ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 09/11/2008

1.In Germany ( from Wursburg to Ausburg)

2.Kashmir

3.The cloth with which Christ was covered after the crusification.

4. Dr. B R Ambedkar

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 09/11/2008

1. Where is romantic road( Romantische strasse) situated?
2. Where in India would you partake of “wazwan” a feast of various types of mutton dishes?
3. What is the Holy Shroud?

4. In Indian political context which leader formed the the republican party

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 02/11/2008

1. fear of foreign Languages
2. fear of poverty
3. Cyrophobia/pagophobia
4. Glass

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 02/11/2008

1.Xenophonia is the fear of foreigners , then what is Xenoglossophobia?

2.What is Peniaphobia?

3.Fear of ice is called

4.Nelophobia is the fear of ……

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 26/10/208

1.An aarmory

2.Government by the worst

3. Iris

4. Truth

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 26/10/2008

1.What is a group of aardvarks called?

2.What is kakistocracy?

3.What is the name of the Greek Goddess of rainbow?

4.Alethiology is the study of….

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 19/10/2008

1.Ku Klux Klan

2.Doonesbury

3. Chembaka Raman Pillai

4.Oscar Wilde

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 19/10/2008

1.Which organization ,formed in the south of US after the civil war, derives its name

from the Greek word ‘kyklos’ or circle?

2.Which comic strip started life under the title ,Bull Tales, in aYale under graduate

magazine?

3.Which Malayalee patriot met Adolph Hitler to seek his assistance for India’s freedom

struggle?

4.” I can resist every thing but temptation:” Who said this words?

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 12/10/2008

1.William Shakespeare

2.Walter pater

3.W M Thackeray

4.Jean Genet

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 12/10/208

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON LITERATURE

1.Whose epitaph is this?

“ Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear

To dig the dust enclosed here,

Blest be the man that spares these stones,

And curst be he that moves my bones’

2. ‘ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music’- Who made this

Observation?

3.Who wrote “ There’s no sweeter tobacco comes from Virginia, and no better brand than

Three Castles”

4.The author of The Thief’s Journal has actually been a thief. Who is he?

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 05/10/2008

1.Zeno

2 Midpoint theorem

3.Oswald Spengler

4.Pythagoras

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 05/10/2008

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON MATHEMATICS

1. Who gave the four mathematical paradoxes now famous namely, Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow and Stadium ?
2. “ The line joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half its length” – Which is this theorem?
3. Who is said “ There is not, and can not be, number as such. There are several number – words as there are several cultures”
4. When once a dog was being beaten, this mathematician cried “ Stop, beat no more,it is the soul of a friend; I recognized it, hearing its complaints .” Who was he?

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 28/09/2008

1. Alexander Alan Milne(1882-1956)

2. Abigail Smith Adams

3 Andrew Jackson

4.Abraham Lincoln

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 28/09/2008

1. He is famous for the juvenile verses and stories he wrote for his son, Christopher Robin. His woks include When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner etc. Who is this best known English author of several children’s books

2. Name the lady whose husband became the second president of United states of America and her son became the sixth president

3. Which U S President Issued a proclamation against state nullification of federal law in 1832, warning "disunion by armed force is treason”

4. Which U S President received a patent in 1849 for a system he designed to adjust the buoyancy of steamboats?

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 21/09/2008

1 .Leslie R. Groves

2. Guerilla Warfare

3.Osama bin Laden

4. Abraham Lincoln

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 21/09/2008

1. The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project in 1942 to

develop an atomic device. The project was under the direction of American

Physicist Robert J Oppenheimer.Which U.S. Army Brigadier General was the

leader that project

2. "The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue." What kind of military tactic is Mao Tse-tung describing?

