricket by an university last week. Name the varsity?
8. A Zimbabwean cricketer is banned from English first-class and league cricket for 10 year after a violent confrontation with fans recently? Who is that unlucky cricketer?
9. Who is the class footballer who announced his international retirement recently? He played in the recently concluded WC.
10. For all EPL fans out there, who is currently topping the league table in EPL league after 5 matches??

Answer :

1. Pervez Musharraf
2. The four MLAs who had withdrawn support from Munda Gov. Koda is CM of Jharkhand.
3. Blaze
4. NRI Day
5. Panchajanyam
6. Thamizh Osai
7. Southampton Solent University
8. Mark Vermeulen
9. Riquelme, Makelele
10. Portsmouth

Monday, June 04, 2007

Quest for Universal Intelligence and Zeal




Photo Find :

Try to identify the attached three pictures.

1. Picture - A
2. Picture - B
3. Picture - C

Cricket :

1. In this peculiar list Lara tops, followed by Alec Stewart and Allan Border. What is this list all about?
2.'Kahuna.' What is this? and How is this word related to cricket and it has created a controversy and ICC has appointed a committee headed by Sunil Gavaskar to investigate this controversy.
3. Only players (not even a single player) from two test playing nations are yet to be caught by ICC for throwing and suspect actions? Name those two countries?

General :

1. Tim Sebastien : Hard Talk :: Karan Thapar : Face to Face :: Stephen Cole : ??
2. Guess What Just turned 34? (Just two weeks back it turned 34).
3. In the movie Hey Ram, who acted as Vallabhai Patel's daughter??
4. What is common between these movies Meera, Naadodi Mannan, Apoorva Sagotharargal, Sathi Leelavathi.

Answers :

Find Photo :

Picture-C -> Sandy Gordon (Australian sports psychologist who suggested the famous 'Indian Huddle' to our team)
Picture-B -> Daniel Craig, the New James Bond
Picture-A -> Young Bill Gates.

Cricket :

1. In this peculiar list Lara tops, followed by Alec Stewart and Allan Border. What is this list all about?
Answer : This list is sbout the players who are(were) on the losing sides for the most number of times
2.'Kahuna.' What is this? and How is this word related to cricket and it is in the mid of a controversy and ICC has appointed a committee headed by Sunil Gavaskar to investigate this controversy.
Answer : Ricky Ponting's bat, manufactured by Kookaburra, has a thin layer of Graphite as a reinforcement.
3. Only players (not even a single player) from two test playing nations are yet to be caught by ICC for throwing and suspect actions? Name those two countries? (SA and Bang)
Answer: South Africa. As of now every country has a culprit.


General :

1. Tim Sebastien : Hard Talk :: Karan Thapar : Face to Face :: Stephen Cole : ?? Click Online
2. Guess What Just turned 34? (Just two weeks back it turned 34). E-Mail
3. In the movie Hey Ram, who acted as Vallabhai Patel's daughter?? Sruthi Haasan
4. What is common between these movies Meera, Naadodi Mannan, Apoorva Sagotharargal, Sathi Leelavathi.
Answer: These four titles were user for two movies. One set of movies were release in the past ie.. before 1960s and another set of movies with same name were release after 1985

QUIZ

1. I have a sword in my hand. Every year people, around the world, will recognize me (only once). People holding me in their hands feels elated about that. But Indian has never touched me till now. What am I? (Courtesy : KBC)
Ans : Oscar Award. Sorry for giving a wrong hint. I know that Sathyajit Ray had bagged that award in 1992 for Life Time Achievement. But he was bedridden at that time and was not able to attend that award and accepted only from the sickbed. That is why I mentioned that 'No Indian has touched me'. But news about that Lady Costume Designer Bhanu Athaiya is completely new to me. She got that award in the year 1982 for the Movie Gandhi.

