Landmark Quiz 2011 - Hyderabad Leg

The first ever edition of the Hyderabad leg of Landmark Quiz 2011 would be held on 22nd October at RNR Auditorium. Please click on the image for details.

One of the biggest quizzes in India, this would be a treat for each and every quizzing enthusiast in the city. Please do register in advance to ensure that you get to participate in this event.

Five more that bit the dust

1. It gets its name from the fact that it was observed mostly around Christmas by South American fishermen. A study conducted in 1998 also alludes to this having caused poor crop yields in Europe in 1789-93 which in turn might have helped spark of the French Revolution.
What?

2. Students at the Univ Of Konstanz recently demoed a unique project aimed at providing a revolutionary new navigation system for the blind that analyzed the space around them and then helped them to navigate the space by giving voice instructions.
This system consisted of a belt to be worn by the user which housed the feedback system and helmet with a device mounted on it that formed the heart of this system.
Which “unusual” device did this system use?

3. In the 1600’s when Christopher Wren was redesigning the St. Paul’s Cathedral he was faced with a peculiar problem. He wanted to construct a huge dome but did not know the structure would support the weight.
He posed this problem to his friend X who incidentally had been studying the work of Christian Huygens related to chains. X suggested that Wren should design the dome in the form of an inverted chain since that dome can support its own weight and does not need external support. He even came with the equation to describe such a catenary dome and Wren went back and constructed such a dome and the rest is history.Who was the unlikely architect of the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral?

4. Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, Lencois Maranhenses, a national park and not a desert, lies just outside the Amazon basin. The region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year which cause a peculiar phenomenon: fresh water collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons. Why or how do we know this place?

5. Super 30 is a highly ambitious and innovative educational program which hunts for 30 meritorious talents from among the economically backward sections of the society and shapes them for India's most prestigious institution – the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). After which famous Indian is it named?

We have become nicer!

Yes, with India all set to get a drubbing at Lords, Baba Ramdev no more running in drag on National Television and Anil Kapoor having been snubbed in the MI-4 trailer, the world is no more a nice place. We, however, are such nice people that we are going to do what no one else has done, ever before.

We are going to give away our rejects. Yes! The Greenko Open 2011 rejects and not old, expired questions. Fresh from the editing board and with much heartburn from the owners of the respective questions.

As the start of our benevolence, this Saturday Late Night Fever edition of five questions is just the beginning.

N.B: The questions are at various levels of rejection (We are shamelessly admitting that some may not have been researched enough and have been rejected outright before our stringent rounds of verification, which can put Credit Card companies to shame)

1. The first one in Jun 2010 lasted 665 minutes. The second in Jun 2011, a mere 123 minutes. What are we talking about?
2. The purchase of which famous painting in 1937 for $110,000 with funds from a trust fund for the Philadelphia Museum of Art by their major benefactor Joseph E. Widener was welcome by the editorial of "The Philadelphia Record" as "No less than 41,000 of the city's dwellings—one in every ten—are without bathtubs and One hundred and ten thousand dollars would buy bathtubs for nearly half of these bathtubless dwellings.''?
3. They are a gotra (clan) of Jat, found in the eastern uplands of Sargodha and Gujrat districts, of Punjab, Pakistan. A small number are also found in Jhelum and Gujranwala districts. The most famous of them went by the name Dheedo but was immortalized as the gotra / clan name as part of an epic love story. Who?
4. Identify the original movie and singer of the song remixed here:
5. To whom is this Google doodle a tribute?

Greenko Open Quiz 2011

Fellow accumulators of useless knowledge and esoteric trivia, pay close attention. This is the time to mark your calendars.

Rustam-e-Dauran, Arastu-e-Zaman, Muzzafar-ul-Mulk, Wal Mamalik, Field Marshal, Fateh Jung, Sipah Salar, Faithful Ally of the Quizzing Circuit, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Quizdom, Greenko Open Quiz IV is bringing its tashreef.

It will be held on 30th July (Saturday) 2011 between 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm in Hyderabad at the RNR Auditorium, Banjara Hills. Please do mark it in your calendar and be there.

Chuninda Details

Date: July 30, 2011 (Saturday)

Venue: RNR Auditorium, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Time: Prelims at 2:00 p.m. and finals at 5:00 p.m.

Type: Open

Teams: <= 3 hominids per team, 8 teams in the finals

Entry Fee: 0. Nil. Zilch.

