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Friday, July 3, 2009
Season II Quiz 10
2. Identify this person. (Hint: For a person of his stature his death should have received extensive press coverage. But then JFK's assasiantion has taken away the tabloid and the cover story space.)
3. Weird paper! It has given the ships freedom from harbour and broke the shackels of confinement. I an a word this started the 'freedom'
4. Identify the cartoon charecter
5. What is being depicted here?
Season II Quiz IX Answers
3. Identify the building
Ans. Ripley's Believe it or Not, headquarters.
4. Whose autobiography is ' Slum dog Dreaming'?
Ans. Rubina Ali, the child artist who played the role of Latika in Slum dog Millionaire
5.Identify the lord
Ans. The book is Lord of the Flies, a book that is banned in several nations for its plot on degeneracy.Friday, June 26, 2009
Season II Quiz VIII Answers
For all the first time visitors, we will repeat the rules again. The rules and regulations for the challenge are:1. Whose earliest known pic is this?Ans. Rahul Dravid
2. What was created when King Henry III sowed 3 bean seeds?
Ans. An Inch
3. Identify these two stalwarts. One is "relative" and the other is microscopic
Friday, June 19, 2009
Season II Quiz VIII Answers
Thanks all 14 stalwars could answer all the four questions correctly. We, at Neo Quiz Spot are delighted by the response of the quizzers. Please feel free to contact us any time with your suggestions. Sorry for the very long hiatus all thanks to our examinations and work conditions.
For all the first time visitors, we will repeat the rules again. The rules and regulations for the challenge are:Every week we will publish 5 questions on Friday Evening by 5 pm. The last day to send the answers is 25th of June.1. Whose earliest known pic is this?
Friday, May 1, 2009
Season II Quiz VII Answers
For all the first time visitors, we will repeat the rules again. The rules and regulations for the challenge are:
Every week we will publish 5 questions on Friday Evening by 5 pm. The answers are expected by Tuesday Noon of the following week. The answers and names of the top scorers will be published with in two days that is on Thursday by 5 pm. Please spread the quizzing to as many friends of you as possible. The Entries for this quiz will close on 23rd April by 12 pm. Please send your answers to neoquizspotweeklychallenge@gmail.com
1. What is the term used to define a country that is predominantly controlled by the companies?
Ans. Banana Republic
2. Identify the person standing. Ie, later he went to become a great ally of greatest

Ans. Tony Blair. Voted the worst PM of all times by spectator. Being personal friend of Dubia, he was greatly moved by the plight of his friend and sent the British Troops for
3. Identify this conman.

Ans. Charles Shobraj, the Indian Conman.
4.Identify this person who to whom two of our PMs can strike a lineage?

Ans. Kamala Nehru, the wife of Jawaharlal.
5. Onether woman for the day, Identify this person who has inspired the greatest nonviloent movement next only to the Great Indian Freedom Struggle.

Ans. Mrs. Rosa Parks. The inspiration for the Civil Rights Movement.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Season II Quiz VII
For all the first time visitors, we will repeat the rules again. The rules and regulations for the challenge are:
Every week we will publish 5 questions on Friday Evening by 5 pm. The answers are expected by Tuesday Noon of the following week. The answers and names of the top scorers will be published with in two days that is on Thursday by 5 pm. Please spread the quizzing to as many friends of you as possible. The Entries for this quiz will close on 23rd April by 12 pm. Please send your answers to neoquizspotweeklychallenge@gmail.com
1. What is the term used to define a country that is predominantly controlled by the companies?
2. Identify the person standing. Ie, later he went to become a great ally of greatest

3. Identify this conman.

4.Identify this person who to whom two of our PMs can strike a lineage?
5. Onether woman for the day, Identify this person who has inspired the greatest nonviloent movement next only to the Great Indian Freedom Struggle.
Season II Quiz VI Answers
1. This American president was a great enthusiast of Bicycling. Being a president he could not bicycle in
Ans. Woodrow Wilson, the founder of league of nations. One of the finest heroes ever.
2. Identify this epic movie. It is also considered the first Block Buster of Hollywood. It is still regarded as one of the Most Controversial movies ever made.
Ans. Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith. It has provoked great controversy for its treatment of white supremacy and its positive portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan. As late as the 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan continued to use the film as a recruitment tool.
3. Identify this 'flower' whose murder was a matter of national debate (U.S.) and is considered the first ever media publicised murder of U.S.
Ans. Easy one it is Black Dahlia. The first ever publisised murder in the history. Several novel and film adaptations have come in the past 60 years.
4. Connect
Ans. Many of you cracked it right! It is Hannibal. ( It was a good idea by one of my coleagues not include Sir Anthony Hopkins photo)
5. Identify this famous place which has added to the prosperity of our country and also "brought in" disasters and raiders.
Ans. This is Khyber pass that has allowed both merchants and also raiders into India
Friday, April 17, 2009
Season II Quiz VI
Every week we will publish 5 questions on Friday Evening by 5 pm. The answers are expected by Tuesday Noon of the following week. The answers and names of the top scorers will be published with in two days that is on Thursday by 5 pm. Please spread the quizzing to as many friends of you as possible. The Entries for this quiz will close on 23rd April by 12 pm. Please send your answers to neoquizspotweeklychallenge@gmail.com
1. This American president was a great enthusiast of Bicycling. Being a president he could not bicycle in
2. Identify this epic movie. It is also considered the first Block Buster of Hollywood. It is still regarded as one of the Most Controversial movies ever made.
3. Identify this 'flower' whose murder was a matter of national debate (U.S.) and is considered the first ever media publicised murder of U.S.
4. Connect
5. Identify this famous place which has added to the prosperity of our country and also "brought in" disasters and raiders.
Season II Quiz V Answers
Ans. Loan Word. The words like Police(French), Cummerbund(Hindi) are the greatest examples of this.
2. The person in the photo is a very normal photographer, but one photograph of this guy has a lot of 'Social' 'cultural' and 'economic' impact and the impact is visibly seen in the pop culture. What are we talking about?

