1.Which production company’s films are dedicated to ‘The mother of Auroville Ashram’
Rajashri films
2.Who authored a bestseller ‘Overload’ which is concerned with a fight between environmentalists and an engineer over the building of a thermal power station?
Arthur Hailey
3.Which silver halide is soluble in water?
Silver fluoride
4.How many legs an ant has?
6
5. What is a ‘Mexican breakfast’?
A glass of water with a cigarette
6. By what name is the Paralympic sport of wheelchair rubgy also known?
Murderball
7.To which famous actor is Uma Thurman's yellow jumpsuit in KillBill Vol.1 a direct tribute?
Bruce Lee
8. What is the collective noun given to a group of cockroaches?
An "Intrusion"
9.Name the psychologist who established the first child guidance clinic in 1921 and authored “ Understanding human nature” and “What life should mean to you”?
Alfred Adler
10.Name the peak standing 7360 feet (2243m) high in south central Srilanka which is a sacred and a place of pilgrimage to Hindus,Muslims and Budhists?
Adam’s Peak
11.What discovery was figured out by German chemist Friedrich Kekule while in a dream on a bus in 1865?
Benzene rings
ENJOY THE QUIZZING BY JITHESH MANIYAT
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Read my articles on sacred groves
hai friends you can read my articles on sacred groves by connecting to the following links :
1.http://www.kerala.gov.in/keralcalljuly04/julycalling.htm
2.http://www.kerala.gov.in/kercalfeb06/febcal.htm
read it and know the nature
by jithesh
1.http://www.kerala.gov.in/keralcalljuly04/julycalling.htm
2.http://www.kerala.gov.in/kercalfeb06/febcal.htm
read it and know the nature
by jithesh
ETYMOLOGY OF WORD TRIVIA BY WIKIPEDIA
ETYMOLOGY OF TRIVIA
The etymology of the word trivia seems to start with Latin tri- = "three", and via = "way", "road", thus trivium, which has been treated in three ways:
Where three roads meet, especially as a place of public resort. The Latin adjective triviālis, derived from trivium, thus meant "appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar." The first known usage of the word "trivial" in Modern English is from 1589; it was used with a sense identical to that of triviālis. Shortly after that trivial is recorded in the sense most familiar to us: "of little importance or significance." Gradually, the word trivia came to be used in English for what in Latin would have called "triviālia", for anything information or concern which is treated as everyday and unimportant.
The Three Ways (first known used in English in a work from 1432–1450). This work mentions the "arte trivialle", referring to the trivium, which was the three Artes Liberales (Liberal Arts) that were taught first in medieval universities, namely grammar, rhetoric, and logic. (The other four Liberal Arts were the quadrivium, namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, which were more challenging.) Hence, trivial in this sense would have meant "of interest only to an undergraduate".
The Roman courier network Cursus publicus which was set up by Emperor Augustus. Messengers traveled the Roman Empire taking messages from one province to the next. At crossroads notice boards would display gossip or news from Rome....hence 'trivia'.
The word trivia was popularized in its current meaning in the 1960s by Columbia University students Ed Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky, who created the earliest inter-collegiate quiz bowls that tested culturally significant yet ultimately unimportant facts, which they dubbed "trivia contests". The first book treating trivia of this universal sort was Trivia (Dell, 1966) by Goodgold and Carlinsky, which achieved a ranking on the New York Times best seller list; the book was an extension of the pair's Columbia contests and was followed by other Goodgold and Carlinsky trivia titles. In their second book, More Trivial Trivia, the authors criticized practitioners who were "indiscriminate enough to confuse the flower of Trivia with the weed of minutiae"; Trivia, they wrote, "is concerned with tugging at heartstrings," while minutiae deals with such unevocative questions as "Which state is the largest consumer of Jell-O?" But over the years the word has come to refer to obscure and arcane bits of dry knowledge as well as nostalgic remembrances of pop
culture.
VISIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia
( courtsey www.wikipedia.org)
The etymology of the word trivia seems to start with Latin tri- = "three", and via = "way", "road", thus trivium, which has been treated in three ways:
Where three roads meet, especially as a place of public resort. The Latin adjective triviālis, derived from trivium, thus meant "appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar." The first known usage of the word "trivial" in Modern English is from 1589; it was used with a sense identical to that of triviālis. Shortly after that trivial is recorded in the sense most familiar to us: "of little importance or significance." Gradually, the word trivia came to be used in English for what in Latin would have called "triviālia", for anything information or concern which is treated as everyday and unimportant.
The Three Ways (first known used in English in a work from 1432–1450). This work mentions the "arte trivialle", referring to the trivium, which was the three Artes Liberales (Liberal Arts) that were taught first in medieval universities, namely grammar, rhetoric, and logic. (The other four Liberal Arts were the quadrivium, namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, which were more challenging.) Hence, trivial in this sense would have meant "of interest only to an undergraduate".
The Roman courier network Cursus publicus which was set up by Emperor Augustus. Messengers traveled the Roman Empire taking messages from one province to the next. At crossroads notice boards would display gossip or news from Rome....hence 'trivia'.
