Trivi 12

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Connect

Trivi 11

Quite a sitter. Identify.

Answer: This is a replica of the Statue of Liberty that stands in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. It is learnt that Frederic Auguste Bartholdi used this statue as a model for the larger one in Liberty Island, New York.

Trivi 10

The list is not complete. It isn’t exhaustive either.

Now connect.

Answer: Megan Fox tattoos.

1. Chinese symbol for strength

2. William Shakespeare’s King Lear

3. Yin Yang

4. Marilyn Monroe

5. Brian Austin

See (Exercise caution

Rightly pointed out by Kaushik Saha

Trivi 9

Welcome back. Send answers to thetucson [at] gmail.com or drop them in the comments box.

What is this?

Answer : This is the proposed space currency – QUID (Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination). This exclusive currency came into being since the developers claim none of the transaction methods we use today on Earth, is space worthy. Check about them here and listen to what people are talking!

Want to see more?

TCS IIT Madras Open Quiz 2007

* Connect the phrases : Done by hand, Same suffering, Arabic for ‘Greece’, Life Principle.

Ans: Systems of medicine

Done by hand – Chiropractic
Same suffering – Homeopathy
Arabic for Greece – Unani
Life Principle – Ayurveda

* He strode through gates
- His Rocket launcher in hand
- Ready to conquer
Dancing Shotgun guy
- Don’t you see I’m glowing?
- Quad rocket for you
What are these examples of?

Ans: Quaiku

* What is the unit of fame?

Ans: Warhols

* Which site launched in 2005 gets its name from the Tamil word for ‘opinion’?

Ans: Karuthu

* Aramaic for “disappear like word”
Latin for “to order, command”
Latin for “I torture”
What are we talking about?

Ans: The Unforgivable Curses in the Harry Potter
Aramaic for “disappear like word” – Avada kedavra
Latin for “to order, command” – Imperio
Latin for “I torture” – Crucio

* Identify this landmark in Chennai.

Ans: Chepauk Palace. Shares its name with another landmark – the Chepauk Stadium

* Identify

Ans: Marcel Marceau

* What ad?

Ans: Nescafe

* The image shows Mimas, a moon of Saturn. Mimas closely resembles a fictional object. This is purely coincidental; since that fictional object was designed and created long before the first close-up photographs of Mimas were taken. What is it?

Ans: Death Star from Star Wars

* Who was the leader of opposition in Maharashtra legislative assembly when Sharad Pawar, as a head of Purogami Lok Dal became the Chief Minister in 1979?

Ans: Prathiba Patil

* The movie released in 2006 was unusual in displaying credits twice in the end.

Nikhil – Kalpen Modi
Gogol -
Fill in and identify the movie.

Ans: Gogol – Kal Penn. The movie is The Namesake. Like the character he plays, actor Kal Penn modified his name from Kalpen Modi, when his agents suggested he anglicize it to get more auditions in Hollywood. In the end credits, he is listed twice: Gogol — Kal Penn and Nikhil — Kalpen Modi.

* Once shiva got angry and turned Parvathi into a peahen and sent her to earth. After realising her mistake, parvathi as a peahen started doing pooja to shiva here and prayed to take her back as his wife. Impressed with her sincere prayer and devotion, he changed her back and accepted her as his wife. Identify the place.

Ans: Mylapore. (Mayil stands for peacock/peahen in Tamil and hence the name)

* Identify the person and what was he an inspiration for?

Ans: Mir Ranjan Negi. Chak De India

* How do we better know this?

Ans: Raymond theme/jingle

* According to the legends, Parasurama threw his axe into the sea and Kerala was formed. What did he introduce to protect the land?

Ans: Kalaripayattu

 

* This is the garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore during 1812. Major George Armistead requested a flag “…so large that the British will have no difficulty seeing it from a distance,” and Pickersgill delivered with a flag that was 30 feet tall by 42 feet long. It is a significant artifact and is housed in the Smithsonian. How do we know this flag?

Ans: The Star Spangled Banner.

* This is a trap located in the Pacific Northwest. The trap was built in 1974 but since then it has been abandoned and was deteriorating. The trap has become a tourist attraction over the past 30 years and hundreds of people visit it annually. What is the trap for?

