Damn, I have been waiting for some jobless fellow to mention this, but no one has. So , I’ll make a quiz out of it. What does my most recent Custom Header Image signify ?
Remember, no points for answers you think are funny. I hate funny.
I know, I know. People want me to stop with this ORK business.
This time though, Just one Question. Winner will be determined based on first come first served basis (If ever there are entries. )
Answers can be sent to karthik3685@yahoo.comwith the subject reading ORK-04 Answers, latest by….well no deadline. 
1) Connect
You will have to use all of your quizzing acumen to crack this one. Here’s hoping someone will take 1 Rupee from me this time at-least.
There have been many many symposiums in the last few days and there will be even more in the coming days. Starting from 4th of this month, we had EMF (Engineering Mathematics Festival) where I made the finals of Quiz and Crossie last time over and came second in the quiz. (teaming up with Renju from St.Joseph) Pity I couldn’t make it in-spite of Gokul and A.J inviting me over. Sorry guys. 
The finals of all the math events was on the 5th. On 5th we also had some dept symposium in Jerusalem engineering college. On 5th and 6th, we also had all the department symposiums in Jeppiar Engineering College. Pretty crowded week this.
SSN culturals started yesterday and we also had Sastha engineering colleges symposium yesterday. Hari from SSN had invited me for the SSN general quiz and it’s today. Sad I again can’t make it.
Symposium crazy:
I for one attend every symposium possible. Last semester, in-spite of being denied OD, I bunked classes to attend symposiums and my attendance was something like 70 %. (They can disallow you from writing exams if your attendance is below 75 % ) So, why on earth am I not attending symposiums when I don’t even have college to attend this time over ?
FINAL YEAR PROJECT - I haven’t even started on it and there’s a lot to do. I am supposed to show the entire working model this coming Thursday and I have no clue what I am doing. I had claimed to have finished certain modules by the first review. Truth is, it was existent only on the power point slides. 
SO, now I have to pay for it and sit and slog and make sure that I complete it on time. That reminds me, I need to stop blogging for a while too.
I am presenting questions of what was supposed to be the first round in the IT departments quiz (General Trivia). Some of these questions may have been modified later or even removed. It is equally possible that other questions were added. Most of the questions, I am sure you have seen before.(if you were there,on the day of the symposium that is.)
(I thought of posting it as ORK-04, but then these questions do not qualify for online quizzes and people have already seen the questions. So ORK 04 waits for now.)
There are two slides where audio is required. Since my blog does not support audio files, I am presenting the same for downloads.
I shall be uploading the slides with the answers pretty soon too. (Not yet, just in case people are looking at these questions for the first time.) Once everything is uploaded, you can download them onto the same folder and they should work fine. (The hyperlinks I mean)
P.S: Thanks to Abhi for the questions.
ORK 01 and 02 were sometime in the distant past. Both got lukewarm responses. You can check the ORK page for list of Winners. In keeping with tradition, I am asking just 2 questions. However, you shall find the two at-least a bit challenging. So, it should keep you occupied.
Answers can be mailed to karthik3685@yahoo.com, with the subject stating “ORK-03 Answers” latest by the 4th of March.
1) Connect the 6 pictures here and Put Fundaes
(Clue: Nothing to do with movies.)
(Additional clues:
01) Click on the thumbnails to get a bigger/clearer picture of things
02) pictures 02-05 connect with picture 01 and 06)
2) Connect
Happy quizzing.
The comments will be opened after the answering session closes.
P.S: Some people have reported problems with the images. However, on checking the code, I found it alright. The problem maybe with the theme or something. Hard to say. In any event, pictures of Gauthami to Aamir Khan are not supposed to repeat themselves in the second question. (WordPress screwed something. I had to re-upload the pics Some bug. And it wasn’t the same pic as Sundar claimed 
Those were pics I uploaded earlier and deleted.)
I am also uploading a power point slide just in case WordPress decides to screw the post again. You can download/view the same here
I had gone to college today to see the Ametros Quiz. By the time I went, the prelims was already over and the finalists announced. Vinod had come to college at my/Abhi’s request/invitation. He was a little miffed that I turned up late. 
Krishna and team, Sundar and team, Hari and Rahul from SSN were prominent teams on stage. There was also this one guy from KCG whom I do not know personally. I have seen him a few times though. Other than that we had one team which was a SSN/Sathyabama and two more teams from SSN.
I also saw Samba from Sai Ram and Ambi from St.Joseph. These guys had turned up late and hence could not take the prelims .
