Gnosis Quiz CluB

Drishtant

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:47:00 +0000

DRISHTANT : The Biennial Inter-college Techno-Management Symposium of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Presents

Tech QUIZ

Biz Quiz

PRIZES:

Total prize money worth Rs. 20,000.

RULES AND REGULATIONS`

1. Each team will consist of three members currently studying at college,

2.The team members NEED NOT BE from the same college

3. There can be as many teams from each college

4. No individual can be part of more than one team

5. There will be a written elimination round before the finals.

6. Other details shall be told on the spot.

QUIZ MASTER : Mr.MANAS NAYAK from MARCHAHEAD

EVENT DETAILS: Date: 21st March, 2010 (Sunday)

Time: 10 a.m.

Venue: Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi

REGISTER AT: http://drishtant.in

We at GNOSIOMANIA 2010

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:19:00 +0000

Here are the results of Quizzes won by MNNIT Quiz Club @Gnosiomania 2010

PASSWORDS:

1st : Gautam Tiwari, Vinayak & Zuhaib Khawaja
3rd: Abhishek Somani, Sumit Das , Apruv Srivastav

SPORTS QUIZ :

2nd : Hemant Agarwal, Zuhaib Khawaja , Vinayak

GENERAL QUIZ :

3rd : Hemant Agarwal, Nitish Yadav, Abhinash Pant

IT QUIZ :

Conso : Gautam Tiwari, Abhinash Pant, Vinayak

Auto Quiz :

Conso : Zuhaib Khawaja , Venu Putcha, Nitish Yadav

We only missed out on the Entertainment Quiz where we didn't win a single prize.

India Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:36:00 +0000

New year Resolutions are set to broken and the promise to be regular didn't work out, will try to figure out a way soon.

The Quiz Club @ MNNIT organized an India Quiz on 26th Jan. The presenters of the quiz were Astha Rai & Devanshu Awasthi of 2nd yr Btech.
Was a really nice Quiz, the questions were very well balanced and covered almost every aspect related to our motherland.

The Quiz was won by Hemant Agarwal & Zuhaib Khawaja.
( The Deputy Secy's of the Club :P )

Though the crowd was not much compared to previous quizzes but the qulaity of questions was certainly good.Moreover the second yrs deserve an applaud for taking the initiative & organizing it in such a short time.

Here are the Questions along with answers of Round 1 :

India quiz

NEW YEAR QUIZ S2 : #1 -#10

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:42:00 +0000

Hey everyone ,

Well we have been dormant for quite a while now so what better time to break this period of hibernation.This new year we take the resolution that we will try to be regular
To start off here is the New Year Quiz.Ten Questions to be answered in next Ten Days( open till the 11th Jan).

NEW YEAR 2010 QUIZ

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Have Fun & Enjoy.

Winners at NED

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:02:00 +0000

The Winners of the National Education Day Quiz are :

1st Place : HariKrishnan Santosh, Sweta Singh , Abeer Khan Score 23/35

2nd Place : Mitesh Karwa, Nitish Yadav, Pradeepta Panigrahi Score 22/35

3rd Place : Siddharth Shankar Pandey, Akash Agnivesh Score 21/35

NED Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:10:00 +0000

NED Quiz

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S2 : #2 : THINK AWESOME !!!

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:44:00 +0000

Q .The persons in the pictures form a exhaustive list ... only one is missing ....

Identify the missing person & Explain.

HINT : ALL ARE AMERICAN ACTORS ....

Answers open till next Sunday ..
After that regular daily posts will follow
Wait for it ......

Happy Diwali

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Wishing a very happy & prosperous Diwali to all Gnosis followers ...

We will back soon.... till then enjoy the festive season

S2 #1

noreply@blogger.com (MR GNOSIS) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Connect...

The wait is over

noreply@blogger.com (MR GNOSIS) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Quizzers & Gnosiomaniacs ! The 2nd season of daily quizzes shall commence on the 5th of October. So activate the quizzing half of your brains during these breaks. Nilambh ke kaaran huey asuvidha ke liye humaein khed hai !...

