ABACUS EVENTS

These are the events that will took place over the period of 2 days
Code Jam || Clippz || AlgoRhythm || Robo Code || BrainVita || Crossover || WINrathon || Fatal Pulse || Nut Cracker || Web'et || Bug Buster || Picasso

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HINTS

For question No. 5 : 5.Long ago lived a King near the Hudson River....Where?
For question No. 7 :ALL I can do is sing for you a Kelly Clarkson Song-
Oh and I don't know
I don't know what he's after
But he's so beautiful
Such a beautiful disaster And if I could hold on
Through the tears and the laughter
Would it be beautiful?
Or just a beautiful disaster

For question No. 8 :There was ambiguity in this question as what are asking for -
We want the type of match , the teams, the action being performed and the action taken by the decision maker.

For question No. 10 :Correction:-Its Salt Lake City not Salt LATE City

For question No. 11 :Get Tell I ..oh what i have written its all random
***If you haven't got this one till yet then it'll be a close shave****

For question No. 12 :This movie has an affinity for the number 3,
3 Images
3 Characters
***3 Sequels****
Question No. 12(1+2=3)...Coincidence Is It?
WHAT IS THE connection with the number 3

For question No. 14 :If you don't know the answer than just don't crack jokes on this question as this one is SCREENed for an award

For question No. 16 :Connect-means- what is the feat that they have performed
One of them is KIM HUGHES...


For question No. 17 :They were the first one to get this Prof. Asim Kumar Datta and Mr. Lovraj Kumar...Check out what?

For question No. 18 :He once said that India will become super power in T20 which became true in 2007..so early huh..what a visionary he is..

For question No. 19 :Well you should be Dancing to his Tunes...whose tunes KUMAR ,SEKHAR or Shekhar ,DILEEP or Dilip ?...Anyone whats the difference what matters is Originality.

For question No. 20 : Newton plato empedocles neikos philia ...What is their effect on this question...

For question No. 23:
There once was a young lad named Jack.
All that he owned was the shirt on his back.
He showed Rose devotion.
He froze into the ocean.
And that's all I have to say about that.

For question No. 25 :Come on ...You made me SING, you made me dance like Cha-Cha-Cha ...What else do you need... chajju ...who is he?( Give me the connect)

For question No. 27 :Its almost midnight...Feeling Hungry lets go for something different may be Hush puppies...

For question No. 29 :Correct me if I am wrong Cha-Cha-Cha is a Latin Dance ...the car will be Rolling with laughter after this Latin Connection.(The answer what I need is the law/ the rule ,that's it Q.E.D.).

For question No. 30 :This show was so popular that there were some itchy and scratchy spoofs of it.


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1.Europe's premier scientific institute CERN was to conduct an experiment acceleration particles in opposite directions and then make them collide to understand what protons, electrons are made of ....(or LHC)

2.Vinoo Mankad, Mode of Dismissal: Mankaded

3.B and C both are filled by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.These are the developers of the languages A,B,C,D,E,F

4.Werner Heisenberg because of the Uncertainty Principle

5.Kingston Technologies

6.Harley davidson

7.Cyclone Nargis

8.This is the first twenty20 international match, Glen McGrath delivers a mock under-arm ball and Bill Bowden shows him the Red Card.

9.Amar Gopal Bose, Bose Corporation

10.Colonel H Sanders who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC

11.King C Gillete

12.The connect is indeed "The Matrix"
1. That's Jet Li, in the poster for the movie 'The One'
2. The Sandman aka The Bogeyman aka The Lord of Dreams aka Morpheus, from Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' series. Incidentally,the character Morpheus in the Matrix was named after the Gaiman comic, as the Wachowski brothers are great fans of Gaiman.
3. The Trinity.

13.IBM

14.Ashutosh Gowarikar(NASA for Swades, Cricket for Lagan, Sign is of AGPPL(Production compnay of Ashutosh), Durga Khote played role of Jodha in Mughl-E-Azam)

15.Rajeev Motwani.
The paper I was talking about is the one on Page Rank Algorithm (The powerful force behind Google's search results at lightning speed).The students of course were Larry Page and Sergey Brin


16.Only batsmen to have batted on all 5 days of a test match.
1. Andrew Flintoff
2. Ravi SHastri
3. M L. jaisimha
4. Allan Lamb
5. Kim Hughes
6. Geoggrey Boycott
Ravi Shastri did this for India against England in Calcutta in 1984-85. His 111 in the first innings lasted from the first day into the fourth - there was a lot of rain, and only a few overs were bowled on the second day - and he also had a short knock on the fifth day. In all, six players have achieved the feat. The others are ML Jaisimha, for India against Australia in Calcutta in 1959-60; Geoff Boycott, for England against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977; Kim Hughes, for Australia against England in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980; Allan Lamb, for England against West Indies, also at Lord's, in 1984; and most recently by Andrew Flintoff, for England against India at Mohali in 2005-06. Hughes, uniquely, managed to hit a six on all five days of that 1980 match.

