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The Ultimate Quizzers Guide To Technology [Is Back]

virtuosovidit — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:51:33 -0700

Vidit Bhargava

Hi There. All The Quizzers. How are you? My Personal Wall, on Gyaan[dot]in was flooded with posts requesting me to help for a Tech quiz. No Offence, you can always ask for help. I thought, then to create a Mega-Archive or rather a book on Technology. See, Nobody can "Prepare" for a Quiz. Nobody knows what is going to come in a quiz (I mean, I may even ask you the color of Steve Jobs' hair, you can't come prepared for that!). The Ultimate Quizzers Guide To Technology is that very book, whose contents can be scanned through Wikipedia and You Can Gain Knowledge. The Book, is not only for quizzers, its for all those Who Wish to Know About IT. Here you go then.

The Ultimate Quizzers Guide To Technology is Back Again and is Much More Secure than before:

1. Readers cannot Copy the contents of this archive without my permission.

2. Readers will NOT be able to print this book, (Again, only if Special Permission is provided by Me)

Everyone Can Now Read the book online with an interactive page curl effect : Here

(I'm working on an HTML5 Version)

Also Here's the ZIP FILE LINK (PDF Inside) : Here

The NSIT Quiz Fest - 2012

ShubhamP — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:31:58 -0700

The NSIT Quiz Club brings to you the NSIT Quiz Fest 2012, the fourth edition of our annual quizzing extravaganza. Following the tremendous success of the event last year, we plan to make this year's edition Bigger, Better and, well, Bulkier (on the pocket).

The three-day event will be conducted during 10-12th of February 2012 and will see the best of quizzers competing for prize and pride.
And as every year, this year too, we promise you cash prizes in hand, on the spot.
There will be a total of 11 quizzes spread over the three days - 5 Main quizzes (Prelims+Finals) and 6 Filler Quizzes (Written). The final day of the event i.e 12th February will be an Open Day. We invite teams of two for all quizzes on all days.

The itinerary looks somewhat like this:

Venue : The Mini Auditorium

Day 1, Friday, 10th February 2012:
14:30 PM - The SciTech Quiz
15:30 PM - The Sports Quiz Prelims
16:30 PM - The Music Quiz
17:30 PM - The Sports Quiz Finals

Day 2, Saturday, 11th February 2012:
10:00 AM - The Business Quiz Prelims
11:00 AM - The Comics and Cartoons Quiz
12:00 PM - The Business Quiz Finals
14:00 PM - Lunch Break
14:30 PM - The India Quiz Prelims
15:30 PM - The LSD Quiz - On everything bad, and worse.
16:30 PM - The India Quiz Finals

DAY 3 IS AN OPEN DAY
Sunday, 12th February 2012:
10:00 AM - The MELA (Music Ent Lit Art) Quiz Prelims
11:00 AM - The Travel and Living Quiz
12:00 PM - The MELA Quiz Finals
14:00 PM - Lunch Break
14:30 PM - The General Quiz Prelims
15:30 PM - The Feminism Quiz - On one of God's gifts to mankind.
16:30 PM - The General Quiz Finals

Rules and Regulations:
1. Except for the Open Day i.e 12th February where anyone can join in, all other quizzes are only open to college (graduate and post-graduate) and school students.
2. TWO MEMBER TEAMS FOR ALL QUIZZES.
3. There are 5 Main Quizzes. They will be in the normal "Prelims+Finals" format.
4. There are 6 Filler Quizzes. 25-30 questions each. All written.
5. Cross-college/school teams are allowed.
6. Each participant should have his/her school/college ID card at the time of the quizzes. On the Open Day however, just showing your face would do.

Also as a run-up to the event, we will conduct an Online Quiz series on the NSIT Quiz Club Blog - www.nsit-qc.blogspot.com starting from the 5th of February to the 9th of February. Details of the same will be posted soon.

Other relevant details will be put soon on The NSIT Quiz Fest 2012 Facebook Event Page -https://www.facebook.com/events/343818605643221/.

In case of any queries, you can either post on our Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/the.NSIT.quiz.club , or contact 8882275432.