3. “They violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when

faced by resistance they call it terrorism”. These are the words by person in news

on june 10,1999

4 At 6 feet, 4 inches, Who was the tallest president of the United States of America?

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 14/09/2008

1. Kozhikode Abdul Khadar
2. Oscar Wilde
3. The Rules of the Game (or La Regle du Jeu)
4. Z

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 14/09/2008

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON FILMS

1. He was born as Leslie Andrews in 1916 and his voice was an exquisite blend of torment and anguish, tenderness and joy. He made his debut in playback singing in 1951. He died in 1977 under another name. Who?

2. Merlin Holland is a publisher, a dealer in glass and ceramics, and a writer who has edited and published several works about his very famous grandfather. his grandmother was constance lloyd before she married, and she changed her surname in 1895, to holland. who was the famous grandfather

3. Andre Jurieu broke Charles Lindbergh’s record for flying solo across the Atlantic, but Christine, the woman he loves, is not there to greet him. After Christine’s husband invites Andre to go hunting, Christine discovers her husband is having an affair with her niece Genevieve. Marceau, the poacher, flirts with the gamekeeper’s wife, Lisette, which leads the gamekeeper to chase Marceau with a gun. A major influence on Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Name this 1939 portrait of the French upper class directed by Jean Renoir.

4. This film ends with an optimistic news broadcast abruptly interrupted by an offscreen narrator’s epilogue about an authoritarian right-wing coup. Inspired by the real-life assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis, it depicts an investigation conducted by a deputy played Yves Montand. The investigation is covered up, but the martyr’s supporters paint graffiti declaring “He Lives,” a reference to the film’s title. Directed by Costa-Gavras, Name this 1969 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner with a one-letter title.

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 07/09/2008

1. W S Lander
2. England
3 . Rocky Marciano
4 .Hillaire Belloc

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 07/09/2008

1.In Culcutta’s park street cemetery lies the remains of an English girl loved by an English poet , whose poem “ Rose Alymer” ends with these lines:
" Rose Alymer whome these wakeful eyes,
May weep , but never see
A night of memories and sighs
I consecrate to thee" - who is the poet?

2.Which is the region of origin of the very English tree, Elm?

3. Which heavy weight boxing champion holds the record of the maximum number of uninterrupted wins?

4.The poet seems to have distilled human wisdom in this couplet ,when he wrote
" I ‘m tired of love, I ‘m still more tired of rhyme
But money gives me pleasure all the time"
Who is the poet?

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 31/08/2008

1. 1189
2. The slave
3. Paul
4. Michael
5. In 1466 in Germany

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 31/08/2008

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON BIBLE
1.What are the total number of chapters in bible?

2. who, according to the book of Leviticus , may eat the sacrificial food?

3. Who is known as the apostle of the Gentiles?

4. Whose victory over the dragon is pictured in the chapter 12 of the book of Revelation?

5. When and where did the first printed bible appear?

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 24/08/2008

1.A NIGHT IN THE TROPICS( 1940)
2.FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
3.METROPOLIS (1927)
4.UNITED ARTISTS
5. ROALD DAHL

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 24/08/2008

SPECIAL FILM QUIZ

1.Which was the first movie to feature comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello?

2. Which famous film director walked out of Satyajit Ray’s pather panchali when it was screened at the 1956 cannes film festival?

3. This futuristic film made by the famous German Director Fritz Lang was Adolf Hitler’s favourite.Can you name?

4.Name the Holly wood studio that Charlie Chaplin founded along with Douglas Fairbanks,Mary Pickford and D W Griffith?

5.Which writer of children’s books wrote Tales of Unexpected for television and the screenplay for the film You Only Live Twice?

make your answers and queries here with love jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 17/08/2008

1 .PRINCESS ANNE

2. CHARLES ‘KARCH’ KIRALY(USA)

3. CHARLOTTE ‘LOTTIE’ DOD

4. MAHATHMA GANDHI

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 17/08/2008

OLYMPIC SPECIAL QUIZ

1.Name the only female competitor who did not take a sex test during the 1976 Montreal
Olympics?