The finals started a little behind schedule thanks to the other on stage events. Two rounds were over at the end of which two teams were eliminated. We had three more rounds in which to decide the winners. Unfortunately this CSE bloody dean or some cheap puck* had to interfere and asked to wind the quiz up. Man, it was just getting started!! I don’t know what bothers these pricks!!
So Abhi was kinda helpless and we had to wind it up with just one more round - Rapidfire. And that didn’t go too well either. Abhi had worked pretty hard for the Finals rounds and he was obviously irritated with the way things turned out. But there was very little that could be done about it.
Krishna and team came third, KCG team came second and the SSN/Sathyabama team came first. Sad that the two people I know better than the others, Sundar and team and Hari and Rahul didn’t win. But then these things happen. Plus today’s quiz was more of a curtailed event.
I might put up the other rounds here on my blog under ORK -03 after due consultation with Abhi. So stay tuned…
Once again, a post that’s been waiting for a while now. Somehow, the answers of the set 02 was never officially released and the winners weren’t announced either. What a splendid way to hold on-line events. Put up questions there, promise prizes and then conveniently forget about it.
Here are the answers ( or atleast I believe they are) to the questions of Saarang Online Quiz #02. But before I present that, here’s a copy of the questions.
Answers:
Before we go into the answers, I would like to thank Shiva and Hari for their help with some of the answers.
1) Dynamic level editors with multi-player support.
2)
Ana Maria Oroczo (from Yo Soy Betty La Fea. Which was the original Colombian show form which JJKN was adapted.)
Mona Singh (from Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin)
America Ferrera (from ‘Ugly Betty’ also adapted from Yo Soy Betty La Fea)
3)
They are the only three Presidents of India to be honored with a Bharath Ratna before being elected as President.
4)
Agatha Christie
5)
6)
Shiney Ahuja – Bhool Bhulaiya (Hindi)
Prabhu Ganeshan – Chandramukhi (Tamil)
Suresh Gopi – Manichitrathazhu (Malayalam)
They all play the same characters in different versions (language) of the same movie. (Originally shot in Malayalam.)
7)
Ivar Giaever (not sure of this) 
Serial killers from USA.
Charles Manson
Albert Fish
John Wayne Gacy
Henry Lee Lucas
9)
Morse code used by BBC - ‘V for Victory’
During World War II, the BBC used the four-note motif to introduce its radio news broadcasts because it evoked the Morse code letter “V” (for “victory”) (dot-dot-dot-dash).
10)
Vodafone – (The Main Sponsor of Saarang-0
The ‘07 and ‘06 sponsors were Airtel.
‘05 Sponsors were Nokia
‘04 Sponsors were E-Serve
11)
Albert Einstein (of this I am not sure)
If you know the answers to the questions to which I did not find/post the answers, you are invited to post answers in the comments section.
2nd February:
Ok, it’s been about 20 days since this happened, so I do not recollect things all that well. We were supposed to have gaming on this particular day. The Kriya Open Quiz prelims was sometime in the evening. I remember vaguely, qualifying for the second round of NFS MW. Vibu , Vivek and Co. had qualified for the CS second round. Sidharth had also come along. Since the gaming arena was damn crowded, we had to wait a long time for our turns. On top of that we had to pay 10 rupees for registration. All I could manage in between all of this was to crack the Crossword that was given in the magazine. I cracked it along with Vivek and Vibushan. Shyam helped out with one final answer. We then submitted it where we were asked to. I somehow got Vibu also to submit one entry. Vivek wouldn’t listen.
We went had lunch outside. We found the shabbiest of hotels just outside PSG and somehow downed our food with Mountain Dew. To this day it remains a mystery if we ate Chicken Biryani or not. We ordered something called Plain Biryani. Now, some people tell us that plain biryani is Chicken biryani with the chicken pieces removed. Still others seem to think that the biryani in Chicken biryani is cooked separately and the chicken pieces added afterwards.
After lunch, we attended “Googler” and “Mouse Handler”. Vibu and me gave Googler the miss and Vivek gave Mouse Handler the miss. Googler was just plain googling. You were given 5-6 images which you had to find online. Not as easy as it seems. It helps if you are into quizzing though. Mouse Handler was again a set of 5 images which we had to use to design something creative. I did design something creative, but I don’t know why I was not selected
Now all that was left was the Open Quiz. Me, Shyam and Vivek formed a team. Vibu and Sid also stayed. Quiz was done by Gopal Kidao from QFI. We had Frankies just before the quiz as we were hungry. Because of goofing up the prelims (I am solely responsible for this. As always I told my team-mates that I was sure that the answer they were giving me was not the right answer. I’ve done this even before as Shiva and Madhu will confirm) Had we got those answers right, we would probably have qualified for the finals. Worst of all was that two school teams qualified for the finals. I am no longer going to call myself a quizzer. We were at-least happy that these chaps would not be there the next day for the Intercollegiate quiz.