Title Sponsor: Greenko Group

Prizes: In excess of Rs. 80,000 in cash including prizes for all finalists, audience, and other categories

Quiz Masters: Nitish Khadiya, Ravi Mundoli, Priyambad Pattanayak, Diwakar Pingle

Greenko Hyderabad Open Quiz 2010

We're back, baby! We're back!! And we've changed venues. This time it will be in a vastly superior hall that we will bheja fry some of the best quizzers in India.

Date: 31st July (Saturday)

Time:
2:00 pm – Written Elimination Round

4:30 pm – Finals

Please be seated by 1:30 pm

We are sincere in our attempt to be Nazi about punctuality. Be warned :)

Team size: 3 or less

Venue: RNR Auditorium, Opposite Lotus Pond, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad (Route Map)

Eligibility: Must have pulse. Central nervous system desirable but not mandatory.

Entry Fee: Nil. Zero. Zip. Nada. There is no need for any registration either.

Number of teams in finals: 8

The Dabbus:

Ist Place - Rs. 18,000 cash
IInd Place - Rs. 12,000 cash
IIIrd Place - Rs. 9,000 cash

Cash prizes for all finalists!

Special prizes for school teams and corporate teams also.

Attractive audience prizes as well.

Quiz Masters: Diwakar Pingle, Priyambad Pattanayak, Nitish Khadiya and Ravi Mundoli

Please mail us at quizhyd [ATHERATEOF] gmail [DOT] com for any clarifications or call
Nitish(+919885679460) or Ravi(+919500008907).

A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Regards,

The Team

Phase Forward ACE 2010 Corporate Quiz

The 6th edition of the Phase Forward ACE Corporate General Quiz will be conducted in a couple of weeks.

Date: 12 June 2010

Venue: Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Title Sponsor: Phase Forward

More details on the website.

KQA MegaWhats 2009

Mega-Whats is a quiz designed to answer the question ‘Which is India’s best open quizzing team?’.

The operative word here is ‘open’; anybody can form a team to participate, and any team can win. The syllabus, to preempt the obvious question, is surprise.

The quiz will be held across nine cities simultaneously--Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Kolkata.

Date: Sunday, 13 December 2009

Venue: Vasavi Hall AC Auditorium(3rd floor), Opp Sensation Theatre, Khairtabad, Hyderabad.

Entry fee: Rs. 150 per team

1. General quiz, open to all
2. Teams of FOUR members (or less).
3. Prior registration is essential.
4. To register, please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2009 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
5. Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school or open categories
6. Email registrations will close on Sunday 6th December 2009. Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
7. Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses. For Hyderabad this entry fee will be Rs.150 per team.
   
8. The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
9. School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field a maximum of TWO teams (of four members each)
10. Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. The quiz will start at 1500hrs (sharp) and end by 1730hrs.
11. Contesting teams will answer a written quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
12. Answers and scores will be announced on the same day–prizes will be given out for Best School Team and Best Open Team.
13. Prizes for Open and School category winners.
14. We will also announce a national winner and rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
15. The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-master will be final and binding on all participants.

For more details, please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com, or call Arul Mani (097312-14519) or visit www.kqaquizzes.org

General Quiz for Corporates and B-School students

A General Quiz for Corporates and B-School students is planned for teams of 2 members to help raise funds for charity. Details are given below:

Date : Saturday, November 21, 2009
Time : 1pm - 5:30 pm
Registration : 12:30 pm
Prelims : 1 pm
Finals : 2:30 pm
Venue : C.E.S.S ( Centre for Economic and Social Studies), Ameerpet, Hyderabad ( http://www.cess.ac.in/CessHome/locationmap1.htm )

QMs : Nitish Khadiya & Diwakar Pingle

Participation Fee : Rs. 5000/- for one team or Rs. 4,000/- per team if there are more than 2 teams from the same institution

PRIZES :
Winners : approximately worth Rs. 15,000/-
1st runners up : appro. worth Rs . 8,000/-
2nd runners up : appro. worth Rs . 5,000/-



The team participation fee should be treated as a donation for charity and the donation will be tax exempt under Section 80 G of the Income Tax. Cheque/ D.D. should be made in favour of Concern India foundation.

The quiz is open to teams of 2 members wherein both the team members must belong to the same corporate institution or must be students of the same B-School. Participants are requested to carry ID Cards/Letters from HR/Principal for identification purposes.

