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Answers for Quiz-o-maniac series are as follows:

Quiz#1

1. Teamgeist.

2. The indian festival 'Holi.'

3. The i-Pod.

4. Kansai international airport view, Japan.

5. Milau Bridge, France.

6. Lombard street, San Francisco.

7. Charlemagne, King David, Julius caesar and alexander.(The four kings in a deck of playing cards)

8. Melblanc and the epitaph is "That's all Folks" (...Remember this in looney tunes).

9. Microsoft.

10. Carrefour logo.

Quiz#2

1) The combination of Ctrl+Alt+Del keys that causes the system to retart.

2) Mr.Bean.

3) Nokia.

4) The Hollywood sign.

5) Winter Olympics.

6) SPA FRANCORCHAMPS(Belgian Grand prix).

7) R.K.Lakshman's common man.

8) Measles, Mumps, and Rubella.

9) Lamborghini.

10) Infosys. (Dedicated to all our infy guys of our college)

Quiz#3

1) Teacher's Day.

2) The mouse.

3) Rule of Thumb.

4) Michael Moore (Director of Fahrenheit 9/11).

5) Larry page and sergey brin.(Founders of google)

6) Thinking out of the box.

7) When viewed from the top, the building represents Dubai written in
Arabic.

8) Original passages from which Kavya Vishwanathan has been accused of
copying. (Plagiarism)

9) Turning Torso, Sweden.

10) first Cd to come with copy protection i.e. it cannot be played or
copied on the PC.

Quiz#4

1) Leap year.

2) Google.

3) Volkswagen Factories.

4) All werew bus-conductors at some point of time.

5) Blockbusters6) Television for Information, Music, Entertainment and Sports (TIMES)

7) The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were named through a student essay
competition. The winning entry was by Sofi Collis, a third grade Russian
American student from Arizona.

8) Japan conquered Korea and made it K so that in all International lists
Korea would appear after Japan.

9) To shoot a commercial for Nike.

10) Pizza Hut

Quiz#5

1) Because Bill G wanted to show everyone, how the world would be without
windows. (That's why he took them into a submarine during the Windows 95
release)

2) Google's 8th birthday.

3) Luciano Benetton and Guiliana Benetton of Benetton family who started
the United colours of Benetton.

4) The (Oresundsbron) Oresund Link is a bridge tunnel connecting Sweden to
Denmark.

5) The ticker symbol on NYSE for ACN is Accenture.

6) It's Alcatel.

7) Hilton group of Hotels.

8) The Singer sewing machine.

9) Patricia Cecile Dunn, a.k.a. Patricia Cecile Dunn-Jahnke, is the
former chairman of the board of HP, a position she held between February
2005 and September 2006. She succeeded Carly Fiorina as chairman.

10) It's the tech spec of a Maruti 800.

Quiz#6

1) Louis Braille's Birthday. (The man who invented Braille for the blind)

2) Michael Schumacher. (Hats off to you Schumi....)

3) Microsoft Office helpers.

4) James Cameroon.

5) Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt.

6) The ringtone "Nokia tune."

7) Corus, which was recently taken over by the TATA steel.

8) Sony's robot models. (Aibo is Sony's pet robo-dog while Qrio is the
humanoid robot.

9) DreamWorks Animation.

10) The man who hold a sign of stop and 1st gear in the pit to let off the
car.

Quiz#7

1) Manjunath Shanmugam Trust which recently launched RTI helpline.

2) Hotmail.com

3) Albert Einstein's Birthday.

4) This was how the world famous "Happy birthday song" came into
existance.

5) Saidapet which literaly means "Syed-oda-petai."

6) Philips.

7) Band –Aid.(http://www.bandaid.com/brand_story.shtml)

8) Smileys / Emoticons.

9) Yes. That is Bill Gates and Microsoft's early crew.

10) breadcrumb trial.

Quiz#8

1) Birthday of Edward Munch, a Norwegian Symbolist painter for his most famous painting Scream.

2) Wipro

3) Saddam Hussain

4) Gate way of india, Mumbai.