Vivek, Sid left immediately after the prelims. Me and Vibu decided to stay back. So did Shyam. The finals was won by Samanth, Sumo and Jayakanthan. (Not very surprising.)
Vibu and I had dinner at “The Park” in stadium quite late at night and then went home. We shit chatted a bit before going to sleep.
3rd February:
Well, I had the finals of gaming, the inter-collegiate quiz , the Crossword results and my prize money for Paper Presentation to look forward to. The Inter-Collegiate quiz was in the morning and Shyam was supposed to team up with me. Shyam came to the gaming arena huffing and puffing some 40 minutes after the scheduled time of the prelims. He had lost his phone on the the way from home to college and had no way of contacting me. Sad. We went to the quiz venue only to find that it was almost over. People were handing in their entries. We somehow got a answer paper and started going through the questions frantically. We did the quiz in something like 30 seconds. Obviously we did not qualify. We scored some 6 and as far as I heard 8 was the highest score. If only Shyam had not lost his phone. If only we had made the quiz on time, maybe we would have qualified. But then that did not happen. Shyam went phone hunting immediately afterwards and I went back to the gaming arena.
I qualified the second round of NFS too and then the third round. Now only the finals was left. At around the same time, my friends were doing pretty well in CS. 4 of amrita’s teams had made it to the top 6, and the organisers somehow managed to get Amrita playing Amrita. Of the two Amrita teams that emerged, they were again asked to play each other!! That’s where Vibu and Viveks team went down. Some bad organising with the home team being given wild card entries and all.
I drove pathetically in the finals of NFS. Somehow I thought I would win this race, but it was not to be. I once again came third on 4th. I now have the dubious distinction of never having won an NFS finals after having qualified some half a doze times.
So, now all that was remaining was the Paper Presentation prize and the crossword results. This was the most annoying part. I was asked to wait some 2 hours before I was given the certificate for the Paper Preentation and another 30 minutes before they announced the results of the Crossword. Me and Vibu were among the winners apparently. To add to the already bad organisation, I was told that my prize money would be sent to me by mail!! Whoa!! You made me wait two and a half hours to tell me that ? And I had made Vibu and vivek wait with me. I still haven’t received my prize money by the way.
Amidst all this, someone from Googler called me and I was told that I had won and they wanted to know my college name so that it could be written on the certificate. Now, both me and Vivek were bewildered because both of us had got only 4 on 6 right. After getting Shyam to investigate the matter, I found out that I had won a participation certificate!! (Actually not even that. It’s a long story and not worth it. So I won’t go into it.)
We left from PSG and went to Barista in R S Puram for my treat. (Which was foolish of me since I hadn’t even got the money yet!!) Rajani and Sid also joined me, Vivek and Vibu. I was a little low on cash. So, I told everyone that they could have one item form the menu. Thankfully, my friends were considerate enough not to order the most expensive stuff on the menu.
We went to Viveks home briefly after that and then back to Vibushan’s house. I had dinner at Vibu’s place. Here, I packed as my train was early in the morning and then we talked some more before going to sleep.
4th February:
Somehow managed to get up on time and get ready for the train. As always Vibu was more than nice to drop me at the station. Got my train on time. It was the bloody sitting train. I don’t want to go into how bad the journey was. All along the way, I cribbed and whined to Vibu and Vivek about it. And once I neared Chennai , to my friends here. Somehow came to Chennai at about 14:30. Got an AC bus to Thiruvanmiyur. Came back home took some rest, and then went to Cafe Coffee Day in Ascendas in the evening with Abhi and Gari for yet another premature treat. It was fun though and in a way nice to be back in Chennai.
Impulse, the CSE department Symposium just concluded a couple of weeks back. Next up is the IT Symposium. Christened Ametros (2k8) the symposium falls this Friday. That would be the 22nd of February.
You can check the website here:
The Quiz is being done by Abhi. (My current Quiz partner) It’s going to be 5 fun filled rounds with 7 teams qualifying for the finals and 2 being eliminated at the end of round 2. The questions are expected to be mostly General. If anything, we should have technical trivia. So irrespective of your course/department, you are invited to the quiz. If you consider yourself a quiz buff, then this is one event you don’t want to give a miss. If you happen to be in our college, then there should be audience prizes up for grabs. So don’t miss it.