2. Daniel Basker : Daniel ---??--- : Daniel Amar Singh.
Daniel Basker and Daniel Amar Singh are my elder and younger brother respectively. Infact, I am very popular in my state and people consider me as a talented person. I have an another name Gnanadesikan. I am better known to people with another name and I won't reveal that (Very popular among Advees). Who am I?
Ans : Yes it is Illayaraaja. His was first named as Daniel Raasaiya. Then he changed that to Gnanadesikan. When he embraced Hindu religion he called himself as Raasaiya. Friends affectionately called him Raja. When he entered film industry, Pancha Arunachalam, protege of Kannadaasan, wanted to change his name as his name was very common in film industry and many iinfluential person already had their name as Raja (A M Raja, playback singer). So they named him as Periyaraja. With the same name there was a famous folk singer in PA's villiage, which made him to change that name as Illayaraja (Illaya means short) as he was younger to that folk singer and also a short person. Daniel Amar singh is none other than Gangai Amaran and Daniel Baskar is the producer of all Paavalar Creation's movies R D Baskar (Karagatakaran's producer)

3. Guess our former PM who celebrates/celebrated his B'day on 29th February?
Ans : Morarji Desai

4. We see this 'Single Number' game everyday in the morning. It is better known as ?
Ans : Sudoku. Sudoku means 'Single Number' in Japanese.

5. In a 100 meters hurdles, how many hurdles the sprinter has to jump before the finish line.
Ans : 10 hurdles.

6. Which is considered as India's National Fruit?
Ans : Yes it is Mango

7. This year 'Paheli' has been selected as the India's official entry to this year's oscar beating fourteen other movies (both Hindi as well as regional movies). 2 movies from Tamil also contested the race. Can you guess the two movies which were nominated from Tamil?
Ans : For a minute, hold your breathe. Yes they are Kadal (I think it should be Kaadal) and Sachin . Even Vijay would have been surprised after seeing this nomination.

8. Who called Mahatma Gandhi as 'Father of our Nation'?
Ans : Netaji Subash Chandra Bose.

9. "However, if you don't want to hear the truth, then don't ask him for a frank opinion. He grew up in a household where frank opinions were served up at the breakfast table more often than cereal and fruit juice" Whose remark is this? and on whom he is commenting?
Ans : Ian Chappell on Greg Chappell.

10. Just a week back the name Czink appeared in all newspapers and was flashed in all news channels. What's the reason behind that?
Ans : Melinda Czink, the hungarian who defeated Sania in the recently concluded Sunfeast Open held in Kolkatta.

Monday, May 07, 2007

General Trivia




1. Only one country in the whole has it's national flag in non rectangular shape. Name that country?
Answer : Nepal

2. A very popular website has only 50 words in it's main page or home page.
Answer : Google.com

3. Picture A shows one of the famous, infact an infamous, execution of a personality. (Clue: This incident happened after 1900 AD).
Answer : Execution of Mussolini.

4. Identify the cricket ground shown in the pictures (B & C)
Answer : Capetown ground and Galle.

5. An anology. Cigar: Cuba :: Coffe : ?
Answer : Ethopia (Relation is the item and the country which has invented it.)

6. Only two countries have participated in all the modern Olympic Games. One is Greece and other is ?
Answer : Australia.

7. What connect these four renound Kings King David, Alexander, Charlemagne, Julius ceasar.
Answer : Represent four kings in playing cards.

8. A R Rahman has composed a single for the violin child prodigy Vanessa Mae. Name the album?
Answer : Choreography. Song is Raga Dance

9. Identify the personalities hidden in the following two jumbled words
a. glibaeslt (Clue : IT tycoon)
Answer : Bill gates.
b. plroolasdyadvaaa (Clue : For this person next four day is very cricial. Butterflies will be flying in his stomach)
Answer : Laloo Prasad Yadav.

10. Two former crickters have challenged each other as who is going to wear specks. Till now they haven't wore any specks and both of them were considered as one of the best in the respective filed. Who are they?
Answer : Sunil Gavaskar and Ian Chappell

Sports Trivia

1. Identify this sport?
Ans : Bobsleigh Skeleton.


2. 'An Umpire remembers' is the autobiography of which umpire?
Ans : Pillo Reporter.