Ans: Bigfoot

* Companies making electronic components in Taiwan and South Korea have a mandatory procedure to test the hand eye coordination of the employees. How is it tested?

Ans: Picking up small beads quickly with a pair of chopsticks

* ICANN in 1990 issued the .su domain but and wants to kill off stating that its primary aim is to maintain the stability of the internet. To which country was this domain assigned to?

Ans: Soviet Union

* This is one of the most populous country with its economy mainly depending on the agriculture and petroleum. However, there was one thing that significantly contributed to the economy. What?

Ans: Nigerian 419 mail/scam

* This is a place in Phoenix, California. This serves a different purpose today. What?

Ans: Warner Bros ripple introduction

* This word meaning “officer in charge” is derived from the Japanese word meaning “Squadron leader” picked up by U.S. servicemen in Japan and Korea during 1947-1953. Identify the word.

Ans: Honcho

Trivi 8

1. The ozone depletion is more prominent in the Antarctic region compared to other parts of the Earth. Why?

Chlorine originating from freons is the prime cause of the ozone destruction. Outside the polar regions free chlorine is captured by nitrogen oxides, preventing large-scale chlorine catalysed ozone destruction. However, in the polar regions, the low temperature clouds serve as surfaces for capturing free nitrogen oxides from the atmosphere and lead to release of chlorine from reservoirs. This leads to chlorine reacting with ozone. Read more

2. The image shows a set of things. Identify the connection.

The connection is Redundant Acronym Syndrome (RAS).The images are that of ATM machine, DOS system, LPG gas, LCD display, HIV virus. The term RAS syndrome refers to the use of one of the words that make up an initialism or acronym as well as the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating that word. Like ATM machine is Automatic Teller Machine machine, HIV virus is Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus. Oddly, RAS syndrome is Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome! Read more about it hereQuite a few examples here
3. Identify the place denoted by the blue mark.

This is the Majuli in Assam. It has the distinction of being the world’s largest river island.

4. From the Hindu mythology. Dadhichi, son of Atharvan, turned into a great sage. Vritra became the head of the Asuras (demons). He renounced his dharma – duty – to do good unto others and turned to violence, battling with the devas. Led by Indra, they approached Lord Vishnu for help. He told them that Vritra could not be destroyed by ordinary means, revealing that only a weapon made from the bones of a sage could slay him. When the deities revealed their doubts about the likelihood of any ascetic donating his body, Vishnu directed them to approach the sage Dadhichi. When approached by the gods, Dadhichi gladly gave up his bones for the cause of the good. The Devas collected the bones and Indra crafted the Vajrayudha from them and eventually defeated the Vritrasura. Apart from Indra, there was one more person who benefited from Sage Dadhichi’s bones. Who?

Shakuni. His dice is made of Dadhichi’s bones. It is believed that Shakuni was able to get the number on the dice he wished for.

5. The Russians recently tested a massive bomb calling it the Father of All Bombs. It actually belongs to the genre called fuel-air bombs. How do these F-A bombs work?

A fuel air bomb or thermobaric bomb works by first dispersing a cloud of powder or liquid explosive using a small charge, then igniting it with a second charge. The weapon consists of a container of either a volatile liquid or a finely powdered solid, which could be an explosive or metal powder, and two separate explosive charges. The weapon is initiated upon dropping or firing, and the first explosive charge bursts open the container at a predetermined height and disperses the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen. Once the fuel is appropriately mixed, the second charge detonates, propagating an explosion through the cloud. The Russians’ FOAB, as it is called, was able to produce a devastation similar to that of a nuclear bomb sans deadly radiation!

Picture Courtesy : BBC

6. What was the first organism to be sent to space?

Fruit flies. They were the first animals intentionally sent to space. Read about animals in space.

7. BLOG, BLISS, BIOS, EEL, EGG, GEO, THESIS, THIS, ZOO (the list is exhaustive). All these words are examples of beghilos. What is beghilos?

