Trivia Quiz

After a long time I am posting again.I am not sure how many people are still reading this blog.Hope I can continue.. :)

To start with a sitter...These are coins issued by a country in 2004 to commemorate 50 years of something!!!Which country?

Happy Republic day

Name the person whose face is circled.What was the occasion?

Connect

How can you connect the above automobile engine manufactures?It is an exhaustive list.

Origin of What?

'X' is a word taken from the name of Y (in the picture),a British statesman who was so fond of gambling that he was reluctant to get up from the table for a meal. Instead he asked for something which we call 'X' now.Identify X and Y.

Current Affairs

Identify the logo

Print Ad

Which brand's advertisement?

Mythology Quiz

Following pictures represent different Gods from different Myths.Identify them and the mythology they are associated with.What do they have in common?

1)


Clue:A planet

2)

Clue:A black metal band

3)


Clue:1889 work depicting the Goddess


4)



Clue:Name this in Japanese

Answer:Correctly answered only by Indian.All these represent Gods of underworld.Pluto,Hades[the band shown above is Hades Almighty],Godess Hel,Yama[Mountain is Yama is Japanese:)] from Roman,Greek,Norse and Indian Mythologies respectively.

India Quiz

It was created by an IIT Bombay alumnus D Uday Kumar.It is an amalgam of the Devanagari "र" and the Roman capital "R" without the stem. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) make an allusion to the tricolor Indian flag and is currently in the first stage of proposal for being encoded into the Unicode character set, as a sign distinct from the existing generic sign encoded at U+20A8.What are we talking about?

Etymology Quiz

Shakespeare used the word 'X' to refer to a theater and in the 17th century there was theater in London with that name. From Henry V :

Can this 'X' hold The vastie fields of France? Or may we cramme Within this Woodden O, the very Caskes That did affright the Ayre at Agincourt?

In the 18th century, 'X' entered naval jargon, denoting the junior officer quarters on the lowest, or orlop, deck of a ship that doubled for the surgeon’s hospital during battle. Presumably, this was because the midshipmen, like roosters, would get into fights with one another. From William Falconer’s 1769 An Universal Dictionary of the Marine:
'X' of a ship of war, the apartments of the surgeon and his mates, being the place where the wounded men are dressed.
In 1914, the term was applied to airplanes.So the literal sense gave way to a naval metaphor, which was later applied to airplanes. Which word's origin are we talking about?

Trivia

The invention of 'X' is often attributed to a pioneering Baptist minister and distiller named Elijah Craig.Jacob Spears is credited with being the first to label his product 'X' .Berkley Plantation in Virginia lays claim to the first producer of 'X' in 1621, by George Thorpe, an Episcopal priest, although they did not call it "X" at the time.Also the more credible story how the name 'X' originated is like this-"When American pioneers pushed west of the Allegheny Mountains following the American Revolution, the first counties they founded covered vast regions. One of these original, huge counties was 'X', established in 1785 and named after the French royal family. While this vast county was being carved into many smaller ones, early in the 19th century, many people continued to call the region Old 'X'. Located within Old 'X' was the principal Ohio River port from which whiskey and other products were shipped. "Old X" was stencilled on the barrels to indicate their port of origin. Old 'X' whiskey was different because it was the first corn whiskey most people had ever tasted. In time, 'X' became the name for any corn-based whiskey.

What is X?

Science

This is a nebula which is sometimes called the Rotten Egg Nebula because it contains a relatively large amount of sulphur.The astronomers believe that 1,000 years from now, the this will become a fully developed planetary nebula, like a butterfly emerging from its nympha.What is it more commonly called?

Clue:FIFA

Try to answer without googling!!!

Answer:The Calabash Nebula...congrats to Deepti

Sports

Identify this person and what is the claim of fame?

Connect

These three airports in India have something in common.What is it?('a recent incident', would be a big clue)

PS:The list is exhaustive

Answer:'Table-top runway'.The pictures are that of Calicut International Airpot,Lenpui Airport and Mangalore international Airport,where the recent accident occured.These are the only 3 airports in India with table-top runways

Trivia

This is a twelfth centuary Byzantine manuscript of an Oath, which when translated to English starts like this-

"I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art..."

What is this?

Answer:Hippocratic Oath

History

What is written on this stela?

Clue:Ancient Babylon

Connect

How can you connect all the pictures?

Internet is for fun...

Name the city which is renamed like this by its mayor.
This unusual move comes as several U.S. cities elbow for a spot in Google's new "Fiber for communities" program. Google is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities net speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second!

Connect the following pictures

The connect may be simple but can you explain how it is related with all the pictures?




Answer:The link is 'Bo'.
Gautama Buddha got enlightenment under Bodhi tree which is also known as Bo tree,The lady who died recently belongs to Bo tribe of Andaman and Nicobar islands.The third pic is that of hanging coffins,which is a strange practice done by an extinct minority population in China known as Bo people and the last one is the Portuguese water dog of Obama family,'Bo'!!!

Congrats to Vignesh.