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Monday, July 25, 2011

OQ #74

Just the one for today, and a simple one at that.

Identify the businessman at the left, seen here with his half-sister and mother.


Answers

OQ #73:
1. Eleanor Thornton, who modelled for the Spirit of Ecstasy, the flying lady on the hood of a Rolls-Royce.
cracked by Kartik and Shtud.

2. Google+
cracked by Shtud

3. RD Burman, and the book is RD Burman: The Man, The Music by Aniruddha Bhattarcharjee and Balaji Vittal.
cracked by Kartik and Shtud on second attempt

Sunday, July 24, 2011

A Quiz of High Caliber

What more can one expect from the man named Shyam Kumar? :)
Shyam's quiz, conducted today.

Here is the ppt for those who missed it.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Crucible winners, yet again.

The CQC congratulates the Tirupur Tughlaqs, Yogesh and Ashok, for pulling off yet another win of the Coimbatore edition of Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz.
Hat-trick it is!
Cheers!

Jun's Farewell

Arjun Mohan, secretary of the CQC, is off to Pune to do things at Symbiosis University. These are the ppt's of his farewell quiz, conducted last Sunday, for those who missed it. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to conduct the quiz due to some prior commitments, so it was mastered by Toodlechu.
All the best, Jun!


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OQ #73

Yes, yes, I know there've been no posts for a while. The moderator apologizes, yet again :|

#do-not-google

1. The lady in the picture was an inspiration for a famous logo, and was created by an English sculptor in 1909. Identify the lady and the logo.


2. Recent funda: Which project was initially named Emerald Sea?

3. "Today, modernity and dignity have become an either/or matter. But you don't have that in X's music. His music is modern, cool and has a certain dignity; there is nothing cheap about it."
excerpt from Javed Akhtar's foreword of a particular book. Who is he talking about, and what is the name of the book?



Sunday, July 3, 2011

Of X's, Y's, Z's and @'s

Today's CQC session saw Anjan aka Toodles run a (predominantly) lit-ent quiz (with a little bit of mythology and sports thrown in). 40 questions and an LVC. Here is the ppt for those of you who missed it. Enjoy!