NSIT Quiz Fest - Online Quiz

ShubhamP — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:29:24 -0700

ONLINE QUIZ

The Online Quiz, being conducted as a part of the run-up to the NSIT Quiz Fest, will start at 8:00 PM sharp on the NSIT Quiz Club Blog (http://nsit-qc.blogspot.in/) on the 5th of February.
RULES AND REGULATIONS:

5-question sets will be posted everyday till the 9th of February at 8:00PM.
Participation is open to all.
Participants should mail the answers (in a numbered format) to the NSIT Quiz Club at nsitqc@gmail.com anytime in between 8:00 PM on the day of the particular question-set to 6:00 PM the next day. Please do not post the answers in the comments section.
A scorecard will be maintained (which can be viewed by everyone) which will be updated daily accordingly to the marks you obtain out of 5.
After the 5 days, the Top 3 cumulative score-holders will get prizes during the NSIT Quiz Fest. In case the winners are from outside Delhi, the prizes will be mailed to them.

So 5th February, 8:00 PM, you just have to be online, and on the NSIT Quiz Club Blog.

Gyaan[dot]in Official SMS Channel Now Online

virtuosovidit — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:50:16 -0700

Gyaan[dot]in SMS Channel is now online.

Key Features:

Subscribe without giving your personal information. Since the gyaandotin channel is powered by google sms, you just need to give the email address and mobile number to 'google'. So we don't come to know about the number.
Daily Updates: You can now get a daily dose of gyaan on your mobile phone.
QOTDs on the go: Don't have time to go to gyaan everyday? Receive all the dry QOTDs on SMS.
Updates of Upcoming Events: Receive updates about the upcoming events on your mobile, so that you never miss a good quiz again.

Ok, that is just it for now. We are discovering the wide possibilities of SMS service and want your feedback. So apart from subscribing I would request all the members of gyaan[dot]in to suggest about the new features that we can add in the gyaandotin channel.

Subscribe our channel: Here

QOTD 17.12.11

sam — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:45:54 -0700

Guys, connect this easy one and also fill in the blank

Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, Afzal Guru, L K Advani, Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi, Yeddyurappa, Ramdev, _______ and many more (don't forget Kani aunty)

QOTD- 09/1/11(a much needed one )

QuizzingKing — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:30:43 -0700

Is it just the weather( or maybe studies) or the quizzers in the Indian Circuit have indeed become lazy in their task of posting QOTD(s) ........

Going by the tradition:

Q1.The first parody of this song's music video was created by internet comedian Dan Gomiller and uploaded in 2001.
According to the IMDB entry, Gomiller’s parody video recieved 17,000 hits a day at its peak: . The first YouTube response video was uploaded on June 10, 2006.
In early 2007, the phenomenon was revived by online gaming fans for a short time, when YouTube user AmandaJ3162 uploaded a World of Warcraft (WOW) rendition of the song's music jive , featuring avatars from the Draenei race, using animations from the Burning Crusade Expansion Pack: .

Name this very popular song which became an online phenomenon all over the world.

IntelÆon 1st Anniversary Quiz.

Msaif — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:39:21 -0700

Dear Quizzards,

IntelÆon will be a year old on 1st January 2012,we have made phenomenal growth in this one year. The entire team would like thank all our wonderful fans who diligently follow us on Facebook and all the people who have attended our events. You are the reason for our success and growth.

To celebrate an eventful year we would like to share our happiness and success by conducting a week long online quiz, starting 1st January 2012. Exciting prizes would be awarded to the 7 winners.

So gear up to celebrate this New Year learning something new with IntelÆon.

PS: ReThink!

Best wishes
Team IntelÆon

Information & Rules
1) The online quiz would last 7 days (i.e. 1st January 2012 - 7th January 2012), with a single question being uploaded everyday.
2) The question for the day would be posted on IntelÆon's wall at 12.00 a.m. IST.
3) To win the prize for the particular day the participant must correctly answer each and every part of the question. No prize would be awarded for a partially correct answer.
4) The first person to answer the entire question correctly will be awarded the prize for the day.
5) A participant who has already won a prize on a previous day is not eligible for another prize. Until and unless no person attempts/correctly answers the entire question correctly till 9pm IST on that particular day.
6) The prizes would posted/mailed to the winner's homes.
7) Prizes would be delivered to addresses within India only.
7) IntelÆon cannot be held responsible for:
- delayed/damaged parcels.
- failed deliveries due to participants providing incomplete/insufficient or incorrect mailing address

Please post any queries as comments.