Beghilos are simply calculator friendly words. It is a technique of spelling words by reading characters upside-down from calculators equipped with certain kinds of seven-segment displays. A list of such words here

8. X is a technology for mobile phones, developed by Tegic Communications, which was acquired by Nuance Communications. It is used on phones from LG, Samsung, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sanyo, Sagem and others. X’s objective is to make it easier to type text messages. Identify X.

T9 Dictionary. Stands for Text on 9 keys.

9. This was initially the logo of a company. However, the company sports a different logo now. Identify the company and also the guy whose hand features in the logo.

Google and Larry Page. Google was founded as Backrub by Larry Page and Sergei Brin.

10. In May 1976, Kazuo Hashimoto first built a prototype of a X device. His work on X devices and early prototypes was received in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History in 2000. In the beginning of 1977 Nelio Nicolai, a Brazilian inventor, created a machine capable of identifying and displaying the X, he named it Y. He patented the invention, but lack of support from the Brazilian patent-issuer authority made him pursue the judicial system to effectively collect the royalties from his invention. The first commercially available Y appeared in 1982 in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia. Experimental use of the system happened at the Canadian city of Peterborough. It is technically referred to as ADSI: Analog Display Services Interface. What is X and Y?

X is Caller ID display and Y BINA. More info

Score

Aditya Modi – 3.5

Shyam Naren – 3

Anubhav Chatterjee – 2

Srinivasv5 – 2.5

Trivi 7

1. What special distinction does Karnataka Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta Sangh hold with respect to national identity?

This is the only organisation authorised to manufacture and supply the Indian national flag.

2. The X is the creation of Dr Chieko Asakawa, a blind employee at IBM’s research laboratory in Tokyo. IBM says it will be available later this year and hopes it will be free. The X will give blind and partially-sighted people the same control over multimedia content that sighted people have using a mouse. Identify X.

The A browser (or the Accessibility browser) Here for more.

3. The only awardees of this prize are S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Lennart Carleson, Peter D. Lax, Michael F. Atiyah and Jean Pierre Serre. Which prize?

The Abel Prize. Instituted by the Government of Norway, its considered the Nobel equivalent in the field of mathematics.

4. Identify the connection.

First image is the poster of Rang De Basanti and the second is the flag of Hong Kong. The connection is, Alice Patten who played the Sue character in RDB is the daughter of Chris Patten, the last colonial governor of Hong Kong.
5. ImQ

Identify

This is the medallion of the Pulitzer Prize, an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

6. Evidence of this element was first detected on August 18, 1868, by French astronomer Pierre Janssen during a total Solar eclipse in Guntur, India. This was the first element detected in space before being found on Earth. Which element?

Helium

7. What is so different in sea horses with respect to reproduction?

The males become pregnant! Read about them here.

8. During 1971 to 1981, international cricket in South Africa comprised only of 6 private tours and 1 women’s test match. Why?

The apartheid policy followed by the South African Governments of the day meant that no Test match playing nation was willing to tour.

9. What is so significant about property rights in Malaysia?

The individual property rights in Malaysia go deep underground. That is even the underground belongs to the owner. The government cannot dig into the private space even for the construction of tubes or sewers etc. (I have got different answers for this question. I’ll try uploading a video from Discovery Channel that supports the answer I have given)

10. What is called the “Ball of the Century”?

The Ball of the Century, also referred to as the Gatting Ball, is the nickname given to a cricket delivery bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting. The incident occurred during the first Test match of the 1993 Ashes cricket series. See the Ball of the Century!

Scores

Gautam George – 8

M Vijay – 8

Karthik Bharadwaj – 7

Kanmani Chockalingam – 6

Aditya Modi – 4

Siddharth Shanmugam – 2

Subhodeep Joshi – 4

Sunil Murali – 4

Anand Babu – 4

Rajiv Rai – 7

Furhan Ahmed – 3

Anubhav Chatterjee – 3

Shrinidhi Rai – 2

Balaji Krishnan – 1

Harihara Krishnan – 1

Shiv Das – 3

Jose Sangry – 2

Bhavin Vora – 5

Srinivasv5 – 5

Pushkala Raman – 5

Dr. Jaya Lahiri Mukherjee – 8

Rishi Kothari – 7 (Thanks mate for your words…)

Landmark Quiz 07 questions

As usual, the Music Academy was over flowing for the 15th Landmark Quiz (interestingly on 15th of August). Read more about it here.

