The BITS-PILANI QUIZZING FORUM!

More!

1) The words "potty" and the phrase "potty trained" originate from what custom?

2)Another toilet-related qn.
Standing while urinating is now viewed by many as too sexist. In Germany, if a man raises the seat of a regular toilet to piss, the “toilet ghost” , in a voice that imitates ___________ enunciates the phrase “Hey, stand peeing is not allowed here and you will be punished with fines, so if you don’t want any trouble, you’d best sit down”

3) Arthur Milton was the last survivor of 12 people to have done what for England?

4)The world of warcraft version in which country places flesh on bare-boned skeletons and transforms dead character corpses into neat graves in an attempt to "promote a healthy and harmonious online game environment

5)An AOE question. The introduction to which civilisation begins like this - "A male wolf took as his mate a female doe and moved to the head of the Onon river. And thus were born the ______"

Questions at last!

1-He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers. He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His pastime after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television. He does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk. His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards.

Who is he ?

2-"X was a phenomenon at that time, and what was I? I was a non-entity. The press turned me into a life-sized monster. I have a fourth degree black belt in martial arts and all these plus points became my negative points.

I would go to hospital regularly to see X. For 3, 4 years, I did not get any work. I had a wife to support and was jobless. I did Z grade films at that time. I struggled for six years after that accident and only after that did people start coming forward to work with me.”

Whose words are these?(Harsha don't answer this since i already asked you this one...)

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Dicta Boelcke:-

1.Try to secure the upper hand before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you:

2.Always continue with an attack you have begun:

3.Only fire at close range, and then only when the opponent is properly in your sights:

4.You should always try to keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses:

5.In any type of attack, it is essential to assail your opponent from behind:

6.If your opponent dives on you, do not try to get around his attack, but fly to meet it:

7.When over the enemy's lines, never forget your own line of retreat:

8.In principle, it is better to attack in groups of four or six. Avoid two aircraft attacking the same opponent:

Who made these famous?

Please dont google!

answers:-
1-warren buffet
2-puneet issar
3-red baron(manfred von richtofen)





Bongspeak 2








1) Connect the images shown above.


2) After the death of their father Charles Truscott Sr., the half brothers Otis, Lucky, Lefty, Charlie T Jr and Nelson decided to form a traveling folk band. During the recording of their album, Nelson and Otis noticed certain 'flubs' and told the rest of the group "We'll bury them during mixing".
Name the band.

3) A _______ is any of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial omnivorous mammals in the order Peramelemorphia. The word is an anglicised form of a Telugu word meaning pig rat.

And here are the answers-
1) AOE 2: The Age of Kings campaigns
2) The Traveling Wilburys
3) Bandicoot

More random qns










1)Connect the three images above....

2)After taking more than 100,000 Hindu slaves from India, Timur had them massacred due to Quranic doctrines at a location that is now named after this event.What?

3)With what derogatory term are African-Americans who are subservient to white authority called?

The questions are simple enough....try not to google

The answers
1)Brussels - tintin, van damme("the muscles from brussels") and the european parliament building
2)The Hindu Kush mountains
3)"Uncle Toms"....bear!

Tayk Two...




DC Comics character, Indian actor, Renaissance poet - one-word connect. Also linked to a Norwegian metal band whose members go/went by the stage names of Necrodevil, Bestial Tormentor and Hazardous Pussy Desecrator. Try as far as possible not to Google or Wiki.

Answer: Inferno - Madhavan made his debut as Inspector Ravi in a Chink martial arts flick set in Madras (1997), the DC comics charater and the Norwegian Metal band go by the same name (though the band uses the umlaut over the o, the same way as Motorhead) and the first canto of Alighieri Dante's The Divine Comedy.

Here goes...




The etymology behind his name is the answer...

Connect that to...and the woman circled in black (yeah the blonde)


and

This should be quite easy....what with "when" it's being posted...

Cheers!

Answers:

1. Cedric Pioline (Cedric comes from the Welsh Godric)
2. Helga. Hagar's wife
3. Rowena, from Ivanhoe (also Lady Ivanhoe)
4. Antonio Salazar

The connect obviously is Hogwarts founders - cracked by Vivek

1. Sixty-two years ago, two miserable German youths (X & Y) were crouching in a rainy hole under a groundsheet. Around them, in the same field behind barbed wire, thousands of other prisoners of war waited to find out what the Americans would do with them.
To keep their minds off their hunger and the cold, the two boys – one from Danzig, the other a Bavarian – played dice and talked about their plans for the future, supposing that there would be a future.
The Danziger wanted to be an artist. The Bavarian hoped to become a priest

X and Y ?

2. Identify.



3. First sighted in 1933 (22 july), made famous by a gynaecologist's amateur attempt at photography in 1934. The best evidence yet was provided by a Mr. Holmes on May 26, 2007.
What?

4. Two differet coloured lines superimposed. What do they indicate??



5.Simple one to end. What is he talking about? (from Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley, Dated 23-06-2007. It's a pretty good comic strip, read it)



1. Gunther Grass/Pope Benedict XVI
2.Bruce Lee/Kareem Abdul Jabbar
3.The Loch Ness Monster (Cheap fellow Jay)
4.Imola before/after the Senna/Ratzinger crashes
5. Mario/Luigi