tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70201339695175190842024-03-13T21:10:01.973+05:30Jwala's Quizzing CultPiyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-82193134353142008582010-02-23T14:16:00.002+05:302010-02-23T14:28:01.984+05:30Quizzing UpdateHey<br />Two nice event coming up this week:<br /><br />Thursday: Mastermind Prelims<br />7 pm, 2lt 2<br />Format: Mastermind is a Non-comp. The prelims are open to all. No teams. There will be seven seperate categories :SciTech, Sports, HistMyth, Literature-Arts,Movies and Ent,Business and India ; and you have to select 3 or 4 that you are most comfortable with.The winners from each category get to go on to the finals where its a different story and you can ask me in person about it.<br /><br />Friday: Lone Wolf<br />7 pm, SAC CR<br /><strong>COMP</strong><br />Format: Lone Wolf is probably the most exciting of the events.First there will be prelims based on which 3 wildcards will be selected and join the 11 finalists which are the official entry of each hostel.Everyone should try as theres a good enough chance of qualifying (I qualified as a faccha last year)<br />In the finals ,if a guy gives a correct answer,he decides which player the next question goes to.If that guy doesnt know the answer, he gets points docked off him. Ppl kept getting eliminated based on points and usually alot of "bigwigs" get eliminated while a few "unknowns" advance forward. Himadri even managed to win it a few years back.(With No offence to girls).<br />In any case,everyone should come and watch this events.<br /><br />Piyush<br />9810730914Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-14786368715942492942009-09-18T16:36:00.002+05:302009-09-18T17:01:26.445+05:30It's a jungle out there..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ULqU2nQ4Pt8/SrNvaSfJ_4I/AAAAAAAAAAU/UHQDUSgq864/s1600-h/connect-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ULqU2nQ4Pt8/SrNvaSfJ_4I/AAAAAAAAAAU/UHQDUSgq864/s400/connect-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382768477067673474" border="0" /></a><br />Connect.<br /><br />Non-exhaustive.Rachithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721480834698469195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-68260119708925275862009-08-16T19:54:00.002+05:302009-08-16T22:51:04.890+05:30First BloodHey guys.The first comp event of the year is up! Details:<br /><br />Name: First Blood:<br />Venue: SAC COMMITTEE ROOM<br />Time: 7:00 pm<br />date: 18th august<br />There will be 3 wild cards(For starters - means one hostel team can qualify for the finals through the prelims)<br />Two members.For more information,contact me:<br /><br />Piyush<br />C-40<br />9810730914<br /><br />Quizmasters:Prateek Singh and Lochab.Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-70525580207329159622009-06-21T16:05:00.007+05:302009-06-22T03:12:20.725+05:30Holiday Homework?Hey all.I hope you all are having a nice time.<br />I was just skimming through last year's Mastermind Non comp..and there were some questions I didnt know the answer to.So I thought its a nice oppurtunity to publish a long overdue post.<br /><br />1)The film 'west side story; tell the story of west side of what?<br /><br />2)Heres a funny one,if your guesses matches the work of most Indian archaelogists,then you might just get points for answering where the earliest earthquake in the Indian subcontinent took place?<br />a.Mohenjodaro b.Lothal c. Dholavira d. Kalibangan <br /> (Directly quoted from the quiz)<br /><br />3)In the early 18th century in Meena Bazaar, Lahore a dwarf was assigned the responsibility of opening all the shops in the market. What practice originates from this convention?<br /><br />4) What takes its name from a ridge (meaning 'the ridge of white waters' in Afrikaans) upon which Johannesburg is built- also the source of 40% of gold ever mined?<br /><br />5)Which was the first Hindi serial to be made in South India?<br /><br /><br />6)It is a common misconception in America that when X ran for Vice-President,he got only 110 votes.However,he actually got 110 delegates(who were about 360 in number at that time),which is quiet good considering that he had been an unknown Illinois Senator before the elections.X went on to become President in the next elections.<br /><br />7)X and his father were helpless when the powerful clan Y asked his sister's hand in marriage for their eldest son. They couldn't refuse.X vowed vengeance on the clan.On his father's death,he fashioned his "weapon" out of his father's thighs.He then used this "weapon",which supposedly would do as he bid, to fashion the destruction of Y.Give X and his "weapon".<br /><br />8)Which famous building was built during WWII to save structural steel?<br /><br />9)Connect :<br /><br />a) The _____________ is an international award for study at the University of Oxford and was the first large scale programme of International scholarships.Winners may study any full time post-grad courses offered by the University-whether a taught master's programme,research degree or a second undergrad degree(Senior status)<br /><br />b) Debeers<br /><br /><br />P.S: Please mention whether you're taking a guess or whether you're pretty sure of the answer.Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-92021629232442912962009-04-16T22:21:00.003+05:302009-04-16T22:25:53.424+05:30Genesis 1Prelims 1) In the medieval , a bell was ringed at a fixed time in the evening as an order to bank the hearths and prepare for sleep. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. This gave rise to the word “X”, which comes from the French for “cover fire”. X has most recently been used in times of turbulence.<br /><br />Prelims 2) <br />The origin of the name X is uncertain. According to Paul Ford's Companion to X, there is no indication that Y was alluding to the ancient Italian Umbrian city Nequinium, which the conquering Romans renamed X in 299 BC after the river Nar. However, since Y studied classics at Oxford, it is possible that he came across at least some of the seven or so references to X in Latin literature.[ There is also the possibility (but no solid evidence) that Y, who studied medieval and Renaissance literature, was aware of a reference to Lucia von X ("Lucy of X") in a 1501 German text, Wunderliche Geschichten von geistlichen Weybbildern ("Wondrous stories of monastic women") by Ercole d'Este.<br /><br />(Rachit,bhatta,nitish,bannerjee,apoorv,abhinav,shankhayan forbidden to answer)Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-81000911932793806422009-04-16T04:23:00.003+05:302009-04-16T04:30:26.841+05:30Francis Ford CuppolaPart of what has facilitated _____________'s spread are the reactions it causes.<sup id="cite_ref-gay_9-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_girls_1_cup#cite_note-gay-9" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup> Hundreds of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video to their friends and taping their reactions.<sup id="cite_ref-msnbc_3-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_girls_1_cup#cite_note-msnbc-3" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McGill_4-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_girls_1_cup#cite_note-McGill-4" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gay_9-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_girls_1_cup#cite_note-gay-9" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup> Even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan" title="Joe Rogan">Joe Rogan</a>, host of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Factor" title="Fear Factor">Fear Factor</a>, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_girls_1_cup#cite_note-10" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup> A reaction video starring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog" title="Kermit the Frog">Kermit the Frog</a> proved very popular on the community-based popularity website <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg" title="Digg">Digg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clicked_11-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_girls_1_cup#cite_note-clicked-11" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup> In January 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_%28magazine%29" title="Slate (magazine)">Slate</a> magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions. The video is mentioned during a cutaway of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a> episode "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Woods_%28Family_Guy%29" title="Back to the Woods (Family Guy)">Back to the Woods</a>", where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Griffin" title="Brian Griffin">Brian</a> shows the video to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewie_Griffin" title="Stewie Griffin">Stewie</a> and films his reaction.Apoorvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16461495819398945113noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-43437624222351020782009-04-16T04:11:00.003+05:302009-04-16T04:14:09.937+05:30Uploading QuestionsMaybe you could upload all the questions ( atleast the prelims) onto the blog.... something i was too lazy to do....<br />or atleast your own questions???Apoorvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16461495819398945113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-51136967340368942042009-04-14T20:25:00.002+05:302009-04-14T20:31:44.261+05:30GenesisHey all<br />GENESIS is going to be held tomorrow (Wednesday,15th April) at 8 pm in the SAC COMMITTEE ROOM. Its a NON-COMP with 3 member teams. EVERYONE PLEASE PARTICIPATE.PUHLEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ.......<br />:)<br />Your new QC RepPiyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-37748821582513705022009-04-05T02:13:00.004+05:302009-04-05T03:07:26.381+05:30WorkshopPassing the Baton ( a Quizzing Workshop) is going to bet held in the SAC Committee room on Monday at 6 PM. Everyone from JWALA actively involved in quizzing is requested to attend.Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-38268873200847622082009-03-07T22:43:00.003+05:302009-03-08T03:14:36.668+05:30Dry Ones1) As easy as it gets.Just give the country "X",whose History is being talked about.<br /><p></p>The modern X was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors and took the name Muskar. Y conquered the country in 1195 until _____ drove them away in 1275. ______became King in 1360. When an enemy, Baron Staszrvitch, claimed the Throne and attacked him with his sword, ______ struck him to the ground with his _______. The King then decreed that the ruler of X must have hold on the ______, otherwise he would lose his authority. This custom had a power of law as late as 1939.