Ans. The Guy is Alberto Korda. He is famous for the photograph Guerrillero Heroico. A photograph of Che after the La Coubre disaster. This went on become probably the greatest photograph ever and generated merchandise worth billions.
3. The guy in the photograph has 'connected people' (But any case he is not a Nokia Employee!) . What made him famous?

Ans. The guy is Tim Berners Lee. The father of internet.
4. Which American actress’s middle name is Karuna. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, India as children, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home. As a child, she suffered bouts of body dimorphic disorder. Which 'Pulpy' woman are we talking about?
Ans. Uma Thurman. Famous for her potrails in Pulp Fiction and Poison Ivy in Batman and Robin. She was also the wife of Gary Oldman. She is a Buddhist now.
5. Who is the person in the photograph. If we were to mislead you by adding some trivia.. he is the Nephew of John Mathai, the second fiance minister of India, who resigned from the cabinet because of the increasing power of Mahanalobis.

Ans. Varghese Kurien Sir. The father of White Revolution.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Season II Quiz V
Every week we will publish 5 questions on Friday Evening by 5 pm. The answers are expected by Tuesday Noon of the following week. The answers and names of the top scorers will be published with in two days that is on Thursday by 5 pm. Please spread the quizzing to as many friends of you as possible. The Entries for this quiz will close on 31st March by 12 pm. Please send your answers to neoquizspotweeklychallenge@gmail.
This weeks Challenge:
What term is used to denote word directly taken into one language from another, otherwise with little or no translation?
2. The person in the photo is a very normal photographer, but one photograph of this guy has a lot of 'Social' 'cultural' and 'economic' impact and the impact is visibly seen in the pop culture. What are we talking about?

3. The guy in the photograph has 'connected people' (But any case he is not a Nokia Employee!) . What made him famous?

4. Which American actress’s middle name is Karuna. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, India as children, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home. As a child, she suffered bouts of body dimorphic disorder. Which 'Pulpy' woman are we talking about?
5. Who is the person in the photograph. If we were to mislead you by adding some trivia.. he is the Nephew of John Mathai, the second fiance minister of India, who resigned from the cabinet because of the increasing power of Mahanalobis.
<Answers for Season II Quiz IV
1. CPI is the only party that has never changed its election symbol till date. Congress has changed it from the Cow and the calf to Hand that we see now. Several parties contested in the first general election like the Bolshevik Party, Ambedkar Forward Block( With an elephant!), Forward Block( Followers of Subhash Chandra Bose), have failed in ensuring even the deposits. The first general elections has also seen the highest percentage of independents till date.
2. He is Bahadur Shah Jaffar, the last Emperor of India. The photo is taken shortly before his death.
3. Bhyomkesh Bhakshi. The most popular Bengali detective inspired by Sherlock Holmes. The character is made immortal by the actor Rajat Kapoor( Who also played the role of Gandhi in Making of Mahatma).
4. That is Gary Old Man. He even allegedly quoted that the makeup was so elaborate that it ' Neither allowed him to breathe nor allowed him to sweat'. This character is Mason Verger the only surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter.
5. The connection is John Connors. The protagonist in the Terminator series. The charecter will be played by Christan Bale in the movie Terminator Salvation.
Happy Quizzing!
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Season II Quiz IV
1. What is the only national political party from
2. This is the last or precisely the only photograph which famous person?
3. This is a glimpse from the television adaptation of a well known Bengali short stories. These stories have even inspired Satyajit Ray to make a movie (Which was neither a commercial nor critical hit). Rituparno Ghsh is also set to make a trilogy of this series. Now, what or WHO are we taking about?
4.Who is the actor behind this eloborate makeup ?
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