Battle of Brains - An Inter - School Quiz

Hey Fellas ,
                   The Quiz club of GKD Matric Hr Sec School , "Hardcore Quizzers" is conducting an Inter school quiz for teams of 2.The Quiz is open for students from 8th to 12th Grade.The Quiz will be conducted by Prof.Rangarajan on 30th July at 9.30 AM.Attractive cash prizes to be won.
For Details , Contact - 04222693336

CQC Themed Quiz on 22/06/2014

Hi Fellas ,
                 The Coimbatore Quiz Circle will be meeting on 22/06/2014.There will be a Beginners quiz followed by a General Quiz conducted by Mr.Yogesh Pai.Since the Themed quizzes are competitive , there will be a Prelims followed by the Finals. The Quiz will take place at PSG Institute of Management at 3.00 PM .For Further Details contact : +919488266608
                 
                                                         Come One.Come All

Upcoming quizzes

Couple of quizzes coming up in Coimbatore

1) The Rotaract club of Karunya University is organizing a general quiz for School students . The details are
Date: 22.02.14, Saturday
Time:9:30
Venue: Ebenezer Auditorium, Karunya University
Team: 3 per team, Maximum of 10 teams per school. All members have to be from the same school.
Attractive prizes and the winner will get a shield for the school.
Transport facility: Karunya University bus will pick participants from Hotel Tamil Nadu, Gandhipuram by 8:45 AM
Students from Each school have to be accompanied by a school teacher. Check the attached brochure for further details.

Last date for registration will be 20th February 2014.

Contact details: Mr. S. Pravin Kumar:  80563-48486

2) The Quiz Club of SREC is organizing “ERGO 2014”, an intercollegiate quizzing competition on February 21 2014. 

Details:
Venue: AC seminar hall, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering college.
Date: 21-02-2014.
Time: 1 P.M. to 4.30 P.M. 
Register here : http://goo.gl/9vGiLv
For further details contact : Praveen – 9677990097, Aravind – 8903893264.
 

Wildlife and India Quiz

These are the links to the following quizzes.

Wildlife quiz by Jun and Govind:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kdfsp2zxosr0rrb/0nwGvwFKpu

India quiz by Arjun Murali:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04oppA41JJRVkFnbDJUMXBUcTA/edit?usp=sharing

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04oppA41JJRSUFQNVhMUzBJaXM/edit?usp=sharing

And wishing you a great 2014! 

Themed quiz aur Mahaquizzer

A couple of announcements. 

1) The next themed quiz, 'The Nature and Wildlife Quiz' by Mr. Govind and Mr. Arjun Mohan (Jun), will happen on 24th November, 2013 (Sunday).

2) A special 30th Anniversary edition of Mahaquizzer, the National written lonewolf Quiz Championship conducted by the Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA), will happen on 8th December, 2013 (Sunday).

It will be an individual written Quiz.

Venue: PSG Institute of Management

Time: 10-11:30.

Prizes will be given for the City Topper, Best Lady Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer.
Please register for the event by sending in your name, email id and your category (Open/Ladies/College/School) to cbequizcircle@gmail.com

OQ#84 Answers

Here are the answers for the OQ 84

1) Mount Rushmore, cracked by Arjun and Vidyuth
2) Mole day after the Avogadro Number, cracked by Arjun
3) Keep your fingers crossed, no one cracked it. Surprisingly.


Good answer people!

OQ#84

1) In a canyon behind this monument is a chamber, cut only 70 feet  into the rock, containing a vault with sixteen porcelain enamel panels. The panels include the text of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, biographies of four people.Which monument are we talking about?

2) _________ is an unofficial holiday celebrated among  on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM. This is often celebrated with students to get them interested in science. It originated in an article in The Science Teacher in the early 1980s. Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired high school chemistry teacher from Wisconsin, started the traditions. Give me ________

3) In the time of the early Church, Christians would perform this gesture in order to invoke the power associated with the Christian cross for protection, when faced with evil. Moreover, Christians, when persecuted by the Romans, used the same gesture, along with the Ichthys, in order to recognize one another and assemble for worship services. In 16th century England, people continued to make the gesture in order to ward off evil, as well as when people coughed or sneezed.

What gesture are we talking about?