<br />In 1939 X was nearly invaded by its neighbor Y, as part of a plot to oust King Muskar XII. (The situation was very similar to that of Anschluss in Austria in 1938 though the conclusion was not the same).<br /><br />2)A <span style="font-weight: bold;">X</span> is an error in speech or deliberate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_play" title="Word play">play on words</a> in which corresponding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonants</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel">vowels</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphemes" title="Morphemes" class="mw-redirect">morphemes</a> are switched.While X are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's words in a tangle, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.<br />eg:<br /><ul><li>"Three cheers for our queer old dean!" (dear old queen, referring to Queen Victoria)</li><li>"Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" (customary to kiss)</li><li>"The Lord is a shoving leopard." (a loving shepherd)</li><li>"A blushing crow." (crushing blow)</li><li>"A well-boiled icicle" (well-oiled bicycle)</li><li>"You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle." (lighting a fire)</li><li>"Is the bean dizzy?" (dean busy)</li><li>"Someone is occupewing my pie. Please sew me to another sheet." (occupying my pew...show me to another seat)</li><li>"You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain." (missed...history, wasted...term, down train)</li></ul><br /><p></p>Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-23864574517385468652009-03-07T02:52:00.002+05:302009-03-07T02:55:34.639+05:30In reality, the song X is written by Gopal Singh Nepali for the movie Narsi Bhagat (1957). This song is also credited as traditional and originally written by 15th century poet Narsinh Mehta, whose life that film is based on. (Many, including the film Y , mistakenly attribute it to the 16th-century poet Z due to the fact that Z was blind and the song is a prayer asking God to "appear" before him, for his "eyes thirst for Your sight".)Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-60176537556687956962009-02-19T17:40:00.009+05:302009-02-19T18:04:52.265+05:30easy oneWhere will you find this:<br />On the reverse is the inscription (in Latin): <p> <table style="border-style: none; margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 35px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20"> "</td> <td style="padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">CONGREGATI <p>EX TOTO ORBE</p> <p>_______________</p> <p>OB SCRIPTA INSIGNIA</p> <p>TRIBUERE</p></td> <td style="padding: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 36px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="20"> "</td></tr></tbody></table></p> <p>Translation: "The _______________ having congregated from the whole world awarded because of outstanding writings."</p> <p>In the background, there is the representation of Archimedes' tomb, with the carving of his theorem on the Sphere and the Cylinder (a sphere and a circumscribed cylinder of the same height and diameter, the result of which he was most proud) behind a branch.</p>Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-28198189377367028942009-02-07T21:37:00.002+05:302009-02-07T21:42:23.187+05:30pappi!!!!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lPn76M96RHc/SY2yMLMULfI/AAAAAAAAAB0/SUUJxnjEuTc/s1600-h/q.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300088258717560306" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 170px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lPn76M96RHc/SY2yMLMULfI/AAAAAAAAAB0/SUUJxnjEuTc/s320/q.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>X wrote some original music that was used in Y's film A and was reported to only have been paid one mu for doing so.<br />Y directed a scene in X's film B (also reported to be paid one mu in return) and loaned him some swords from A to use for a character.</div><div> </div><div>(1mu= 1 monetary unit of that country)</div><div>I need X,Y,A and B....The pic is a hint.....</div><div> </div><div>P.S.: let the fachhas have a go first!!!!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>*</div>If only...http://www.blogger.com/profile/03474166105934263543noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-68765106496014765872009-02-03T03:29:00.003+05:302009-02-03T03:34:36.714+05:30change in scheduleMastermind Prelims : 4th Feb<br />Lone wolf : 6th Feb<br /><br />7 categories in mastermind:lit&art;hist&myth,sports,india,business,movies&entertainment,scitech<br />Reps make the questions. you choose 4 categories out of the 7. it is a written quiz. You get an hour to answer all 4 question papers. Should be around 15 questions in each category. The winner of each category gets to go on to the finals.Apoorvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16461495819398945113noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-22316590604515517182009-02-02T21:24:00.004+05:302009-02-02T22:02:06.211+05:30I bow to thee...<ol><li>A is a American southern rock band. It was pretty famous and visible worldwide before several members of the band were killed in a plane crash in 1977. The band's name is a mocking tribute to the gym teacher of the vocalist's school who enforced a rule in school against boy's long hairs. Id A.....