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

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

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)

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