The Quizzer inside me was dying for some action. So, here you go ! Some sitters to start the series. More to follow in the coming weeks !
1. John Stephard Barron could easily recall his old 6-digit military card no. However, his wife could not recall a no. with more than 4 digits. What did this eventually lead to?
2. Complete the series :-
Hint : The names would have made it too easy ! Hence, the pics !
3. BBC has recently reported that the addition of X on Y has resulted in the loss of millions of hours of work time. With the help of a time-tracking software developed by a firm named Rescue Time, BBC has reported that the presence of X on Y has increased the average session time on Y from 11 seconds to 36 seconds, in order to justify its claims.
Identify X and Y.
4. Connect the following pics :-
5. Originally created and realized by the American Department of Defence, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making it freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good, after the Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people, was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace,
6. Fill in the blank :-
San Antonio-based market research firm Pear Analytics analyzed 2,000 ________ (originating from the US and in English) over a 2-week period in August 2009 from 11:00a to 5:00p (CST) and separated them into six categories:
- Pointless babble – 41%
- Conversational – 38%
- Pass-along value – 9%
- Self-promotion – 6%
- Spam – 4%
- News – 4%
7. Identify :-
8. What is the commonly known term for “Pityriasis simplex capillitii “?
9. Identify the person :-
10. Identify the book :-
Happy Quizzing !!!
4 comments:
Awesome questions! :D
I knew 4, so here goes:
1. ATM Pin nos. (4 digit)
7. Laurel and Hardy
8. Dandruff
10. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, (Rikki Tikki Tavi fighting Nag on the side)
Can't wait for the next lot!
1. 4 digit ATM pins
2. Heath Ledger
3. Advertisements on Google
6. Status Messages
7. Laurel & Hardy
10. Jungle Book
@ Cranky... Thanks...! And you will get a special gift from me whenever we meet next.. For being the first one to have taken the quiz ! Now, that's another reason why you should keep participating in my quizzes...!
Answers :
1. The standardisation of the 4-digit ATM Pins. Mr. John Stphard Barron was the inventor of the ATM Machine. (BTW, He was born in India !)
2. Jose Mourinho. He, along with Mr. Ernst Happel and Mr. Ottmar Hitzfield, is only the third manager in football history to have won the Champions League for two different teams. (Can he do it for Real Madrid though ?)
3. X : PacMan, Y : Google. (Loved the doodle !)
4. The connect is Wiki. Well, simply put, Wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser.
Pic 1 : Mr. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb.
Pic 2 : This is a shuttle bus which runs between the Airport terminals at the Honolulu International Airport and is called Wiki-Wiki. Mr. Cunningham liked the term and used it to name his software.
Pic 3 : The logo of Wikipedia, the most popular application of the Wiki software.
5. GPS.
6. Tweets !
7. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
8. Dandruff (Did this question make you scratch your head ?)
9. Calvin Klein.
10. The Jungle Book.
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