Testing your Visual Quiz Power

Hey Folks,

Apologies for the long hiatus in between. Its been a crazy ride at work, play and also some life-changing events!! :) Now that the dust from the Busy season has settled down here is a different kind of a Quiz .. - The Audio / Visual Kind.

Below are some questions that are based on Visual Clues. Some of them are simple identifies, others connect-the-visuals by a common theme questions..

Let us see how well you connect your eyes with your memory and knowledge :)...

1. This person was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize because the Nobel Committee was not sure in which category they need to award him. Identify this person who became famous first with his work in Mexico. He is also one of the ONLY 5 people who have received the Nobel Prize, the Presidential Medal & the Congressional Gold Medal. Who is this person about whom it has been said "He has saved more lives than anybody in the history of mankind".

Who am I ??


2. Connect the 3 pictures. The connection(answer) has given a lot of reasons to laugh for the young and the old alike! The 2 people in the picture inspired something , a form of which was picture 2. Confused?? :).


Picture 1 shown is a philosopher
Picture 2 is a diagram of a weapon?
Picture 3 is that of a Theologist?

Philospher	Weapon	Theologist

3. Identify this super hero, who will start saving the world with the help of his very unique weapon [Clue !! :) ] from June 2008. He has been saving a different set of people for the past 19 years in a very different way and one can only hope this superhero from Virgin Comics will continue to do so for a long time!!!

4. Whats the name given to this kind of a video? The name is taken from a similar concept in the world of pictures :)

5. What is the significance of this picture in terms on industrial engineering? Apaprently , the creator was inspired by the way labourers worked in a butcher shop in Chicago in the 1900s.

6. Connect the following 3 pictures of people [Not exactly world famous on their own, but they have been honored in their own way]

The first one was a well known professor, the second (is obvious) and the third made a startling revelation, and changed the course of his company and had a huge effect on the industry in which he worked and how it has been perceived since then.

Clue: But the connection is a Hollywood connection :)

Academics	Boxer (ofcourse)	[known in his industry]

7. In olden days when women aboard a warship gave birth to a kid, the ship’s registry would specify the father’s name. As it often happened, sometimes the actual father of a child was NOT certain. The consequences of this led to the phrase

Look @ the pic to get clues:

7 on Words ...

Hello All,
7 questions on word origins to exercise the etymological part of your brain :)

Answers in a week. Enjoy :)

1. The fact that this popular word is Arabic in descent is easily noticeable by the occurrence of an Arabic definite article in the word (equivalent of ‘the’ in English). The word itself derives from the Arabic word for a fine black powder, made from antimony, and used by women to darken their eyelids (‘Kajal’ in India). The Arabic word is also responsible for its English counterpart, called Kohl. Which word?

2. In early times, it was custom for the English Chancellor of the Exchequer to bring his papers to the House of Commons in a leather bag or portfolio. He placed the bag on the table and then at the opportune moment, he opened the bag to display his papers and initiate a process. The process itself took its name from the chancellor’s act of ‘opening the bag’. What process/word?

3. This English word owes its origins to a sinner in Greek Myth. This sinner was condemned to a life of eternal frustration. For his sins, he was made to stand in a pool of water up to his chin. But each time, he leaned over to drink, the water receded. He was standing amidst trees laden with ripe, delicious fruit. But again, each time he reached for the fruits, the winds blew the branches away from him. Forever, he remained deprived in a land of plenty. His name symbolized his unfortunate life and is now part of the English language, the word mostly used in its adjective & verb variants. Who or what word?

4. Most etymologists agree that this word is Dutch in origin. The most popular version suggests that the word is a bastardized version of ‘John Kaas’ or ‘John Cheese’, which can be thought of as a parallel for John Bull or Uncle Sam, and was used for Dutch settled in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. This nickname came to the New World when the English applied it contemptuously to Dutch pirates. The New York Dutch applied the term with the same contempt to the residents of Connecticut. Which word?

5. This word, perhaps the only one to be voted into the English language, was adopted in 1910 by the ‘American Association for the study of the feeble-minded’. Its technical definition was ‘an adult with a mental age between 8 to 12’. The word was part of a classification system pioneered by Dr. Henry Goddard. The classification system was subsequently disbanded and with the word gaining popularity as an insult, the technical definition was also dropped. What word am I referring to?

6. German Miners, when they first discovered this metal, were tricked by its bright silver and pink luster, and thought they were in contact with the underground spirits/creatures of German folklore. They named the metal after them. The metal has its primary uses, as an alloy in high speed steels, as magnets and as pigmenting substances. And the German word that this metal derives its name from is also responsible for the English word ‘Goblins’ (Do not reverse derive – could be misleading). Name the metal or the German root.

7. What does S.O.S stand for? ‘Save our ship’? ‘Save our Souls’? Or maybe ‘Sink or Swim’? If your answer is any of these, you are wrong. And you are not alone :) For instance, in 1912, in an enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic, the British Attorney General, during his reasoning (?) session, explained CQD, the older signal, was used instead of SOS, which he then explained, meant ‘Save Our Souls’. SOS was selected just 6 years earlier, in 1906, at the Radio Telegraph Conference. Why was it selected and what does SOS stand for?