Here are the prelims questions. Some questions may not be the exact reproduction. Certain questions were too long to be written in the short interval between successive posers. Hence I have tried to provide them as trivia bits.

1. The Kalashnikov is the largest produced assault rifle. In which year was its most popular version adopted and standardised?

Ans: 1947. And thats why the name AK 47. (No, Sanjay Dutt was not an inspiration for this question)

2. In 1948, the Nobel Committee declined to award a Peace prize on the ground that “there was no suitable living candidate” that year. Later, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was “in part a tribute to the memory of” whom?

Ans: Mahatma Gandhi

3. Which is the source of the Brahmaputra, Indus, Sutlej and Karnali rivers? In Hindu mythology, this is also supposed to be the summer abode of swans.

Ans: Lake Manasarovar

4. Which Indian vehicle is named a son of Vayu? (You normally cannot expect such questions in Landmark!)

Ans: Maruti

5. Which Sanskrit word used in Hindu mythology usually with reference to Vishnu is also related to the descending part of a raaga in Indian Classical music?

Ans: Avatar (The descending part of a raaga is called avarohana)

6. This is the only Indian car that can be completely bullet proofed. Available in all petrol, diesel, LPG and CNG versions

Ans: HM Ambassador

7. This fragrant flower is a vine and is the national flower of Philippines and Indonesia. Identify the flower.

Ans: Jasmine 

8. Who were the only two non Indians to be awarded the Bharat Ratna?

Ans: Nelson Mandela and Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan

9. What economic effect named after a company includes local effects such as forcing smaller competitions out of business and driving down wages and broader effects such as helping to keep inflation low and productivity high?

Ans: Walmart effect

10. MRF founded by K.M. Mammen Mappilai in 1946 started with a unit at Tiruvottriyur manufacturing what product?

Ans: Toy balloons

11. What was the name of the novel by Douglas Coupland about young people whose future appeared uncertain and gave rise to what term?

Ans: Generation X

12. In Norse mythology, Odin had the dwarfs forge the magical chain Gleipnir to trap which wolf like monster?

Ans: Fenrisulfr of Fenrir

13. What are the two words that collectively describe the fictitious symbol (I could manage only for a small image)

Ans: Deathly Hallows

 

 

14. What is the Indian name of the smallest Asiatic antelope?

Ans: Chinkara (Of Salman Khan fame)

 

 

15. The company is engaged in an ongoing campaign to convince the public that its name should not be used as a verb. It says “you cannot X a document, but you can copy it on a P”. What is X and P? (I understand hell lot of clues out there)

Ans: Xerox and Photocopier

 

 

16. What is the term used in Question Hour in the Parliament to denote a query to which a member desires an oral answer?

Ans: Starred question (This was the tenth question in the quiz. Questions starting from 11 are starred questions in the Landmark Quiz!)

 

 

17. The UN issued its first resolution in 1946, soon after the World War II to start what organisation?

Ans: Atomic Energy Commission. This is the predecessor of IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency)

 

18. The flag of Nepal is unique and has two triangular pennants. Which are the only two independent states/countries to have square shaped flags?

 

Ans: Switzerland and Vatican City

 

19. Which word meaning demote/devalue was chosen by the American Dialect Society as the “Word of the Year 2006″?

 

Ans: Plutoed

 

20. Ekta Kapoor is famous producer. Most of her creations begin with the letter “K” due to her superstition that it brings her good luck and fantastic reputation. About 9 television productions and 5 movies all start with the letter K. Which is the only movie that does not start with this letter?

 

Ans: Shootout at Lokhandwala

 

21. What natural construction comes in the following shapes: Spiral orb, cob/tangle, Funnel, Tubular and Sheet?

 

Ans: Spider webs

 

22. What is the surname of the person shown below? The stained glass work in the college where he studied was made in his memory.(Enough clues at that)

Ans: John Venn. Stained glass window in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, commemorating John Venn and the Venn diagram.

