Quiz Week 15

A few announcements first... During my class 10 board exams, I remember spending a considerable amount of time making questions for my daily sports quiz. Since I did somewhat well in those exams, I will probably make a few questions this time around too...but won't spend too much time .  Aadithya was supposed to prepare this week's set and he began well, but it looks...

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Quiz Week 14

this is part 2 1) Gaddafi had some hatred against Italians. So he renamed the months July and August. What were the new names of these months? 2) New York was named after King James II , who was the duke of York. After whom is Albany, the capital of the New York State named after? 3) Antoine Galland was the first to translate the Thousand And One Nights. But his version...

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Quiz Week 13

Answers May Be Given Next Week... Meanwhile Drop Down Your Answers... PS: DON'T POST YOUR ANSWERS AS ANON This week's questions are mostly from the prelims of the rather boring kurukshetra open quiz. Though the questions were superb and of a high standard, a boring auditorium and a visibly tired quizmaster made even guys at the first row fall asleep. Also, the quiz started...

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Quiz week 12

Many of these week's questions are based on contributions. 1) When X was busy attending to his parents, a visitor knocked at his door. X told the visitor that he was busy attending to his parents. He threw a brick and asked the visitor to stand on the brick and wait for him. And that's how the visitor got his name. Identify the visitor and X. Answer: The visitor was Panduranga...

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