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
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