I hear there are going to be PERSONAL COMPUTERS for first places in the events Paper Presentation, Programming and Code Debugging.
In the days after 22nd of January, I was doing a lot of things. There was Saarang coming up, Kurukshetra was also sometime soon, and Odyssey quiz was around the same time. Here’s a short account from my memory as to what all happened in the last two weeks or so*:
23rd January:
After having attended the IT Symposium at MSEC the previous day, I was down with a slight fever and cold. So the whole of the daym I remember resting and doing nothing more. I seem to have written a post on 23rd. Must have been late evening after I woke up. I also remember going to Odyssey and Cafe Coffee Day to ask for tickets for the Choreo Nite, which they told me had been sold out. Only the Rock Show tickets remained.
Also, on 23rd night, I received a mail form PSG guys that my paper abstract had been shortlisted for Kriya and I was expected to send in my paper latest by 25th. As pleasantly surprised as I was, this was going to throw my plans in disarray. The plan was to attend Saarang on almost all days as this would be the last year I would be able to attend it as a student. I didn’t actually want to go to IIT the next day, but I had already dragged other people into my plans and it wouldn’t have been very decent to cancel on it. So the plan was to go to IIT and come back late afternoon.
24th January:
I went to IIT for Saarang 08. A couple of days before this I remember sending my entry for the Saarang Online Quiz 02. The results of which was never announced (nor the answers for that matter. I shall be posting the answers soon on my blog for the benefit of the quizzing society. ). Ah, what a wonderful way to conduct online events.
The plan was to meet up Marc (who somehow never showed up or showed up and didn’t bother to call me, or as he claims stored my number wrong.) Shiva had also agreed to meet me in IIT. He was pretty pissed off when I told him that I had still not left home by 10:00. I finally went to IIT slightly after 10:00 and met up Shiva in the Creative Writing venue. I even gave an entry for Creative Writing. (Again something I shall be putting up on my blog along with the rules later.) Thing was we were permitted 4 entries and the score of each entry would be added. Since I gave in only one entry I was sure as hell that it wouldn’t make it. Plus I am not so sure that it was all that creative.
We missed the Buzzer Quiz because of the Creative Writing. I tried the daily Crossie and the daily Quiz as the Creative Writing was going on and wasn’t able to get those many. For someone who considers himself a crossword buff, I think I suck at it. Thankfully, I did get a few answers right. Next up was the actual Crossie. We went in an hour late and by the time we went in, people had already cracked the full Crossie. So we left in something like half an hour. By then we knew that we stood no chance in hell of making it to the Crossie finals. (Not even by fluke. )
We did give the Cluedo prelims a try and did pretty well too. We screwed up a question or two, but that’s ok. Thing is, other teams did much better and hence qualified. By onw I was weary and tired. Also, I had a paper to complete. So we decided to give the India Quiz a miss and leave home.
I came back home and started typing in some crap on a MS Word document. I remember sitting with it till late night and finally giving up and going to sleep.
25th January:
All I remember is trying to work on my paper and sending it in on time. I must have worked on it all day I guess. Typing out crap first and then editing it to make it look much less like crap and more like a paper. I sent in the entry finally at around 23:30. Another half and hour and my entry would have been rejected. I wasn’t fully satisfied with the paper. but what was done was done and it would have to do for now.
26th January:
Don’t really remember what I did in the morning. Around afternoon I left for the Odyssey Quiz. Madhusudan (Another of my college seniors who is currently with TCS.) was supposed to meet me opposite Birla Planetarium. I did not know the route to Music Academy. From Birla, I followed him upto Music Academy. We met Shiva in a while and chatted up for a while. We were lucky to get seats, even if it was in the Balcony and the seats were quite cramped. Actually it was pretty empty compared to Landmark quiz.
We gave the prelims and as always I screwed up the answers to many a question even if my teammates knew the right answer . I am happy to be alive. I did this with about 5 questions I think. (Answered wrong when we knew the right answer.) So we ended up doing the prelims pretty badly.
We did see the finals and some pretty regular teams were on stage. Sundar and Vinod won the best team name prize which was cool. We left the finals even before it got over and left home.
more to follow…….
* - May not be very accurate. My memory is quite bad and I conveniently forget lot’s of things. If you notice any such thing you can bring it to my notice.
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