2. Name the first Olympian to win gold medals thrice in a row in men's volley ball from 1988
games onwards?

3. Which 15 year Wimbledon champion won a silver medal in the National round of archery now
discontinued , at the 1908 London Olympics?

4. Who was requested for an appeal to arrange for the necessary funds to assist Indian hockey
team for Berlin Olympics , upon which he said :- " what is hockey"

make your comments and answers here with regards Jithesh Maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 10/08/2008

1. QUAKERS/Society of Friends

2. Tuberculosis ( T B )

3. Dopamine

4. Comet

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 10/08/2008

1.The members of which Christian sect have no ministers or priests and gather for worship in a meeting house?

2. What causes the death of John Keats, Frederic Chopin, & Emily Bronte?

3. What is the Chemical ,produced naturally in the brain cells , the lack of which causes Parkinson's Disease?

4. Which was the first jet airliner to enter service in 1949 ?

Post your Comments and answers here.....with regards Jithesh Maniyat

Answers For the Week 03/08/2008

1. Lady Bird ( Novius Cardinalis)

2. Anna Akhmatova

3. Face Off

4. Gandhari

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 03/08/2008

1. Which insect was imported from Australia in to USA to bring under control another insect which had destroyed the citrus orchads?

2. Name the Russian poet whose longest work " poem without a hero" is considered as one of the great poems of 20th century.?

3. In football a game starts with a Kick Off. What is the equivalent in Ice Hockey?

4. Who cursed Lord Krishna after the great war saying that his entire family would be destroyed in 36 years ?

make your answers and comments here. with regards and love...Jithesh Maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 27/07/208

1. HORSE
2. VIOLIN
3.AMEN

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 27/07/2008

1. Appaloosa is the colour breed variety of which animal?

2.The amati family of Italy was famous for making which musical instrument?

3.Name the word which derives from a semetic root meaning fixed and in greek old testement it is usually translates as " so be it"

make your answers and comments here, with regards and love
jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 20/7/2008

1. Indira Gandhi

2. Mahabharatha

3. Ledekin ( From the Name of the Wife of Lord Canning)

4. Abdul Hafeez

questions for the week (20/07/2008)

1. Who changed the name of 'kubabul' , one of the popular tree species suited for afforestation to '
subabul'.


2. " Razm Namah" is the Persian translation of which world famous epic?


3. Which Indian sweet is named after the wife of a British viceroy?


4. Abdul Kardar captained Pakistan in their first 23 tests. in 1946 under which name he played
for India


answer will be posted on next week. with love Jithesh Maniyat

answers of 12/07/2008

1. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and changed to SALT( Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

2. Prince William Sound

3. MAFIA

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 12/07/2008

1. Let's start with "START". can you expand START. clue:- its name changed some times after its implementation to another term that is some what an ingredient of almost all food items.


2. What is the name of the Alaskan channel in which the ' Exxon Valdez' caused one of the world's greatest shipping oil spillage disasters in 1989 ?


3. What is the Italian word for 'swank' and a name of an organization that is also known as la cosa nostra ?

OK friends let's try to find the answers and post your answers and make the blog forum active and alive. ANSWERS WILL BE POST ON NEXT WEEK

with love & regards JITHESH MANIYAT

welcome to all quizzers around the world

hai friends let's start the quizzing voyage. here is a platform all the quizzers to share their quizzing knowledge, quizzing memories, unforgettable questions & the quiz masters ridiculous questions that dashed your championships.

from the next week onwards i will publish my favorite questions somewhat chilly & hot . let's join with me .

Oh god i forget to introduce my self. My name is jithesh maniyat. completed MSW from sankaracharya university kalady, Kerala. Now working in government sector. having over 150 medals in my shelf through quizzing. published some articles and book namely FILM QUIZ by kairali books , kannur.

see you in all weeks. with thanks and regards

jitheshmaniyat