Ingress - Winners

Greetings !

Ingress:The General Quiz was a battle of wits.

The teams fought hard, came up with some wacky answers and the audience rocked !

Here are the winners:

The Champs : Gajendra Singh and Nivesh Arora
The Runners- Up : Kamal Dugar and Shailabh Kothari

Congratulations Guys !!

Keep watching this space...

Ingress:The General Quiz Finals

Greetings from Mantavya, The Literary Cell !

Ingress:The Introductory Quiz saw a great response with around 50 teams participating in the prelims.

Here are the teams who make it to the finals:

1) Team GoRC (Arpit Garg and Mohit Dhawan)

2) The Frozen Flames (Siddharth Chatterjee and Shruti Z)

3) Eskay Brains (Shailabh Kothari and Kamal Dugar)

4) Gajendra Singh and Prolin Nandu

5) Laxman Sharma

The finals are at 2:30 pm tommorow, 31st July, in Room Number 21.

All the teams have to register themselves by dropping in a mail to mantavya.nmims@gmail.com

Prizes worth Rs 1000 up for grabs !

There is enough fodder for the audience grey cells too... Be there and cheer up your buddies...

We promise a great quiz !

Coming Up: INGRESS - The General Quiz

Mantavya presents "Ingress: The General Quiz"
When: Tomorrow, 28th July, 5.00 pm
Where: Location will be announced in college
Prizes: First Prize: Rs 600
Second Prize: Rs 400
Team Size: 2
Prelims followed by Main Quiz (Finals).

See you all there.

Winners of Sports Quiz

Winners of Sports Quiz:

Mithun P J , Div B, Roll No 135
Hafiz Nadirshah, Div B, Roll No 123

Special Mention: Rohan Chaubey, 2nd Year, Roll no 13.

There were some concerns regarding the procedure/method of answering through 'comments'. We would like to assure the batch that the comments are moderated and the comments will not be published until the deadline is over. This will ensure that no one copies from the answers provided by others.

Answers of Sports Quiz

1. Andre Agassi (dated / married all three at some point of time: Brooke Shields (star of Blue lagoon), Steffi Graf, Barbra Streisand)

2. Diego Maradona (Boca Juniors, Peter Shilton - goalkie during the Hand of Goal, Barcelona )

3. Discontinued Olympic games / sports

4. Black Power Salute

5. Bradman - out Hit Wicket b Lala Amarnath

6. Manchester United (Munich air disaster, Sir Bobby Charlton - survivor of the crash, Busby Babes)

7. London

8. All of them were born in Suriname but played for Netherlands ( I was looking for both the connects)

9. Andy Roddick (Pic was that of Roger Federer with his 15th grand slam trophy where he beat Andy Roddick, Mandy Moore dated Andy Roddick, Jimmy Connors was the coach of Andy Roddick)

Sports Quiz

Rules:
- Answers should be entered in the comments section of 'this' post
- Please mention your roll nos and division
- Deadline for answering this quiz is 10pm, 26th Jul 2009 (Sunday)

1. Connect

AND

2. Connect

AND

3. Connect: “Jeu De Paume, Men's Standing Long Jump, Solo Synchronized Swimming”

4. Identify the occasion / event

5. The first-ever Test between India and Australia saw the latter winning by an innings and 226 runs. However, this match at Brisbane is famous for another reason. What is it?

6. Connect:

AND

7. Athens, Beijing, .........? (It can't get any simpler than this)

8. Connect

AND

(Apart from the fact that all are football players) :)

9. Connect:

AND

Intro Quiz - Answers

1. Bhagat Singh
2. Aamir Khan Productions
3. Axe
4. Navratna
5. Corundum
6. Avant garde
7. ISBN number
8. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Winners Of Intro Quiz:
1. Vishal Verma - Div C, Roll No 245
2. Mithun P.J - Div B, Roll No 135 (Answers posted in comment section of previous post)
3. Anuj Jain - Div E, Roll No 414

Congratulations to the winners!!!
Coming Up: Sports Quiz.
Keep watching this space...

Intro Quiz

Rules:

- Type your answers in the 'Comments' section
- Mention your name, your roll no and your division

Question 1:

Identify this famous atheist:




Question 2:

Identify the entity (think Bollywood)




Question 3:

Print Ad for what?






Question 4:

Originally a talisman against evil, this symbol was used in the courts of Vikramaditya and Akbar. Now it is also used to classify specific Public Sector Undertakings. What?

Question 5:

This crystalline form of Aluminium Oxide is 9.0 on the Mohs scale. It is used largely as an abrasive. Name this rock forming mineral which gets its name from a word in Tamil.

Question 6:

Used to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics, this word has its origins in the French military and was used to refer to a small troop of highly skilled soldiers that would explore terrain ahead of a large advancing army and plot the course for the army to follow. What hyphenated word is this?


Question 7:

Published as an international standard ISO 2108 in 1970, it used to be 10 digits before 1st January 2007 and 13 digits since then. In the 10-digit version, the last digit must range from 0 to 10 (the symbol X is used instead of 10). In the 13-digit version, the last digit must range from 0 to 9. In both cases the last digit is a "check" digit. What is this describing?


Question 8:

He has translated Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Clandestine in Chile into Bengali, is said to be able to quote from memory 500 songs of Tagore, lives in a two-bedroom flat in south Kolkata with his librarian wife and daughter, doesn't have a cellphone, and is addicted to cigarettes. He is usually clad in white dhoti and kurta. Who?

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Mantavya - An Intro

Welcome!!!

Mantavya is a refuge for those intending to excel - while having fun. Mantavya organizes mindsports to sharpen the intellectual, inquisitive and argumentative instincts. It conducts quizzes, debates, puzzle championships and crosswords on a regular basis.

This year, we have planned a lot of exciting events. We plan to have workshops on Effective Personal Communication Skills and Body Language; qualities essential for insightful and articulate managers.

Mantavya is not for serious graycells only; anyone hungry to excel and have fun can join. In the past, ace national quizzers have risen amongst its rank and the cell has many a national level quizzes under its belt. Major trophies won by Mantavya members in the past include BT-Acumen, NTPC Electron Quiz, Biz-Quizzitive at IIM-A and Tata Crucible Mumbai Zone winners.

Mantavya organizes quizzing events par excellence conducted by some of the top quizzers of the country for Paragana and Euphoria, the two flagship college festivals. It also organizes 'Caviar and Daydreams', the national level debate contest, judged by eminent industry and academic thinkers affiliated to the institution.

Be ready to tickle your gray cells as you take on our Puzzle Championships, The Spell Bee or the Crosswords! If this is not enough, we dare you to participate in our Treasure Hunts.

Mantavya is for clarifying thoughts and crystallizing ideas while facing the fire-of questions and arguments - Something all managers have to excel at someday.

Watch this space for more...