May the knowledge be with you.
Team IntelÆon

www.facebook.com/IntelAeon

QOTD 28/12/11

QuizzingKing — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:15:33 -0700

Q.1Started as Church High in 1941,it was known as Naveen Bharat in 1947 ; these days found everywhere. What?

Q.2 ID the lady in the pic

Q.3 Born as Mithilesh Kumar Shrivastav; X last seen by authorities on June 24, 1996; the wheelchair-using octogenarian vanished while being transported from prison to a hospital for treatment. In 2009, his lawyer requested that 100 charges pending against X be dropped due to X's death on July 25; however, Xl's brother subsequently claimed to have cremated him in 1996. Xwas wanted in 100 cases and he was wanted by 8 states police and was sentences to 113 years in prison.Who is X??

NDTV IDBI "Sawaal India Ka" Quiz

rishavronaldo — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:42:35 -0700

As you know NDTV was doing the prelims for sawaal India ka. Who all got selected ?

Also it would be great if people can post India based questions in the topics of History and Mytho, Politics and Govt, Cricket,Bollywood and IT and Automobiles to help the participants.

As far as I know from my school(alumni) we had 5 people selected-

1.Abhishek Gupta-IT

2.Utkarsh Aggarwal-Cricket

3. Varun Mehta-History and Mytho

4.Purushottam Gupta-History and Mytho

5.Rishav Dey -Cricket

A Query

marvellousmanas — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:08:22 -0700

Can anyone tell me what is meant by a dry question or a liquid question?

QOTD 21/12/11

Crucio619 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:31:01 -0700

Q. ID This Phenomenon.

New moderators and newsletter editors!

ankurb — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:21:15 -0700

Hi all,

As you know, over the past few weeks we invited for expression of interest from current members who wanted to become moderators. It was heartening to see so many people prepared to dedicate so much effort to gyaan.in. It's time to end the suspense - the moderators have voted and after a period of voting, we agree that the following people should be made moderators...

(Vampire style by Amrit George)

* Arunavha Chanda
* Vidit Bhargava
* Abhaas Mohan
* Utkarsha Bhardwaj

...and the following people as newsletter editors

* Parth Singh
* Dhananjay Sahay
* Mayank Vachher

Congratulations folks! The current moderator team extends a warm welcome them and I'm sure the rest of the gyaan.in community will join us in doing the same. The current moderator will be there to guide you in getting up to speed. The moderators themselves of course can work on the newsletter team too, if they want.

Let me take this opportunity to say something to those who didn't make it - we have great respect for the enthusiasm that you've shown and actually having the courage to stand up and run for a position and run for a position. When we were voting, the things we were looking for the amount of time each candidate had devoted to gyaan.in consistently, but also the past achievements and the experience each candidate had. So please don't be disheartened if you didn't get selected now, because we just want you to gain more experience and be even more successful while enjoying quizzing.

One of our members made a comment a few days ago about gyaan.in stagnating these days. Far from it! From the beginning of this year till now, we have seen a steady and consistent growth in gyaan.in's traffic, in no small measure because of extensive and rich collection of knowledge about quizzing and quiz competitions that the gyaan.in community has contributed.

If you ever feel that you don't find enough new content on the site, then you must ask yourself the question as to why you personally are not contributing to the mix. We have hundreds of members right now, and gyaan.in is what it is because of everyone's efforts - not because of any single person or group of people. gyaan.in is what you make it to be, so make it good.

My advice to the new moderators will be to always try to set an example for others to follow. Ever action you take and every word you say means something unique now, so think about everything twice before doing or saying it. I'm sure you're all responsible people. Make proactive efforts to find information about upcoming events, and make proactive efforts to create content, upload archives, et al - because you are some of the community's most experienced and dedicated members.

Once again, commiserations to those who didn't make it and I hope you interpret this as something you can improve yourself from.

I wish the new moderators all the best with your endeavours!

Gyaan.in Online Quiz 11.12.11 [Archive]

virtuosovidit — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:40:52 -0700

Hi Gyaan[dot]in members,

Gyaan.in is hosting its second Online Quiz Session this year, on 11th December 2011, Sunday.