For any further clarifications please contact :
Laxmi Sukumaran
Concern India Foundation
Flat No:403, Nirman Towers
East Marredpally
Hyderabad-500 026
Tel:+91-40-2773 1460 / 2773 4936

Prelims of the Greenko Hyderabad Open Quiz 2009

HQC Open 2009 Prelims

Greenko Hyderabad Open: Traffic Restrictions in the city tomorrow

Seems like the traffic on SP Road will be diverted or stopped tomorrow due to the Vice President's visit to the city. As per popular newspapers, the timing of the diversions are 12:15 pm to 1 pm and 3:30 pm to 4 pm in the SP Road area, but it can go a little beyond given the nature of such things. The traffic in and around Rajbhawan road and Khairatabad area will be affected from 2pm -4 pm. Please do factor this in while trying to reach the venue tomorrow.

The gates of the auditorium will open at 1:45 pm so please try and be at the venue on time.

Greenko Hyderabad Open Quiz 2009

We're back. The gori details...

Date: 1st August (Saturday)

Time:
2:30 pm – Written Elimination Round

4:45 pm – Finals (We expect the finals to finish by 7:15 pm)

Please land up at least 30 minutes before the quiz and get cracking. We are sincere in our attempt to be Nazi about punctuality.

Venue: Hari Hara Kala Bhavan, Secunderabad (see below for map)

Team Size: Teams of 3

Eligibility: Must have pulse. Central nervous system desirable but not mandatory.

Entry Fee: Nil. Zero. Zip. Nada. There is no need for any registration either.

Prizes
First Prize – Rs. 18,000 cash
Second Prize – Rs. 12,000 cash
Third Prize – Rs. 9,000 cash

Prizes for all finalists + Top 3 School Teams + Best Corporate Team + Audience Prizes

A splendid time is guaranteed for all. Official website is here.

Map (click to enlarge):

Greenko Hyderabad Open 2009

The Hyderabad Open is back!! Please save the date and look for more details on the blog as well as the website:

Date: 1st August 2009
Time : 3pm - 7:30 pm (tentative)
Venue: Hari Hara Kala Bhavan, Secunderabad

Phase Forward ACE 2009 Corporate Quiz

The Hyderabad chapter of Asha, in association with Phase Forward and the Indian School of Business present their annual summer fund-raising even, the Phase Forward ACE 2009 Corporate Quiz.

Date: 13^th June, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Khemka Auditorium, ISB, Gachi Bowli, Hyderabad

Quizmasters: Quizerati

Entry: Rs. 1000 per team of 2

More details, entry forms, FAQ etc. on the website.

Do help Asha by being a sponsor or participant, and with publicity etc.

Mahaquizzer 2009

FYI

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From: Arul Mani - arulmani_98 [AT] yahoo [DOT] com

Hello,

We will hold the fifth edition of Mahaquizzer across 12 cities on Sunday, 24 May 2009. The cities where centres are being offered are Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Thrissur and Mysore. If we are able to obtain permission, Singapore will also figure among the venues.

Mahaquizzer is the National Quizzing Championship. It is open to single entrants. There is no entry fee. Contestants are required to answer 150 questions over 90 minutes.

Mahaquizzer 2009 has been set by Arun Hiregange, Dibyendu Das, Thejaswi Udupa, Avinash Thirumalai and Ochintya Sharma.

Four prizes will be given out in each city: Best Quizzer, Best Woman Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer.

The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2009. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence.This trophy will be given in June 2009 during the KQA 26th Anniversary event.

You can have a look at previous editions of the quiz (2005-2008) here: http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Participants interested in registering should mail Mahaquizzer@gmail.com. Please mention the city where you would like to appear from in the subject-header. Please do mention age and institutional affiliations if you are a student. Since seating is limited in many centres, local coordinators will work on a first-come first-served basis. Please register by Sunday 17 May 2009 to avoid disappointment.

We are working on finalising the venues--a list with full addresses will be put up at http://kqaquizzes.org in a few days.

Please pass the information around at work and on other fora that you may have access to. Please do try and get friends who've never quizzed before to try out this quiz.

For clarifications or for more information , please call me at 97312-14519.


Thank you,

Best Regards

Arul Mani
Coordinator
Mahaquizzer 2009

K-Circle Quiz Fest

K-Circle invites you to participate in the K-Circle Quiz Fest on March 7, 2009 at the Khemka Auditorium, Indian School of Business campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad between 9am and 4 pm. The Quiz Fest consists of a Business Quiz and an Open Quiz.

Advance Registration Mandatory.

Participants are required to register in advance to participate. Participants must carry a Photo Identity Card with them. We solicit your cooperation in this regard.

Registration

The registration form is available on www.kcircle.com. Please fill in the form and mail it to kckcircle@gmail.com

Particulars of Quizzes:

Business Quiz: Teams of two from the same organization
Open Quiz: Teams of three. Any combination permitted.