All the Best

noreply@blogger.com (MR GNOSIS) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:54:00 +0000

What unique distinction do these stadiums hold? (i apologise...the question wa wrong prior to this...i have made the corrections... :) :) )

A give-away....

agni.flash@gmail.com (Agnibha) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:49:00 +0000

Identify the Logo(or Flag/Crest).

Season 2 of GNOSIS will start from SEP 1st so some fillers in between the seasons.
They won't count on the leaderboard.

Winners : Colors of INDIA QUIZ

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:40:00 +0000

We thank you for the fantastic response to the Colors of India Quiz. Over 60 of you responded with more than half of you getting double digit marks. At the top, we had 4 contenders tying with 17 points each. They are (in alphabetical order)

1. Abhishek Chakraborty

2. Abinash Pant

3. Kamal Rathi

4. Sameer Agrawal

With 3 prizes to offer, we had to draw lots and the prizes have been awarded as follows

8 GB Pen Drive with Spy Cam Abinash Pant

Innova - USA Wireless Headphones Kamal Rathi

Abhishek Chakraborty

Commiserations to Sameer who lost out in the luck of the draw. Having said that, he has already won these headphones so I am sure he will not feel so bad.

PRIZES for Colors OF INDIA

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:36:00 +0000

In view of the fantastic response to the colors of india quiz, 2 more prizes have been announced.
your chances of winning have just tripled
so hurry and participate in even more numbers...

1st Prize - 8 G.B. USB Pen Drive with spy camera. 2 more prizes already announced .Depending on the number of responses additional prizes will also be announced.

Questions will also appear in the blog from today , though you have to answer them on
marchahead.co.in

Colors of India : A Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:12:00 +0000

Answers & results Season I

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Hey guys
It was nice to see you participate in the Season I of Gnosis Quiz Club with such enthusiasm.
Well we have to cut short of this season to this 24 questions as with new academic session it would be better if start a new season.

The Leaderboard has been updated.
The Answers to Megapost :
1) Anne Frank & her autobiography THe Diary of a Young girl.
2) Sunil Gavaskar & Ajit Wadekar
3) Tomatina (The Tomato Festival of Spain)
4) Allan Sheperd (He played Golf on Moon)
5) The Hilton Group
6) James Cameron (Director of Titanic)
7) Black Box
8) French Revolution
9) Ayrton Senna, Roland Ratzenberger , Williams F1 team logo.
Both died in the same crash in 1994 at San Marino Grand Prix. Senna was driving for Williams-F1.
10)Manjunath Shanmugam Trust which recently launched RTI helpline.

The Winner of Season I was Pradeepta Panigrahi, he would be receiving his gifts soon.

Regrads,

TNAMEH
MR GNOSIS

Top Ten of Season I :

1 Pradeepta 20
2 Johhny Walker 19
3 Shrey Gupta 17
4 Miteshkarwa 13
5 Prabshoney 10
6 Kartheegeyan S 10
7 Ajesh 10
8 Shrey Goyal 9
9 The Editor 9
10 RippleFactor 9

S1: #14 - #23 :megaPOst

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:14:00 +0000

Really sorry guys for the break the blog took
So here we are back with a bang.
S1 continues: Here are questions
So a mega post to compensate for the break we took.
10 Questions
Answers will be accepted for seven days.
It gives you a chance to gain a lot on the Leader board.
Well the Questions are from Jayesh Sir who cleared his BTECH this year .We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

Regards
Tnameh

SO here we go
1. Her personal journals were converted into a book, which now ranks as the second most read non-fiction book in the world, after the Bible. Who are we talking about?
2. Identify the two gentlemen.

3. Identify the picture shown below

4. Though not a professional golf player, this man played one of the most historic games of golf in history.

5. Identify the Logo.

6. In the movie Titanic the nude portrait of Kate Winslet (Rose DewittBukater) was sketched by X. Also in the screen it was X's hand shown drawing and not De Caprio's as we visualize. Identify X.

7. Identify this object

8. In a pack of playing cards, “A” (Ace) had the least value, whereas “K” the most valued. But, after the _______, “A” is considered to have more value than “K” (King), depicting that the common civilians are more powerful than the King. (Hint: A very famous Historical Event. )

9. Connection.

10. On November 19 2006, the ____ Trust launched a National Right to Information Act (RTI) helpline that will help people across the country in using the Right To Information Act. Inaugural Calls were made by Mr. N.R.Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys and Ms. Kiran Bedi. What am I referring here?

