Happy New Year!

Hello everyone! Happy New Year 2011 to everyone reading! So, on this occasion, I thought I'd make a calendar-ish quiz. I found no other way to describe it, sorry! You'll understand what I meant. Enjoy!

1. Which month is named after the Roman God of beginnings and gates? (logical thinking, very easy!)
2. What is the name of the type of calendar we follow? (jan, feb...)
3. What was 2010 the year of? (Chinese calendar)
4. How many months are named after Roman emperors?

Answers: January, Gregorian, Tiger, two-July (Julius Caesar) and August (Augustus)

Logo quiz!

I'm back again! Merry Christmas to everyone! Today, I thought I'd make a logo quiz. You see these all around you, on billboards, in the TV, On the products or places themselves. So let's see how much you remember! Enjoy!

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Answer: Audi, Coca Cola, UNESCO, Subway, Nestle

Picture perfect!

Hey everyone, I'm back again. I thought I'd make a picture quiz again, so here it is, enjoy!

1. Who is this tennis player?

2.  Name this person. 

3.  Name this German footballer.

4.  Name this author.

5.  Name the movie. (Title has been blacked out for OBVIOUS reasons)

Answers: Vera Zvonareva, Mark Zuckerberg ( facebook!), Ozil, Charles Dickens, E.T.

Literature quiz

Hello, I'm back after quite sometime, I was busy with my piano exam. Now, today, I thought I'd make a literature quiz. Enjoy!

1. Who is the creator of the magical 'Mary Poppins'?
2. Which book won Jhumpa Lahiri her Pulitzer Prize in 2000?
3. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010?
4. Which is the best selling book of all times? (excluding holy books)
5. The protagonist of which famous book is a fisherman named 'Santiago'?

Answers: P.L. Travers, The Interpreter of Maladies, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Tale Of Two Cities, The Old Man And The Sea

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Question the Answer!

Hi everyone, I'm back again. Today I have a quirky new item. Question the answer! I'm going to give you the answers of some questions. They won't be very vague ones like cats or tree. They'll be things or people which/who are known for specific things. Your job is to guess the question. Enjoy! Please comment!

1. Samuel Colt
2. Bern
3. Wings (the movie)
4. Valentina Tereshkova
5. Mawsynram, india.

Questions: 1. Who was the inventor of the revolver?
                 2. What is the capital of Switzerland?
                 3. Which is the first movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
                 4. Who was the first woman in space?
                 5. Where is the wettest place on earth?

Dry rounds are here again!

Here are some more interesting questions I'd like to share:-

1. Who is the lead singer of the band 'Queen'?
2. Who was the third person on the Apollo 11 mission? (first and second were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin)
3. Who is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize as well as an Oscar?
4. What is the name of the Greek goddess of the moon?
5. Which Indian won an Oscar for costume design?

Answers: Freddie Mercury, Michael Collins, George Bernard Shaw, Selene, Bhanu Athaiya

Phobiamania!

Now this is not exactly a quiz, nevertheless, it's GK. I've always been fascinated by the different kinds of phobias -- fears. So here are a few funny ones:-

1. Fear of bathing - Ablutophobia
2. Fear of dancing - Chorophobia
3. Fear of home - Ecophobia
4. Fear of worms - Scoleciphobia

    And finally, the one I've been waiting to reveal:-

    5. Fear of long words.........(drum roll)

HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIOPHOBIA

The poor doctor won't be able to tell a patient suffering from this exactly what he's suffering from!!

Music Quiz

As my name suggests, I am a musiclover indeed. I love all types of music, be it country, pop, classical, R&B, etc. So I thought, that today I'm going to post a little quiz on music :) :-

1. Which band was known as the 'Sigma Six'?
2. Which famous singer's real name is 'Reginald Dwight'?
3. Which famous duo wrote the songs for the film, 'The Sound of Music'?
4. Which famous soprano sang the songs in the film 'My Fair Lady'?

5. What does this building house?(easy peasy!)

Answers: Pink Floyd, Elton John, Rodgers & Hammersteins, Marni Nixon, ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS!!!

Just some questions

I'm back! Some more GK questions:-

1. Where will the 2016 Olympics be held?
2. Which actress was married to the Prince of Monaco?
3. Which film's protagonist was 'Eliza Doolittle'?
4. With which event would we associate the 'Queen's Baton'?
5. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

Answers: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. , Grace Kelly, My Fair Lady, Commonwealth Games, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis-a lung disease!!

Who Am I?

Here is another little quiz I thought I'd post:-

1. I was created by Harvey Ball. I have become an icon in chat language. Who, or rather what am I?
2. My real name is Robert Zimmerman. I am an extremely famous singer. I share my name with 'a builder'. Who Am I?
3. I had a rat named Ben, and a chimpanzee named Bubbles. Who Am I?
4. I have a pet cheetah named Lightning. Who Am I?
5. I am a hard of hearing professor, who shares his name with a certain kind of maths. Who Am I?

Answers: Smiley :) , Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Usain Bolt, Cuthbert Calculus in Tintin comics

Picture Quiz

Hey everyone! I'm back again. Here is a little picture quiz I thought I'd post. Enjoy!

1. Who is the actress playing this role?
   

2. Which country's flag is this?

3. Who is the creator of this fictional character?

4. What are these called and where are they found?

5. Who is this person, and what did he invent?

Answers: Helena Bonham Carter, Vatican City, Hans Christian Andersen (the character is little mermaid), Nazca Lines in Peru, Alfred Nobel (founder of the Nobel Prize, and inventor of dynamite).

My first mini quiz!

Hey guys! I know this is just minutes after my intro, but I''m too excited to control myself, and so I prepared a quiz right away. Here it is:-

1. What is common to ice, cards, and wolves?
2. How long did the 100 years war last?
3. Which country's flag consists of an AK-47?
4. Which painter is famous for his series of 'water lily' paintings?
5. Which company's name is derived from 'The Son of the electric printer'?
6. If Grammies is for music, what are the Tonies for?
7. Which association is responsible for the giving of the Oscars?
8. If you had 'halitosis', what would you be suffering from?
9. Which famous actress was born 'Norma Jean Baker'?
10. Which part of your body is the 'clavicle'?

Answers: pack, 116 years, Mozambique, Claude Monet, Epson, Theatre, AMPAS, Bad Breath, Marilyn Monroe, Collar bone.

R u a quizomaniac?

Hi everyone!
R u a quizomaniac? same pinch! I am one too! I think that questions are one of man's greatest creations. Everything u know is knowledge. whether it is Madonna's last name, or the the earth's acceleration due to gravity. If u have the urge to know, please become a follower of my blog. I will keep posting questions. Don't get angry if I'm not updating the blog, i get a little busy sometimes. If u like my blog, please comment. hope u enjoy my amateur blog! :D

P.S: Madonna's last name is Ciccone, and the earth's acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s square.