Thursday, March 08, 2007

General quiz

My penchant for killer quizzes have been on the decline especially after being at the receiving end of killer quizzes . So here goes an easier quiz.

1. Music:A brother sister duo who were active from 69 to 83 , winning 3 Grammys. Famous for albums like yesterday once more.Name the two/ the last name.

2. Mythology:No of legs that Agni is supposed to have.

3.Space above and beyond : Name the first women to go into space.

4.Arts:The title Nightingale of india was bestowed upon Sarojini Naidu by whom?

5.Jargons: whatz work in?

6. IT: A famous recursive acronym( clue:free software)

7.Agriculture:I am a type of bamboo(gotta believe that).Originally from south east asia.People consume my extract as juice. U use me everyday as a derived product.

8.Women's day spcl: The first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School.

9. Famous quotes: "‘Some men see things around them and wonder why! I dream of things that aren’t, and say why not?" By whom was this written?

10.Trivia: Whatz Addiction to chocolates known as?

12 Comments:

At 8:55 PM, Blogger sophist said...

1) Karen and Richard Carpenter

2) Agni has three legs

3) Valentina Tereshkova

4) MK Gandhi

5)

6) GNU

7) Sugarcane

8) Naina Lal Kidwai

9) GB Shaw

10) Chocoholism

Didn't get your 5th question!

 
At 9:20 PM, Blogger Dainty Damsel said...

Harini,can I have your e-mail where in I can give away the correct answers of my quiz?I shall also mail abt activities from my end n stuff.Nice to see the enthu u have in typing 4 times in my blog :).Thanks.

Ansers from my end

3.Valentina Tereshkova

4.Shankaracharya?(not sure)

7.Sugar cane

8.Naina Lal Kidwai

9.Bernard Shaw

 
At 10:32 PM, Blogger Serendipity said...

Folks u gotta mail me the answers :(

next time mail to jusquizzes@yahoo.com

 
At 8:32 PM, Blogger Serendipity said...

@ Naren - 8 points for ya :)

5. wrk in is a jargon used in HR. Wat does it mean ?:) clue think manufacturing

 
At 8:36 PM, Blogger Serendipity said...

@vaishnavi - jus the 4th pal. rest r fine :) n have mailed to ur msn id.

other answers - from venki from geekalmighty.blogspot.com - 6 points

send ur answers to jusquizzes and throw ur comments on the quiz here. even a line saying answers sent is fine, so that i check the mail. thanks folks for ur support :)

 
At 9:39 PM, Blogger Dainty Damsel said...

Harini I dint receive your mail yet:(

A good quiz composition :)
Sorry for the inconvinience otherwise email me at:
vaishnavianenigma at gmail dot com(this format to avoid spam)
4 answers is all I know.Dint want to google.Have seen Naren's answer now so would not make it cliched.

cheerz n greetz
Vaishnavi

 
At 10:46 AM, Blogger Serendipity said...

done ma :)

 
At 9:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi!

attempted 7 qs.
mailed u..

nice idea - a quiz blog! :)

 
At 10:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

n Ms.serendipity, pls. post ur answers as the final comment in every post! :)

 
At 6:51 AM, Blogger Serendipity said...

@ Anu. been mailing / telling the ans to folks who attempt the quizzes.Didnt wanna type the answers here coz when u are trying these on a later date the fun of solving is lost when solns are already there :)

good to c so much participation. Will update regularly :)

Other answers - from Ajith :)

 
At 5:26 PM, Blogger Rajaram S said...

Came across ur quiz blog from vaishnavi's blog ..shall add it to the list of quiz blogs that i maintain on my site.

 
At 7:39 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting to know.

 

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