Prize Money:

Rs 15,000 for each quiz

Open quiz on 8th of February

The next quiz by HQC is on Sunday, the 8th of February.

Here are the details:

Quizmaster: Diwakar Pingle.

To borrow from Dharam paaji in Johnny Gaddaar, "It's not the age, it's the mileage." Like the pater familias he is, Diwakar has provoked feelings of fear, respect, admiration, and dare we say it, affection in the hearts and minds of quizzers across the peninsular and insular subcontinent for the better part of 2 decades. Many a callow lad has embarked on his quizzing career quivering in terror as the Ping's teammate, and having bashed on regardless through fire and brimstone, emerged on the other side as a fine quizzer and leader. Their experience is perhaps best described via General Freiherr Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg letter to Generalsfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel in July, 1944: "The recent battles in a theater of quizzing more exacting than any I had hitherto experienced have, in addition to providing me with my posting...and uniting me in purpose with yourself, wrought an inner change in me. Your quizzerly qualities and experience have transformed the temper of my obediance into something different and finer than the effort of will it had hitherto been. I feel I may ask you, Herr Field Marshal, to accept my thanks for the confidence you placed in me in those brief hard days of quizzing which we went through together..."

He has founded quizzing organizations in more than one city, helped foster and nourish them through a careful combination of carrot and stick (bludgeon, actually) and has set questions for some of the finest quizzes in recent memory. While he claims to specialize in sports, buisness, nature and science, ever so often he will whip out a completely uncharacteristic stunner of an answer involving wildebeest, Evil Kanievel (we don't even know how to spell it) and Raveena Tandon. Quite apart from quizzing, his sports mania now runs to running, and he has many half marathons under his belt (even if it doesn't show over the belt!).

Whew. What we're basically trying to say is that the man is ji heera hai heera. We hear he's doing a westward ho in a few months, and we will sorely miss his organizational skills and his ability to get us off our collective butts into doing something. Here's to you, old man; there's a reason why they say "Ping is King"!


Date: 8 February 2008, Sunday

Time: Please be at the venue by 10:30 a.m. for registration. Seating will be on a first come first served basis. The quiz will begin at 11:00 a.m. sharp.

Venue:
Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd.
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad -73
(see below for directions)

Format: Team quiz - Teams of 3 (or more) will be chosen from the participants at random.

Entry: A contribution of Rs. 25 per head.

Prizes: Gift vouchers worth Rs 1500/-

Directions: From Punjagutta, take the road that goes towards Ameerpet. Cross the Fantoosh-greenlands road junction. Keep going on the road till you see HUDA Complex- Maitrivanam on the RIGHT. Swarnajayanti Complex is the complex immediately after the HUDA complex on the RIGHT.

Contact: Nitish (98856 79460) and Ravi (94418 86489)

Few questions from the quiz on the 11th of January

Here are some of the questions from yet another blockbuster quiz at HQC on the 14th of October done by Praveen.

1. Chewits,a British confectionary firm,released a list of most scary villains this Christmas.The Joker topped it. Darth Vader and Freddy Keuger came third and fourth.Who was second?

A: George W. Bush

2. ____ and _____ were the largest seafaring provinces in Netherlands and hence these two countries originally discovered by Dutch sailors were named as X and Y.While X later changed to Z the name Y stuck.Id X,Y,Z

A: X = Holland, Y = Zeeland, Z = Australia

3. X was so popular in England that the Germans aimed to make a fatal blow to the public confidence by attributing his death in 1915 to a Zeppelin attack. X?

A: W.G.Grace

4. This set of 30 people received an exclusive gift hamper set consisting of Nokia N-Series cell phones,a gold coin,a custom T-Shirt and personalized letter of thanks.Who and why?

A: The stars in the "all star" song from Om Shanti Om as they refused to charge money for appearance.

5. X died in prison on April 28, 1918 due to tuberculosis. Being too young to receive the death penalty X received the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison. What was he imprisoned for?

A: X was Gavrilo Princip, imprisoned for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which act precipitated World War I.

6. The first use of this term is attributed to Alfred Thayer Mahan an American naval strategist in an article published in Sept 1902
"The ___________, if I may adopt a term which I have not seen, will some day need its Malta, as well as its Gibraltar; it does not follow that either will be in the Persian Gulf. Naval force has the quality of mobility which carries with it the privilege of temporary absences; but it needs to find on every scene of operation established bases of refit, of supply, and in case of disaster, of security. The British Navy should have the facility to concentrate in force if occasion arise, about Aden, India, and the Persian Gulf "

A: Middle East

7. The kidnapping & murder Adam Walsh was a landmark case in the US bringing about a number of changes like establishment of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, The Code Adam program for helping lost children in department stores and also the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.Besides these,the murder also led to something very famous.What it is?