23. What are the imaginative names by which these photos are known?

Ans: Blue Marble and Pale Blue Dot. The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 45,000 km. The image is one of the few to show a fully lit Earth. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth made by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. It is also the title of a 1994 book by astronomer Carl Sagan that was inspired by the photo. On February 14, 1990, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission, to turn around to photograph the planets of the Solar system. One image Voyager returned was of Earth, showing up as a “pale blue dot” in the grainy photo.

 

24. A clip from “An Inconvenient Truth”. Identify the voice.

Ans: Al Gore

25. A clip of the “Thee Thee” from Sivaji:The Boss. Where was this song shot?

Ans: Binny Mills, Chennai

26. Which Chennai student event holds the unique distinction of being the first student managed event in the world to earn the ISO 9001:2000 certification for implementing a Quality Management System.

Ans: IIT Madras’ Shaastra

27. What was the name of the series of animated short subjects produced by the Walt Disney that brought along many imitations like Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes and MGM’s Happy Harmonies?

Ans: Silly Symphonies

28. The element with atomic number 43 derives its name from the Greek word for “artificial” since this was the first predominantly artificial element to be produced. Identify the element.

Ans: Technetium

29. The term font is a cognate of the word fondue. Fondue refers to Swiss communal dishes shared at the table in an earthenware pot and is prepared by mixing wine and cheese. The word derives from Middle French fonte, meaning “(something that has been) melt(ed)”, referring to type produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry.

30. It was in the Robinson Crusoe Island that the sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned in 1705 and lived in absolute solitude for four years and four months. The sailor inspired Daniel Defoe to write the classic novel, Robinson Crusoe. To reflect the literary lore associated with the island, the Chilean government named the location Robinson Crusoe Island on January 1, 1966.

Finals Questions (Just a few of them as I left early)

1. Connect

A clip from Jungle Book. (Akela talking to the wolves) and

Ans: The photograph is that of Baden Powell. Here goes the explanation for the connection. The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book’s universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Baden Powell, founder of the Scouting movement. Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement.

2. In March 2006, President Kalam visited the mausoleum of Bahadur Shah Zafar in Myanmar and offered floral tributes, lit candles, donated a chador brought from the dargah of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya and said prayers. What is the significance of this act?

Ans: Just before Bahadur Shah Zafar passed away in a British Army officer’s garage in Myanmar, following the failure of the 1857 war of independence, he wrote: “Who would pray on my behalf? Or bring me a bunch of flowers? Who would light a candle for me? I am nothing but a gloomy tomb.”

Mr. Kalam visited the mausoleum to offer floral tributes, light candles and donate a chador brought from the dargah of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya. Later, the President wrote in the visitors’ book “You wrote who will come to my grave. Today on behalf of my nation I have come, prayed and lit candles, offered chador and recited the fatiha. May your soul rest in peace”.

Read The Hindu article on the incident here

3. What is dendronautics the study of?

Ans: Study of canopy of rainforests.

4. Čerenkov radiation, named after Pavel Alekseyevich Cerenkov, is electromagnatic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. The characteristic “blue glow” of nuclear reactors is due to Čerenkov radiation. With which Hindu mythological characters did Nehru compare these radiations with when he first saw them at a nuclear reactor at the BARC?

Ans: Apsaras. And thats the reason the country’s first reactor was named Apsara.

5. What unusual occurrence in 1956 Summer Olympics will be repeated in 2008 Beijing Olympics?

Ans: Due to the strict quarantine regulations, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden while all other events were held in Melbourne, Australia. Similarly, in the 2008 Olympics the equestrian events will be held in Hong Kong while other events will be held at Beijing

Hope you had fun.

Cheers

Venkatesan Narasimhan

 

 

 

 

 

Trivi 6

1. This is a famous web service developed by a company called Four11. It was later acquired by a well known company in 1997. Identify both.

Rocketmail. It was acquired by Yahoo! Its the predecessor to the now famous Yahoo! Mail

2. Identify the logo

Freescale Semiconductor is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focuses their integrated circuit products. In 2006 the company announced a new Integrated Circuit which stores information without requiring continuous power. The technology, called magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM), stores data by relying on magnetic properties instead of an electrical charge. Learn more about them here.