Source:
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283161.html

17.Jonty Rhodes

1. Roland Holder 1st person 2 be given out bowled (3rd umpire decision ) by Anil Kumble ,
2. Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik became the first batsman to be given out lbw to Vaas,
Sachin the openbe run out using the tv replay by Rhodes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/3034349/Fears-for-future-as-third-umpire-makes-lbw-ruling.html

18.Dr APJ Kalam (Alumni of King's College London,Born in Rameshwaram, Presidential Standard)

19.A.R.Rehman.
References to his movies
Rose – Roja
Turbaned Sardarji – Indian
Indira Gandhi – Indira
Lee – Jeans
Taj Mahal

20.Axe Effect(RUles Of Attraction)

21.The BMW Headquarters, Munich

22.Hanes

23.This is Kate Winslet in the film The Reader

24.The page was to create awareness for Earth Hour, which took place on 29th March ..OR ..20th Oct 2007

25.Chacha Choudhary (Diamond Comics logo,Raghuvir Yadav in the picture played the role of Chacha CHoudhary in the TV serial,Praan the cartoonist of Chacha Choudhary in the picture , Lotpot the magazine in which the Chacha Choudhary comic strip first appeared)

26.Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel

27.Tomas Bata

28.Steve Jobs. Infinite Loop is the address of Apple. Founded NeXT Software Inc. Pixar is a digital animation studio which was purchased by Steve Jobs and it produced animated films like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Cars.

29.Roll/ Rolle/ Rolle's Theorem
(Volvo means 'I Roll' in Latin)

30.Tom and jerry
(Fred Quimby Chuck Jones William Hanna Joseph Barbara Simon and Garfunkle)


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Participants with more than 15 answers correct are-(in no order)


||Sanchit Agrawal || Harsh Tripathi || Atul Agarwal ||
||Ashish Maheshwari ||Ankit Susheel ||Varun Agarwal||
||Prashant Sharma || Ashutosh Yadav ||Bhupendra Pratap Singh||
||Ishwar Khandelwal ||Arun Kaushik ||Bhumika Wadhwa||
||Indra Kumar ||Rochak Jain ||Praveen Verma||
||Vibhor Singhal ||Shishir Agarwal ||Manish Tomar||
||Siddharth Singh Chauhan || Nitin Kumar Agarwal ||Abhishek Upadhyay||
||Akash Mishra ||Amit Narula|| Manoj Kumar Pal||
||Mohd. Raza ||Ankita Singhal ||Somya Jain||
||Divya Garg || Vikas Rajoria ||Manish Lahiri||
||Vinay Kumar||Saurabh Garg||Nishkarsh Patel ||
||Isha Pant||Jitendra Kumar ||

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These are the answers of the questions and the top 35 participants .If there is any possible alternate answer for a question or any query then do mail us or drop a comment in this post.

Inquisition is a quiz contest that allows you to explore any possible knowledge arena that you may access to answer the questions.

• Inquisition was started on March 04, 2009 at 3:00 P.M.
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and the runner up is HARSH TRIPATHI

The Mega Event of The year named Tech-Colosseum will be organized by ABACUS on the 21-22nd March,2009.Here is the first glimpse of the events that are supposed to take place in this Tech -Fest.


1. Code Jam:- In this candidates will be given a set of problems that they have to solve in C/C++ over a period of time.

2. Web'et:-This is a web designing contest where candidates have to develop a website over a period of time on a given theme.

3. Bug Buster:- It is a debugging event in which few set of problems is to be debugged.

4. Picasso:- In this participants have to design an innovative poster on a given theme using any image editing tools like photoshop, corel draw etc.

5. Clippz:- A theme will be given on the first day with a proposed starcast and basic storyline. Participants have to create a movie promo of 1-2 min.

6. AD Mania:- A product will be given one day before and you have to prepare a advertisement for the given product.

7. AlgoRhythm:- In this logic or pseudo code is to be designed, no coding is required.

8.Robo Code:- A game where you have to code for a tank's movement and for firing at other tanks.

