QUIZ#7

1. X is a food made by coagulating soya milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is part of East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine. X has a subtle flavor and can be used in savory and sweet dishes. It is often seasoned or marinated to suit the dish. X?

2. This dish is made by mixing rose syrup with vermicelli, psyllium or basil seeds, jelly pieces with milk or ice cream. This drink may have been brought to the Indian subcontinent during the Mughal period. The vermicelli used are often made from arrowroot rather than wheat. The rose syrup may be substituted with another flavoured base to produce kesar. Identify.

3.  Byzantine Greece         -                        pita
     Turkey                          -                        Pide
     Albania                        -                        Pite
     Modern Hebrew           -                        Pittah
     What am I talking about?

4. What do the British call as G-Jam because they find it difficult to spell it?

5. _________  was started in 1940 by Richard and Maurice ___________.Some ________'s in suburban areas and certain cities feature large indoor or outdoor playgrounds. The first PlayPlace with the familiar crawl-tube design with ball pits and slides was introduced in 1987 in the USA, with many more being constructed soon after. Some PlayPlace playgrounds have been renovated into "R Gym". The _______'s headquarters complex, ________'s Plaza, is located in Oak brook,Illinois areas. Fill in all the blanks with a single word. 

ANSWERS TO QUIZ#6

1. Ranbir Kapoor

2. Amit Trivedi

3. Deepika Padukone

4. Salman Khan

5. A.R.Rahaman

QUIZ#6

1. As a child, X studied at Bombay Scottish school in Mahim, Mumbai and went on to pursue method acting at The Lee Stratsberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.Before starting off his career as an actor, X worked as an assistant with director Sanjay Leela Bansali, where he was involved in the making of the film Black. Kapoor currently lives with his parents in Pali Hill in Mumbai. X?

2. After working as a theater and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in Aamir. In his younger days, an electronic musical instrument fascinated him and he was slowly drawn towards music, mainly influenced by classical music. At the age of 19-20, he started composing music. During college days he became part of a band called Om, which was primarily a group of music lovers, and the band would perform at local gigs, small shows and live performances. They struck gold when Times Music took notice of them, at one of the shows, and offered to launch their album. The album however did not fare well, due to lack of proper promotions.
Eventually he went on to compose for theater (Hindi, English and Gujarati plays), background music and dandiya shows  for TV serials, live performances, d, orchestras etc. He also had a brief stint with ad jingles, providing music for Mc Donalds and Airtel.  In 2009 itself, he was roped in by Anshu Sharma (Creative Director from Rediffusion Y&R) to compose the team anthem "Game for more" for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Identify.

3. Y was born in Copenhegen. Y is of Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin origin, and her mother tongue is Konkani. Y made her acting debut in the 2006 film Aishwarya. Over the years, she has modeled for such Indian brand names as Liril, Dabur Lal powder, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, and has been "brand ambassador" for the Jewels of India retail Jewellery show. The cosmetics company Maybelline made her its international spokesperson. Y?

4. He is the eldest son of screenwriter Salim and his first wife Salma. His paternal grandfather came to India from Afghanistan and settled in Madhya Pradesh whereas his mother is a Marathi Hindu. His stepmother is Helen, a former actress, who has co-starred with him in a few films. In 2004, he was voted seventh-best-looking man in the world and the best looking man in India by People magazine, US. His life-size wax figure was installed there on 15 January 2008, making him the fourth Indian actor to have been replicated as a wax statue in the museum. The person?

Easy one to end with

5.He was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar. In 2009, Time placed him in its list of  World's most Influential People. The UK based World Music magazine Songlines named him one of 'Tomorrow's World Music Icons' in August 2011.He is the founder of the  rock group, "Nemesis Avenue". Identify this wonderful person who is my absolute favorite.

QUIZ#5

This post is dedicated to the game freaks in my batch at network labs. So here we go

1. X has its origins in the earliest mainframe games of the 1960s and 1970s. The earliest ancestor of X was Jerimac Ratliff's Cube. The basic gameplay style became a popular segment of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s.. Apart from the bundled versions, a huge number of clones of all shapes and sizes can be found on the Internet.The game is called "Prato Fiorito" (flowery lawn) in the italian versions of Windows. X please?

2. The puzzle was popularized in 1986 by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli, under the name Y, meaning single number. It became an international hit in 2005. These weekly puzzles were a feature of French newspapers such as L'Echo de Paris for about a decade but disappeared about the time of World War 1. Its terminologies include Nonet, Cell and House. Identify Y.


3.This is a tactical first person video game developed by Valve corporation which originated from a Half life modification by Minh Gooseman Le and Jess Clife. he game was the most played Half-Life modification in terms of players, according to Gamespy in 2008. As of August 2011, the Counter-Strike franchise, which debuted 12 years ago, has sold over 25 million units. Identify the game.

4.Z is a fictional charecter in his video game series, created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamato. Serving as Nintendo's mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Z has appeared in over 200 hundred video games since his creation. Though originally only appearing in platform games, starting with Donkey Kong, Z currently appears in varied video game genres such as racing, puzzle, party, role playing, fighting and sports. Z?

5. This is a video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner, originally developed for and released on the Apple 2 Computer in 1989. The original game and its first sequel were 2D platform games, but the series made the switch to 3D  in 1999. Even though Mechner has been involved with the series in varying capacities throughout its history, the games themselves have been developed and published by several different companies.Identify.

ANSWERS TO QUIZ#4

1. Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi
2. mumbai lahore and london
3. Khan market
4. Vicks vapour rub
5. This is the place where J.K.Rowling first sat to write the Harry Potter