Second Set of Questions - 26.9.10

The Straight Drives....

No visuals.Just go ahead. Keep in mind the clues and crack them .

   1.   This word comes from the amalgamation of the German words for “time” and “spirit”. It is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, sociocultural direction or mood of an era. This term is now widely used in journalism to show popular and trendy news, topics and articles. What is this word ?

2.   Connect assassination, countless, frugal, generous, impartial, monument. 

3.   He was born in 1806 at Madurai.His father held various posts at the erstwhile East India Company. His mother descended from the person who invented the antilogarithms .This guy’s got a crater on moon named after him .Name him.

   4.      X studied at St. Vincent's High School, Pune, and then at Fergusson College, Pune. In 1964, he joined the National Defence Academy, Pune, and in 1964, he joined the Air Force Flying Colleges in Jodhpur and Allahabad.In 1977, he became the president of the Indian Youth Congress, Pune, and was the president of the Indian Youth Congress, Maharashtra, from 1978-1980. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for three terms from 1982 to 1995, and again in 1998. He was also elected to the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, and to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004. During the tenure of P.V.Narasimha Rao as the Prime Minister of India, he served as a Minister of State.

   5.    Shulchan,Aruch,Halakhic .Midrash,Targum,Piyyut ,Saadia Gaon,Maimonides. Connect the above.

   6.  X was born in Binningen. He was raised as a Roman Catholic ,X met Pope Benedict XVI. He was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador by UNICEF in 2006. X was named as a 2010 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in recognition of his leadership, accomplishments and contributions to society. Who is X?

Answers to the First Set of Questions - 14.9.10

1. Madurai Quiz Society...and the first question is supposed to be about the city....It is "Jil Jil Jiggarthanda ", believed to have been invented in Madurai.

2. the plot of the movie Aayirathil Oruvan ( 2010 )

3. Chennai. They are the sister cities of Chennai due to many similarities.

4. X- IIT , Y- Kharagpur

5. Y- Alaska , Z-Russia

the MQS core team

First Set of Questions - 6.9.10

Our first five questions....

1. Boil the milk and let it come to room temperature. Then refrigerate this for a while. Soak the china grass  in water for about 3 hours. Now take out the china grass from water. Pour milk up to half of the glass .Mix well the sarsaparila syrub and china grass with milk .Finally put a scoop of vanila ice-cream on top .What do you get?

2. Chandramouli goes missing. Anitha goes in search of Chandramouli and is assisted by Ravi Sekaran . They are given company by Lavanya, Chandramouli's daughter . What are we talking about ?

3. Complete .

San Antonio , Frankfurt , Cairo , Denver , Volgograd , __________ .


4. The establishment of X was made by a 22-member committee headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar set-up by Sir Jogendra Singh of the Viceroy's Executive Council in 1946 . The first branch of X was established at a detention camp at Y in 1950. What are X and Y ?

5. William H Seward bought Y from Z on March 30 , 1867 negotiating a deal of  $ 7.2 million, at about 2 cents per acre. What are Y and Z ?

the MQS core team

The First Official Post

Hi Guys !

This is it...A dream society nurtured by knowledge and built on the idea " to spot out the quizzer in a non-quizzer ". Quizzing here takes a turn. It is not about knowing answers , it is a game of guessing. Not everybody will know the answer to every question on earth . Our questions will not be direct. They'll be full of clues. You get the clues right and the answers are in your hands.

Happy Quzzing ,

the MQS core team