3. In ice hockey, what is the name of the hard rubber disk which the players hit so as to score goals?
Ans : Puck.

4.
In which sports do you find a Loppy pop man?
Ans : In Formula-1.
Near every pit stop, a person with round hoarding (which looks like a lolly pop) will be waiting for the respectiver driver. He is known lollypop man.

5. Click on the following link and tell who is the batsman and the bowler. Obviously the fielder is Sachin and why that catch is so special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAoecpEF7bw
Ans : Batman is Inzamam. Bowler is Murali Karthik. It is the 100th catch of Sachin.

6. In cricket, who is referred as PO(H)MS. What is the actual meaning?
Ans : PO(H)MS means Prisoners Of Her Majesty's Services.

This in cricket refers to England player.
If you go by history, Aussies are PO(H)MS. They were the prisoners who were moved or deported to Australian Continent from England. During 15th century, all the English people who were commited mistakes or who spoke against Queen were framed as prisoners and were put in the jail. At one point, number of prisoners started to exceed beyond a limit and there was no space to accomodate them in the jail. So they were moved to Australia as prisoners and they were asked to work for Queen in Australia. At one point these prisoners started to fight for their freedom and demanded a separate land for them and infact drove English people out of Australia. Then they started to dominate the local aborigins of Australia. That is how the current Australia society was formed.

But English got this name because of overusing this term to abuse Aussies.
Even in our country, if a person repeatedly uses a particular word, we associate that word with that person. Eg. 'Ennathey' Kanniah, 'Adadae' Manohar.

7. Tees, Putter club, Wooden club, Iron club. all refers to what sports?
Ans : Golf.

8. Who is the first acknowledged Aboriginal Test cricketer in Australia. Currently he is playing?
Ans : Jason Gillespie.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Some Interesting Informations

1. Thomas Alva Edison's auttobiography is 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'

2. Ruth Handler is the inventor of Barbie Doll.

3. Dancing MahaRaja is the japanese version of the Tamil feature film Muthu and it's second part is Dancing Maharaja 2 which is the dubbing of Yejamaan. Both the movies are Rajinikanth's.

4. George W Bush's party symbol is
Elephant and Kerry's is Donkey.

5. George W Bush and Mayawathi of BSP share the same party symbol 'Elephant'.

6. The first dog of US is Miss Beazley

7. Name of Four queens in Playing Cards are Juno, Judith, Rachel and Pallas Anthena

8. The series is 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211,13112221. Description of previous number in the series (....one occurence of 3,one occurence of one)

9. Saurav Ganguly and Greg Blewett were dismissed for 99 at the same time in different test matche held in differnet part of the world

10. Sir Richard Hadlee is the only cricketer to be knighted when I was playing itself.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Some Questions

1) Analogy
a) Hockey : Hockey stick :: Fencing : ?
Answer : E-PEE

b) 12 : dozen :: 20 : ?
Answer : Score

2) Who holds the record for recording maximum number of film songs in a single day?
Answer : Lata Mangeshkar (29 songs). For male singer it is Kumar Sanu (27 Songs). In tamil movies it is Mano (21 songs).

3) Who is known as father of Bangladesh? (clue: something related to Bangladesh cricket)
Answer : Bangabandhu

4) Hrithik Roshan has acted with Superstar Rajnikanth in one Tamil film(Dubbed from Hindi). Name that movie?
Answer : Bhagwan Dada. ... Rajni did the role of Dada who saves HR... It was dubbed as " Agni Karankal" in Tamil. ..