</li><li>Most of the music of song 'B' was written by X while the lyrics came from Y's experience when he was injected tranquilizers for hepatitis by a doctor before a band show. X and Y disagreed about how to record the song, finally deciding after much fighting on Y's opening and X's ending on solos to give a memorable track. Giveaway (literally).. B, X, Y.<br /></li></ol>Nitishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656158089163288080noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-52121335390367840872009-02-02T21:00:00.006+05:302009-02-02T23:15:07.469+05:30You like dawgs???<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OURIakeH72c/SYcTuperDHI/AAAAAAAAACE/6yhaAOCyUWQ/s1600-h/Mia.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OURIakeH72c/SYcTuperDHI/AAAAAAAAACE/6yhaAOCyUWQ/s320/Mia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298225178754092146" border="0" /></a><br />Connect A and B<br /><br />A (see pic) is a Grammy nominated British vocalist and artist of Tamilian descent.<br /><br /><br />B's debut music score for movie C was listed in the "Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time" in the TIME magazine. Earlier, B was a part of a rock band 'Roots' as a keyboard player along with his friends JoJo, John Anthony and drummer D. He also founded a band named 'Nemesis Avenue'. D went on be a renowned and creative percussionist.<br /><br />Id C and D as a bonus...Nitishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656158089163288080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-7267261617605973392009-01-31T02:19:00.004+05:302009-01-31T11:33:17.283+05:30Exhaustive List:4, 10, 7, 23, 23, 32<br /><br />Pretty simple really. But to get the ball rolling, so to say.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-22978942678782515262009-01-21T11:45:00.002+05:302009-01-21T11:53:46.885+05:30aise hiThe question is this:<br /><br />Go to Piyush's Blogger user profile and read the warning given in ABOUT ME.<br />Whose actual words are those???Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925035946171462428noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-73492648638839211492009-01-21T02:50:00.002+05:302009-01-21T02:56:12.971+05:30of ho's and bubble gum"I feel so free now, you know? ‘Cause when people see this<br />video, they’re going to stop thinking of me as some blonde-haired, bubble-gum,<br />music-industry ho. And start thinking of me as an actual ho."<br /><br />These are the words of Sarah Michelle Gellar while performing as someone in a spoof of MTV’s Making the Video. Who is this someone and which music video is being talked about?Apoorvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16461495819398945113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-57402213961804180112009-01-21T02:35:00.002+05:302009-01-21T02:47:19.508+05:30Schedulehi,<br />here's the tentative schedule for the sem:<br /><br />1. Quizzalthon - 16th Jan<br />2. Lone Wolf - 4th Feb<br />3. Jeopardy - 20th Feb<br /><br />Non Comps<br /><br />1. 22nd jan<br />2. 9th Feb<br />3. 19th Feb<br /><br />Mastermind Prelims: 5th Feb<br /><br />@facchas<br />Mastermind is a Non-comp. The prelims are open to all. No teams. There will be seperate categories like science and tech, sports, hist and myth, pop cult, etc; and you have to select 3 or 4 that you are most comfortable with.The winners from each categpry get to go on to the finals where its a different story and you can ask me in person about it. Nice event.<br /><br />The first non comp. Well the date is for today. But i dont see any posters. Ill call you guys up personally otherwise.<br /><br />Lone wolf is probably the most exciting of the events. i dont remember it all, but theres a funda that the guy to whom a question is posed doesnt have to answer it, but can passit to anyone he wants to, and if that guy doesnt know the answer, he gets points docked off him. I may be entirely wrong, but i definitely remember that ppl kept getting eliminated based on points and alot of "bigwigs" get eliminated while a few "unknowns" advance forward.<br /><br />the final non comp will have 1-3rd of the qs by me so you are all personally invited. INfinite bounds this time. no experimentation with the format.Apoorvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16461495819398945113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-7360703745523042902008-12-30T17:20:00.008+05:302008-12-31T00:01:51.434+05:30Long Overdue - All Dry1.The Andhra Bank is the only bank in the country licensed to sell food products. Funda?<br /><br />2.X was accessible through a large gold-colored door with a giant keyhole, which required an enormous key to open it.X contained an alien zoo, a giant steel diary , a chess-playing robot, specialized exercise equipment, a laboratory where Y worked on various projects such as developing defenses to Z, a (room-sized) computer, communications equipment, and rooms dedicated to all of his friends.Identify X,Y and Z.<br /><br />3<span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span>X<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>is a two-player abstract strategy board game that can be played using the same equipment as chess. X has so far proven to be more difficult for artificial intelligences to play than chess.What is X?