I did my second quiz at KCircle, last week. Quoting from KCircle Official Review.
Riyaz made a memorable debut as a quizmaster at KC a couple of months back, on the same day as the Hyderabad leg of Brand Equity. The few of us who attended his quiz that day agreed wholeheartedly that his quizzes definitely deserved a bigger audience. And for his next effort last Saturday, Riyaz was not denied the audience he deserved. And boy, it was a memorable quiz!
Unlike his first quiz wherein he showed a slight predilection towards questions on technology, Riyaz chose to be more balanced, selecting topics that are popular with KC junta to quiz them on.
Despite being relatively new to KC, Riyaz showed the poise of a veteran in dealing with a noisy bunch that is KC. Clearly an indication that he finds himself at home and that we should look forward to many more quizzes from Riyaz. Great quiz once again, Riyaz.
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BTW, I’ve done another quiz at Sree Nidhi Institute of Science & Technology, for the Quiz club there. Pretty enthusiastic crowd there I’d say. If given a chance, I’d like to do quizzes for such audience again.
Almost everyone in India cried with ecstasy, when this man won us an Individual medal for the worlds second largest populous country after a gap of almost 44 years. He turned pro in 1991, after winning Wimbledon Junior title in 1990. 20 years later, he still is a winner. At the age of 37, he is the most successful professional tennis player in India, not to mention his amazing record in Davis cup for India.
While all the glamour of tennis belongs to the singles event, he intelligently changed his priority from singles (any one remember Leander Paes v/s Pete Sampras 6-3, 6-4 at New Port, 1998?) to doubles. After the initial merry with Mahesh Bhupathi, he had moderate success for sometime. But he is not the giving-up kind. For the last two years, he’s on the winning track again, including his latest at Wimbledon 2010.
Dude, You are the awesomest! Keep on rocking for many more years!
My friend Hiran bought it to my notice, when this particular news was telecasted on Manorama news, the idiot box version of the largest (in circulation) Malayalam Newspaper. He was quite astounded by the foolishness of the news report, even though I thought it was too silly to even make some noise around it. There is no English version of the report available; This is the brief:
Kerala Govt is going to lose Rs. 214 Crore grant from Indian Govt, allowed for the IT development in Electricity Dept. This is due to the pro-Free software policies of the Kerala Govt. Apparently, as per the report the software (which includes billing process) is impossible to develop in a free software, since many of the required ‘components’ will not work on free software. The report also worries about the inexperience of the company quoted the lowest amount on the tender, can add to the ‘obvious failure possibilities of free software’. It seems that of all states in India, only Kerala is so rigid on using free software for Government projects, and it ridicules the Govt on its stance which might result in the loss of the grant.
While I’m unsure if there’s any propaganda behind this news attack against free software at large, there definitely seems to be some hidden agenda behind this. The news doesn’t quote any expert on the inability of free software to develop such a ‘complex’ solution, or neither it does quote the source which talks about the terms and conditions of the grant. Since it seems that the opinions expressed at the report are of the reporter, we’ll have assume that he is a expert in this area, who have never heard of GNU/Linux, LAMP, Wiki, et al.
I just wonder just what this particular project need more than 91% of the Top 500 super computers, 8 out of 10 reliable hosting solutions, and the one which powers IBM Sequoia, a 20 petaflop super computer.
Heard this story sometime back. Verbatim from here.
Five monkeys were in a room that contained a table in one corner, and a banana hanging from a string in the middle of the room. The monkeys figured out that if they dragged the table to the middle of the room, they could climb up and grab the banana. So they did. As one of the monkeys quickly hopped up and reached for the banana, hidden compartments in the walls suddenly opened, releasing high-pressure cold water that knocked the monkey off the table and drenched the other four monkeys.
They quickly learned that whenever one of them climbed on the table, all of them were soaked with cold water. They realized climbing on top of the table was a bad idea. Unbeknownst to the monkeys, the high-pressure cold water hoses were disconnected and removed.
The next week, one of the five monkeys was removed from the room and replaced by a new monkey. The new monkey saw the table and the banana dangling from the ceiling. Realizing that the banana was there for the taking, the monkey headed for the table. But fearful of being drenched by the high-pressure cold water, the other four monkeys pounced on the newcomer and beat the tar out of him. Every time the new monkey got near the table, the others beat him up. Soon the new monkey no longer went near the table.
By the third week, another of the original five monkeys was replaced by a new monkey. And like the monkey the week before, the newest member of the group tried to get near the table to move it over to the banana. Once again, the others beat up the newest member of the group. Even the first new monkey joined in.
Each successive week, one more of the original monkeys was replaced. The same thing happened every time; when the newest monkey attempted to get near the table, the others joined in to discourage him.
By the sixth week, not a single monkey was left from the original group. Not one remained that had been squirted with cold water. But when the newest monkey headed toward the table and tried to reach the banana, the other four monkeys “trained” him by beating the tar out of him.
If you could ask each monkey why it was beating up the new monkey, each probably would say, “I don’t know, that is just the way we do things around here.”
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See if you can solve these.
Instructions:
- Pictures are only lateral clues to the connect. Most of the pictures do not directly connect with the answer. Normally one picture stands for one entity in the final connect.
- What you see is NOT what you get.
- Please try to explain each picture wrt to the final connect.
- Googling spoils the fun. Think Lateral and make some smart guesses.
1. Connect
- Pic 2 is poster of the movie ‘Seven Samurai’. Rest are obvious, I guess. Pic 7 – model is irrelevant, but might help – for the real nutcracker cases (It’s a Chevrolet Corvette, if that helps) . Pic 3 has to be thought together with Pic 1. Pics (the numbering) are in chronological order.
2. Connect
- The last one is slightly more screwed than others (It’s a character from Howl’s Moving Castle). But if you manage to get the rest, you can safely ignore that.
3. Connect
- In Pic1, Model of the car is important. Pic 5 is Pawan Kalyan. If you do watch SET MAX and UTV Movies, you would’ve seen him plenty.
4. Connect
5. Connect