5) Dinesh Kaneria is unique in a way in the current Pakistan team. What is that?
Answer : He is the only Hindu playing for pakistan

6) Expansion of a) STAR (in Star TV) b) ESPN
Answer :
STAR - Satellite Television for Asian Region
ESPN - Entertainment Sports Private Network

7) Can you remember who was the first Crorepathi in Kaun banega Crorepathi? (a show conducted by Big B)
Answer : Harsha Vardan

8 ) What is common between England cricket team, Manchester United, Ferrari ?
Answer : Their sponsor is Vodafone

9) In which language did Lord Buddha preached his disciples?
Answer : Bali

10) Who am I?
"I scored my first double hundred in Sydney Cricket Ground. I consider that one as my best. Many former cricketers has commented that it was one of the greatest hundred. Now I have named my child as 'Sydney' just as a remembrance of that hundred."
Answer : B C Lara

Monday, April 09, 2007

Try this one

1) Ken : ? :: Samson and Delilah
Barbie

2) Who is the first mayor of chennai?
Dr Rajah, Sir MA Muthiah Chettiar

3) Name the animal whose defense is a very strong smelling spray. It has glands which hold about a tablespoon of musky smelling methyl mercaptan.
Skunk

4) What is the relation bet RD Burman and S D Burman.
Father-Son Relation. I thought there is no relation between them. But yesterday after seeing your posts, I just verified with my friends. R D Burman is son of S D Burman. Infact Aradhana was an unofficial composition of R D Burman as S D Burman fell sick during the recording of that film.

5) This question should be answered by chennaites. If you see a phone number or number plate of a vehicle which contains 7755, It represent which establishment?
Hotel Saravana Bhavan

6) RIngo Starr belongs to which famous pop boy band.
Beatles

7) If you were the Vice President of India, which is the other post you will automatically hold.
Speaker of Rajya Sabha

8 ) Who is Ray Tomlinson? What was his contribution to the IT field? (clue : He has something to do with the sequence 'QWERTYUIOP')
Inventor of E-Mail. 'QWERTYUIOP' was the first E-mail to be sent

9) Expansion of
VIRUS -- Vital Information Resource Under Siege
QUIZ -- Quest for Universal Intelligence and Zeal


10) Bow in Lord Ram (in Ramayan) and Arjun (in Mahabharat) has a special names? What is that?
Kothandam and Kandeevam

Friday, April 06, 2007

Timepass Trivia

1) Mohammed Ali Jinnah's grand son owns one of the largest textile group in india. Name that textile group?
Answer : Bombay Dyeing

2) Who is the author of 'Jungle Book' ?
Answer : Rudyard Kipling

3) Who is known as Father of java?
Answer : James Gosling

4) A small riddle. There is a bridge which can withstand a weight of 120KG. An apple vendor 'A' who weighs 60 KG wants to cross the bridge along with his apple basket which weighs 10 KG. At the same time another vendor 'B' whose weight is 50 KG tries to cross the bridge with an apple basket of same weight, size, quality, number of apples as that of vendor 'A'. They want to cross the bridge at the same time. How will they achieve that?
Answer : Ask both men to leave their apple basket behind, cross the bridge, pick the other basket(since both basket are of same weight, size, quality, number of apples)

5) 'He can act like me but I can't act like him.' Who said this?
Answer : Marlon Brando on Sivaji Ganesan.

6) Find the missing one(s) from the following series.
Prudential Insurance Company, Prudential Insurance Company, Prudential Insurance Company, Reliance company, ___, Wills, ___, ___
Answer : Benson and Hedges, ICC, ICC

7) White bird releases have been documented since the beginning of time for all occasions and ceremonies as a symbol of freedom, love, and peace.Whose idea is that?
Answer : Renowned painter Picasso

8 ) What does 'Ikabana' means?
Answer : Japanese flower arrangement

9) What is HP's version of java known as?
Answer : Chai (Java means a kind of coffee. So HP called their version as CHAI which means Tea)

10)What is the unit for measuring movements of the mouse on the computer screen?
Answer : Mickeys

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

General Trivia

Find the Analogy

A) 7.3 : Valhalla :: 9.0 : ??
Shrike. Analogy here is Valhalla is the name of Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Shrike is the name of Red Hat Linux 9.0

B) Barathiraja : Karuthamma :: Actress Srividhya (Apoorva Ragangal heroin) : ??
M L VasanthaKumari. Mother son/daughter relation

C) Popeye : ? :: Donald duck : Diasy Duck
Olive oyl. Diasy Duck is considered as female counterpart of Donald Duck. Olive Oyl is the female counterpart of Popeye.