Details:

Venue: chats.io/gyaanpre - Prelims

chats.io/gyaanfin - Finals

Date: 11.12.11

Day: Sunday

Time: 12:00 (Can Change)

Topic: General Quiz

QuizMaster: Vidit Bhargava

To Register:

Just leave a comment over here.

Format:

Prelims (In one, two or more groups, as per registrations). The first one to answer gets the point.

Finalists - Top 6 scorers of the prelims

No Winning. No Losing.

[Update] : Archives are here! :)

P.S. I haven't had much time, and hence i wasn't able to create this archive properly. You won't find Quiz Masters Notes here, event summary or the image questions. This is just Text Questions that I have uploaded. Hopefully i will upload the rest soon.

Upcoming Quizzes December 2011

virtuosovidit — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:16:48 -0700

5th December - NIE Funda-mentals 2011 - Quiz hosted by Derek O'Brien.

Winners: Rukmuni Devi Public School

8-9 December- CBSE Heritage India Quiz 2011-by Pornob Da and Mr. Arindam Bhattacharya

10th December - NIU Quiz Championship 2011 - Hosted By Kunal Sawarkar from QuizCraft

All Details Available: here

11th December - Gyaan.in Online Quiz - Winter Quiz Session - Hosted by Vidit Bhargava

All Details Available on the Gyaan.in Discussion for the Same

13th-14th December - TECH Quiz @ Core 2011 at DPS Dwarka

All Details Available: coreis.us

C.O.R.E 2011

Abhijay_Gupta — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:51:02 -0700

anyone willing to put up the questions of the crossword,JQ and SQ of CORE 2011?

QOTD 26/11/11

virtuosovidit — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:41:28 -0700

Connect Them:

No archives are being uploaded

ilovequizzing — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:01:38 -0700

Well, you cannot deny the fact that none of the archives of Japan Quiz and most important NIE quiz is uploaded till now. It will be really helpful to rhose who

didnt go in the quiz and also who will be giving it next year. Please people if anyone made it , please upload it

TCS 2011 NATIONAL FINALS

ilovequizzing — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:56:58 -0700

What happened ? What were the results? Please upload the videos of semi-finals and finals.

Questions asked at Social Media Groups

virtuosovidit — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:11:48 -0700

Here are some questions that we at gyaan[dot]in asked at various social media platforms recently:

Q1. Which famous Social Media 'tool' was created by Rohit Bhargava, a senior VP at Ogilvy?

Q2. On 12th August 2004, Sanjeev Kohli the co-music composer of X made news. Kohli had revised Y's composition using it for X. This being (probably) a first in Hindi movies. Later a CD of the complete BGM of X was released which included Y's precious compositions, this also being a rarity. Identify X and Y.

Q3. The Number: 12,375,365 ; 'Playground' and a four-leaf clover. With which movie do you connect the following clues.

Q4.The origin of this phrase lies when enemies would cross canals and attack Mughal camps in a blitzkrieg attack and then just as they came would retreat leaving the enemy helpless. The sport of tent pegging also evolved from this camp raiding where the riders would remove the pegs of the tents trapping the occupants under, what then used to b a very heavy fabric. While escaping back to their base the enemy warriors would dismantle any temporary bridges constructed by them (made out of “wood) to prevent the Mughals from chasing them and sometimes to prevent the enemy from escaping, hence the cry .The phrase then acquired the meaning: “to complete the route”. A nd nowadays it means “To bring the house down!” . What is this phrase?

-Question taken from the Tata Motors quiz.

Q5. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas. What?

- Dhananjay Sahai

Q6. X dreamt of being an artist. X applied twice to the Vienna Academy of Arts in 1907 and 1908 but was denied entrance both times. X left school at sixteen with no qualification and struggled to Make a living as a painter in Vienna. Who is this famous X?

Q7. In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, The character portrayed by Tom Hanks invested in a tech-firm, Which firm had he invested in?

Limca Book of Records Quiz Delhi -St. Thomas [ARCHIVE]

jerand14 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:42:57 -0700

the limca book of records quiz delhi 2011 was held on 17th november and having attended it i felt bound to share the questions with everyone Here are all the questions i remember from the prelims and finals.

1)new delhi is home to 2 unesco world heritage sites one being the qutub minar what is the other?

