The Qubicle - online quiz series

Xquizzite – The quizzing association of XIMB proudly presents The Qubicle – The online quiz challenge. The first part of The Qubicle goes live on 22^nd September 2009.

This quiz challenge aims at bringing together, on the World Wide Web, the best quizzing talents of the country and beyond. In short this quiz series is open to all. The Qubicle will be a no holds barred quiz which will test the Q-Quotient of the best quizzing brains, irrespective of campus, organisation or profession.

The Qubicle is a series of three online quizzes to be held from 22^ndtill 24^th September 2009. The quizzes will start at 10 PM every night and continue till 11 PM. The winner of each quiz will receive Rs 2000 cash and the runners up Rs 1000, apart from the certificates of course.The detailed itinerary is as follows

22 Sept - Biz Quiz

23 Sept - Sports and Entertainment Quiz

24 Sept - India Quiz

• Registration is open for everyone.Participants can play the quiz individually or in teams of two.
• Questions will be uploaded at 10 PM sharp.
• Answers to be sent by e-mail to xquizzite@ximb.ac.in by 11 PM.
• Answers will be mailed to those who attempt the quiz.
• Detailed rules will be put up shortly.

Contacts:

Swarup Kumar Kar, 9777686344

Udaya Satapathy, 9238305258

Email - xquizzite@ximb.ac.in

Blog -http://xquizzite.blogspot.com/

And to get you started here are some aperitifs

1. The secret recipe for which popular food product is kept in a safe in the city of Louisville in the

United States ?

2. It does'nt matter what your second name is ,What matters is what you do with your first. -

Karan Johar . 1972 - Rest is History. Which ad ?

Answers

1. Kentucky Fried Chicken; the recipe consists of eleven herbs and spices.

2. Timond Watches. Luxury watch brand 'Timond' has director Karan Johar as its worldwide

brand ambassador.

Quirvana-1

hello ppl,

Amidst extremely busy schedules and never-gonna-end academics, we flag off the Quirvana Series.

Deadline to answer the questions is by 20th of september,09.

NOTE: Please donot post the answers as comments rather mail it to nganatra.champ@gmail.com

Questions:

1. The following is a patent which belongs to someone who you would hardly associate with the world of patents. Though he is(was) a God in his own forte. Who?

2. Identify the advertiser.

3. Identify the siblings.

4. Following the war of mahabharata, funeral rites were performed for all the fallen. Kunti then requests her sons to perform the rites for Karna as well. When they protest, saying he was a suta, she reveals the truth of his birth. The brothers are shocked to find they have committed fratricide. Yudhishtira in particular is furious with his mother and does something which has become a legacy since then. What does he do?

5. Give me the significance of the below mentioned pic.

6. The duo mentioned below have been immortalised in the World of music in some way.Figure it out and tell me how have they been immortalised.

Adieu,

Nishit Ganatra!!!!

Answers to Xquizzite 2.1

1. The constellation is Southern Cross or Crux. It is depicted in the Australian and New Zealand flags.

2. Capoeira

3. Charles de Gaulle (no one got it right)

4. Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) .

Prince Williams and Prince Harry passed out of this academy

5. La persistencia de la memoria (1931) or The Persistence of Memory - The most famous painting by Spanish artist Salvador Dalí.