Celebrity sharing same birthday

A) M Karunanidhi and who?
Illayaraja

B) A R Rehman and who?
Kapil Dev

C) Ganguly and who?
Jothi Basu

D) Kamal and who?
Sir C V Raman

3) Tropicana the 100% fruit juice is a subsidiary of which company?
Pepsi Cola

4) What does the term 'Little Boy and Fat Man' means?
Bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

5) Which is the oldest college, which then become an university, in India?
Roorkee

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Politics QUIZ

1. Who challenged ABJ Abdul Kalam in the president election?
Laxmi Sehgal (Captain of Women wing of INA)

2. Who was the speaker in Lok sabha during Congress 1991 government.
Shivraj Patel

3. Find the analogy ? Rajeev Gandhi : Jawaharlal Nehru :: EVKS Elangovan : ?
EV Periyar. Here analogy is Grand Son : Grand Father

4 What is common between Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Indra Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi.
All were assassigned

5. Which president dismissed 1989 Karunanidhi government?
R Venkatraman

6. Who was our Second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru?
Lal Bahadur Shastri. He was the second person after J Nehru to be elected by people.

7. Who is the odd man out here . Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Indra Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi , Ronald Reagon and Mahatma Gandhi. Why?
Ronald Reagon. He was the only one to survive after he was tried to assassign in 1980

8. Who is known as father of Green Revolution?
C Subramaniam

9. Here I am giving the first two name of our former PM? Pamulaparthi Venkata Trace him?
P V Narasimha Rao

10. Find the analogy USA : White House :: ? : Blue House
South Korea. Here the analogy is Country : Chief Executive department of their country.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

KBC-1 Nostalgia

Note : These are the questions which were answered by Harshvardhan Vinayak Nawathe to win 1 crore in KBC-1. Now try to answer them.

Qualification Question :

Arrange the following presidents who suceeded fakhruddin Ali Ahmed in chronological order.

1. Giani Zail Singh
2. R Venkataraman
3. Sanjeeva Reddy
4. Shankar Dayal Sharma

Answer :

3. Sanjeeva Reddy
1. Giani Zail Singh
2. R Venkataraman
4. Shankar Dayal Sharma

1. Which is the largest key on a computer keyboard?
a) Enter b) Back space c) Number lock d) Space bar
Answer : d

2. If you visit the Tirupati temple which state would you be in?
a) Karnataka b) Andhra Pradesh c) Tamil Nadu d) Kerala
Answer : b

3. Who composed the bhajan "Pag ghungroo bandh Meera naachi re"?
a) Tukaram b) Surdas c) Meerabai d) Chaitanya
Answer : c

4. Which angle is formed by the hour and minute hands of a clock when it's exactly 3 o'clock?
a) 45° b) 90° c) 360° d) 180°
Answer : b

5. What name is given to the zodiac sign usually represented by a lion?
a) Cancer b) Taurus c) Leo d) Pisces
Answer : c

6. Which Asian Games gold medallist played Bheema in the TV serial 'Mahabharatha'?
a) Bhim Singh b) Praveen Kumar c) Dara Singh d) Pangal Singh
Answer : b

7. What was the first name of the wife of the last Viceroy of India?
a) Diana b) Sara c) Elizabeth d) Edwina
Answer : d

8. Which of these do not reproduce by laying eggs?
a) Whales b) Hens c) Crocodiles d) Snakes
Answer : a

9. The rivers Brahmaputra and Sutlej originate near which source in the upper Himalayas?
a) Gangothri b) Siachen c) Manasasarovar d) Yamunanatri
Answer : c

10. Who is the President of Pakistan?
a) Musharraf b) Ghulam Ishaq Khan c) Rafiq Tarar d) Farooq Ahmed Leghari
Answer : c