<br /><br />4.Oh here's to my sweet Satan.<br />The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.<br />He will give those with him 666.<br />There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.<br />The above lines which look like a satanic message,when played backwards are a part of a very famous song X.Identify X.<br /><br />5.X shares a fantasy he has been thinking about; he pictures himself as the sole guardian of several children playing a game of ball in a huge rye field on the edge of a cliff. His job is to catch the children if they wander close to the brink, to be a "Y".Identify the book and the author.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17925035946171462428noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-56946165667130549102008-12-18T14:16:00.012+05:302008-12-18T15:25:37.321+05:30Mega Connect<div>Connect the individual connects to one mega-connect.<br /><div><div><div><div>1)Tell the Connect b/w pic and A :</div><br /><div>O slender as a willow-wand! <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GNoqG-hTwSA/SUodC5jKgXI/AAAAAAAAACk/7fps8InEH84/s1600-h/TS.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281065448690581874" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 145px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GNoqG-hTwSA/SUodC5jKgXI/AAAAAAAAACk/7fps8InEH84/s200/TS.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div>O clearer than clear water!</div><div>O reed by the living pool!</div><div>Fair river-daughter!</div><div>O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after!</div><div>O wind on the waterfall, and the leaves' laughter!<br />Old A is a merry fellow;</div><div>Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.</div><br /><div></div><div>2) TELL C</div><div>The gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus, had all wooed C, but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities. Thus, C lived a peaceful life before she became the goddess of the underworld, which, according to Olympian mythographers, did not occur until Hades abducted her and brought her into the underworld. She was innocently picking flowers with some nymphs—, Athena, and Artemis, the Homeric hymn says—, or Leucippe, or Oceanids— in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth; the nymphs were changed by Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter, goddess of the Earth, searched everywhere for her lost daughter. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened.<br />Finally, Zeus, pressured by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, could not put up with the dying earth and forced Hades to return C. But before she was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, (seven, eight, or perhaps four according to the telling) which forced her to return to the underworld for a season each year.</div><br /><div></div><div>3)Short and easy:</div><br /><div>The term D is derived from the original name of the goddess D (also known as Dakshayani), who immolated herself because she was unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her (living) husband Shiva.</div><br /><div></div><div>4)Connect:</div><div>I. It is said that E was so old when he took a nap in a chair in the teachers’ lounge/staff room that he died in his sleep and simply got up to go to teach his next class and 'left his body behind'.</div><br /><div>II.</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281060156430291394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GNoqG-hTwSA/SUoYO2V_EcI/AAAAAAAAACU/JdriwvRlsU0/s200/POKE.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>5) F can refer to:<br />An algorithm for performing encryption </div><div>An English name for the number 0. </div><div>An evil Pokémon syndicate, F </div><div>Fis the name of a Marvel Comics character in the newuniversal imprint. </div><div>The main character in Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War </div><div>A word used to refer to zero, the letter "O" or any circle in the doctrine of The Nation of Gods and Earths (also known as The Five Percent nation). </div><div>A "freestyle session" in which hip-hop artists perform scripted or improvised rhyming acts. </div><div>The hardcore punk band F</div><div>6) Additional Clues for the Connect:</div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GNoqG-hTwSA/SUodvN4RWlI/AAAAAAAAACs/-g5boQX24RA/s1600-h/300px-Alkhalid.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281066210062064210" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 110px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GNoqG-hTwSA/SUodvN4RWlI/AAAAAAAAACs/-g5boQX24RA/s200/300px-Alkhalid.jpg" border="0" /></a><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281061397475975746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 136px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 83px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GNoqG-hTwSA/SUoZXFmVYkI/AAAAAAAAACc/XX_0RacM9Lc/s200/1.png" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div>Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-31359375563875903452008-12-14T21:28:00.003+05:302008-12-14T22:45:23.664+05:30A SitterTell X.Many clues given:<br /><br />X may also refer to several things:<br /><br />X (album), the 1992 EP produced