mithun sharing his collection of quizzes/ppts which were left over in his laptop. this is something i have prepared for my own learning or for conducting some quiz in hyd or bglr between 2005 and 2011. might even contain some strays of ppts from other quizzes i visited/tried

1. 24th Jan 2011

2. Clue 1
• She holds both a Masters' of Science Degree in Zoology, and
a Ph.D. in Cardiac Anatomy from the University of Colorado
at Denver.
• She was nominated to head the Indian Council of Cultural
Affairs. She also presided over the women
parliamentarians' group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in
1993 and became founder president of the
parliamentarians' forum for human development the same
year. She was also elected President of Inter-Parliamentary
Union, a post which she held from 16 October 1999 to 27
September 2002. X was nominated by the United Nations
Development Programme as its human development
ambassador. X led a delegation to the UN Commission on
Status of Women in 1997.

3. Clue 2
• She was a staunch INC member and rose fast
in the ranks- was the General Secretary of
Congress during 1986 with the additional
responsibility of youth activities of the All
India Congress Committee and the NSUI.
• She is the grand-niece of Maulana Abul Kalam
Azad,

4. Clue 3
• In 2004 she quit INC and now is vice president
of BJP an Indian politician and was a Rajya
Sabha member from Rajasthan from July 2004
to July 2010.
• She lost to Hamid Ansari in the 13th Vice-
Presidential Elections held in August 2007 by
233 votes.

5. And the answer is

6. NAJMA HEPTHULLAH

7. • How will you connect a Charles Dickens
character to a British rock band?

8. And the answer is

9. URIAH HEEP

10. Types of what
• alpine coil
• artillery loop
• corned beef
• cow hitch
• double figure eight bend
• eskimo bowline
• handcuff
• monkey's fist
• surgeon's loop
• twined turk's head
• Sheepshank

11. And the answer is

12. KNOTS

13. • _______is a Japanese Buddhist term for
enlightenment that literally means
"understanding". In the Zen Buddhist tradition,
____refers to a flash of sudden awareness, or
individual enlightenment, and is considered a
"first step" or embarkation toward nirvana.
• An english equivalent would be epiphany

14. And the answer is

15. SATORI

16. Clue 1
• this was created by Shubham Choudhury and
Hemantkumar Jain in 2004, then students at NITIE,
Mumbai.
• It was initially created to serve as a mascot to
MastishK' 04, an online contest - a part of Prerana, the
inter-collegiate youth festival of the institute.
• In the subsequent years, competitions were held
among the students of various B-schools, to identify
good ideas for it

17. Clue 2
• XY was awarded with the Manthan Award for
demonstrating how ICT could be used as an
effective marketing tool

18. Clue 3
• Y is a common Indian surname while the word
"X" refers to the arbitrary ways of the
• protagonist.

19. And the answer is

20. ARBIT CHOUDHURY

21. • X is the Spanish and Catalan word for a turtle or
tortoise.
• tHIS CAN alternately refer to:
• a novel by Rudolfo Anaya
• a place in Imperial County California, and also in haiti
• Dry Xs National Park, in the Florida Keys
• Ships in the United States Navy -USS X (LSD-46),
commissioned in 1990 and on active service as of 2008

22. And the answer is

23. TORTUGA

24. • Literal meaning of what is 'to shy away from a
definite commitment or from taking a firmstand'
• It can also refer to:British recording act;A Warner
Bros. cartoon character; a film by the same name
and also to the recipe below:
• 1 cl (0.33 oz) Grenadine Syrup
• 4 cl (1.35 oz) Pineapple juice
• 4 cl (1.35 oz) Orange juice
• 4 cl (1.35 oz) Grapefruit juice
• Shake or blend briefly, strain into a long drink glass.
Garnish with fresh fruit, cherry, and a drinking straw

25. And the answer is

26. PUSSY FOOT

27. Who with what?

28. • Additional trivia:
• He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia
(AO) in the Australia Day honours in 2002.
• In November 2008, Qantas named one of their
Airbus A380s after him
• He was buried in a casket bearing the label “____
____Inventor; Do Not Open".

29. And the answer is

30. David Warren with Black Box

33. And the answer is

34. Eddie Van Halen's rock-out guitar-
support

35. • this was established in 1910 by Pattani Prime
Minister of the erstwhile state of Bhavnagar
• The company derives its name from Vaidhya
_____Bhattji
• He was a renowned Vaidhya not only of
Gujarat but India in late 19th century & early
20th century

36. And the answer is

37. ZANDU

39. And the answer is

40. GRATEFUL DEAD