11. In one-day cricket how many fielders can stay outside the 15 yard circle for the first 15 overs?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 2
Answer : d

12. Who was the world's first woman Prime Minister?
a) Indira Gandhi b) Golda Meir c) Srimavo Bandarnaike d) Margaret Thatcher
Answer : c

13. In the Mahabharatha, who was Draupadi's twin brother?
a) Parikshit b) Drupada c) Dhristadyumna d) Ikshvaku
Answer : c

14. Which Indian state has the highest percentage of Hindus?
a) Uttar Pradesh b) Madhya Pradesh c) Himachal Pradesh d) Orissa.
Answer : c

15. Who among these does the Indian Constitution permit to take part in the proceedings of Parliament?
a) Solicitor General b) Attorney General c) Cabinet Secretary d) Chief Justice
Answer : b

Monday, January 08, 2007

Pop - Rock - R&B Time

1) Identify the legendary Indian playback singer who sung for a British Boy Band in 1999?
Asha Bhonsle with Code Red, a British Boy band, in 1999

2) Who is unofficially known as 'Baby Madonna'?
Britney Spears

3) These two are the most popular and successful 'Father-in-law'-'Son-in-law' combination in music industry.They are considered as kings in their decades.Who are they?
Elvis and MJ

4) Who scored the music for the movie 'Titanic'?
James Horner

5) Which member from Beatle learnt to play sitar from the sitar maestro Pandit Ravishankar?
George Harrisson

6) Jennifer Lopez got married to a pop icon just few days ago. Who is he?
Marc Antony

7) 'Saturday Night Fever' is one of the hits of John Travolta. Who scored the original sound track for that movie?
Bee Gees

8 ) Who sung the famous song 'Hotel California'? (Name the person not the band)
Don Henley.

9) Which is the maximum sold out album in pop history? (guinness book of world record) Who is the singer of that album?
MJ's Thriller

10) Grammy award questions
a) How many awards did Norah Jones got in 45th grammy awards.
Five
b) Who holds the record for getting maximum number of grammy awards in a single year.
8 grammies by MJ for Thriller and Carlos Santana for Supernatural

Cinema Quiz

Identify this female dancers who did an item number with popular heroes

a) With Superstar in the movie 'Dhalapathy' for the song 'Rakamma Kaiya thattu'.
Answer : Sonu Wallia
b) With Nagendra prasad in the movie 'Bombay' for the song 'Anda Arabic kadaloram'.
Answer : Sonali Bendre

Similarities between

a) Rajnikanth and old hindi famous comedian Johnny Walker.
Answer : Both were Bus conductors
b) Film 'Mella Thiranthadhu Kadhavu' and Film 'Senthamizh Pattu'.
Answer : music by MSV and Illayaraja

Identify these famous cine personality whose profession before their entry into the cine world was mentioned. (Clue : One is a famous comedian and another is a famous director.)

a) Postman
Answer : Nagesh
b) Clerk in AG's (Account General's ) office
Answer : K Balachander

4) Tough Questions

a) Name the movie in which Sivaji and MGR acted together.
Answer : Koondu Killi
b) Who acted as the judge in the famous cour t cine in the movie 'Parasakthi' also mention Sivaji's character name.
Answer : Kannadasan, Gunasekharan
c) In the movie 'Avargal' Kamal was doing an art with a doll. What is that art? What was the doll's name in that movie.
Answer : Ventraloquisom, Junior
d) What is the speciality about the song 'Ninaivo oru paravai' in the movie Sigappu Rojakkal?
Answer : First song sung by Kamalhassan
e) He saved the most famous actress of India Nargis from a fire accident while shooting for the movie 'Mother India'. He then went on to marry Nargis. Now he is acting as Minister for sports. Who is he ?
Answer : Sunil Dutt

Friday, December 29, 2006

Tennis Quiz

1) Tennis Jargon

a) Alley - The area on each side of the singles court that enlarges the surface area for doubles play.

b) Golden Grand Slam - Aus, French, Wim, US + Olympics

2) Nick Name

a) Pistol - Pete Sampras
b) Rocket - Rod Laver

3) Relation

a) He was the quater finalist of 1981 and 1987 US Open. His father was also a great tennis player. Who are they? - The Krishnans

b) Grounds and Grand Slams : If Roland Garros represent French Open, what represent US and Aus Opens.(Current name also mention the old name.)