S1:#13

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:13:00 +0000

Q .
Everywhere we go
The people want to know
Who we are
Where we come from
Where we come from
Shall we tell them
Shall we tell them
Who we are
Who we are
Where we come from
Where we come from
We are the ______ ____
We are the ______ ____
Originally a Sheffield Wednesday song what is its significance in the world of cricket?

Hint : You may hear it this july ....

BLOG UPDATE : Due to some technical problems with my computer I am unable to post regularly, A Season Post soon, maybe tmmrw or day after tmmrw
Sorry for such delays. Scoreboard will also be updated then
New domain of Blog :
http://gnosis.quizblog.in

S1: 12:Filmy Funda

noreply@blogger.com (MR GNOSIS) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Ok all u have 2 do is guess the movie.....im giving out a few lines as the hint....

........................................................................................................

Imagine l'eclat d'un paysage qui te submerge
Pas a pas, tu penetres dans cette athmoshphere
Tel une sphere qui t aspires ,toi tu regardes qui t inspires

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Magine I instant ou tu croises celle que tu attends
Tu parcours les ruells ,et meme tu humes ces ecuelles
Elle depasse toutes tes attentes,elle n'est mene pas reelle
Rien ne te laisse de glace dans le palais aux milles delices

Question From Pradeepta Panigrahi

Answers of older S1 posts have been removed due to updating of domain name please bear with that. S1: #12 Answers & new post from the 1st july
Tnameh

PATIENCE REQUIRED

noreply@blogger.com (MR GNOSIS) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:13:00 +0000

The Gnosis Club blog will be updated very soon with new & challenging questions and the score as well. We apologise for the delays and irregularities.

Leaderboard updated till S1: #11

S1 : #11 : IPL!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Summer fever caught me will ry to be more regular ....
For now ...
Connect & Explain ...

Question no s1: #10 is also open for next few days
Leaderboard will also be updated soon

S1: #10 : MAA !!!

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:03:00 +0000

Identify The Lady...

She is credited for the invention of something really special.

Hint : Think today !!! ( this makes it a sitter )

Leader board will be updated tomorrow.

S1 : Quizzing the Essecence of it

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:29:00 +0000

Quizzing is Not Just a Trivial Pursuit

This piece of Amit Verma was published on Sunday (June 29,2008) in Mail Today. I read it on his blog and for the followers of GNOSIS QUIZ CLUB I bring few excerpts from it .... Regular posts from 8th onwards....

S1: #9 : Acoustics Still open to answer Click to Answer ….. NO posts for the next Five Days

….So let me start this piece with a quiz question about cards: In Texas Hold’em Poker( The American Version of Teen Pati), which hand is known as ‘six tits’?
If you don’t know the answer, I encourage you not to shift your eyes to the end of the piece, where I reveal all. Just look at the question one more time: as the Beatles would say, you can work it out.
Every two Sundays, a diverse group of people meet in an office in a Mumbai suburb and ask each other questions like this. They are the Bombay Quiz Club (BQC), a group co-founded on April Fool’s Day, 2006. Most Indian cities have clubs with a much older pedigree – the Karnataka Quiz Association of Bangalore celebrates its 25th anniversary today, and the K Circle of Hyderabad predates that by a decade. But the kind of quizzing all these clubs do is rather different from what most Indians understand of the term.