by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) under the Power Pill alias, which sampled heavily from the game's audio <br />X,an unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a parody of The Beatles' song "Taxman" <br />X frog, the name given to several varieties of frog with large mouths and abdomens <br />X Nebula, a region of space formally known as NCG 281 <br />Lilac chaser, an optical phenomenon also known as the X illusion <br />X defense, a legal strategy where a smaller company fights off a takeover by purchasing the larger company <br />X (package manager), the package management system of Arch Linux <br />slang for a coin acceptor<br />The codename of a covert propaganda operation undertaken by the South African military to discredit the anti-apartheid movement by the International Freedom Foundation <br />Operation X, a campaign enacted by the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries in 2002 to apprehend illegal paua and rock lobster poachers <br />The pet vampire Pomeranian (dog) of Triple H's character in Blade: Trinity<br />Team X, a wrestling team <br />X (Character) Any object or picture resembling a disk missing one quadrant or missing a smaller sector; such X appear in illusory contoursPiyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-62594121495804875612008-12-05T19:27:00.007+05:302008-12-05T21:00:05.723+05:30A tricky oneIdentify and connect:<br />1)<br /><a href="http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/50400/50431.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/50400/50431.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span><br />Full name ______</span><br /><br /><br />Nicknam Rock<br />Born 23 April 1981 (1981-04-23) (age 27)<br />Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)<br />Batting style Right-hand<br /><span>Role Wicketkeeper Batsman</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />2)<br /><br />____________is a former Australian <a title="Cricket" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket">cricketer</a> who played in 7 <a title="Test cricket" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket">Tests</a> and 25 <a title="One Day International" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_International">ODIs</a> from 1993 to 1999.<a href="http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/041999/004592.player.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px" alt="" src="http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/041999/004592.player.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span>Standing at 6' 5", he was a dangerous left-arm fast-medium bowler and a tremendously hard-hitting right-handed late-middle order batsman, he was regarded as a prospect to become an all-rounder. When on form, his bowling was particularly lethal, with the awkward angle of delivery being a left-armer, the natural swing, and the lift he generated from his great height. However, his bowling average was mediocre, comparable to part-time bowlers such as Mark Waugh and Steve Waugh. In batting, he was a destructive striker of the ball when on song.He had two short spells in the Australian Test team. His first stint was in the 1993 Ashes tour against England when he scored a gritty 56*, and secondly his tight and penetrative bowling spells in the history making West Indies tour of 1995 when in the absence of injured Craig McDermott and Damien Fleming, he and Paul Reiffel undertook new ball responsibilities.<br />He was a regular member of the One-day team during 1998 and 1999, being a member of the winning squad at the 1999 Cricket World Cup, despite being confined to the bench for the majority of the tournament. He was dropped after the tournament.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Connect is something distinctive about them(obviously!) ,but some other cricketers can also be connected to the connect,but they are not as famous as these.(relatively speaking),Try guesses,you might just get it.</em></strong>Piyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16407892111722711740noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7020133969517519084.post-6899056359482003652008-11-25T02:58:00.001+05:302008-11-26T18:29:05.536+05:30New Question1 ) Hinduism teaches that the soul goes on repeatedly being born and dying. One is reborn on account of desire: a person <i>desires</i> to be born because he or she wants to enjoy worldly pleasures, which can be enjoyed only through a body.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#cite_note-16" title=""><span></span><span></span></a></sup> Hinduism does not teach that all worldly pleasures are sinful, but it teaches that they can never bring deep, lasting happiness or peace (<i>ānanda</i>). This is a part of the statement of a popular concept .What ?<br />2 ) X comprises of snow and may comprise of rocks and boulders.It is of three common types namely -loose snow ,slab and isothermal.<br />A common myth about X is ,X can be triggered by shouting, but the truth is<b> </b>X cannot be triggered by sound as the forces exerted by the pressures in sound waves are far too low. The very large shockwaves produced by explosions can trigger X, however, if they are close enough to the surface.<br />What is X ?Siddharth Bhattacharyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02772904345674153441noreply@blogger.com4