Tata Crucible 2008 Campus Edition Round Up

The Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2008 Dashboard.

Schedule
Feb 2- Hyderabad - ICAI (N. Aditya & Anirudh Janak) -- Questions
Feb 3- Ahmedabad- IIM A (Keerthi Raghavan & Dushyant Mullur)-- Questions
Feb 9- Mumbai- NMIMS (Souvik Basu & Govind Grewal) -- Questions
Feb 10- Lucknow-
Feb 12- Cochin-
Feb 16- Indore-
Feb 17- Bangalore-
Feb 23- Kolkata-
Feb 29- Chandigarh-
Mar 2- Delhi-
Mar 8- Chennai-
Mar 9- Pune-

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Whoittiz

This fictional character lives at 221B ,plays the piano and guitar and had a nemesis named Jack Moriarty.His name is a play on one of Arthur Conan Doyle's characters.He also had an infarction in his leg which led to an addiction to Vicodin. Which character is this?

Dr. Gregory House of the award winning serial - Dr.House

Acronyms

If the SKG in dreamworks SKG stood for Steven Spielberg , Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen then what does KSM stand for in KSM motorsports?

Peter Kaiser , Michael Schumacher and Thomas Muchov.

Whoittiz

He grew up in Pont l'abbe Brittany . His mother is a hairdresser and his father was a vocational school metal shop teacher. He graduated in 2000 from the University Kumiere Lyon with a degree in Financial Operations.He has been in the news recently. Who is he and why has he been in the news?

The guy in Jerome Kerviel and he has been linked with losses of approximately €4.9 billion (US$7.16 billion) stemming from fraudulent equity index futures trading.

Debut Scuderia Drivers Champions

Kimi Raikonnen became the second Driver in Formula 1 to win the drivers world championship with his first season in Ferrari. There has been only one other driver who has done this. Who is that?

Juan Manuel Fangio was the only other driver to win a drivers championship with his first year at Ferrari.

Odyssey Quiz 2008

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What am I talking about?

For 20 years from 1988 to 2007- Rebound Ace was used. But to reduce the stickyness it was changed in 2008. What was it changed to and what am I talking about?

This is the surface on which the Australian Open matches are played. In 1988 the hardcourts were layed out with a material called Rebound Ace. In 2008 it was changed to plexicushion.

Unbeatable

The New England Patriots completed a 16-0 unbeaten season this year and this was the first time since 1972 that this had happened. Which team achieved this feat in 1972?



The Miami Dolphins

Claim to fame of Amrit Singh?

Amrit Singh is a staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union and has fought for the release of thousands of documents under the freedom of Information Act. She also handles the Immigrant Rights Project at ACLU . However she also has another claim to fame - What is it?


She is the youngest daughter of the Prime Minister of India - Manmohan Singh

Scores and Answers to General Quiz - I

Decent reply to the quiz. Here are the scores and answers to the quiz.

Suraj Menon - 1
Srinidhi Rai - Good Attempt!!
Rajiv D Silva - 2.5
Vinod Krishna - 1
Ninad W - 3
Hussain Poonawala - 3
Venkatesh S - 3
Shovon Chakraborty - 3
Kamal Rathi - 1
Batty Bryant - Good Attempt
Bhargav Raghavan - 3



1. Who is the third in the sequence?

A: - Chris Gayle - The first Pic is that of Charles Bannerman , second is of Dennis Amis. These are the first people to score centuries in Test matches , One day internationals and Twenty20.














2. The name of this island is believed to have been derived from the sounds of parrots that inhabited the island. Another theory for the origin of its name is believed to be from the sanksrit word for Lobster or Crab. One of the earliest mention of this island was in the map of Lucas Waghenaer The dramatic skyline in Edward Munch's The Scream is thought to be based on global optical effects caused by an event on this island. What island is this?
a. Krakatoa

3. Who are X and Y. On X's birthday on November 8 , 2002 , Y stated - "Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to X and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."
X- Milton FriedMan , Y- Ben Bernanke

4. What connects these three visuals

X- Connection is Seabiscuit. The horse was owned by a Buck car dealer and Tobey Mcguire acted in the movie Seabiscuit as Red Pollard. THe lady is Laura Hillenbrand - who authored the Book - Seabiscuit and American Legend on which the movie is based














5. He broke the 100m world record in 1968 and then ran an electronically times 9.95 seconds 100m the Olympics. He won the 100m race in the Olympics which had the first all black finals in the history of olympics. His record stayed for 15 years before it was broken. He also signed for the Miami Dolphins , but did not play any games for them. Who was this person?
A: Jim Hines