The word trivia was popularized in its current meaning in the 1960s by Columbia University students Ed Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky, who created the earliest inter-collegiate quiz bowls that tested culturally significant yet ultimately unimportant facts, which they dubbed "trivia contests". The first book treating trivia of this universal sort was Trivia (Dell, 1966) by Goodgold and Carlinsky, which achieved a ranking on the New York Times best seller list; the book was an extension of the pair's Columbia contests and was followed by other Goodgold and Carlinsky trivia titles. In their second book, More Trivial Trivia, the authors criticized practitioners who were "indiscriminate enough to confuse the flower of Trivia with the weed of minutiae"; Trivia, they wrote, "is concerned with tugging at heartstrings," while minutiae deals with such unevocative questions as "Which state is the largest consumer of Jell-O?" But over the years the word has come to refer to obscure and arcane bits of dry knowledge as well as nostalgic remembrances of pop
culture.
VISIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia
( courtsey www.wikipedia.org)
QUIZ FOR 11/09
1.WHAT IS THE ITALIAN WORD FOR'SWANK'AND THE NAME OF AN ORGANISATION THAT IS ALSO KNOWN AS LA COSA NOSTRA?
MAFIA
2.WHO USED THE LATIN PHRASE "COGITO ERGO SUM" AS THE FOUNDATION FOR HIS PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY?
RENE DESCARTES
3.WHAT FORM OF TRANSPORT WAS INITIALLY A FORM OF HOBBY HORSE?
BICYCLE
4.WHERE IS GOLCONDA FORT SITUATED?
ANDRA PRADESH
5.IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC, HOW DO WE BETTER KNOW ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN?
BOB DYLAN
6.WHICH RIVER IS POETICALLY CALLED 'ISIS' UNTIL IT FLOWS THROUGH OXFORD?
THE THAMES
7.WHICH TWO BOOKS OF OLD TESTAMENTS HAVE FEMALE NAMES?
RUTH,ESTER
8.WHICH HIGHLY POLLUTED ITALIAN RIVER DISCHARGES 234 TONNES OF ARSENIC IN TO THE SEA A YEAR?
RIVER PO
WITH WISHES JITHESH MANIYAT
MAFIA
2.WHO USED THE LATIN PHRASE "COGITO ERGO SUM" AS THE FOUNDATION FOR HIS PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY?
RENE DESCARTES
3.WHAT FORM OF TRANSPORT WAS INITIALLY A FORM OF HOBBY HORSE?
BICYCLE
4.WHERE IS GOLCONDA FORT SITUATED?
ANDRA PRADESH
5.IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC, HOW DO WE BETTER KNOW ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN?
BOB DYLAN
6.WHICH RIVER IS POETICALLY CALLED 'ISIS' UNTIL IT FLOWS THROUGH OXFORD?
THE THAMES
7.WHICH TWO BOOKS OF OLD TESTAMENTS HAVE FEMALE NAMES?
RUTH,ESTER
8.WHICH HIGHLY POLLUTED ITALIAN RIVER DISCHARGES 234 TONNES OF ARSENIC IN TO THE SEA A YEAR?
RIVER PO
WITH WISHES JITHESH MANIYAT
Friday, October 23, 2009
QUIZ FOR TODAY(24/10/2009)
1.The first environmentally conscious community are found in Rajasthan and get their name from the fact that the follow 29 commandments?
The Bishnois
2.Who is the directo of the film Kanchivaram which bagged the best film award?
Priyadarsan
3.Who authored a bestseller ‘Overload’ which is concerned with a fight between environmentalists and an engineer over the building of a thermal power station?
Arthur Hailey
4.His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
Thomas J. Bata
5.Which indian state in 1991 became the first fully literate state?
Kerala
6.They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
Christmas Cards
7.who was the first minister of external affairs of india?
Jawaharlal nehru
8.which indian state is the largest producer of Silk, Gold,Coffee and sandal wood?
Karnataka
9. She is a graduate of the National School of Drama . She replaced Mita Vashist in her most celebrated role to date. She is also starring in Kamal Hassan’s under-production film ‘Ladies Only’. Who
Seema Biswas
10.In 1992, At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro two countries, rather incongruously announced they would resume whale hunting. Name them.
Iceland and Norway
with love and regards jithesh maniyat
The Bishnois
2.Who is the directo of the film Kanchivaram which bagged the best film award?
Priyadarsan
3.Who authored a bestseller ‘Overload’ which is concerned with a fight between environmentalists and an engineer over the building of a thermal power station?
Arthur Hailey
4.His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
Thomas J. Bata
5.Which indian state in 1991 became the first fully literate state?
Kerala
6.They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
Christmas Cards
7.who was the first minister of external affairs of india?
Jawaharlal nehru
8.which indian state is the largest producer of Silk, Gold,Coffee and sandal wood?
Karnataka
9. She is a graduate of the National School of Drama . She replaced Mita Vashist in her most celebrated role to date. She is also starring in Kamal Hassan’s under-production film ‘Ladies Only’. Who
Seema Biswas
10.In 1992, At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro two countries, rather incongruously announced they would resume whale hunting. Name them.