3. Identify the connection.

The monuments are Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty. The Eiffel Tower is named after its designer Gustave Eiffel who happens to have designed the armature of the Statue of Liberty.

4. The guy on the left is an architect. Identify him and the connection.

The architect is Dante Oscar Benini. The building is the famous Tower of Pisa. Benini has designed a steel and glass tower that will appear to tilt just like the original Tower of Pisa. But for the modern tower, the tilt will only be an illusion. Read more about it here

This is how the new building will look like

5. ImQ
What is so special about this pen?

This is the Space Pen. (Needless to say its function, I guess) Learn more about it here

6. Identify the connection.

The images are that of Mozart, Ratan Tata and the state of Tamil Nadu. The connection is Titan Industries. Titan is the joint venture between the Tata group and the TIDCO (Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation) Titan’s watch advertisement campaign is variation of Mozart’s Symphony No. 25.

7. Identify the connection.

The building is the famous Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The logo belongs to the Dassault Systemes, the maker of CAD software CATIA. Unlike conventional building, this museum consists of high degree of randomness and organic contours, hence CATIA was used to design the whole structure.

8. Yet again identify the connection.


Many said Rajni plays this guitar in his latest flick Sivaji. Yes, he did play a guitar in the movie but not this.

Actually, the guitar like stuff to the right is called balalaika, a Russian string instrument. The opening song of the film Sivaji borrowed this name to rhyme with the rest of the starting line.

9. X is an Internet search engine. Its name is a portmanteau of the technological version of literati. Founded by Dave Sirfy, it contributes much to open source software. Name X.

Technorati

10. Auto Union, NSU, DKW _____. What follows and identify the connection.

Horch. The connection is Audi. Auto Union, NSU, DKW and Horch merged together to form Audi and thats why you see four rings in the logo of the company.

Scores
Chandan Shahi 5
Varada 1
Batty Bryant 2
Shyam Naren 3.5
Sibi Rajendran 3 (Congrats man on your first attempt)
Anubav Chatterjee 2
Shiv Das 2

Congrats to all

Trivi 5

1. Linling Qi has the license to kill. Who are we talking about?
Its the James Bond. James Bond is known as Lingling Qi in China.

2. Irritainment, Bimbette, Ta-da, _________. What follows?
Wiki. These are the words that were added to the Oxford English Dictionary. (There were many other words. I expected “wiki”, the most popular among them)

3. Connect

Its pretty easy to identify the personalities. They are M. S. Subbulakshmi, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Indira Gandhi. The connection is Ustad composed the raga Priyadarshini (in memory of the former Prime Minister) and Subhalakshmi (in memory of his wife).
(Please do not misunderstand that MSS is the wife of Ustad)

4. This territory was founded by Phillip Rosedale in 2002. The territory has its own currency. As of February 2007, the population was 4 million but it is growing at a faster rate. The events are largely covered by Reuters which has a presence here. Earlier this year, Sweden became the first country to open its diplomatic office/embassy. Education here is offered by cutting edge virtual class rooms of major universities that include Harvard, Ball State, New York University and Delft University of Technology.
Identify the place.

Second Life

5. ImQ
What is so special about this image?

This is the world’s first color photograph!!

6. Which company is recognized by the speechmark logo?

Vodafone

7. Identify the place marked by the green arrow. Why is it significant?
(Click on the image to enlarge)

Its Upham in New Mexico, USA. Upham is the place where Virgin Galactic plans to come up with a space port for its commercial civilian space tourism operation.
8. Identify the seed that the lady is carrying.

Coco De Mer. Its the world’s largest seed found predominantly in Seychelles.
9. What is a Voight-Kampff machine?
The Voight-Kampff is an imaginary machine used to assist in the testing of an individual to see if he or she is a replicant. Know more about it here.

10. Name the building in which the Taipei Financial Corporation is housed.
Taipei 101. The world’s tallest building (as on 17/5/07)

Scores

Hemant 9
Sandip Mukherjee 7
Kamal Rathi 3.5