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Controversy Quiz

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Q. What was the controversy and who took out this print ad??

Icon and ~ the car..

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Q. identify. ps- Clue in the tag Ans- Avnith Aviral Sourya Fox Gokul Venkat Anonym raklodrama

Occasions QUiz

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Q. A morose one for the day.. the occasion? ps- famous pic Ans- That is Richard Nixon leaving the White House after resigning in connection with the Watergate scandal. Photo dated 9th August,1974 Crack- venkat, virtuoso, raklodrama, gokul.

famous and the not so famous..

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Q. Not the most famous game but it introduced a certain gaming norm and a gaming term now commonly used. Which norm/term ??? Answer- The gaming norm it introduced was 'WASD' being used as default motion keys.. this was the first game to do so.. This is now off course a gaming norm and even a term amongst the gaming community Cracks- Few wise guesses but no cracks...!!

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Q . Connect. Easy.

N()()Bs

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Q. This one be a sitter.. Put fundae. Ans- Quoting one of the answers Maldives may submerge due to global warming - to draw the world attention , Maldives politicians conducted underwater cabinet meeting. Cracks- fundamental, GTLogo(Partly), Virtuoso, Avneeth, Chandrashekhar and Gokul(part).

Trivial

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An easy one. Connect the pictures to state two terms, one being a mere extention of the other. You may/ may not ignore the US colour code because it only showws the nationality of the two other men.

Sitter Today, Gone Tommorow.

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Q. A simple one. The advertiser? The Controversy? ans- Burger King The advertisement shows a picture of Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of wealth over a beef burgers, which are forbidden under Hindu religion. Being offensive it was taken back with immediate effect. cracks- techie, avneeth, sumeet, raklodrama , aviral, ron, KP, aman , Chitananda.

Water Water Everywhere...

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Q. This for my favorite city.. Identify the construction.. Ans- This is the Bandra Worli Sea Link Cracks- Anonymous Aviral S. Mike Sumeet Raklodrama Techie

Land of the ..

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Q. Associating the three pics. identify the source... as in just view the pics and put fundae.. Ans- Thes are the commercialized products from the sand of the Dead Sea which are thought to have skin healing "powers" Cracks- RON Aviral Rand Ashwini ps- An extremely interesting answer by B.A.T.. not right but well thought..

Sabse Bada

1. On reverse side, a double line cross with a dot in each pellet of cross and inscription in Hindi and English around it. This design has been prepaed by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with the theme of "Unity in Diversity". An alternate theme in a press release is quoted to be "Connectivity and Information technology" The outer side metal is Nickel-Bronze and the inner side metal is Ferrous Steel. The weight is 8 grams. These are being made at mainly Noida and Mumbai. These worth Rs.70 million are already stored in its stock till August 2008. What are these?? 2. * Each shipment crossing an international border should be: 1. Transported in a tamper-resistant container. 2. Accompanied by a government-validated XXX Certificate. * Each certificate must be resistant to forgery, uniquely numbered and describe the shipment's contents. * The shipments are only supposed to be exported to other XXX participant countries. Failure to comply with...

Easy Connect

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Q. An easy connect on an overcast hyderabad sunday.. (purely co-inc. if this may have appeared in another quiz blog before..) Ans- Juggernaut Movie: Juggernaut.. the anthony hopkins starrer Comics: Juggernaut (X-Men) Juggernaut is derived from Lord Jaganath.. Cracks- Sandipan Sairam Debashish Nakki Nadeem

Grumpy Bumpy.. pic quiz

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Q. Identify the damsel..major clue in the pic. Ans- The answer was Lydia Guevara grand daughter of Che who Sandipan saw in Bang Mirror and i saw in TOI.. Off course its for the PETA ad. Cracks- Sandipan Nakki Adi Ron Abhinav (got the peta ad part)

A very fundamental question for today : quiz Blog- Pic Quiz

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Q. Identify. Ans- George Johnstone Stoney (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". He had introduced the concept, though not the word, as early as 1874 and 1881, and the word came in 1891.

From the papers

"I just wasn't fast enough," said Nguyen, a 23-year-old engineer from Pennsylvania. Asked how it felt to take second place, he was clearly disappointed: "I just got beaten by a teenage girl, but you know." Tirosh, who said she practiced with her friend and trainer Amy, who threw out random words or symbols and even motivational Buddhist quotes, admitted to feeling a certain pressure due to the home side advantage. Wearing a satin boxing robe before her championship bout against Pozgar, she said success would come down to who could marry lightning speed and accuracy. "It's about balance." She said she owed her success to relaxation and deep breathing. So dedicated is she to the art that Tirosh apparently unwittingly uses abbreviations such as BTW (by the way), TTYL (talk to you later) and LOL (laughing out loud) in her normal speech. In a tense championship final, Tirosh seemed to have won only for judges to rule she had made a 15,000-dollar error....

put fundae..

* Willard Scott (Washington, D.C. 1963–1965) * Bev Bergeron (Southern California, 1966-68) * George Voorhis (South California, 1968-1970) * Bob Brandon (1970-1975) * King Moody (1975-1984) * Squire Fridell (1984-1991) * Jack Doepke (1990-1995) * Joe Maggard (1995-2007) * Brad Lennon (2007-Present) Ans- At any given time, there are dozens, or possibly hundreds, of actors retained by McDonald's to appear as Ronald McDonald in restaurants and events. It is assumed, however, that the company uses only one actor at a time to play the character in national television commercials. the above is a list of such primary Ronald actors. Cracks- Sandipan Chitananda Sairam VONMANN Aman

From the News : Pic Quiz.

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Q. Put fundae to the following pic.. ANs- The first movie to be shown in ryadh,saudi arabia since 30 years.. the govt had closed down theatres and stopped airing of movies due to the liberal portrayal of women in movies. This movie comes as a bold step 30 years on.. cracks- ron fathima sandipan bikram

Hitradistrous - Yes ther's no such word.. i just made it up : Pic Quiz

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Q. Identify the set of symbols.. (Mail ur guest questions @ acmemoe@gmail.com) ans- yes they are the planetary symbols.. cracks- avneeth

Sitter Witter..

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Q. I am absolutely exhausted making other quiz question so here's a very uninspiringly easy one.. Guest Q's will be more than entertained @ = acmemoe@gmail.com Ans- Amitabh Bachchan from his upcoming 'Pa' right from yesterday's newspaper. Cracks- Gaurav Abhinav Rajnish Saurabh Sandipan

Retreat

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Q. Simple. Identify. ans- the MATLAB logo.. Cracks- Raghunath Bad Ass Thambi CHitananda