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Okay here is the Answer , the connect is Harry Potter . The First Pic is of Hermione Baddeley , an Academy Award winning english actress , the second pic is of Ronald Reagan and the the Third pic is of Prince Harry . Harry , Ron and Hermione , the three protagonists of the harry potter franchise .

By Manu Abbi

Acumen

what is unique about this crossed arm pose?

ANS:A REGISTERED U.S TRADEMARK,SEEN IN THE PIC IS PETER NORTON :FOUNDER NORTON ANTIVIRUS.

Weekly Quiz

Q XY.com is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of movies. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing Y and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad. Its owned by Newscorp. Which site?
A RottenTomatoes

Q This one time Sheriff of Calcutta (1961) served on the Boards of SBI & ICICI. He also served as the President of the Bridge Federation of India & The All India Lawn Tennis Association. He authored two books - ' Indira Gandhi : Reminiscences' and ' Partners in Progress - Collection of Selected Speeches and Writings ' ?
A KK Birla

Q This greatly pleasing or entertaining web service was started by Joshua Scachter in 2003.Having more than 5 million users its primary use is in storing,sharing and discovering bookmarks on the internet.Identify.
A Del.icio.us

Q Bristol, London and Southampton were declared to be the ' fittest cities ' in the UK, by the fitness magazine - Men's Health. Incidentally, the European online auction site TeleBid, found that the residents of these cities bought more copies of 'X' than other cities. The charm of X, cut across all demographic profiles, so much that its manufacturer found it difficult to keep up with the demand. Identify X ?
A Nintendo Wii

Q X has written two autobiographies. I Am Not Y (1977) was the first. X's stated intention was merely to remind the public at large that Y and X were not one and the same. His second autobiography was entitled I Am Y (1995), meant to communicate that he finally realized that his years of portraying the Y character had led to a much greater identification between the fictional character Y and him . Identify X and Y
A X = Leonard Nemoy , Y = Spock

Q This is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by a film. Launched in 1996 by Viacom Consumer Products and the Rusty Pelican Company, this became the first theme restaurant inspired by a film.There are now twenty locations, all located in the United States and Asia.Name the movie and the restaurant chain.
A Movie = Forrest Gump , Restaurant = Bubba Gubba Shrimp Company

Q Connect Chief, Burger, Doctor, Bhola, Shankar .
A Code Names used by terrorists who hijacked IC-814

Q Ancient Roman shepherds used a kind of pointed stick to drive their cattle. The reaction of the animals to the stick was as expected, i.e. to avoid coming in contact with it. What was that stick called? It is now a common English word.
A Stimulus

Q This business has its origins in 1900 when Dewan Bahadur AM _________ Chettiar established a money-lending and banking business in Burma(now Myanmar) , which then spread to Malaysia, Srilanka, Indonesia and Vietnam. The group had to strategically move its assets back to India and restart from scratch in 1930s , before the Japanese invasion in WWII. Presently it has interests in engineering, abrasives, sanitryware, fertilizers, finance , bioproducts and plantations. Name the business group in question
A Muruguppa Group

which athlete's family witnessed Bolt from the Berlin Stadium where Hitler
once sat to witness this long jumper , a blue eyed blonde german who later fought against the allies in north africa in the war II and died? his famous opponent was Jesse Owens incidentally whose family also witnessed the record breaking Usain Bolt

Weekly Quiz

Q What is the name of the pattern that results when a stock price reaches its peak and declines , rises above the former peak and again declines ; and rises a third time but not to the second peak and again declines ?

Q The English version of Wikipedia hosted its 3 millionth article on Monday marking a landmark day for the website . What was the article about ?

Q During the spring of 1995 , Scientists at the Digital Equipment Corporation's Research Lab in Palo Alto , CA devised a way to store every word of every page on the entire internet in a fast searchable index . This led to the formation of what

Q In 1946 , two italian brothers named Ambrogio and Egidio started which company which is currently known by their surname ?

Q What did Andreas Bectoshiem , William Joy , Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy setup in 1982 for the purpose of selling low cost desktop computers running the Unix operating system ?

Q Which investment theory states that 'no matter how high a price one person paid for something , there is always someone else willing to pay even more' ?

Q Microsoft scrapped its original slogan and used the slogan 'Yes you can' for Windows XP ? What was the original slogan and why was it scrapped ?

Q When they studied at Stanford University , their computers were known as 'Akebono' and 'Konishiki' (both legendary Sumo wrestlers) because of their unique talents . They later went on to start one of the most famous websites ? Who are they ?

identify:

HINT; Founder of a Bangladesh based NGO.

Acumen

"X" is a German company which produces luxury cars. The name "X" is based on a Latin translation of the surname of the founder,itself the German word for “listen!".The logo of "X" represent the four marques of Auto Union: namely ,"X",DKW,Horch and Wanderer.

connect:

HINT: GOLDMAN SACHS.

by: abhi mahipal.

connect:

by: abhi mahipal

Weekly Quiz

Q The medical term for it is Cutis anserina, and it occurs due to the pilomotor reflex . essentially a disturbance of the arrectores pilorum muscles. The common term for this condition has also served as the title for a 62 - book horror series, written by an American author from 1992 to 1997. What term?

Q Laugh-O-Gram was the name of a company which was co-founded by a very famous name in the world of entertainment. This company folded up soon after and the co-founder went on to much bigger things . Name the person ?

Q Sometime in the 1930s, a professor of Anglo-Saxon at the Oxford university, in order to support his wife and four children, took on the work of marking school certificate exams and working as an external examiner for other universities. One day while grading papers, he stumbled across a page in an answer-book that a student had left blank, and for some inexplicable reason, wrote on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a ______". This gave birth to one of the great novels of our time. Fill up the blank and tell me who the professor was.