5) Jet Airways (Javed Akhtar, Yash Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan are among its directors)

6) Electronic Arts

7) Platform 9¾ at Kings cross.(King's Cross features in the Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express. The platform actually used for filming at King's Cross Station is Platform 4.

8) i.e "that is" Abbreviation for id est.

9) Neuschwanstein served as the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland.

10) The 150 year old P.ORR & SONS at Broadway, Madras(Chennai).

Quiz#9

1) The connect is as simple as that. It's the ICC circket worldcup 2007. The pic on the right is the ICC circket worldcup 2007's logo and the pic on the left is 'Mello', mascot for ICC circket worldcup 2007. The Greenfield Stadium, Trelawny, Jamaica will host the Opening Ceremony on 11 March and the Grand finale will be hosted at the celebrated Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados an april 28.

2) Ooty, short for Ootacamund (an anglicized name for Udhagamandalam), is a popular hill resort in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. The name Udhagamandalam is derived from the TODA word "othakal-mund" which means "house in mountains".

3) Neosports:India::Geosuper:Pakistan

4) The connect is St.Petersburg. Pic#1 is St.Petersburg railway station, which is the starting point of the most famous 'Trans siberian railway.' Pic#2 is the most famous "Bronze Horseman" statue, depicting Tsar ' Peter the Great', who founded St.Petersburg. Pic#3 is the flag of St.Petersburg.

5) Business of Ferrets

6) Karlsruhe, Germany. (As you can notice the letter 'D' visible in the registration plate refering to Deutschland. You can also very well see the EU flag right there.)

7) That's how the renowned MTR entered the instant food business, selling ready-to-eat snacks such as chutneys and rasams.

8) It's Gondala. (Obvious from the pic)

9) Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jung-mok is a graphic artist who designs the festive logos or the holiday logos for Google on special days.

10) The Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (also commonly known as simply MTR) is a restaurant on Lalbagh Road, Bangalore, India. The Pic on the left is of MTR's log. The pic on the right is the logo of Orkla Group, which is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate which has recently taken over MTR.

Quiz#10

1) Guriji

2) Malcom Speed, CEO of the International Cricket Council.

3) KFC

4) Grand Canyon Skywalk

5) MRF or Madras Rubber Factory

6) The connect is "Spam".

The first pic (Clockwise) is Spam from Hormel Foods.

The second pic is the album cover of song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of R.E.M.'s song Stand. It is mostly an ode to the canned lunch meat SPAM. The lyrics describe a person who loves to eat spam at his house, at work, or for just a snack.

The third is "Electronic mail" which also connect spam and the last pic is the team of a popular Monty Python sketch. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam (in electronic communication, and as of 2006, general slang) is derived from this sketch

7) Velcro

8) The connect is "Balckforest". The first pic(Clockwise) is a Balckforest Cake. The second pic is a cuckoo clock, famous in Balckforest region and the last pic is the map of Germany with the Balckforest region marked in red.

9) The Indian National flag.

10) The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statue stands 38 m (125 feet) tall and is located at the peak of the 710-m (2330-foot) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park, overlooking the city.

Quiz#11

1) Superstar 'Rajinikanth', who worked as a conductor alongside with Raja Bahadur, the driver and his intimate friend.

2) The connect is Ghajini. A small part(shown in the video) was inspired from the movie 'Amelie'. The next pic is from the movie "Memento", whose theme was also inspired by the director Murugadoss and used in his movie 'Ghajini' and the last pic is the director himself.

3) Bikini

4) Blackberry communication device

5) The pic on the left is the poster of a documentary "An Inconvenient truth", which throws light on the harmful effects of Global Warming, and presented by Al-Gore. The pic on the right is Al-Gore himself.

6) Equated Monthly Installments

7) Punj Lloyd and it's punch line is " The world is not enough".

8) The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) of Las Vegas Boulevard South. This is where almost all the famous casinos and hotels(given in clues) are located.

9) Didi (famous for his Didi's comedy show or the non-stop nonsense show)

10) Guggenheim-bilbao Museum, Spain.