Archive for December, 2006

J Ramanand writes a review on the preliminary round of the Champions of the World Quiz by ESPN Star Sports held in Mumbai.
Details can be obtained here
Till next time
Regards
Rohit

Thomas Jacob writes about his experience at the Open Quiz organized by ITC-Client Logic.
The quiz was held on December 9, 2006.
Review and Questions can be obtained here
Till next time
Happy Quizzing!
Regards

Bizzy Bhele Bhaath-6

1) It started as an invention by janitor Murray Spangler in Canton, Ohio in 1907. A family friend, Susan , agreed to give one of his machines a try, and it thus caught the attention of her husband, who owned a leather-goods company. He bought the patent from Spangler in 1908, according to the company, [...]

The Uncommon Sense
Tarkash 2006
Icfai Business School
04 December 2006l
QM: Avinash Mudaliar
An exhilarating quiz, a mix of the best Bangalore quizzing minds, a brilliant quizmaster, a wonderful audience and a never seen before climax- This was ‘The Uncommon Sense’ Business Quiz at Tarkash 2006, hosted by Icfai Business School, Bangalore
Tarkash was the place where both the Undergraduates [...]

Tarkash 2006
Icfai Business School
04 December 2006
QM: Avinash Mudaliar
The Prelims:
1) Which company will be the first internet company to be listed on the Bombay Stock exchange?
Ans: InfoEdge Ltd., which runs the popular sites naukri.com & jeevansathi.com
2) Robert Kaplan, who, along with David Norton, developed the Balanced Scorecard, also came up with an alternative to [...]

Where Beauty and Intellect Meet;
This is Quiz on the Beach!!
The splashing waves
The sweet smell of the sand…
The lighthouse in the backdrop…
One would imagine this to be the perfect setting for a lot of things, but never a quiz!
Yes, this is the Kaup beach, where TAPMI’s famed Quiz on the Beach happened yet again this year!
Sponsored [...]

TAPMI QOTB 2006- Prelims

Quiz on the Beach
Tapmi Atharva Fest
Date: 02 December 2006
Venue: Kaup Beach, Manipal
QM: Giri ‘pickbrain’ Balasubramaniam
The Prelims:
The prelims consisted of 25 questions of which 5 were visuals. The other dry questions can be found below.
1) This newspaper was started in 1931 by Chennai based Veradharajulu Naidu. Screen Weekly, Loksatta and Jansatta are their group publications. Indentify [...]