A: America's Most Wanted

8. The recent boxing day test match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka brought back a tradition last seen 13 years ago to facilitate the general elections held in the country.Which tradition?

A: Rest day

9. Mona Simpson is an American novelist and essayist who's written popular books like Anywhere But Here,Lost Father and A Regular Guy.She's the younger sister of X. Because X was placed for adoption as a baby by their then-unmarried parents, she first met her sibling only as an adult.ID X?

A report of the quiz will be up soon...
A: Steve Jobs

10. A particular graveyard in Burlington, Vermont is the only of its kind, with each addition made with huge fanfare.Who/what is buried in this graveyard?

A: Ben & Jerry's flavours

Open Quiz on 11th of January

The next quiz by HQC is on Sunday, the 11th of January.

Here are the details:

Quizmaster: In a parallel universe Praveen is Steven Gerrard who is trying to save the world from evil decepticons from Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal among others. He is also the author of the best selling book 'Everything Red: How Liverpool and not 42 is the answer to life,universe and everything'.
While in this universe he is the next big quizzing superstar (which we believe), who also writes complex God-level codes (so we have been told) for Oracle and code-jam contests and it gives us immense pleasure to introduce Praveen as the quizmaster for the next HQC monthly on Sunday, 11th January.

Date: 11 January 2008, Sunday

Time: Please be at the venue by 10:30 a.m. for registration. Seating will be on a first come first served basis. The quiz will begin at 11:00 a.m. sharp.

Venue:
Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd.
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad -73
(see below for directions)

Format: Team quiz - Teams of 3. And we stick to our word of allowing you to participate with your own team.

Entry: A contribution of Rs. 25 per head => Rs. 75 per team.

Prizes: Gift vouchers worth Rs 1500/-

Directions: From Punjagutta, take the road that goes towards Ameerpet. Cross the Fantoosh-greenlands road junction. Keep going on the road till you see HUDA Complex- Maitrivanam on the RIGHT. Swarnajayanti Complex is the complex immediately after the HUDA complex on the RIGHT.

Contact: Nitish (98856 79460) and Ravi (94418 86489)

Report on the HQC monthly quiz on 14th December

QM: Navneet Bal

Format: Teams of 2

Report: Navneet delivered a masterpiece of a quiz.

The attendence was low. While there are theories of pressing engagements and exams we blame it on the 'lazy Sunday morning' syndrome. The low attendence was however the perfect setting for a very serious and classic quiz by Navneet. As usual the quiz threw up a few new faces which again proved that as far as quizzing in Hyderabad is concerned, people needn't worry.

The quiz was divided into two infinite bounce rounds split by a breather. It was a fantastic quiz with a lot of questions on history, Geography, War, Sports and India.

Without being disrespectful to others a team consisting of Ravi and Praveen in a history, geography and war quiz was the team to beat. Despite a splendid performnace, Diwakar and Debjit fell short of beating the eventual winners. Team Priyambad and Afzaal finished a close third.

The venue as usual was provided by Innobox. A big thank you for them.

The quiz lasted almost two hours, and left the entire group thoroughly satisfied with having taken the effort to wake up and show up for the fantastic quiz. Thank you very much Navneet for a splendid quiz.

Winners:
1. Ravi, Praveen, Satish
2. Diwakar, Debjit
3. Priyambad, Afzaal

Thumbs Up
1. Great questions
2. Navneet (Finally a question on Ijazat :) )
3. As usual the fantastic venue
4. The Hitchcock question and the Micheal Holding question

Thumbs Down
3. None actually

Team HQC’s Note
Our thanks to everyone who took time off on a lazy Sunday morning to attend.

The next quiz will be by Praveen and is scheduled for 11th January, 2008 (Sunday) at the same time and in the same place. As it is 'Odyssey Quiz' time, people can come with their own 3 member teams for the January Monthly.

HQC monthly on 14th December - Some pics

Have a look at the fantastic venue provided by Innobox to us.

We will soon put a review of the sensational quiz by Navneet. Till then do with some pics.

Navneet the quizmaster getting the applause.



Awe and shock for Sharda ! Debjit can't take it anymore !!


Kiddo unleashing his rendition of Raag Megh Malhaar on the hapless people


Some magic trick?