9. WINrathon:- This will test your knowledge about WinXP and its Tips and Tricks

10. BrainVita:-It is a quiz, with a twist.

11. Crossover:-TPP from a domain other then your own.

12. Nut Cracker:- Test your intelligence with brain busting problems.

13. Fatal Pulse::- Kick THE Dust in their faces!

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Sameer:9889755816

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1.Europe's premier scientific institute CERN was to conduct an experiment acceleration particles in opposite directions and then make them collide to understand what protons, electrons are made of ....(or LHC)
2.Vinoo Mankad, Mode of Dismissal: Mankaded
3.B and C both are filled by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.These are the developers of the languages A,B,C,D,E,F
4.Werner Heisenberg because of the Uncertainty Principle
5.Kingston Technologies
6.Harley davidson
7.Cyclone Nargis
8.This is the first twenty20 international match, Glen McGrath delivers a mock under-arm ball and Bill Bowden shows him the Red Card.
9.Amar Gopal Bose, Bose Corporation
10.Colonel H Sanders who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC
11.King C Gillete
12.The connect is indeed "The Matrix"1. That's Jet Li, in the poster for the movie 'The One'2. The Sandman aka The Bogeyman aka The Lord of Dreams aka Morpheus, from Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' series. Incidentally,the character Morpheus in the Matrix was named after the Gaiman comic, as the Wachowski brothers are great fans of Gaiman.3. The Trinity.
13.IBM
14.Ashutosh Gowarikar(NASA for Swades, Cricket for Lagan, Sign is of AGPPL(Production compnay of Ashutosh), Durga Khote played role of Jodha in Mughl-E-Azam)
15.Rajeev Motwani.The paper I was talking about is the one on Page Rank Algorithm (The powerful force behind Google's search results at lightning speed).The students of course were Larry Page and Sergey Brin

16.Only batsmen to have batted on all 5 days of a test match.1. Andrew Flintoff2. Ravi SHastri3. M L. jaisimha4. Allan Lamb5. Kim Hughes6. Geoggrey BoycottRavi Shastri did this for India against England in Calcutta in 1984-85. His 111 in the first innings lasted from the first day into the fourth - there was a lot of rain, and only a few overs were bowled on the second day - and he also had a short knock on the fifth day. In all, six players have achieved the feat. The others are ML Jaisimha, for India against Australia in Calcutta in 1959-60; Geoff Boycott, for England against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977; Kim Hughes, for Australia against England in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980; Allan Lamb, for England against West Indies, also at Lord's, in 1984; and most recently by Andrew Flintoff, for England against India at Mohali in 2005-06. Hughes, uniquely, managed to hit a six on all five days of that 1980 match.Source:http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283161.html

17.Jonty Rhodes1. Roland Holder 1st person 2 be given out bowled (3rd umpire decision ) by Anil Kumble ,2. Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik became the first batsman to be given out lbw to Vaas,Sachin the openbe run out using the tv replay by Rhodeshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/3034349/Fears-for-future-as-third-umpire-makes-lbw-ruling.html

18.Dr APJ Kalam (Alumni of King's College London,Born in Rameshwaram, Presidential Standard)

19.A.R.Rehman.References to his moviesRose – RojaTurbaned Sardarji – IndianIndira Gandhi – IndiraLee – JeansTaj Mahal

20.Axe Effect(RUles Of Attraction)
21.The BMW Headquarters, Munich
22.Hanes
23.This is Kate Winslet in the film The Reader
24.The page was to create awareness for Earth Hour, which took place on 29th March ..OR ..20th Oct 2007
25.Chacha Choudhary (Diamond Comics logo,Raghuvir Yadav in the picture played the role of Chacha CHoudhary in the TV serial,Praan the cartoonist of Chacha Choudhary in the picture , Lotpot the magazine in which the Chacha Choudhary comic strip first appeared)
26.Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel
27.Tomas Bata
28.Steve Jobs. Infinite Loop is the address of Apple. Founded NeXT Software Inc. Pixar is a digital animation studio which was purchased by Steve Jobs and it produced animated films like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Cars.
29.Roll/ Rolle/ Rolle's Theorem(Volvo means 'I Roll' in Latin)
30.Tom and jerry(Fred Quimby Chuck Jones William Hanna Joseph Barbara Simon and Garfunkle)

***************************************MERIT*************************************
Participants with more than 15 answers correct are-(These names are in order )

1.Sanchit Agrawal
2.Harsh Tripathi
3.Atul Agarwal
4.Ashish Maheshwari
5.Ankit Susheel
6.Varun Agarwal
7.Prashant Sharma
8.Ashutosh Yadav
9.Bhupendra Pratap Singh
10.Ishwar Khandelwal
11.Arun Kaushik
12.Bhumika Wadhwa
13.Indra Kumar
14.Rochak Jain
15.Praveen Verma
16.Vibhor Singhal
17.Shishir Agarwal
18.Manish Tomar
19.Siddharth Singh Chauhan
20.Nitin Kumar Agarwal
21.Abhishek Upadhyay
22.Akash Mishra
23. Amit Narula
24.Manoj Kumar Pal
25.Mohd. Raza
26.Ankita Singhal
27.Somya Jain
28.Divya Garg
29.Vikas Rajoria
30.Manish Lahiri
31.Vinay Kumar
32.Saurabh Garg
33.Nishkarsh Patel
34.Isha Pant
35.Jitendra Kumar