Aus Open - Now it is Melbourne park. Earlier it was Flinders park. Before that it was known as Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club
US Open - Flushing Meadows. Earlier some West Tennis Club.

4) Who am I

a) We played the longest Wimbledon finals. Between us we have won 8 Wimbledon titles. Who are we ? - Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe

b) I have won all Grand slam except wimbledon. I have won 94 men's singles titles.(A record) I was world number one for 270 weeks a record then.Who am I? - Ivan Lendl

5) Tough ones

a) Why we consider Aus Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open as grand slam and why not other opens?
These four nations won the first four davis cup titles. That is the reason

b) Who held the record for most number of wimbledon titles before sampras? - William Renshaw won 7 titles

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Rajni Trivia

This trivia is related only to 'Padma Bhushan' Rajinikanth who turns 58 today.

Rajni and Numbers:

1. In the film Thee, SS wore a metal plate which had the number 786. What was the number he wore in Uzhaipaali?
2. Whats the connection between the number 4995 and SS (Clue: related to a movie released in mid 90s)
3, Whats the connection between the number 7465 and SS (Clue: related to a movie released in early 80s. Latha Rajnikanth will not forget this movie)

Rajni and Character Names

4. What is Rajini's father's name in in the movie 'Velaikarran'?
5. In two movies, Rajni's character name is his original name ie.. 'Rajini'. What are those movies?
6. What is Rajni's character name in the movie Sri Ragavendra before He (Sri Ragavendra) adopted an extreme ascetic life?

Rajni and Colleagues

7. Which actress has paired with SS most number of times?
8. In how many movies did Rajni and Sivaji had acted together?

Rajni and Kamal

9. Which actress has shared the screen with Rajni as heroin has never shared the screen with Kamal as heroin or as character artist (no dubbing movies)
10. Which actress has shared the screen with Kamal as heroin has never shared the screen with
Rajni as heroin or as character artist (no dubbing movies)

Special thanks to Yahoo Rajni groups for lending me some interesting questions.

Friday, September 30, 2005

Answer for Cricketers and Advertisements.

1. Who appears in Sear Elcot Television?
Answer: Gavaskar

2. Ravi Shastri, Viv Richards, Allan Border appears together in which ad?
Answer: Only Vimal

3. Who appears in Maltova ad?
Answer: Srikkanth

4. Botham, Tendulkar, Border appears together in which ad?
Answer: Gillette

5. Who appears in Amp Sanmar?
Answer: S Waugh

6. Nayan Mongia appears in which ad?
Answer: Four Square, Moove

7. Robin Singh appears in which ad?
Answer: Britannia , Big fun

8. Who appears in Palmolive?
Answer: Kapil

9. Keith Miller,member of 1948 invincible, appears in which ad? (clue: very famous cream)
Answer: Bryl cream

10. Ganguly and Srinath appears together in which ad?
Answer: Coke

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Cricketers and Advertisements.

This is my first blog in this website. So I will start by quizzing you all.

Which cricketer appears in which advertisement?

1. Who appears in Sear Elcot Television?
2. Ravi Shastri, Viv Richards, Allan Border appears together in which ad?
3. Who appears in Maltova ad?
4. Botham, Tendulkar, Border appears together in which ad?
5. Who appears in Amp Sanmar?
6. Nayan Mongia appears in which ad?
7. Robin Singh appears in which ad?
8. Who appears in Palmolive?
9. Keith Miller,member of 1948 invincible, appears in which ad? (clue: very famous cream)
10. Ganguly and Srinath appears together in which ad?

You can see the answers for the above questions on 30th of this month ie.. on Friday