Anniversary Quiz – 1 Indian Quizzing League (IQL)© "Indian Quizzing League", 2010 And the scores are as follows… 30 Jatin Nagpal, Gopinath, Pritish Jana, Ajay Parasuraman, Sriram,

Anniversary Quiz – 1

Indian Quizzing League (IQL)8th-14th October, 2010

© "Indian Quizzing League", 2010

RulesEach correct answer carries the points as indicated in the question. No negative marking for guesses ☺ Total: 30 points

Answers are to be left as comments to this post by 22:00 hrs on October 14, 2010

Results, answers and the Top 3 winners will be up before 17:00 hours, October 15, 2010 at http://iquiz.wordpress.com/iql-anniversary-quizzes-2010/, along with a new quiz.

In case of a tie, the person who sent the answers earlier will be given preference

All the best ☺

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Question 1 (3 points)

Identify the woman on the left (Image on next slide)

Hint: The guy on the right is Jeff Seideman, President of ImageTech Communications.

Copyright of "Indian Quizizng Leage", 2010


And the answer is…

She is Lena Soderberg, Her photo (known as Lenna) is often used in the field of digital image processing. She was a guest at the 50th annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology in 1997 where she gave a presentation about herself.



Identify this Indian mathematician and Marxist historian whose also contributed to the field of genetics. (Image on next slide)




Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi



This vase, dated 530 B.C. is present at the State Collections of Antiquies museum at Kunstareal of Munich. What is it depicting? (Image on next slide)




Persephone supervising Sisyphus pushing his rock in the Underworld ☺



In 1958‐59, the touring West Indians were enamoured by his spin abilities. They reckoned that he could turn the ball on glass. Who is he? (Image on next slide)

Hint: His brother also played for India




Subhash Gupte, who was recently in the news as Gary Sobers called him a better leg spinner than even Shane Warne ☺


Question 5 (1 point for the connect and 1 point for each personality)Identify the personalities below, and connect them to a diversified sports brand.




Novak Djokovic, Olivier Rochus, Igor Andreev and IvoKarlovićConnect is the sports brand: Sergio Tacchini


Question 6 (1 point)

This is supposed to be the world’s first commercial portable computer. It weighed approx. 24 lbs. and cost less than $2000. What was its name? (Image on next slide)




The Osborne – 1 ☺ (Reminds you of Spiderman, doesn’t it?)



Clip from which movie? The lead character is said to be loosely based on J. D. Salinger. (Image on next slide)




Finding Forrester ☺



Connect the two images to a specific song. (Images on next slide)




The Song “Supreme” by Robbie Williams based on (and as a tribute to) the racing superstar Jackie Stewart



He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (with highest honour) in 1975. Identify him by his yearbook picture. (Image on next slide)




Ben Bernanke☺


Question 10 (1 point for each name and 3 points for the connect)Identify the following personalities and connect them. (Images on next slide)




Frank Abagnale, Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra – all are personalities that have been portrayed (or) will be portrayed in a forthcoming movie by Leonardo DiCaprio.


And the scores are as follows…30 Jatin Nagpal, Gopinath, Pritish Jana, Ajay

Parasuraman, Sriram, Soumya K. Ghosh,

27 M. Santhosh Anirudh26 Gaurav Makker

20 Arjun, Kamal Rathi, Noopur Raval (please answer at the link where the quiz has been posted, and not at the main page)

15 Sourabh Shukla14 Dhananjay (You were very close for the last question)

12 Chetan Soni


The second quiz…

The second quiz will be uploaded by tomorrow before 10 am. It carries more points, and has 20 questions (5 based on Hindu Mythology). All the best…

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Anniversary Quiz – 1 Indian Quizzing League (IQL)© "Indian Quizzing League", 2010 And the scores are as follows… 30 Jatin Nagpal, Gopinath, Pritish Jana, Ajay Parasuraman, Sriram,