Answer--Humayun's Tomb

2)to which country does the world's longest-serving current (royal) head of state belong?

Answer--Thailand

3)what is the p in http?

Answer--Protocol

4)Polar bears hibernate.True or False.

Answer--False

5)which Nobel prize has been given continuously since its inception(no year in which noone received the prize)

Answer--Nobel prize for Economics

6)who holds the record for the most no. of sixes in Champions League T20?

Answer--Virat Kohli

7)Sir William Herschel disovered which planet using a handheld reflecting telescope in 1781?

answer--uranus

8)Who is the current leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha?

Answer--Shri Arun Jaitley

9)This is the year of the____________________(chinese calendar)?

Answer--Rabbit or Hare

10)Buzz Aldrin has a Guest appearance in which 2011 action film?

Answer--Transformers Dark of the moon

11)Which color derives its name from the Greek word for "Indian dye"?

Answer--Indigo

12)Identify--

(the image given was different and a lot more difficult to identify)

Answer--Novak Djokovic

13)Which famous play by Shakespeare has the lines--"In , I know not why I am so sad."?

Options--Merchant of venice,as you like it,macbeth

Answer--Merchant of Venice

14)Identifying voice--

Answer was Jairam Ramesh

15)Identify---

Answer--Kate or Catherine Middleton or Duchess of Cambridge

16)my first and middle name is Kisan Baburao--

Answer--Anna Hazare

17)Identify the flower--

Answer--Daffodils

18)Salman Khan's production hosue is known as SKBH with Sk being evident but what is BH?

Answer--Being Human

I will post more as i remember now come questions from Finals--

1)First non governmental organisation to join Twitter--

Indian Post

2)Identify

First Telephone made by Alexander Graham Bell(prototype)

3)Which character from well know triology of novels goes to Albert Mission School?

Swami from Swami and Friends by Rk Narayanan

4)Who bowled the first ball in the world cup?(maybe for india)

Madan Lal

5)THe Danjon Scale is used to meaure what natural phenomena with L=0 being Very dark almost invisible and L=4 being Very bright copper-red or orange?

Lunar Eclipse

6)Reykjavík is the world's Northernmost capital which is the Southernmost?

Wellington,New Zealand

7)First t20 international match was held between asutralia and england.Serious or joking.

Answer-Joking(Australia and New Zealand)

Oh man i cant remember anything else please anyone who went to the quiz please help in completing the set of 30 questions for the prelims and adding more questions from the stage round specially serious and joking ones.

Results--

1st New era public school

2nd Springdales Public School

^ of 150 teams qualified for stage round from prelims.Held in St. Thomas School and hosted by Andrew Scolt(Personally i feel he isnt a good quizmaster and compared to Picbrain and Derek he just isnt good enough and is a bit irritating.)

Question of the Day: 5th December, 2011

Shreyans — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:14:08 -0700

Alfred Hitchcock's last in black-and-white, this was the first American film to show a toilet flushing on screen. Which film?

Inter DPS Quiz Nationals - 2011

achintya — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:10:51 -0700

I am months too late on this one, but was anyone of you there for the nationals of the Inter DPS Quiz?

Calling for new moderators and newsletter editors

ankurb — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:04:18 -0700

Hi guys,

I was thinking that we should expand the list of moderators on the site, since many of the ones who were there last year have moved on to college - and more importantly, many of them abroad / out of Delhi. So I think it's been difficult for many people to stay in the loop because of timezone differences and other commitments of university life. We'll all of course still be around and contribute whenever we can, but then it would be nice to have more people who are hands-on.

So in case you are confident enough that you can devote time to become a moderator, tell us why by leaving a comment here. This is not about getting a position of power, but about whether you can actually take time out and contribute to managing the community.

Some of you might be wondering what happened to our newsletter. The simple fact is that we need contributors and editors; till now, these functions were mostly being done by the current moderator team but many of us have been busy because our college session has just started and that usually brings with it extra work, time to settle in etc. I can personally say it's been difficult to find time to sit down and edit compilations. So if you're interested and willing to compile monthly archives, then step up and leave a comment here.

If you've any questions or queries about taking on these roles - again, leave a comment here. Also, just to clarify you don't necessarily need to be a school/college student or be based out of Delhi. Anyone and everyone who is willing to work and is competent can take on the roles.