ReWiNd

Welcome to "ReWiNd"- A Special New Year Edition on the blog!

There are 10 questions in this special edition quiz each of which are valued at 1 point each

ReWiNd is closed- Though replies were quite dry, Congrats to Captain for winning ReWiNd . Kudos to Jyothi and Jobin for their efforts.


Q1. A + B = ???


A

B

1. A- Land Rover + B- Jaguar = Tata motors/ Ford , Tata bought them in 2008

Q2. What is being shown in the RED mark?



It shows the Longest sea bridge in the world- Hangzhou Bay Bridge which has been instrumental in saving time and petrol of lots of Chinese travelling to Shanghai.

Q3. Connect the lovely looking dish to this historic place.



The historic place is the Lokmaci Crossing Point, The cross divinding Cyprus which reopened in 2008. Lokmaci means people who make lokmas, the dish shown in A- Turkey's famous dish.

Q4. When B did the Scream, A had to roll in :-) , Id both.


A

B
A- Sylvio Berlusconi B- Romano prodi who resigned in 2008 following by election defeat.


Q5. What does this map show? :-)

The LHC in CERN

Q6. Oh, I forgot to upload one more pic! Whose was it? Do you know? I seem to hav totally forgotten!! :D


Missing man is Vijender Kumar- They are James Deagle, Emilio Bayeaux and Darren Sutherland- Fellow medal winners in 75 kg middleweight category at Beijing 2008

Q7. Sitter: - He was in the news not long ago for doing something unique! Who and What did he do?



He is Yves Rossy, nicknamed the Jet man or the Fusion Man - who flew across the English Channel with a Jet wing. (Check google images for some shocking pics)

Q8. What are these three folks waving for? What is their claim to fame?


Shenzhou 7 Taikonauts, Capsule launched in 2008 by China to Space with Zhi Zigang doing first Chinese spacewalk.

Q9. A breakaway discovery- What?





The Fourth basic electric component discovered in April 2008- MEMRISTOR

Q10. Simple one to end with : A became a spotlight location when B had other alternative 'requirements' ! Id A and B - What am I talking about?
A


B

Am talking about Obama's residence. B is the Blair House, official guest house of the President, where the President elect generally takes. Obama was denied permission till 15th january and hence is now staying at A- Hay Adams Hotel so that his children can attend january school.


The Points tally :-

1. Captain Chandrakant- 3.5( I wanted either Ford/Tata, I had mentioned A+B= ?? and the map shows the LHC in CERN, But still giving points because it totally covers CERN)
2. Jobin- 2
Jyothi - 2

Thanks for being a part of ReWinD :)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have got the following on first look..Will research for d rest n post later

1. Jaguar Landrover
5. CERN
8. The Shenzhou-7 astronauts (Taikonauts wud b a more appropriate term)
9.Memristor

jo said...

1.tata motors
5.tour de france
8.shenzou astronauts who were the first chinese in space,wavin b4 their journey..

Unknown said...

soory fr d wiiild guesses...
1.landrover n jaguar(??).. so tata motors..
2.'path' of october revolution??
3.continental?? istanbul d only metroplois in two continents(:D)..
4.edward munch n 'the scream'
5.ozone layer(depletion)???
6.lebron james(d wildest of them al)
7.
8. chinese cosmonauts ind country's 3rd manned mission.. one of them performed d space walk-first time fr china..
9.
10.mumbai terror attack.. the taj

Anonymous said...

The connect was not asked for q 1

Anonymous said...

N Jaguar Landrover is only a subsidiary , tis not synonymous wid Tata motors

VIKAS PLAKKOT said...

by A+B = ? i meant connect only!!