quiz-wiz

Welcome back mates. Hope you enjoyed the questions that were put on my first page. Well the notion of starting the blog with a round of question and answers straightaway was to divert from the traditional mode of presenting a lenthy introduction and then getting on with the show. I consider this method to be dull and monotonic as the end-users, i.e , you people can already guess what is coming next. This makes the user fed up and thus prompting him to move to another thing that interests him or her. So what I think is that introduction is essential but one should not divert from the ultimate theme.
Today I am going to talk about the basic theme behind the word quiz which serves as the main factor for propelling its spirit among the masses. People who have heard about quizzing consider it to be a test where you are suppose to answer questions put at you. People who have seen quizzing once or twice feel it to be another form of interrogation but who have participated in quizzes can tell you what it is all about. Quizzing no longer remains the game of intellectuals alone. The growing popularity and the age group of the participants are clear indicators of this fact. A game which was confined to student community alone till a few years back has now grown to be a game enjoyed by the mass. The media has played a commendable role in transforming the game of erudites to the game of the masses. To add that, different game shows have also helped the cause a lot. With the popularity exponentially growing that day is not far when quizzing will overcome cricket in terms of participation and enthusiasm. Well that is all the part of introduction for the day. Now let us jump into the quizzing world!


1. The word originally meant 'to fart silently or unobtrusively.' In the mid-19th century,it came to mean 'a weak hissing or spluttering sound' and hence figuratively to end feebly. What is the word?

FIZZLE

2. The prior red-light area of Madras - this area gave rise to the term '
___ case' (where ___ is the name of the area in question) meant prostitute. Which part of Madras is being referred to here?

KODAMBAKKAM

3. What was added to Barbie dolls in the year 2000 to make them more
anatomically correct?

NAVEL
4. Where did Swami Vivekananda spend three days at the end of 1892(presumed to be 25, 26 and 27 December 1892)? AT WHAT WAS LATER TO BECOME VIVEKANANDA ROCK, JUST OFF THE COAST OFKANYAKUMARI 5. The word originally meant 'fireplace' (Latin) and later came to mean 'fire' itself. The first writer to use it as a word meaning 'point of convergence' was Johannes Kepler. Thomas Hobbes was the first writer to use it in English and used it to refer to the 'center of the home.' What is the word? FOCUS 6. What would the mnemonic "Mother saw father wearing the turban slowly" be familiar to most Madrasis? RAHUKALAM TIMINGS - THE MNEMONIC STANDARDS FOR MON-SAT-FRI-WED-THU-TUE-SUN-MON = 7:30-9:00AM SAT = 9:00-10:30 AM AND SO ON 7. What form of punctuation got its name from the Latin word meaning 'rod?' The noun was originally used in English to mean 'penis' and is still used in its Latin form to use to the male genital organ of some invertebrates. VIRGULE
8. What famous and long-standing Bangalore restaurant is now making its
name in the field of instant vegetarian treats and podis?

MTR (MAVALLI TIFFIN ROOMS)

9. This saint lived in the 4th century AD and after leading a debauched
life as a youth, reformed himself to write two famous works "Confessions" and "City of God." He is thought to have originated the idea that Catholic priests remain celibate. Who was he?

ST. AUGUSTINE

10. Which two Impressionist painters spent some time together in Arles,
France and painted self-portraits that were dedicated to the other painter?

VAN GOGH AND GAUGUIN