Workoutable

To most Indians, quizzing is about knowledge. You are asked a question: you either know it or you don’t. If you don’t, the quiz is terribly boring. There might be drama about who is winning or losing, but beyond that narrative, your brain isn’t being made to work. You might as well watch a soap opera.
But attend a quiz by the BQC or by any of these other quizzing clubs and you’ll find a different dynamic at play. You will find that the quizzing they do is not so much about knowledge but about problem solving. Even if you don’t know a question, you can still work it out by clues given in the question. Sure, you still need to know things: but if you’re intelligent and have a basic interest in the world, you have a crack at solving any question. A 100-question quiz then becomes not a boring event where you know some things and are clueless about others, but a challenge in which you try to solve 100 brainteasers, often with the help of team-mates in a collaborative process that is immense fun.
For example, here’s a question I asked in a quiz last year: “X is a unit of hype. One kiloX is equal to 10.42 days. One MegaX is equal to 28.5 years. What is X, and why is it so called?”
When I asked this question, I also advised the teams to use their calculators. The team that cracked it was the one that figured out that X was equal to 15 minutes. The answer, then, was obviously Warhol, who had famously said: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Now think of what a boring question this would have been if I had simply asked: “What is the unit of hype?”
Eureka!
Every well-framed quiz question should lead to a Eureka moment. You are asked a question, you search it for clues, one teammate suggests one strand of thought, another suggests an alternative, you rack your brains and suddenly it all falls into place. My friend J Ramanand, the last man to win Mastermind India, expressed it beautifully when he wrote: “Working out answers is sometimes like tugging at the loose thread in a sweater. A decent yank & the whole thing unravels magically.”
To illustrate this, here’s a question framed by the quizzer Arun Simha: “H0H 0H0” is a postal code used by Canada Post for routing letters sent in Canada to which person?”
The question is bewildering – until one notices that H0H 0H0 can also be read as Ho Ho Ho. Yank that and you come to Santa Claus. (Jabba the Hutt is also associated with that laugh, but any reasonable quizzer would eliminate that option, for why would Canada Post care about Jabba the Hutt?)
Here’s another question, framed by a BQC quizzer, Sumant Srivathsan: “If ‘three short - three long - three short’ (. . . - - - . . .) is Morse code for SOS, where would you be most likely to come across ‘three short - two long - three short’?”
The ‘three-shorts’ are the clue. Clearly the second code stands for S-something-S, and when you work that out, you start thinking of what the missing letter could be. M? SMS? And then you remember the default Nokia ringtone for incoming messages (“beep-beep-beep, beeeep-beeeep, beep-beep-beep”) and the answer falls into place.
Imagine how boring the question would be if it was framed thus: “In morse code, which letter does ‘two long’ stand for?” Or “What is the default Nokia ringtone for incoming messages inspired by?”
I was recently asked by a friend, whose only acquaintance with quizzing is via Kaun Banega Crorepati, how I prepare for a quiz. The answer, of course, is that one can’t prepare for this kind of quizzing. Schoolkids may buy Malayalam Manorama and learn capitals and currencies, but the best quizzers are simply people who live life fully. They show an interest in the world around them; they read a lot; they watch films and listen to music; they are culturally aware; they keep in touch with the news. And when quiz questions pop up that touch on any of those areas, they have a chance at cracking it, even if they don’t know the funda behind the question.
Ah, fundas! Quizzers use that term a lot. What does it mean? Loosely speaking, a funda is an interesting fact at the heart of a question. Every good question contains a little nugget that tells you something you didn’t know already. Sometimes this is trivial, sometimes not. But the net effect of a good quiz with solid fundas is that you end the quiz not just entertained by it, but also more knowledgeable about the world in a meaningful way.

Connect

A connect question in a quiz is one in which you are asked to find the common thread running between a few different elements: four visuals, say, or a video, an audio and a picture, and so on. But, in a way, all of quizzing is about connecting. We look for something in the question that we are asked that we can connect with the world we know. And when a funda is new to us, it expands that world. If it’s interesting, it might even increase out interest in a particular area of knowledge. We might finish a quiz wanting to see a certain film or read a particular book, or simply looking at something in an entirely new way. To extend Ramanand’s analogy, after we yank the thread and the sweater unravels, we find other uses for that wool.
So the next time you’re playing poker on a Sunday and your opponent beats you with a hand that has three queens in it, congratulate him (or her) for holding six tits. Then walk right out and find a good quiz to take part in. It’ll be worth your while.

You can read more from Amit Verma at his blog INDIA UNCUT

S1 : #9 Acoustics ....

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:37:00 +0000

Identify This Famous NRI .....

HINT : Music World owes a lot to him

Leaderboard Updated ...

Posts will be irregular for a while due to semester Exams

S1: #8 : Flag March !!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THEANAGRAMLAW) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:54:00 +0000

Identify This Famous politician

For leaderboard will get updated in a day or two Sorry for that....

Cracked by almost everyone ....
Answer : Naveen Jindal