Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Maximus Indiucs Quiz- Mixed Bag Quiz-5

Sorry for delay in response. Was preoccupied with some work, and then last one week put me off totally, what with all those terror attacks in Mumbai, and i was just not in the mood.


1) This place was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 AD, as the administrative seat for the French Colony of New France. It gets it's name from an Alonquin word meaning "it narrows", referring to the fact that the St. Lawrence River narrows to a cliff here. It became a province in 1763 after France transferred this to Britian. This place also has one of the largest French speaking community in the world.

QUEBEC

2) On OCt 23,1911, what took place in the Italian-Turkish war, that would be the first of it's kind?

FIRST TIME AIRPLANES WERE USED


3) Should be a sitter, what starts at Broadway in the East and ends at South Street on East River?

WALL STREET-SURPRISED MANY DID NOT GET THIS


4) This picture is of a War Memorial at a famous battlefield of World War II. Name the place



EL ALAMEIN

5) Connect the following pictures




THE CONNECT WAS DEEP THROAT

MARK FELT WAS THE REAL DEEP THROAT
CHARACTER IN X FILES
LINDA LOVELACE ACTED IN PORN MOVIE DEEP THROAT


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This political leader in the picture, was born in Tel Aviv. Basically of Lithuanian descent, his father was a professor of Jewish History. His elder brother Yonatan was killed in the Entebbe operation and he served in Sayeret Matkal, an Israeli special task force. He graduated from MIT in 1977, and worked for some time at BCG, before returning to Israel. He was also the Israeli Ambassador to US from 1984-1988. In 1996, he became the first Israeli Prime Minister to win a direct election, beating Shimon Peres. Nicknamed as Bibi, he negotiated with Yasser Arafat for the Wye River accords.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU


7) Connect Classic, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, Touch.( Should be a sitter).

IPOD MODELS


8) Though Douglas Jardine, started the Bodyline practice, in reality he never referred it as such. What was the name he gave to this technique?

LEG THEORY

9) This novel written by Czech writer Milan Kundera in 1982, is set in the backdrop of the 1968 Prague Spring. The central character is Tomas, a succesful surgeon who is removed from his job for his ant Communist stand. Also made into a 1988 movie starring Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche.

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

10) He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969, and while in Med School, wrote novels under the pseudonym of John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson. He also co authored another novel Dealing under the pen name of Michael Douglas. The first novel published under his real name was The Great Train Robbery in 1975. He also wrote Electronic Life, a book on BASIC programming. He was also the director for Westworld, Coma and the 1979 screen version of The Great Train Robbery.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

Scores

Rithwik-6

Muni-6

Swarun-5

Anaimesh-8

Arun Thulasi-6

Cimtom-7

Aravind-8

Kamal-9

Ashish-4

Tarun-4

Anand Shankar-3

qe qq -4

Minhaj-7