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Monday, March 14, 2005
Welcome
Welcome to the blog of the literary & trivia club @ UAB.
After a brief summer break, we are back again with the quizzes. The quiz numbering system has been changed to reflect this. The posts are a log of the trivia that we exchanged, and have been sorted by date (of the session).
Any additional and related trivia can be posted as comments to the posts. I suppose all the disagreements over the facts can also be chronicled here.
The entire blog has been cleaned up, so now it is scroll friendly. The archives are organized by month, so the remaining quizzes can be found there. You can find the links in the side bar.
After a brief summer break, we are back again with the quizzes. The quiz numbering system has been changed to reflect this. The posts are a log of the trivia that we exchanged, and have been sorted by date (of the session).
Any additional and related trivia can be posted as comments to the posts. I suppose all the disagreements over the facts can also be chronicled here.
The entire blog has been cleaned up, so now it is scroll friendly. The archives are organized by month, so the remaining quizzes can be found there. You can find the links in the side bar.
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Quiz # 1.7 : Ram
A sort quiz with questions picked from mailing lists and groups on the net. We also followed up with some "Technical Terms" Dumb-C and a "Glider" building session. FUN.
Which literary work starts with these lines?
"CAMELOT -- Camelot," said I to myself. "I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely." It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on.
A: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A courtier in some European countries during the Middle Ages was in charge of keeping the horses of his lord. He had a specific title in Latin which gave rise to this common English word. What is it?
A: Constable
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Glider Building Workshop :)
Which literary work starts with these lines?
"CAMELOT -- Camelot," said I to myself. "I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely." It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on.
A: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A courtier in some European countries during the Middle Ages was in charge of keeping the horses of his lord. He had a specific title in Latin which gave rise to this common English word. What is it?
A: Constable
Click here for more...
Glider Building Workshop :)
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Quiz #1.6 : Shastry
This was a quiz modelled on Jeopardy lines. As we still have not completed the entire set of questions ( 200 totally), the questions will be added at a later time.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Quiz # 1.5 : Devashish & Srinivas
Devashish's questions featured Indian Myth, word origins, Indian history & General trivia.
His quiz also contained a very innovative & interesting part. He read out stanzas from "The watchers of the sky" - Alfred Noyes( remember - The Highway man poem). This poem was about scientists and scientific discoveries. We had to identify whom/ what the stanzas referred to.Here is the link to the ebook version: Watchers of the Sky - Alfred Noyes
General Trivia Rounds
1. Who said and when, 'We knocked the bastard off!'
A- Edmund Hillary on conquering the Everest.
2. In how many volumes is the British Constitution contained?
A- None, it's an oral constitution.
3. What was the first product to be certified by ISI?
A- The Indian Flag
4. Raja Nabakrishna Deb did something in 1756 to celebrate Robert Clive's victory at Plassey, and started a tradition. What?
A- The Durga Puja
5. This famous product was lauched in a submarine. What and why?
A- Windows 95, so that the world could see what the world would look like without windows.
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Srinivas asked q's from the K-circle archives.
His quiz also contained a very innovative & interesting part. He read out stanzas from "The watchers of the sky" - Alfred Noyes( remember - The Highway man poem). This poem was about scientists and scientific discoveries. We had to identify whom/ what the stanzas referred to.Here is the link to the ebook version: Watchers of the Sky - Alfred Noyes
General Trivia Rounds
1. Who said and when, 'We knocked the bastard off!'
A- Edmund Hillary on conquering the Everest.
2. In how many volumes is the British Constitution contained?
A- None, it's an oral constitution.
3. What was the first product to be certified by ISI?
A- The Indian Flag
4. Raja Nabakrishna Deb did something in 1756 to celebrate Robert Clive's victory at Plassey, and started a tradition. What?
A- The Durga Puja
5. This famous product was lauched in a submarine. What and why?
A- Windows 95, so that the world could see what the world would look like without windows.
Click here for more.
Srinivas asked q's from the K-circle archives.
