PENTATHLON EPISODE 2

QM-CHANCHAL PATI

This is the second among the series of quizzes we have planned as part
of the celebration of 5 years of the Quizzards_2k4 yahoo group.This is a General Quiz.

The edition saw 23people attempting the quiz.At the end of the series the cumulative scores will
determine the champion of the Anniversary Quiz series.

 (http://quizzards.blogspot.com/2009/01/quizzards-anniversary-quiz-2.html )

1."I have worked hard on this. Every single idea in that book is mine. I am going out on a limb here; opening myself up to criticism; people I don't know can take potshots at me.".Who said this and about what?

Ans.Nandan Nilekani on his book  'Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century'

2.The Unique promotion of a Bollywood Movie
To promote the film 'Rang Rasiya' a national level art competition is going to be held titled 'Rang Rasiya – Freedom of Expression Movement '. It is the initiative of which corporation headed by Anand Mahendroo and Mehool Parekh.

Ans.Infinity Art Corporation

3.He was born on the 15th of August 1938. He did his postgraduate work in political science and studied fine arts at Sir J.J. School of Arts in Mumbai. He started his career in 1960 with the Daily Milap in New Delhi. Smt. Indira Gandhi published his cartoon book in 1983. He was awarded the ' Tirtholi ' award in 1982. His comic strips was acquired for display by the International Museum of Cartoon Art, USA.Name this famous cartoonist .

Ans.Pran of Chacha Chaudhury fame

4.Sourav Ganguly along with Rahul Dravid made their test debut at Lord's in 1996 under Mohd. Azharuddin's captaincy but this was also the last test for one famous personality. Name him.

Ans.Dickie Bird

Many of you picked Navjot Singh Sidhu as the answer,in fact he played his last test in 1999
http://content-www.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/34028.html

5.It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame of web browsers.A comic by Scott McCloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features of and motivations for the new software The public stable release was on December 11, 2008.What is it ?

Ans. Google Chrome

6.Why the traditional Red wrapper of the Kit-Kat was changed to blue during 1945 – 47?

Ans.For most of its life, KitKat has appeared in a red and white wrapper. It did, however, change to a blue wrapper in 1945, when it was produced with a plain chocolate covering due to shortages of milk after the war. This blue livery was withdrawn in 1947 when the standard milk chocolate KitKat was reintroduced

http://www.nestle.co.uk/OurBrands/AboutOurBrands/ConfectioneryAndCakes/KitKat.htm

7.Who made his acting debut along side Amir Khan (his first role as an adult) in Ketan Mehta's 1984 film 'Holi '.

Ans.Ashutosh Gowarikar

8.While viewing a school quiz on Doordarshan, X  found out that students knew much more of Greek or Roman mythology than Indian mythology . It prompted him to start Y.What are X and Y?

Ans.X – Anant Pai  Y – Amar Chitra Katha

9.The result of an experiment at MIT went - 'Specimen X had a specific gravity of 1.00 Specimen Y had a specific gravity of 1.06. Specific gravity of X is less than Y. '. What did the experiment prove?

Ans.Y- Blood is thicker than Water -X.

10.Name these two awards instituted by the Maharashtra State Commission for Women

Ans. The Rakshasa award for films propagating violence
The Duryodhan award for bad films and advertisements'

SCORES for this Edition

Debduta Mohanty 10 Mariam Ahmed 10 Jaipal 10 Harshal Modi 10
Anit 9 Nikhil 9 Rahul 8 Leonine 8 Pradeep R 8 Shrid 7.5 Gajendra Singh 7.5 Partha 7
AP UBS 7 Quiz_Master 6 Prateek V 5 Anubhav Chaterjee 5 Quizophillic 5 Swarun
Krishna 5 Aditya M 5 Nirad 2 Sunil 1.5 Ashish Gupta 1 Husain Poonawala 0.5

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