Q Before tying up with Suzuki, the Indian Govt. talked seriously to another auto giant in connection with creating Maruti who later refused, presumably because they didn't think that the Indian market was big enough.. Which manufacturer is this?

Q As the U.S. president boards any Air Force airplane, the plane assumes the radio call sign "Air Force One." At other times, the call sign reverts back to the plane's tail number. What was the only time that the radio call sign changed from "Air Force One" back to its tail number while the plane was in flight and why?

Q What famous shoe company gets its name from traditional fried southern cornballs which were used to quieten barking dogs ?

Q This term was used at the London Stock Exchange in the 18th century for brokers who went "broke". Later it was used for congressional candidates in the US, who lost the November elections, but constituionally could stay on in power till March, and hence used this time to irresponsibly vote for perks etc for themselves.
HINT : Was used for Manmohan Singh too

Q What is so special about the clock in Center Court at Wimbledon ?

Q He was born in Titilagarh in Orissa and majored in Physics and Electronics in Baroda. He then did his masters in electrical engg. from IIT, Chicago and later co-founded Wescom Switching Inc.
He went on to become famous in India in the 1980s in a different role. Who is he?

Q This person discontinued his graduation in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1966 due to family pressures. In September 2000, he completed two major term papers to pick up the credits required for graduation. Who?

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take the first pic more as a hint

by shashank

identify the product/application:

ans:ISRO BHUVAN

jjjee kya hai bhai part 2

What is being shown in this pic???

posted by nicks.

Jjjeee kya hai bhai????

Identify this???

by none & lonely
nikhil

identify the deadly trio

They were the first among many in British India.

posted by shashank

identify the product:

Connect

Pete Rose , Swami Vivekanand and the World Trade Center

Identify

This famous Scientist / Engineer

connect:

ans: harnik.The co which mfgs sweet cigrattes & chocolate coin,pic is of footballer harnik.

by abhi mahipal

Complete the Series

Zaibatsu , Loonies, Yakuza , SRS , Rednecks , Russian Mafia , __________

identify..

posters of what?

by abhi mahipal

tring!!!!!!tring!!!!!!!!

ans:MICROMAX... mobile phone company named after this Marvel comic character.

by abhi mahipal

Weekly Quiz

Q The following excerpts are from the April 26th 1996 edition of the New York Times:
"Bill Gates gets the credit but somebody else did most of the work'.
'For the first time in this decade something from Microsoft has been shipped on time'.
'Regardless of the problems with this one calling Microsoft Support won't help'.
'For at least another year it'll suck.“
About what ?

Q This word is derived from the 1960 film La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer played by Walter Santesso. In his book Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito . What am i talking about ?

Q What are the names given to the two decks of the chinese abacus?

Q This was a brief from the agency to the musician - "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental and emotional, etc" a whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long." The musician's name at birth was Brian Peter George. How do we know him better and identify the piece he created ?

Q The name of which company means "Leave luck to heaven" in Japanese ?

Q Founded in 1923 in Berlin as "Ideal" , this company changed its name in 1938 after a bluedot on its headphones ? Name the company .

In Latin, this word means a female animal used for breeding. It was first used in English in the 16th century to refer to the uterus or womb. In biology, it is the intercellular substance of a tissue, and in geology it is the natural material surrounding a metal or gem or fossil embedded in the earth. Commonest use is however in mathematics. The word?

Q Born in 1954 in Hamburg, she graduated with a doctorate in physics from the University
of Leipzig, after which she worked in the field of quantum chemistry. Since 1998, she has
been married to a Berlin chemistry professor Joachim Sauer and has no children. Her
doctoral thesis was entitled The Calculation of Speed Constants of Elementary Reactions
in Simple Carbohydrates. Who is this newsworthy person?

Q The very first patent issued in Thomas Edison's name was for what?

Q What was so unique about the dismissal of Jim Burke (Australia) in the Old Trafford Test of the 1956 Ashes?

Identify

The following is an extract from the cover art of a famous metallica album . Who designed it originally and what does it represent ?

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Identify #2

He was an Irish Playwright born in 1856 in Dublin . He is the only person ever to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar . He wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honors, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English . Name the person .

Identify

X after leaving school joined his father at his shoe factory, and was then called up to fight in World War I. On his return from the front, X took a management position at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather wholesale business . He returned in 1924 to join his brother Y and they started a business with the initials GDS . Both brothers joined the Nazi Party, but X was slightly closer to the party. During the war, a growing rift between the pair reached a breaking point when X was picked up and interrogated by Americans . This caused a split in the company and the two companies formed are rivals even today . Name X and Y and their companies .

What is their contribution to world of Business

By Madhav

which phrase do we get from this

a caricature published June 3, 1793 by James Gillray depicting what?

by shashank

Their contribution to world??

yeh rishta kya kehlata hain:

connect:not as indian cricketers from the state of gujarat.

ans:RELIANCE INDUSTRIES BRAND AMBASSDORS.

This is to inform that the meeting on Wednesday 5th August 2009 has been cancelled on account of Raksha Bandhan. Even if there is college on 5th no quizsoc meeting will take place.

The date for the next meeting will be soon decided and posted on the blog.

identify:

accumen#002

->>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur cracked the auspicious coconut marking the launch of India’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at the Shipbuilding Centre, Visakhapatnam, on July 26, 2009.What refrained PM from cracking the coconut ?
ans: The INDIAN NAVY RULES>>WHICH ALLOWS ONLY WOMENS TO INDUCT NEW ARSENALS IN THE NAVY FLEET

by,abhi Mahipal.

identify the mascot..