Iceland and Norway
with love and regards jithesh maniyat
Thursday, October 22, 2009
QUIZZING TRIVIA
What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the world's wheat and corn?
A: Chicago
What boxer answers to the nickname "Sweet Pea"?
A: Pernell Whitaker
Which state produces two-thirds of America's iron ore?
A: Minnesota
What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.
What event earned Norway's Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating
What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a daytime talk show host?
A: Harpo's.
Which character name was shared by Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain and Ian McShane in Dallas?
A: Don Lockwood
What Elton John album became the first album to enter the charts at Number One, in 1975?
A: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
What name has been shared by the most popes?
A: John.
What nation bartered 30 million barrels of oil for ten Boeing 747s in 1984?
A: Saudi Arabia.
What 10-year-old began earning his bad reputation by throwing puppies off th Kremlin walls in 1540?
A: Ivan the Terrible.
WITH LOVE JITHESHMANIYAT
A: Chicago
What boxer answers to the nickname "Sweet Pea"?
A: Pernell Whitaker
Which state produces two-thirds of America's iron ore?
A: Minnesota
What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.
What event earned Norway's Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating
What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a daytime talk show host?
A: Harpo's.
Which character name was shared by Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain and Ian McShane in Dallas?
A: Don Lockwood
What Elton John album became the first album to enter the charts at Number One, in 1975?
A: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
What name has been shared by the most popes?
A: John.
What nation bartered 30 million barrels of oil for ten Boeing 747s in 1984?
A: Saudi Arabia.
What 10-year-old began earning his bad reputation by throwing puppies off th Kremlin walls in 1540?
A: Ivan the Terrible.
WITH LOVE JITHESHMANIYAT
ETYMOLOGY OF WORD QUIZ BY WIKIPEDIA
The first appearance of the word is from 1784 and means an odd person. This sense survives today in the word "quizzical". It was also used in the term quizzing glass, a common accoutrement of British Regency dandies. It later acquired a meaning of to make fun of, or to mock. How it acquired its current meaning of a test is unknown, but that sense did not appear until 1867 and then it was in the United States.
The OED2 has a citation from 1847 where the word appears: "She com back and quiesed us", which could be a clue to its origin. Quiz as a test could be a corruption of the Latin Qui es, meaning "Who are you?" American Heritage says it may be from the English dialect verb quiset, meaning to question. In any case it is probably from the same root as question and inquisitive.
There is a well-known myth about the word "quiz", which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket. However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791.
( COURTESY WIKIPEDIA)
The OED2 has a citation from 1847 where the word appears: "She com back and quiesed us", which could be a clue to its origin. Quiz as a test could be a corruption of the Latin Qui es, meaning "Who are you?" American Heritage says it may be from the English dialect verb quiset, meaning to question. In any case it is probably from the same root as question and inquisitive.
There is a well-known myth about the word "quiz", which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket. However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791.
( COURTESY WIKIPEDIA)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE MONTH 10/2009
1.IN WHICH SOUTH AFRICAN CITY DID THE FIRST HEART TRANSPLANT OPERATION TAKE PLACE IN 1967?
CAPE TOWN
2.WHAT MEDICAL CONDITION IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS EPISTAXIS?
NOSE BLEEDING
3.WHICH SPORT REQUIRES STONES TO BE THROWN AT HOUSES?
CURLING
4.WHO WAS THE FIRST FEMALE JOCKEY TO RIDE IN THE GRAND NATIONAL?
CHARLOTTE BREW
5.WHICH GULF SEPARATES SWEDEN AND FINLAND?
GULF OF BOTHNIA
6.WHICH DAY OF THE WEEK DO THE FRENCH CALL "SAMEDI"?
SATURDAY
7.IN WHICH ENGLISH COUNTY DID THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY TOOK PLACE?
BUCKINGHAMSHAIRE
8WHICH DAILY NEWSPAPER IS KNOWN AS "THUNDERER"
THE TIMES
WITH LOVE AND REGARDS JITHESHMANIYAT
CAPE TOWN
2.WHAT MEDICAL CONDITION IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS EPISTAXIS?
NOSE BLEEDING
3.WHICH SPORT REQUIRES STONES TO BE THROWN AT HOUSES?
CURLING
4.WHO WAS THE FIRST FEMALE JOCKEY TO RIDE IN THE GRAND NATIONAL?
CHARLOTTE BREW
5.WHICH GULF SEPARATES SWEDEN AND FINLAND?
GULF OF BOTHNIA
6.WHICH DAY OF THE WEEK DO THE FRENCH CALL "SAMEDI"?
SATURDAY
7.IN WHICH ENGLISH COUNTY DID THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY TOOK PLACE?
BUCKINGHAMSHAIRE
8WHICH DAILY NEWSPAPER IS KNOWN AS "THUNDERER"
THE TIMES
WITH LOVE AND REGARDS JITHESHMANIYAT
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